Call for Papers! Philosophy Graduate Student Association University of Waterloo

To Whom It May Concern:

Would you please forward the attached conference CFP to your graduate students. And post it on a department bulletin board if applicable.

The Philosophy Graduate Student Association at the University of Waterloo is holding its 26th Annual Graduate Conference on March 7th and 8th, 2019. We are pleased to be hosting keynote speaker Dr. Molly Gardner from Bowling Green State University, who will be speaking on the topic of ‘The philosophy of harm’, however, we welcome submissions from all areas of philosophy. See the attached poster for details regarding the Call for Papers.

Thank you,

2018/2019 University of Waterloo PGSA Conference Committee

poster.pdf

Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory – Call for abstracts

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held on the 29th and 30th April 2019 at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

The two-day conference will provide a constructive forum for graduate students to present high-quality work in political theory, exchange ideas with peers, and receive feedback from leading academics in the field. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Lea Ypi, Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

We welcome submissions from graduate students in any area of political theory, including but not limited to: critical theory, history of political thought, analytical political philosophy, continental social and political thought. Interested applicants should send anonymised abstracts of 500 -1,000 words — along with a separate cover sheet detailing the applicant’s name, paper title, and institutional affiliation — to oxgradconference by 1 February 2019. Abstracts should include keywords to indicate the primary research areas of the paper.

Conference registration is free of charge and limited number of bursaries are available for presenters who are unable to secure funding from their home institutions. The registration deadline for those who wish to attend the conference without presenting a paper is 1 April 2019.

Please address any inquiries regarding the conference to the organisers at oxgradconference.

Support for the 2019 Graduate Conference has been generously provided by Nuffield College and by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

https://oxgradconference.wixsite.com/oxfordgradconference

Today: Rae Langton at the Aristotelian Society

Upcoming Talk at the Aristotelian Society Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2018-2019 | Volume CXIX | Issue No. 1 Upcoming Talk Monday, 12th November 2018 | 17.30 – 19.15 ‘Empathy and First Personal Imagining’ Rae Langton (Cambridge) Woburn Suite Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Chaired by Jonathan Wolff (Oxford), President of the Aristotelian Society Free of charge, all welcome, refreshments provided! More details | Read the draft paper | View the 2018/19 Programme ABOUT Rae Langton is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham College. Born and raised in India, she studied Philosophy at Sydney and Princeton, and has taught philosophy in Australia, Scotland, the USA, and England. She held professorships at Edinburgh 1999-2004 and at MIT 2004-2013. She works in moral and political philosophy, speech act theory, philosophy of law, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification (Oxford University Press, 2009). Her best known articles are ‘Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts’, ‘Duty and Desolation’, and ‘Defining Intrinsic’ (co-authored with David Lewis).

CFP – UC Riverside Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

The University of California Riverside philosophy department will be hosting our 3rd annual graduate student conference on February 15-16, 2019. Our keynote speakers are Manuel Vargas (UC San Diego) and Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside). We would appreciate it greatly if you could circulate the attached call for papers among the graduate students in your department.

Papers of up to 3,500 words on the philosophy of agency and social responsibility (broadly construed to include free will, moral responsibility, agency, and action theory) are requested by November 30th, 2018. More details can be found in the attached CFP and here: https://philevents.org/event/show/66782

Thank you!

-Tom Hanauer

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UC Riverside Graduate Conference 2019 CFP.pdf