Professor Ted Toadvine to present a weeklong seminar at the 2026 Collegium Phaenomenologicum.

Climate Philosophy in the Capitaloncene

The Collegium Phaenomenologicum convenes for its 48th annual session in Città di Castello, Italy, July 6–24, with the participant’s conference taking place July 4–5, 2026.

Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate, partly in response to global heating, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial capitalism and its uneven and ongoing histories. In the first week, we will question, in discussion with phenomenology and climate science, how the temporal framing of climate change is narrated. The second week moves the focus to space by exploring, principally in conversation with deconstruction and French philosophy more broadly, how climate change alters the sense of world beyond globalization. The final week’s course draws on eco-marxism, bio-politics, and eco-feminism to propose a fundamental rethinking of the political at the end of the world.

Lecture Course Week 1:

Against the Clock: Against the Clock: Climate Phenomenology and Temporal Reckoning

Ted Toadvine, Penn State, USA.

Individual lectures by:

Ferdinando Menga, University of Campania Luigi
Vanvitelli, Italy
Marjolein Oele, Radboud University, NL
Omar Rivera, Texas A&M University, USA

For more information and the other participating faculty, please visit the website: https://collegiumphaenomenologicum.org