NASS 9:
Spirit and Nature
The ninth meeting of the North American Schelling Society, NASS 8, will take place in person in
Mexico City, Mexico
June 3-5, 2026
Spirit and Nature
Please click here for the conference website!
The Metropolitan Autonomous University Campus Iztapalapa (UAM-I) and the North American Schelling Society (NASS) invite you to participate in the 9th NASS Meeting that will take place from the 3rd to the 5th of June 2026 in Mexico City.
The conference’s theme is spirit and nature. The reflection and clarification of the meaning, character, distinction, and set of relationships that spirit and nature maintain between themselves have constituted central problems of philosophy since its beginnings. What is the relationship between the orders of physis and nomos?
The answer has often been presented in modern philosophy through various dichotomies: the human being and nature, the subject and the object, freedom and necessity, the spiritual and the material, etc.
Important Dates
• Call for Papers: Sunday, November 30th, 2025
• Deadline for abstract submission: Sunday, January 25th, 2026.
• Notification of acceptance: Sunday, February 22nd, 2026.
• Deadline for conference registration: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026.
• Conference dates: June 3 to 5, 2026.
1. Process of submission and proposal acceptance.
1.1. All relevant proposals on Schelling's thought and reflection present in the philosophy of German idealism and Frühromantik and their best-known exponents, with particular emphasis on those dedicated to the central theme of the conference, will be considered.
1.2. To submit a proposal, send an abstract in English of no more than 400 words, prepared for blind review, to nass9cdmx@gmail.com, and include an additional document with the title of the contribution, full name, degrees, affiliation, and contact information, no later than. January 25th, 2026.
1.3. The decision on the proposal will be communicated on February 22nd, 2026, via email. If the proposal is accepted, participation will consist of a paper in article format and an in-person presentation of the paper.
1.4. A registration format will be sent to accepted participants. They must confirm their participation by registering for the event no later than May 3rd, 2026, which includes paying the Conference Fee and becoming an active NASS member.
• The Conference Fee is as follows: Full-time Faculty: 120 USD. Part-time Faculty 80 USD. Scholars employed in Latin America 35 USD. Students 50 USD. Students studying in Latin America 10 USD.
• All participants must be active NASS members to appear in the conference program. For further details on NASS membership fees, please consult: www.fwjschelling.org/membership. A waiver of the membership fee may be granted to students in Latin America upon request.
1.5. The conference will take place at Casa Rafael Galván, a cultural house of the UAM, located at Zacatecas 94, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México, CDMX, from June 3rd to 5th, 2026. The final program will be announced to the public the week previous to the conference.
2. Relevant Information
• The receipt of proposals does not imply their acceptance.
• The evaluation of the proposals will be carried out in a double blind format by the Organizing Committee and the Academic Committee of the NASS.
• The paper and presentation must correspond to the registered proposal. Presentations may be in English, German, French, or Spanish, but scholars are encouraged to present in English.
• Certificates of attendance will only be issued to those who have been accepted into the event, have registered, have paid the fee, are NASS members, and have presented their paper.
• Only one paper will be accepted as the first author, but the same person may sign as a secondary author.
• Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers.
• There are no visa requirements to enter Mexico.
• An excursion to the Teotihuacan Pyramids will take place at the end of the conference on Saturday, 6th June 2026. The price of the excursion is not included in the Conference Fee. Information about the excursion will be provided later. For further information on the event, venue, and accommodation options, please consult the web pages https://nass9.izt.uam.mx/, or please email.
• The receipt of proposals does not imply their acceptance.
• The evaluation of the proposals will be carried out in a double blind format by the Organizing Committee and the Academic Committee of the NASS.
• The paper and presentation must correspond to the registered proposal. Presentations may be in English, German, French, or Spanish, but scholars are encouraged to present in English.
• Certificates of attendance will only be issued to those who have been accepted into the event, have registered, have paid the fee, are NASS members, and have presented their paper.
• Only one paper will be accepted as the first author, but the same person may sign as a secondary author.
• Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers.
• There are no visa requirements to enter Mexico.
• An excursion to the Teotihuacan Pyramids will take place at the end of the conference on Saturday, 6th June 2026. The price of the excursion is not included in the Conference Fee. Information about the excursion will be provided later.
For further information on the event, venue, and accommodation options, please consult the web pages https://nass9.izt.uam.mx/, or please email nass9cdmx@gmail.com..
Organizing Committee: M. A. Bastarrachea Magnani, G. Leyva Martínez, R. Sánchez Santillán, and the NASS Board.
Please share widely! A .pdf of this CFP is available for download.