uAnalytiCon-2026: Universals and Objects

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Ural Institute of Humanities

Department of Philosophy

Chair of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge

Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to announce

Annual International Conference

«uAnalytiCon-2026: Unversals and Objects»,

which takes place on May 22-23, 2026

Our upcoming uAnalytiCon-2026 will focus on a variety of issues connected to the traditional debate about the relationships between universals and objects. We plan to discuss the questions concerning what types of universals are, how to distinguish between properties and relations as well as between events and states, what existence and identity conditions are appropriate for each of these, and whether one needs to posit a distinct category of tropes as abstract entities.

We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to:

• metaphysics;
• philosophy of language;
• logic;
• epistemology;
• philosophy of science;
• philosophy of mind;
• moral philosophy;
• history of philosophy.

Keyspeakers will be announced in March 2026.

Abstracts must be 500 words or less and prepared for blind review. To submit abstracts please fill out our submission form. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 31, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 30, 2026.

Official conference languages: Russian, English.

Please note that online participation is possible only for the talks in English.

The participation is free of charge. Unfortunately, the Organizing Committee has no available funds for covering transport and accommodation. Participants are responsible for covering travel expenses.

Organizing Committee:

• Ilya Gushchin
• Olga Kozyreva, PhD
• Lev Lamberov, PhD
• Victoria Sukhareva, PhD

Head of the Organizing Committee:

Dmitry Ankin, PhD