CFP: 2025 Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference

The 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum brings together educators, scholars, practitioners, and other experts in the field of ethics education to share best practices, innovative teaching methodologies, pedagogical approaches, and compelling scholarship that will engage students and others in critical ethical reasoning about important and timely issues. 

The 2025 conference will explore the challenges of migration in the 21st Century. The conference will examine the significant range of topics related to the issue of migration including the moral weight of distinctions between refugees, economic migrants, and asylum seekers; the duties of nations toward their own citizens and those who come to their country, whether documented or not; the causes of migration and the relative responsibility of nations for those causes; the impact of global climate change on migration; the shifting meaning of “neighbor” in an ever more global community; the role of non-governmental entities in addressing the root causes of migration and with meeting the needs of migrants; the particular challenges to democracy of significant migration; and the moral meaning of national borders and the status of the human right to migrate. 

While this year's confernce theme concerns the challenges of migration in the 21st century, the Society welcomes submissions on any area or topic in the field of ethics.

Proposals are due August 15, 2025. Submissions may include full papers or abstracts of no more than 250 words. A full paper must include a 250-word abstract. Session formats include papers, panels, case study analysis and discussion, poster sessions, and pedagogical demonstrations. Presentations are typically 20–25 minutes in length, allowing for 5–10 minutes of Q&A. Submissions are to be formatted for blind review. We encourage undergraduate and graduate students to submit their work. The society sponsors a competition for the best paper submitted by a graduate student. The winner receives a $500 cash award and free conference registration. To be eligible for this award a full paper and 250 word abstract must be submitted by the due date. The Society publishes th journal Teaching Ethics; conference papers may be sent to the editors for consideration. There are Opportunity Grants available to encourage scholars with limited financial support to participate in this conference. 

Submissions should be emailed to: [email protected]

For more information: Mark Doorley ([email protected]).