Visegrad Environmental
Philosophy Summer School
Wrocław, 1-7 June 2025
VEPSS
The Visegrad Environmental Philosophy Summer School (VEPSS) brings together international researchers and graduate students who work on diverse issues related to the ongoing ecological crisis. In addition to its focus on philosophy and ethics, VEPSS is keen to include a variety of fields in environmental humanities (such as anthropology, sociology, history, comparative literature or aesthetics) in order to encourage addressing the climate crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective. By taking place in a different Visegrad country each year (Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary), the summer school aims to tap into the Central and Eastern European potential to renew our thinking about ecology and consider how both the planetary and the regional perspectives can help us tackle the challenges of climate change today.
Explore issues related to climate resiliance
This year’s overarching theme is water. The program includes lectures, workshops, and seminars on themes such as climate justice, climate fiction, biomimicry, the philosophical underpinnings of environmental management, ecofeminism, and geoethics, while reexamining concepts such as wild(er)ness and posthumanism. Participants will explore the riverbanks of Wrocław—a city particularly vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes—and visit nearby Bardo, a town affected by flooding. These excursions will serve as case studies, enabling students to reflect on the multisensory nature of environmental experience and the perils posed by climate change.
Organising institutions
The summer school is organized by the Institute of Philosophy at University of Wrocław and the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) in collaboration with
- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Pardubice,
- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
It is generously co-funded by the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) and the International Visegrad Fund.
The summer school is organized by the Institute of Philosophy at University of Wrocław and the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) in collaboration with
- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Pardubice,
- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University,
- Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
It is generously co-funded by the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) and the International Visegrad Fund.
