For Applicants

Conference dates: 21-24.07 (i.e. we expect people to arrive on Monday 20.07 and leave Krakow on either 25.07 or 26.07)

Venue: Jagiellonian University, Law and Administration Faculty new building, ul. Krupnicza 33a [https://share.google/Fwsi8k2kndR1F5rxK]

Host: Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language, Philosophy (https://pjf.uj.edu.pl/) is the host, in cooperation with Faculty of Law and Administration and Institute of Philosophy

Important deadlines:

- call for papers available/abstract submission opens: 20th October 2025 

- deadline for abstract submission: 11th January 2026 [as usual, 300-500 words]

- notification of acceptance: 15th February 2026

- registration [early]: 15th February - 31st March 2026

- registration [late]: 1st April - 30th June 2026

The final conference program will be published no later than 7th July 2026.

Session Logistics

All concurrent sessions are either 1 hour for 2 talks or 1.5 hours for 3 talks. Chairs should begin each session at the scheduled time and aim to have each talk within the session begin when scheduled. To facilitate conference-goer planning, chairs and speakers are advised to order the talks as on the schedule. 

For the speakers - You are assigned a 30 minute slot, and the time is yours to use in whatever way you feel will be most productive for your project. It is recommended (and descriptively expected) that the talk will be around 20 minutes, leaving 10 minutes for q&a. Slides or a handout are of course permitted (and encouraged). Closer to the conference, it will be communicated how slides will be facilitated, if you plan to use them. We will not have the facility to print handouts, but there are print shops around city centre if necessary. (Though, be advised, they may be closed on Monday for the bank holiday.)

Pre-conference Summer school: Social Ontology

What: A day long session focused on developing interdisciplinary work involving social ontology.

Who: Open to junior scholars either with interdisciplinary projects they want to develop or who are curious about the best ways to go about developing such projects, taught by several leading social ontologists with a track record of interdisciplinarity.

When: July 20th, 2026, the day before the official conference

Organized by Brian Epstein (more information to follow)

If you have further questions, please send an email to Pawel Banas at p.banas[at]uw.edu.pl

Social Ontology is the internationally leading philosophical and philosophy-related interdisciplinary conference series on social and collective phenomena held under the auspices of the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS). Previous conferences in this series have been held at the Universities of Basel, Helsinki, Konstanz, Leipzig, Lund, Munich, Manchester, Neuchâtel, Palermo, Rome, Rotterdam, Siena, Stockholm, and Tampere, as well as the University of California San Diego and Berkeley, Delft University of Technology, Tufts University, Indiana University, Bloomington, the University of Vienna, the University of Stockholm, Duke, and Dublin.