2020-21 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.
Note: The pandemic forced the cancellation of many conferences last spring, and likely moved folks to focus on producing undergraduate journals instead. Who knows what this year will bring? But do continue to the journals section below, and please email me with updates!
Conferences Journals (Note that some conferences have publications attached; I don't track that here, so read their submission pages closely.)
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 | Keynote Speaker(s) | Virtual or F2F | Last Conference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthearted Philosophers' Society Annual Conference | August 15, 2020 | April 9-10, 2021 | Virtual | ||
| APA/AAPT Teaching Hubs at Eastern, Central and Pacific APAs | November 15, 2020 | Eastern: January 6, 2021. Central: February 26, 2021. Pacific (Portland): April 3, 2021. | Virtual | ||
| Ethical Engineering for Sustainability, Wicked Problems, and Beyond (Missouri University of Science and Technology) | November 30, 2020 | December 11—12, 2020 | |||
| Undergraduate Conference of The Mudd Journal of Ethics (Washington and Lee) | January 15, 2021 | March 6-7, 2021 | Virtual | 2020 | |
| Eastern Michigan | January 15, 2021 | March 13-14, 2021 | Carol Hay (Massachusetts, Lowell) | Virtual | 2020 |
| Prometheus Undergrad Philosophy Conference (Hopkins) | January 29, 2021 | April 10, 2021 | Virtual | 2020 | |
| Great Lakes Philosophy Conference: Ethics in Action | February 1, 2021 | April 9-11, 2021 | Derrick Darby (Rutgers) | Virtual | 2020 |
| Houston Community College Philosophy and Humanities Conference | February 1, 2021 | April 3, 2021 | Virtual | 2019 | |
| Epistemai (Minnesota) | February 26, 2021 | March 19, 2021 | |||
| Ohio Philosophical Association | April 17, 2021 | 2020 | |||
| Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | April 2021 | 2020 | |||
| Midsouth (Rhodes) | Spring 2022 | 2019 | |||
| 25th Annual SUNY Oneonta National Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2020 | ||||
| Michigan Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2020 | ||||
| North Carolina Philosophical Society | 2020 | ||||
South Carolina Society for Philosophy |
2020 | ||||
| Mid-Hudson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Marist) | 2020 | ||||
| Wilson College Humanities Conference: Bold Women | 2020 | ||||
| Rutgers-Columbia | 2020 | ||||
| National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (Hopkins) | 2020 | ||||
| Loyola & Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | 2020 | ||||
| Kentucky Philosophical Association | 2020 | ||||
| University of Toronto Scarborough | 2020 | ||||
| Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (UNC Asheville) | 2020 | ||||
| Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2020 | ||||
| Puget Sound Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2019 | ||||
Illinios Philosophical Association |
2019 | ||||
| Ida B. Wells Philosophical Conference (Memphis) | 2019 | ||||
| Minnesota Philosophical Society Undergraduate Conference | 2019 | ||||
| Humphrey Colloquium (Louisville) | 2019 | ||||
| University of Kansas Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2019 | ||||
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Undergraduate Philosophy Conference |
2019 | ||||
| Georgia State | 2019 | ||||
| Humanities and Technology Association 40th Annual Conference | 2019 | ||||
| Emmanuel College First Annual Boston Area Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2019 | ||||
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 2019 | ||||
| Gonzaga Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | 2018 | ||||
| Intermountain West (Utah) | 2018 | ||||
| 7th Annual CUNY Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (LaGuardia CC) | 2017 |
| Journals | Deadline (if applicable) and Other Info |
|---|---|
| A Priori (Brown) (cfp here) | January 5, 2021 |
| Acta Cogitata (Eastern Michigan) | |
| Amherst College Law Review | Guidelines here. Submission form here. |
| Anamnesis (Colorado College) (cfp here) | The submission deadline for the 2021 issue will be announced in the fall of 2020 |
| Anemoi (New College of Florida) | |
| Aperto Animo (UNC) (cfp here) | |
| Aporia (BYU) | |
| Aporia (St. Andrews) See also here | |
| Arete (Rutgers) | |
| Compos Mentis (Michigan-Flint) | April 30, 2021 |
| Dialectic | |
| Epistemai (Minnesota) | Submit here by February 1, 2021 |
| Episteme (Denison) | |
| Ephemeris (Union) | |
| Gnosis (Concordia) | |
| Logos (Cornell) | January 1, 2021. Cash prizes. |
| Meteorite (Michigan) | January 1, 2021. cfp here |
| Prometheus (Hopkins) | |
| The Reed (St. Olaf) | |
| Stance (Ball State) |
Ordinarily, mid-December |
| Troy Moore Undergraduate Ethics Essay Contest (Georgia State) | February 5, 2021 |
| Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies (Carleton) | December 7th, 2020 for Winter 2021; after that for Spring 2021. |
| 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: 2019-20; 2018-19; 2017-18; 2016-17; 2015-16; 2014-15; 2013-14; 2012-13; 2011-12