Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite all of you to following event:

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
Room 3a (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” (GA No 101044114).

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).

Registration: If you would like to attend the conference, please send an email to Florian Kolowrat florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at
Deadline for registration: June 4, 2026.

We look forward to your participation and to engaging discussions!

With kind regards

Florian Kolowrat