2025-26 Undergraduate/Graduate/Otherwise-Potentially-Appropriate-for-Undergraduate Conferences and Journals

Organized by Russell Marcus, Hamilton College. Additions or corrections are welcome: Email me. Some notes. Past Years. Current Year.

Please email me with updates!

See also: Summer Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates and Other resources for students.

Mike Ashfield at USC maintains this impressive list of events and such in Canada.

Conference Location/Organization Submission Date Conference Date Notes
Lighthearted Philosophers' Society Annual Conference June 15, 2025 November 14-15, 2025 Next in October 2026
Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference June 15, 2025 October 10-12, 2025 Daniel Burnston (Tulane); Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee, Knoxville)
Illinois Philosophical Association July 21, 2025 November 7-8, 2025  
PPE Society   November 13-15, 202 Philip Petit (Princeton, ANU); Vernon Smith (Chapman)
The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum: The Challenges of Migration in the 21st Century August 29, 2025 October 8-10, 2025  
Mastering the Writing Sample: A Workshop for Grad School Applicants August 31, 2025 October 12, 2025  
Southwestern Graduate Aesthetics Conference August 31, 2025 November 22-23, 2025  
Indiana Philosophical Association Fall Meeting September 2, 2025 October 30-November 1, 2025 Allen Wood (Indiana)
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Undergraduate Philosophy Conference September 5, 2025 October 24-25, 2025 Mariska Leunissen (UNC Chapel Hill)
Eastern Michigan September 6, 2025 November 8-9, 2025  
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE): What Do We Owe Each Other? (St. Louis) October 6, 2025 March 5-8, 2026  
Florida Philosophical Association October 6, 2025 February 6-7, 2026  
Morehouse-Atlanta University Center Undergraduate Philosophy Conference October 17, 2025 February 7, 2026 Presentations by Atlanta students only
APA/AAPT Teaching Hubs at Eastern, Central and Pacific APAs Eastern: November 15, 2025;
Central: December 15, 2025;
Pacific: Janary 15, 2026
Eastern: January 8-9 (Baltimore);
Central: February 18–21 (Chicago)
Pacific: April 9–10 (online)
 
Compass Undergraduate Workshop in Philosophy (Princeton) November 10, 2025 February 6-8, 2026  
National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (Hopkins) December 1, 2025 March 19-21, 2026  
Great Lakes Philosophy Conference: Against the Current: Resistance in an Age of Suppression, online (submit here) February 1, 2026 April 17-19, 2026 George Yancy (Emory); Tony Reames (Michigan)
Midsouth (Rhodes) February 1, 2006 March 27-28, 2026  
       
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Undergraduate Conference   Spring 2026  
Ohio Philosophical Association TBA April 11, 2026 Angela Potochnik (Cincinnati)
Pop Culture Association (Atlanta) rolling April 8-11, 2026  
       
Bilkent Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Cornell Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Humphrey Undergraduate Philosophy Colloquium      
Indiana Philosophical Association Workshop      
Kentucky Philosophical Association      
Lycoming Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference      
Mid-Hudson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Marist)      
Midwest Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Creighton)      
Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Puget Sound Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Simpliciter Journal Conference      
SIUE Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
South Carolina Society for Philosophy      
Susanne E. Foster Graduate Philosophy Conference (Washington and Lee)      
Undergraduate Conference of The Mudd Journal of Ethics (Washington and Lee)      
SUNY Oneonta National Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
UMass Boston Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
University of Texas at Dallas      
Western Kentucky Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
William & Mary Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Windsor Philosophy Graduate/ Undergraduate Conference      
       

 

Journals etc. Deadline (if applicable) and Other Info
A Priori (Brown)  
Acta Cogitata (Eastern Michigan)  
Amherst College Undergraduate Law Review (Content Guidelines here) Rolling
Anamnesis (Colorado College)  
Aperto Animo (UNC)  
Aporia (St Andrews) January 11, 2026
Aporia (BYU) Fall issue: usually October
Spring issue: late January or early February
Arete (Rutgers)  
Compos Mentis (Michigan-Flint)  
Dialectic (York)  
Diotima (Marist)  
Epistemai (Minnesota) submit here  
Episteme (Denison)  
Ephemeris (Union)  
Falsafa (UC Irvine)  
Gnosis (Concordia)  
Logos (Cornell)  
Meteorite (Michigan) (cfp here)  
Mudd Undergraduate Journal of Ethics  
NEO (NYU)  
Prometheus (Hopkins)  
The Reed Undergraduate Journal of Existentialism (St. Olaf)  
Sapere Aude (Wooster)  
Simpliciter (Brandeis)  
Stance (Ball State)
 
Tabula Rasa (Pomona)  
Techne (UI-UC) January 31, 2026
Tri-College Law Review  
Troy Moore Undergraduate Ethics Essay Contest (Georgia State)  
Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies (Carleton)  
Vassar College Journal of Philosophy  

Notes:

I'll keep these lists as current as I can, in order of submission deadlines.
For conferences, entries without submission dates are usually for organizations with past conferences or journals which reliably repeat.
For journals, entries without submission dates often have rolling deadlines
I gather some of these from philevents.

Past years: 2024-25; 2023-24; 2022-23; 2021-22; 2020-21; 2019-20; 2018-19; 2017-18; 2016-17; 2015-16; 2014-15; 2013-14; 2012-13; 2011-12

 

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