2021-22 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 in the past couple of years. I hope that many of the annual (or otherwise regular) conferences will return, in some form or other. If you want a robust list of past conferences and places they were held, look at my 2020-21 page. I'm clearing house here and just including links for conferences already scheduled or that I think have a good chance of running this year. Please email me with updates!
During the pandemic, some folks turned to producing undergraduate journals instead. Do check out the Journals etc. section below.
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(s) | Virtual or F2F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthearted Philosophers' Society Annual Conference | August 1, 2021 | October 8-9, 2021 | F2F | |
| The War on Terror Then and Now: Twenty Years After 9/11 (West Point) | June 30, 2021 | October 13-15, 2021 | Robert M. Gates (22nd Secretary of Defense); Martin Dempsey (18th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) | F2F |
| Concerned Philosophers for Peace: Effects of Violence and Injustice on People, Politics, and the Environment | August 1, 2021 | October 29-30, 2021 | John Nolt (Tennessee) | Virtual |
| SIUE Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | September 12, 2021 | October 29-30, 2021 | Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside) | Hybrid |
| Indiana Philosophical Association Fall Meeting | September 15, 2021 | November 12-13, 2021 | Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State) | F2F |
| Philosophical Association of the Philippines: The Philippine Gender Turn | September 16, 2021 | November 17-19, 2021 | Virtual | |
| Ethics of Change International Student Conference | August 31, 2021 | December 7-8, 2021 | Virtual | |
| Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) | November 8, 2021 | February 24-27, 2022 | F2F, with a virtual option | |
| APA/AAPT Teaching Hubs at Eastern, Central and Pacific APAs | November 15, 2021 | Eastern: January 7, 2021 (Baltimore). Central: February 25, 2021 (Chicago). Pacific: April 15, 2021 (Vancouver). | F2F | |
| Mid-Hudson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Marist) | December 17, 2021 | April 8-9, 2022 | Quayshawn Spencer (Penn) | F2F |
| Prometheus Mid-Atlantic Undergrad Philosophy Conference (Hopkins) | December 31, 2021 | April 9, 2022 | ||
| SUNY Oneonta National Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | April 1-2, 2022 | Alice Dreger | ||
| Eastern Michigan | January |
March 19-20, 2022 | Jaime Ahlberg (University of Florida) | F2F, and Virtual |
| Great Lakes Philosophy Conference: Identity and Ethics | January 10, 2022 | April 8-10, 2022 | Luvell Anderson (Syracuse) | Virtual |
| Disastrous (In)Determination (Concordia) | February 7, 2022 | April 9-10, 2022 | Diane Enns (Ryerson) | F2F and Virtual |
| Epistemai (Minnesota) | March 31, 2022 | April 15, 2022 | ||
| Houston Community College Philosophy and Humanities Conference | April 2, 2022 | |||
| Midsouth (Rhodes) | Spring 2022 | |||
| CUNY Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (LaGuardia CC) | ||||
| Undergraduate Conference of The Mudd Journal of Ethics (Washington and Lee) | ||||
| Ohio Philosophical Association | ||||
| Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference | ||||
| North Carolina Philosophical Society | ||||
| National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (Hopkins) |
| Journals etc. | Deadline (if applicable) and Other Info |
|---|---|
| A Priori (Brown) | January 2, 2022 |
| Acta Cogitata (Eastern Michigan) | |
| Amherst College Undergraduate Law Review | Guidelines here. Submission form here. Next publication in Spring 2022 |
| Anamnesis (Colorado College) | |
| Aperto Animo (UNC) | |
| Aporia (BYU) | Fall issue: usually October Spring issue: late January or early February |
| Aporia (St. Andrews) | |
| Arete (Rutgers) | |
| Compos Mentis (Michigan-Flint) | April 30, 2021 |
| Dialectic (York) | |
| Epistemai (Minnesota) | March 1, 2022 |
| Episteme (Denison) | |
| Ephemeris (Union) | |
| Gnosis (Concordia) | |
| Logos (Cornell) | December 31, 2021. Cash prizes. |
| Meteorite (Michigan) | January 1, 2022 |
| NEO (NYU) | |
| Prometheus (Hopkins) | December 31, 2021 |
| The Reed Undergraduate Journal of Existentialism (St. Olaf) | January 31, 2022 |
| Sapare Aude (Wooster) | February 10, 2022 |
| Tri-College Law Review (Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore) | March 6, 2022 |
| Troy Moore Undergraduate Ethics Essay Contest (Georgia State) | |
| Stance (Ball State) |
December 17, 2021 |
| 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: 2020-21; 2019-20; 2018-19; 2017-18; 2016-17; 2015-16; 2014-15; 2013-14; 2012-13; 2011-12