TEMPO 2025: A Modern Conference

The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO) is now accepting paper abstracts for our April 25-26th, 2025 conference to be held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Details, programs from past iterations, and other information can be found at http://tempo-conference.net

We welcome papers on any aspect of Modern philosophy, roughly understood as the period from Montaigne through Mill. 

Submissions on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and related figures, methods, and themes are particularly encouraged.

Keynote Presentation: "Cavendish (and Aristotle and Augustine but not Hobbes) on Virtue" by Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)

Plenary Talks: 

• “Kant, Epistemic Dependence, and the Politics of Knowledge Production” by Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University)
• “Shepherd on Mathematics” by Maité Cruz (Union College)
• “Time, Mutability, and Punishment in Conway” by Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (University of California, Davis)

Please note that there is a registration fee for the conference.

Charging this fee helps us to provide coffee and refreshments, and, in the future, honoraria for plenary speakers, awards and travel grants for some graduate student and limited term appointment presenters, etc.

Registration can be paid onsite via card/contactless, cash/check, and apps like Venmo/PayPal/Zelle/Cash app. (Those latter being preferred.) 

The organization will issue receipts. The fee amount varies by professional position. Please see the fee schedule below.

Fee Schedule

• Participants without Institutional Travel Support: $0
• Graduate Students, Unaffiliated Scholars, and folks with Limited Term Appointments: $20
• Non-Tenure Track and Untenured Tenure-Track Professors: $50
• Associate Professors (and equivalent): $75
• Full Professors (and equivalent): $100