CFP: 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.

Please prepare 300-500 word abstracts for anonymous review. Papers should be suitable for a 25 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.

Submit paper abstracts through http://tempo-conference.net/submit

The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2025. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by February 18th.

Find out more about the conference at http://tempo-conference.net, including information about our upcoming reading group on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

The TEMPO Board remains committed to increasing the representation of diverse voices across Modern philosophy scholarship. Please see http://tempo-conference.net/diversity.html

Please direct questions to our program committee chair for 2025, Virginia Sharpe, at [email protected]

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)