Organization: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP); Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM)

Keynote speakers: Renaud Barbaras, Demot Moran, Roberto Walton

Submission guidelines:
– Submission formats: individual paper, thematic table, book or journal presentation
– Submissions should be sent to xiclafen@pucp.edu.pe and must include:
Title + Abstract (max. 500 words) + 5 Keywords
A separate document with author/s information (max. 200 words)
For thematic panels, only one member submits the proposal (Title + Abstract + Keywords + each author’s information, and general thematic title).

Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2026

Info: xiclafen@pucp.edu.pe

The 11th Colloquium of Latin American Phenomenology commemorates 27 years since the founding of the Latin American Circle of Phenomenology (CLAFEN) in 1999 in Puebla, Mexico. At this upcoming meeting, a generation of founding members will pass on their long-standing responsibility to a new generation of Latin American phenomenologists. Nature and Spirit were in 1919, 1920/24, and 1927 the topic of relevant yet generally overlooked lectures in which the founder of phenomenology debated with positivist naturalism and the Neo-Kantian schools of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. During these years, Husserl’s work aimed to establish itself as a universal philosophy of total culture, motivated by an ethical pathos, aspiring towards a renewal of humanity. In this Husserlian spirit, and following the inspiration and work of the phenomenological movement thereafter, we invite regular members as well as those interested in these themes, to participate in this encounter with renewed contributions on the historical and thematic significance of  nature and spirit, their distinction and their undeniable intertwinement. The Colloquium coincides with a historical “change of epoch” that faces humanity with dramatic challenges: an imminent climate crisis that threatens life on Earth, an excessive technologization that accelerates the “digital globalization,” and the international breakdown of the democratic conquests of the last 300 years. These unprecedented historical circumstances challenge “humanity’s place in the cosmos,” revealing the vulnerability of its theoretical, valuative, and practical capacities. Phenomenological reflection, beyond its range of thematic interests, reclaims the primacy of conscious lived-experience, both valuative and practical, as the ground in which nature appears and acquires meaning. Nature is not, therefore, merely the physical backdrop of life, but a constitutive dimension of its embodiment, of its affective and shared openness, and of the historical and symbolic human ways of inhabiting it. The 11th Colloquium will provide the occasion of a fruitful dialogue with history and classical phenomenologists on these themes, renewing their approach, motivations, and interests in new directions.