Leibniz Congress 2023 | Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft e.V.

The 11th International Leibniz Congress, which, due to the pandemic, had to be postponed until 2023, is under the motto "Le present est plein de l'avenir, et chargé du passé" ("The present is big with the future and laden with the past"), a quote from Leibniz's Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain (1704). It illustrates the ongoing relevance of Leibniz's philosophy to current, seemingly distant debates and invites us to make such connections.

The congress represents an important opportunity to revive the international contact among Leibniz researchers, limited during the pandemic, and enables younger researchers to join the Leibniz community.

Since the last congress in 2016, the corpus of indexed and edited Leibniz writings and letters has grown considerably. New digital research tools have been made available. Leibniz's correspondence as well as some of his writings have now been edited reliably right down to the last decade.

The current topics of Leibniz research, which benefit from this new material and which will also shape the Leibniz Congress, are very diverse and often interdisciplinary.

In order to promote the exchange among Leibniz researchers in advance, participants are expressly called upon to submit section proposals in addition to individual talks.

In order to promote a new generation of researchers, the third doctoral school will now take place directly before the congress with internationally renowned supervisors. With the support of the VGH Insurance Company (based in Hannover) for the second time, outstanding PhD theses on Leibniz from all over the world are being invited to compete for prizes; the awards ceremony will take place at the congress.

All interested researchers, experts and friends are invited to participate. Information about registration deadlines, the registering of talks and guidelines on the contributions as well as more detailed explanations of how the congress will proceed will be announced in circulars and published in due course on the congress’s homepage.