CFA: TEMPO 10

The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO) is now accepting abstracts (and other submissions) for our 10th annual conference. We will be meeting on the campus of San Francisco State University on Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd, 2026. Details, programs from past iterations, and other information can be found at http://tempo-conference.net

We perennially welcome papers on any aspect of Modern philosophy, roughly understood as the period from Montaigne through Mill, but in celebration of our tenth year, we’re issuing a call that is broader in every possible way. In addition to abstracts for papers, we’d be delighted to get: panel submissions for traditional and non-traditional panels; teaching or pedagogy-related proposals; narrative analyses; stories, poems or songs; or, frankly, anything else that falls within the broad remit of scholarly or popular intellectual engagement with philosophy (broadly construed) between roughly 1550 and 1850 (in Europe or elsewhere) or the teaching of it. We want your unconventional ideas, presentations, and panels!

Submissions on the topic of our reading group, Émilie Du Châtelet, and related figures, methods, and themes are particularly encouraged.

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Keynote presentation: “Can Mary Astell Make Room for Implicit Bias in Her Epistemology?” by Jessica Gordon-Roth (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Plenary presentation: “Newton, Turner, and Barrow on God, Space, and Motion” by Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)

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Please prepare your 300-500 word proposals for anonymous review. Individual papers should be suitable for a 25 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. If proposing a panel or other alternative presentation, please specify the proposed time, participants, etc., to the extent that you can.

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

The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2026. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by February 16th.

Submissions from graduate students will be eligible for the first ever TEMPO Outstanding Paper Prize.

Find out more about the conference at http://tempo-conference.net, including information about the Outstanding Paper Prize and our upcoming reading group on Émilie Du Châtelet.

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 2026, Virginia Sharpe, at [email protected]