Call for Papers: Society for Phenomenology and Media (2025)

‘Social interaction and everyday life in offline and online realities’, Chambéry, France (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc) 11 – 16 March 2025.

The Society for Phenomenology and Media encourages submissions for the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM2025)

Social interaction and everyday life in offline and online realities
Chambéry, France (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc), March 11-16, 2025

This conference is part of the “Centenary of the Birth of Michel de Certeau” commemoration. Born in Chambéry, Michel de Certeau remains a globally influential interdisciplinary thinker whose work, particularly The Practice of Everyday Life, has impacted fields such as anthropology, media, and cultural studies. De Certeau explored how individuals resist and creatively navigate power structures, focusing on how everyday spaces and discourses are used. Central to his thought is the distinction between strategies, the methods through which institutions and power structures assert control and tactics, the spontaneous actions by which individuals appropriate and subvert these strategies. His work reveals that even in situations of apparent domination, there exist subtle, creative forms of resistance. As a historian, de Certeau also examined the process of writing history, particularly how dominant narratives often marginalize or exclude alternative perspectives. This conference seeks proposals that apply and expand on de Certeau’s ideas in contemporary contexts. The organisers encourage contributions that connect his work with evolving fields such as phenomenology of artificial intelligence, post-human and queer phenomenology, offering new perspectives on the complex and shifting dynamics of our societies.

Deadline for consideration of abstracts and panels: January 3, 2025

See the full call for papers: https://www.societyforphenomenologyandmedia.org/call-for-papers-2025