2026
Conference: The Formal Turn: Formalism in Mathematics and Logic at the Turn of the 20th Century
June 8 – 10, 2026
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna,
Lecture Room 3A (Room D0312, 3rd floor)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Georg Schiemer and Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”)
Confirmed Speakers: Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Rachel Boddy (IUSS Pavia), David Waszek (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Joan Bertran-San-Millán (Complutense University of Madrid), Paola Cantù (Aix-Marseille Université), Mirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki), Dirk Schlimm (McGill University), Moritz Bodner (University of Vienna), Iulian Toader (University of Vienna), Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHPST), Antonio Piccolomini (University of Tübingen), Christoph Limbeck Lilienau (Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna), Marianna Antonutti (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHPST), Ansten Klev (Czech Academy of Sciences), Richard Zach (University of Calgary)
Seminar: Frege’s logic and semantics: a Master Class with Robert May (UC Davis)
June 6, 2026
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna,
Lecture Room 3D (Room D0316, 3rd floor)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Richard Lawrence University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”), and Co-organized with the International Frege Society.
Co-organized with the ERC Project “The Formal Turn”.
FS members participating in this event: Joan Bertran San Millán, Rachel Boddy, Richard Lawrence, Tabea Rohr
Workshop: Abstraction, Structure, Proof
February 9 – 11, 2026
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna
Room 3D (D0316), 3rd floor
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna) ESPRIT Program, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) DOI:10.55776/ESP210, “The logic of Abstraction” and Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”), and Co-organized with the International Frege Society.
Confirmed Speakers: Michele Contente (University of Prague), Fiona Doerthy (University of Notre Dame), Fernando Ferreira (University of Lisbon), Salvatore Florio (University of Oslo), Leon Horsten (University of Konstanz), Nils Kürbis (University of Bochum), Alexander Paseau (University of Oxford), Mario Piazza (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona (University of Tübingen), Michael Potter (University of Cambridge), Andrea Sereni (IUSS Pavia), Jan Von Plato (University of Helsinki), Daiana Zavate (University of Konstanz), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Matteo Pascucci (CEU Vienna), Rachel Boddy (IUSS Pavia), Emelia Stanley (University of Vienna)
2025
Conference: The Form of Science – Philosophy of Science in neo-Kantianism
December 10 – 12, 2025
University of Vienna – Main Building
Erika Weinzierl Saal
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
Online participation via Zoom: https://univienna.zoom.us/s/67088871844
Meeting-ID: 670 8887 1844
Kenncode: 713698
Organized by: Georg Schiemer and Moritz Bodner (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”)
Confirmed Speakers: Francesca Biagioli (Università degli Studi di Torino), Moritz Bodner (Universität Wien), Charles Braveman (Université de Lorraine), Scott Edgar (Sain Mary’s University), Marco Giovanelli (Università degli Studi di Torino), Daniel Koenig (Universität Siegen), Chiara Krauss Russo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Martin Kusch (Universität Wien), Luigi Laino (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences), Annie Petit-Musson (Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier), Georg Schiemer (Universität Wien), Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology), Elisabeth Widmer (London School of Economics), Charlotte Morel (École normale supérieure – PSL), Francesco Pisano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
33rd Vienna Circle Lecture with Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences)
Venue: Aula am Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 1, Eingang 1.11,Spitalgasse 2-4, 1090 Vienna
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences)
“Testing Scientific Theories.”
Also online via youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve8gDL30_KU
Workshop: Epsilon Calculus: Logic, History and Philosophy
November 25 – 27, 2025
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna,
Lecture Room 3A (Room D0312, 3rd floor)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Ludovica Conti (ESPRIT Program, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) DOI:10.55776/ESP210, “The logic of Abstraction”) Georg Schiemer, Benjamin Zayton (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”)
Confirmed Speakers: Richard Zach (University of Calgary, IVC Wien), Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna), Benjamin Zayton (University of Vienna), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich), Elio La Rosa (LMU Munich), Nicola Bonatti (LMU Munich), Norbert Gratzl (LMU Munich) cancelled, Moritz Bodner (University of Vienna), Mariami Gamsakhurdia (TU Vienna), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University) cancelled, Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne)
Workshop: From Permanence to Open-endedness
May 19 – 20, 2025
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna,
Lecture Room 3A (Room D0312, 3rd floor)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”), Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna, FWF Project: “Frege Among the Formalists”), Iulian D. Toader (University of Vienna, FWF Project: “The Principle of Permanence”)
Confirmed Speakers: Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki), Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Jennifer Whyte (Duke University, IVC Fellow), Iulian Toader (University of Vienna), Brett Topey (University of Salzburg), Constantin Brincus (University of Bucharest, IVC Fellow), Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College), Julien Murzi (University of Salzburg), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)
Vienna-IUSS Workshop: Axiomatic Definitions and Abstraction, a Century After Frege
February 19-20, 2025
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna
Room 2i (C0228), 2nd floor
