
The upcoming conference will be held at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The venue, Vila Lanna, is located at V Sadech 1/1, Prague. We look forward to welcoming participants for engaging discussions and scholarly exchange. If you have any questions or requests, please contact us at conference@nature-strikes-back.eu
The organizing team:

Martin Ritter
ritter@flu.cas.cz
Martin Ritter is Deputy Director at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Senior Researcher at its Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He is also affiliated with the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague. Besides numerous journal articles especially on phenomenology, critical theory, media philosophy, and philosophy of technology, he has published two monographs on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and one on the phenomenology of Jan Patočka.

Petr Prášek
prasek@flu.cas.cz
Dr. Petr Prášek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the CAS. His publications include Le devenir-autre de l’existence. Étude sur la phénoménologie contemporaine (The Becoming-Other of Existence. Study in Contemporary Phenomenology in France). Paris: Hermann, 2023, and a number of articles on contemporary French phenomenology and eco-phenomenology. Currently he is working as an editor on a collective monograph The Faces of Nature: Eco-Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Nature, to be published by Lexington Books in 2025.

Ivan Gutierrez
gutierrez@flu.cas.cz
Ivan Gutierrez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and a lecturer in philosophy at Anglo-American University in Prague. His publications include a a number of articles on the phenomenology of technologically mediated auditory experience. He is co-author of Phenomenological Investigations of Sonic Environments, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024.

Petr Vaškovic
vaskovic@flu.cas.cz
Petr Vaškovic is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Department of Philosophy at Palacký University Olomouc. Petr works on environmental philosophy and existential phenomenology. He is the author of a book on Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky and has recently published articles on climate anxiety and ecophenomenology.