We are pleased to announce that the 13th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Brian O’Connor at the University College Dublin (Ireland). The meeting will be held May 5—7, 2027.
More information – including program and registration details – will be posted shortly.
Previous meetings were held at:
March 19—21, 2026 — Toronto Metropolitan University
The 12th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies is hosted by Jeta Mulaj (TMU) and Kathy Kiloh (OCAD) at the Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada). The meeting will be held March 19th–21st, 2026.
Please note that the Thursday Workshop and the Saturday Music event are only for invited participants (speakers, respondants, and chairs) and not open to the public.
We are pleased to announce that the 12th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Jeta Mulaj and Kathy Kiloh at the Toronto Metroplitan University (Canada). The meeting will be held March 19–21, 2026.
More information – including program and registration details – will be posted shortly.
The Association for Adorno Studies held its first-ever meeting in Germany this past May, hosted on the main campus of Universität Kassel. The venue’s distinctive post-industrial architecture—interwoven with green space and crossed by the Ahne river—provided a striking setting for a conference dedicated to the theme “Adorno and Marx.”
We were warmly welcomed by our hosts Alexandra Colligs, Philip Hogh, and Hendrik Groß, to whom we extend our sincere thanks. By all accounts, the event was a great success. We are grateful to every speaker and chair for their thoughtful contributions and to all participants for making the trip to Kassel. The conference brought together scholars from Germany, Canada, Morocco, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States, underscoring the global reach of Adorno studies today.
As per tradition, the AAS business meeting took place during lunch on the second day. The primary item on the agenda was the election of a new Vice-President. I am delighted to announce the election of Alexandra Colligs to this role. Her commitment to the Association has already been exemplary, and I look forward to deepening the collaboration we’ve built over the past year.
As for next year’s meeting: while it was originally planned to be held at Harvard under the auspices of Peter Gordon, current political pressures on academic institutions in the U.S. have made it impossible for any American host to commit with certainty. We will announce developments regarding next year’s venue as soon as they are confirmed.
The 11th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Alexandra Colligs and Philip Hogh at the Universität Kassel (Germany). The meeting will be held May 22nd and 23rd, 2025.
Due to the size of the venue, the attendance is limited. Please write to Hendrik Gross in order to register and confirm your presence.
We are pleased to announce that the 11th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Alexandra Colligs and Philip Hogh at the Universität Kassel (Germany). The meeting will be held May 22nd and 23rd, 2025.
More information – including program and registration details – will be posted shortly.
As the readers of this blog know, the 10th meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies was held on May 30-31. The event took place on the beautiful “Pôle Citadelle” campus of the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, in Amiens, France. We owe the stunning design of the campus to the Italian architect Renzo Piano (see pictures below).
Our very heartfelt thanks go to Estelle Ferrarese and her team: Anne-Gaëlle Bled, Cassandre Caballero, Lea Gekle, Frederico Lyra, Annette de Moura and Salima Naït Ahmed, for the amazing work they did on planning and organizing this very successful meeting. This year the program was organized around a very timely theme in Adorno studies: “History and Social Theory”. It brought together a host of excellent scholars, several of whom are emerging scholars or new to the Association. Our thanks to all the presenters for their very thought-provoking and high-caliber papers on various aspects of Adorno’s views on the theme and to all the other participants who chaired sessions and partook in the lively discussions throughout the event. We counted participants from France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, Canada and the US at this event.
As is our custom, the business meeting was held on the second day at lunch time. The main order of business was the election of a new executive. I am thrilled to announce that William Ross has accepted the role of President and Paul Dablemont that of Vice-President for a term of 3 years. Let us all thank them for their commitment to the AAS, congratulate them very warmly on their nomination and wish them the best for a very successful tenure!
Three other points of business are worth highlighting:
First, the Harvard meeting (to be hosted by Peter Gordon) has been pushed to the spring of 2026. William and Paul have been at work on a plan for 2025. They will be in touch with news about it over the summer.
Second, you can now forward information to be posted on the blog directly to William and Paul (follow the links above). They will be taking over the administration of this blog (at least until further notice).
Third, stay tuned for news about the relaunch of our journal, Adorno Studies, at Mimesis Press. It promises much!
I attach some pictures that document the event. They include pictures of the enchanting floating gardens (The Hortillonnages), a tour of which Estelle and her team had the marvellous idea to organize for us.
We are thrilled to announce that Estelle Ferrarese has very graciously accepted to host the next meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies. It will take place at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, in Amiens, France. The meeting is scheduled for May 30-31, 2024. Details will follow.