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”), Ludovica Conti (ESPRIT Program, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) DOI:10.55776/ESP210, “The logic of Abstraction”) and Andrea Sereni (PRIN National Project PUMa, “Proof and Understanding in Mathematics. Purity of Methods, Simplicity, and Explanation in Mathematical Reasoning. Definitions, Explanations, and Proofs”, IUSS Pavia)
Confirmed Speakers: Bahram Assadian (University of Leeds), Francesca Boccuni (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Paola Cantù (Aix-Marseille Université), Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna), Bruno Jacinto (University of Lisbon), Sofia Abelha Meirelles (University of Vienna), Joan Bertran San-Millàn (University of Lisbon), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Andrea Sereni (School of Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia), Luca Zanetti (School of Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia), Crispin Wright (University of Stirling)
2024
Conference: Meaning and Equivalence of Formal Theories
December 5-6, 2024, Alte Kapelle,
University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2/ courtyard 1 (Hof 1), 1090 Vienna
Organized by: Mirko Engler, Georg Schiemer and Benjamin Zayton (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”)
Confirmed Speakers: Andrew Arana (Université de Lorraine), Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Tim Button (University College London), Neil Dewar (Cambridge University), Benedict Eastaugh (University of Warwick), Mirko Engler (University of Vienna), Eduardo Giovannini (National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET/Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe), Hans Halvorson (Princeton University), Carolin Antos (University of Konstanz), Carlo Nicolai (King’s College London), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Benjamin Zayton (University of Vienna)
Workshop: Invariance, Objectivity, Symmetry
09-10 October 2024
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Ludwigstrasse 31, 80539 Munich
Organized by: Alexander Reutlinger (MCMP/LMU Munich) and Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)
Confirmed Speakers: Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin), Elena Castellani (University of Florence), John Dougherty (LMU Munich), Marta Ferreira Esteves (LMU Munich), Johannes Korbmacher (Utrecht University), Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich), Christian List (LMU Munich), Alexander Reutlinger (LMU Munich), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Benjamin Zayton (University of Vienna)
Symposium: Formalism: historical and interpretive issues
The Fifteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS 2024)
July 9-12, 2024
Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Confirmed Speakers: Anna Bellomo (University of Vienna), Moritz Bodner (University of Vienna), Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)
2023
Workshop: From Permanence to Conservativity – Metatheoretic Ideals in Early Formalism
04-05 December, 2023
Aula am Campus – University of Vienna
Alser Str. 4 / Hof 1, 1090 Vienna
Organized by: Anna Bellomo (University of Vienna), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought” (GA No 101044114) and Iulian Toader (University of Vienna)
Confirmed Speakers: Anna Bellomo (University of Vienna), Paola Cantu (Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS), Michael Hallett (McGill University), Mirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki), Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Dirk Schlimm (McGill University), Iulian Toader (University of Vienna)
Symposium: From Geometry to Logic and Back: History, Philosophy, and Foundations
International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST2023)
24-29 July, 2023
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organized by: Eduardo N. Giovannini (CONICET, Argentina) and Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)
Confirmed Speakers: Joan Bertran San-Millán (University of Lisbon), Paola Cantù (Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS), Pierre Wagner (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and CNRS), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) & Eduardo Giovannini (CONICET, Argentina), José Gil-Férez (Chapman University), Andrew Moshier (Chapman University), Alberto Naibo (University of Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne), Marco Panza (CNRS and Chapman University), Michael Beeson (San José State University), John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago), Hermann Haeusler (CNPq and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Abel Lassalle-Casanave (CNPq and Federal University of Bahia), Andreas Mueller
Workshop: Invariance and Objectivity
June 28-29, 2023
Department of Philosophy-University of Vienna (NIG, 3rd floor at Hörsaal 3A)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Georg Schiemer ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought” (GA No 101044114) and Alexander Reutlinger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich)
Confirmed Speakers: Neil Dewar (University of Cambridge), Jeremy Heis (University of California, UC Irvine), Sophie Juliane Veigl (University of Vienna), Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki), Martin Kusch (University of Vienna), Alexander Reutlinger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Iulian Toader (University of Vienna), Gil Sagi (University of Haifa), Gila Sher (University of California San Diego)
Conference: The Formal Turn in Twentieth-Century Thought
February 15-17, 2023
Department of Philosophy-University of Vienna (NIG, 3rd floor at Hörsaal 3D)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Organized by: Georg Schiemer ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought” (GA No 101044114)
Confirmed Speakers: Ádám Tamás Tuboly (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Anna Bellomo (University of Vienna), Ansten Klev (Czech Academy of Sciences), Dirk Schlimm (McGill University), Francesca Biagioli (Università degli Studi di Torino), Leon Horsten (University of Konstanz), Hannes Leitgeb (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy), Hans Halvorson (Princeton University), Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki), Máté Szabó (University of Greenwich, London), Paola Cantù (Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS), Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Richard Zach (University of Calgary)
