47^th Annual KJSNA Meetings
2026

January 7 - 10, 2026

Friday, January 9

G11B 11:00 - 12:50 pm

Friday, January 9

G12C 2:00 - 3:50 pm

VIRTUAL ONLINE MEETINGS

Friday, May 8, 2026

SESSION THREE

The Legacy of Karl Jaspers in Contemporary Psychopathology

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 17:00 (GMT London), 18:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: Guilherme Messas (Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, Brazil)

Speakers:

Susan Gordon
(Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines)
Karl Jaspers' Legacy and the Development of Psychoneurointracrinology

Nassir Ghaemi
(Tufts University School of Medicine)
Karl Jaspers and Psychiatry: An Ambivalent Relationship

Lucienne Spencer                         Matthew Broome
(University of Oxford, UK)              (University of Birmingham, UK)
Challenging Jaspers' "Empathic Understanding"

John Sadler
(University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Revisiting Jaspers' "Meaningful Connections" and Clinical Problem Solving

Giovanni Stanghellini
(University of Florence, Italy)
Varieties of epoché and their Use in Understanding the Schizophrenic Mind

Chantal Marazia
(University of Milan, Italy)
Classic Without Consensus: Reception, Resistance, and the Timeless Untimeliness of Jaspers' General Psychopathology

Valter L. Piedade
(Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)
Back to Jaspers' Incomprehensibility: Is there Anything New?

Discussants:

Collin Vas
(University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

Michael A. Schwartz
(Texas A&M School of Medicine)

Monday, June 29, 2026

SESSION FOUR

Karl Jaspers and Max Weber

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 17:00 (GMT London), 18:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: Ruth A. Burch (Ludes University, Lugano–Pazzallo, Switzerland)

Speakers:

Tomasz-Łukasz Stanowski
(Kraków, Poland)
Inner Constitution and the Grammar of Legitimacy: Weber and Jaspers on Authority, Ethics, and Understanding

Austin Harrington
(University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Karl Jaspers, Max Weber, and the Debate about Eurocentrism in Western Thought

Suzanne Kirkbright
(Dorchester, United Kingdom)
Solitude and Friendship: Further Notes on Karl Jaspers and Max Weber

Vittorio Cotesta
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy)
Karl Jaspers, the European Spirit and the Geopolitical Situation of Europe in 1946

Csaba Olay
(Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Science and Human Existence: Max Weber and Karl Jaspers

Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2026

SESSION FIVE

Die praktische Bedeutung der Periechontologie:
Philosophische Anthropologie
(The Event is held in German language)

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 17:00 (GMT London), 18:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: Tim Rojek (Universität Münster, Germany)

Speakers:

Albrecht Kiel
(Konstanz, Germany)
Affektsysteme, Arten des Bewusstseins und der Fantasie

Hans-Peter Krüger
(Universität Potsdam, Germany)
tba

Nicolas Koj
(Universität Münster, Germany)
tba

Philipp Batthyány
(Berlin, Germany)
tba

Freitag, 3. Juli 2026

SESSION SIX

Die praktische Bedeutung der Periechontologie:
Theologie und Metaphysik
(The Event is held in German language)

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: tba

Speakers:

Rico Gutschmidt
(Universität Konstanz, Germany)
Grundvertrauen und die negative Theologie des Umgreifenden: Der philosophische Glaube bei Jaspers

Larysa Mandryshchuk
(Ivan-Franko-Universität Lviv, Ukraine)
Liebe als der Weg zum Umgreifenden in der Periechontologie von Karl Jaspers

Erzsébet N. Rózsa
(University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Zur Liebe als Ort existenzieller Betroffenheit bei Jaspers

Malte Maria Unverzagt
(Universität Oldenburg, Germany)
Zwischen epistemologischen und existenziellen Fragen—Eine Annäherung an das Umgreifende

Edward Allan Papa
(Sacred Heart University)
Gerechte Ordnung oder offene Transzendenz: Rawls, Jaspers und das moralisch-politische Erbe des Christentums