News and Announcements
The Center for Process Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Revue Roumaine de Philosophie Tome 69, Nr. 2 (2025), a special open-access issue dedicated to “Whitehead and Idealism,” featuring research first presented at a 2024 conference of the same name organized by Constantin Rădulescu-Motru Institute of Philosophy and Psychology of the Romanian Academy, Department of Western Philosophy. Invited editors Bogdan Rusu and Claudiu Baciu curate a wide-ranging collection that reopens the question of Alfred North Whitehead’s relationship to the idealist tradition—an inquiry newly relevant at a time when philosophical interest in metaphysics, panpsychism, and speculative thought is once again gaining momentum.
- Center for Process Studies
- General Announcement
This global gathering of scholars, educators, and practitioners marks a pivotal moment to engage Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy in dialogue with the pressing challenges and transformative opportunities of the 21st century. The theme of the 2026 International Whitehead Conference is: “Process Philosophy in a Time of Polycrisis: Science, Meaning, and Civilization.” The conference will explore how process thought can illuminate the great transitions of our time—toward a more sustainable, creative, and compassionate world. We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations for concurrent breakout sessions organized around 12 thematic tracks.
- Wm. Andrew Schwartz
- Call for Papers
Our latest issue of Process Studies has just been released! This issue of Process Studies contains four articles that were originally delivered as papers at the conference “A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard and Beyond” that occurred on September 27, 2024, at Harvard.
- Center for Process Studies
- General Announcement
This conference will be the first to birth a long overdue intellectual exchange as it offers an improved metaphysical framework for value and consciousness in all ontological entities to address various concerns that are facing humanity: economy, political, and environmental. Although there are hesitant answers to some of these global challenges facing humanity, the influence of substance-based analysis has yet to offer penetrative answers, in addition to the almost complete lack of interaction among scholars of process to explore their common ground for a common voice in the way that substance thought has done over the centuries. Based on the foregoing established gap, abstracts, not more than 250 words, are invited from scholars and researchers of all traditions in philosophic history.
- Emmanuel Ofuasia
- Call for Papers
The Mind-at-Large project is soliciting papers that engage creatively and critically with the re-emerging paradigm of “mind-at-large,” traversing multiple thresholds of philosophical, scientific, and cultural discourse, including but not limited to: Philosophy of Mind; Mind & Matter; Biology & Consciousness; 4E Cognition; Indigenous and Animist Perspectives; History of Science & the Disenchantment of Nature; Theology & Cosmology; and Extraordinary Experience.
- Andrew M. Davis
- Call for Papers
CPS played a prominent role at the International Academic Symposium on Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, held at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Dr. Andrew Schwartz, Executive Director of CPS, delivered a plenary address titled “The Past as Future: Chinese Traditional Culture and Process Thought for Ecological Civilization.” He argued that Western modernization is in crisis—facing inequality, ecological breakdown, and a crisis of meaning—and proposed Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy as a bridge between Chinese traditions and modern scientific sensibilities.
- Center for Process Studies
- Report
The Polish Whiteheadian community is happy to announce this call for papers for the upcoming conference entitled “Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy“. It will take place in Katowice, Poland on 19-20 November, 2025. In the conference presentations, we encourage contributors to share the results of transdisciplinary research on the foundations of education (and, more broadly, the humanities), utilizing the interpretive framework offered by Whiteheadian process philosophy. We also warmly invite reflections on Whitehead’s educational ideas from the standpoint of your own disciplinary practice, whether it be the natural sciences, humanities or social sciences, or spiritual disciplines.
- Bogdan Rusu
- Call for Papers
On July 2, 2025, The International Symposium on Organic Process Philosophy, Traditional Chinese Culture, and Ecological Civilization was hosted at Zhejiang Normal University, in Jinhua City, Zhejiang province. The symposium was followed by the 18th Process Summer Academy from July 3-8. These events were also sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang Normal University and the Center for Whitehead Studies at Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist University.
- Paul Bube
- Report
We are very excited to announce the launch of a brand new journal focusing on the topic of ecological civilization! The Journal of Ecological Civilization Studies is the premiere academic publication dedicated to advancing understanding of the theory and practice of ecological civilization. The journal provides a platform for interdisciplinary research, critical discourse, and practical solutions aimed at fostering sustainable, equitable, and regenerative societies for the long-term.
- Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Zhihe Wang
- Call for Papers
The University of California, Irvine Process Studies and South Asia fellowship has been awarded to two researchers: Kazi Adi Shakti, Independent Scholar and Artist; and Rishabh Gandhi: Vishwakarma University, Pune, India. Fellows receive a $1500 award and optional conference support in addition to mentoship with Dr. Brianne Donaldson and the search committee to culminate their research into a journal article submission, possible conference presentations, and other public output over the course of the year.
- Brianne Donaldson
- General Announcement