Conference: Habit in Action

  • Date: Monday 31 August and Tuesday 1 September 2026
  • Location: University of Antwerp, Klooster Grauwzusters
  • Address: Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, Antwerp
  • Room: s.S.004

Programme

Monday 31 August 2026

  • 09:30 – 10:00: registration + coffee and tea
  • 10:00 – 10:15: Welcome + introduction
  • 10:15 – 11:30: Keynote: Agnes Moors tbc.
  • 11:45 – 12:30: Diego Castañón Schroder:- Tracing the habit in explanation of action
  • 12:30 – 13:45: Lunch
  • 13:45 – 15:00: Keynote: William Hornett on habits' role in our rational lives
  • 15:15 – 16:00: Lieke Asma: Habitual Action, Reasons, and the Desirability Characterisation
  • Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 17:15: Ric Sims: Signs of activity: toward a semiotics of habit in action
  • 18:30: dinner for speakers

Tuesday 1 September 2026

  • 9:00 – 9:15 Coffee and tea
  • 9:15 – 10:30 Keynote: Stina Bäckström on practical knowledge in spontaneous expressions
  • 10:45 – 11:30 Lubomira Radoilska: Habits and the Ecology of Responsible Action
  • 11:45 – 12:30 Michiel Esseling on an Anscombean approach to habitual action slips.
  • 12:30 – 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 – 15:00 Keynote: Joshua Shepherd on consciousness and control in skilled action
  • 15:15 – 16:00 Daniel Vespermann: Routines as Frames of Control
  • Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 17:15 Toby Odland: Institutional Habits and a Collective Register of Agentic “Doingâ€

Practical information

Fee

Registration fee: €25

Hotel/hostel

How to book a hotel (please follow the steps in the right order) 

  1. Go to the  
  2. First enter the code UAACB19 (in capital) and click Search 
  3. Enter your arrival and departure dates, then click Search again 
  4. You’ll see an overview of all available hotels and their Best Available Rate minus 10%, at that moment, along with the applicable conditions 
  5. Select a hotel and book your room. 

With thanks to the Antwerp Convention Bureau (ACB) 

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