Conference: The Formal Turn: Formalism in Mathematics and Logic at the Turn of the 20th Century

June 8 – 10, 2026

Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna,

Lecture Room 3A (Room D0312, 3rd floor)

Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna

 

Organized by: Georg Schiemer and Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna, ERC Project: “The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”)

Confirmed Speakers: Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna), Rachel Boddy (IUSS Pavia), David Waszek (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Joan Bertran-San-Millán (Complutense University of Madrid), Paola Cantù (Aix-Marseille Université), Mirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki), Dirk Schlimm (McGill University), Moritz Bodner (University of Vienna), Iulian Toader (University of Vienna), Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHPST), Antonio Piccolomini (University of Tübingen), Christoph Limbeck Lilienau (Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna), Marianna Antonutti (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHPST), Ansten Klev (Czech Academy of Sciences), Richard Zach (University of Calgary)
https://formalism.phl.univie.ac.at/events/the-formal-turn-formalism-in-mathematics-and-logic-at-the-turn-of-the-20th-century/

Registration: If you would like to attend the conference, please send an email to Florian Kolowrat and Richard Lawrence at florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at , and richard.lawrence@univie.ac.at 
In the email, explain in one or two sentences your motivation for attending the conference and your affiliation. There are limited places and students and researches working on relevant topics will be given priority.

Deadline for registration: June 4, 2026