CFP: SIUE 11th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Keynote Speaker: Dr. George Yancy, Emory College, Atlanta, Georgia

Author of Look, A White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness. (2012), Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race (2008), and editor and author of numerous influential books & articles, including a series of 19 interviews with philosophers and public intellectuals on the issue of race for The New York Times

Submission Deadline: September 4, 2016

The best student papers will be published in Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal (peer-reviewed, open access)

Submission Requirements:

•Submit your paper as an electronic attachment in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf file format to 

Professor Saba Fatima at [email protected].

•Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome.

•SIUE is committed to issues of diversity and especially encourages women and minorities to consider submitting. 

•In the subject line of the e-mail please indicate “Undergraduate Philosophy Conference”

•In the body of the message, please indicate author’s name, university affiliation, email, and the title of the paper.

•Make the first page of the paper a cover page, which should include the author’s name, university affiliation, email contact, word count, and the title of the paper.

•Prepare the rest of the paper for blind review. Self-identifying information should only appear on the cover page and in the body of the email submitted to Professor Fatima. 

•The paper must not exceed 3000 words in length (not counting bibliography and notes). 

•Students submitting papers must be currently enrolled undergraduates.