Calls for Papers, Proposals and Conferences
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Epistemai, a student-run journal at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is seeking submissions of original philosophical work from undergraduates for their Spring 2025 edition.
They're looking for excellent undergraduate papers from any philosophical tradition and discipline. Selections will be made based on originality, engagement with the source material, depth of argument, maturity of vocabulary, clarity, conciseness, and accessibility of thoughts and language. We welcome submissions from diverse philosophical backgrounds and on a broad variety of topics.
Epistemai uses a rolling acceptance model for submissions. This means that earlier submissions will receive priority in consideration, with the first formal deadline on January 1st, 2025, and a second and final deadline on February 15th, 2025. Submissions received prior to the first deadline will also be considered for their 2025 undergraduate conference, which will be held in mid-to-late spring. They currently plan to accept around five papers for the conference and no more than eight for publication in total.
Submission criteria and process:
- Must be written by an undergraduate.
- Length should be between 3000 and 6000 words (12 to 24 pages).
- Include a 100-200 word abstract summarizing your paper and page numbers.
- Chicago style citations are preferred for submissions, and will be required for publishing.
- Cannot be published elsewhere.
- Include a cover page with the following personal information (do not include a name or any personal information elsewhere in the paper): your name, your email, and your undergraduate institution name.
- Submit your paper electronically by February 15th, 2025 by uploading a .docx or .docs file (must be editable) to , or by email to epistemai@umn.edu. Submissions from those who would like to participate in the conference or are seeking priority consideration are due on January 1st, 2025.
All published papers will be chosen by early spring. Authors will be notified of the editors' decision by that time.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the journal email at epistemai@umn.edu.
Simpliciter, the Brandeis University undergraduate philosophy journal, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, is looking for high-quality philosophy papers from undergraduate students at universities around the world. They will consider papers that make novel contributions to fields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, and more, across a variety of philosophical traditions.
They are excited to announce that they are .
Papers submitted before January 14, 2025 will be reviewed for Simpliciter's Spring 2025 edition.
Please also see information about the Spring 2025 conference .
The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy invites undergraduate and graduate students as well as early career researchers to participate in the XVI International conference Philosophy: New Generation. This year’s topic is Research on the Edge: The Everyday, the Liminal, and the Transcendent.
Philosophy has always stood at the edge of human thought, capabilities, scientific development, and the course of history. It questions its own boundaries, the applicability of its concepts, and the limits of human thought itself. Today in Ukraine, where the everyday is full of extraordinary and uncertainty have become a constant background, researchers continue to seek answers.
This conference will become a space to discuss the intersections and boundaries of the familiar and the unique, the human and the non-human, the universal and the particular, the traditional and the new, the transitional and the permanent.
We welcome all presentations related to the conference theme, especially those focused on one of the suggested subtopics:
- research as a practice of resistance: philosophy in response to crisis
- the impact of culture on the perception of reality and reality met in culture
The conference will take place on May 17-18, 2025, in a hybrid format (online via Zoom and in person in Kyiv). Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
Requirements for abstract formatting:
- up to 3,500 characters with spaces (including bibliography)
- English or Ukrainian language
The formatting template is available at the following link – .
Researchers affiliated with institutions in the aggressor state and participants who support Russian aggression against Ukraine are not permitted to participate. The organizer reserves the right to reject materials that do not meet content and formatting requirements.
Deadline for abstract submission: February 17, 2025.
Conference working languages: Ukrainian and English.
Presentation – 10 minutes, Q&A – 5 minutes.
A collection of abstracts will be published.
For any questions, please contact us at philosophy.new.gen@ukma.edu.ua.
We look forward to seeing you!