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  
Pop Culture Association (Atlanta) December 5, 2025 April 8-11, 2026  
SUNY Oneonta National Undergraduate Philosophy Conference December 21, 2025 April 17-18, 2026  
William & Mary Undergraduate Philosophy Conference January 1, 2026 March 21, 2026 Wesley Buckwalter (George Mason)
Steven Humphrey Undergraduate Philosophy Colloquium January 05, 2026 February 27, 2006 Elizabeth Lanphier (Cincinnati)
Kentucky Philosophical Association January 12, 2026 April 18, 2026 Valerie Gray Hardcastle (Northern Kentucky)
South Carolina Society for Philosophy January 15, 2026 March 13-14, 2026 Alex Plakias (Hamilton)
North Carolina Philosophical Society joint with South Carolina, see above
Ohio Philosophical Association January 15, 2026 April 11, 2026 Angela Potochnik (Cincinnati)
A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy (United Lutheran Seminary) January 15, 2026 February 27–28, 2026  
Midwest Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Creighton) January 16, 2026 April 11, 2026  
UMass Boston Undergraduate Philosophy Conference January 25, 2026 March 28, 2026 Thomas Noah (UPenn)
Mid-Hudson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Marist) January 30, 2026 April 10-11, 2026 Victor Kumar (BU)
University of Hertfordshire Undergraduate Philosophy Conference January 30, 2026 March 1, 2026 Craig Bourne (Hertfordshire)
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Undergraduate Conference January 31, 2026 April 18, 2026  
New England Society for Continental Philosophy January 31, 2026 April 16, 2026  
Gordon H Clark Symposium at Covenant College January 31, 2026 March 20, 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, 2026 March 27-28, 2026  
Lycoming Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference February 6, 2026 April 11, 2026  
Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference February 13, 2026 April 3-4, 2026 Deborah Mower (University of Mississippi)
Bilkent Undergraduate Philosophy Conference February 20, 2026 March 29, 2026 on Zoom
       
Cornell Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Indiana Philosophical Association Workshop      
Puget Sound Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Simpliciter Journal Conference      
SIUE Undergraduate Philosophy Conference      
Western Kentucky 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)  
Dianoia (Boston College) January 16, 2026
Diotima (Marist)  
Epistemai (Minnesota) submit here  
Episteme (Denison)  
Ephemeris (Union)  
Falsafa (UC Irvine)  
Gnosis (Concordia)  
Logos (Cornell)  
Medusa: An Undergraduate Journal of Feminist Philosophy April 30, 2026
Meteorite (Michigan) (cfp here) January 1, 2026; submit here
Mudd Undergraduate Journal of Ethics January 23, 2026
NEO (NYU)  
Prometheus (Hopkins)  
The Reed Undergraduate Journal of Existentialism (St. Olaf) January 31, 2026
Sapere Aude (Wooster)  
Simpliciter (Brandeis)  
Stance (Ball State)
 
Tabula Rasa (Pomona)  
Techne (UI-UC) January 31, 2026
Tri-College Law Review February 25, 2026
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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