The 2026 Rice Graduate Animal Ethics Conference will take place in-person at Rice University on Saturday, March 28th, 2026. Jeff Sebo will deliver the keynote talk.

We invite submissions from current graduate students in philosophy. All submissions should engage with animal ethics. Submissions should be suitable for a 20-minute presentation (roughly 3,000 words). All accepted papers will be assigned commentators. We hope to offer accommodations for all accepted speakers.

Submission Guidelines:

Please send the following documents to [email protected] by February 1st, 2026:

A cover page (name, institutional affiliation, contact information, title of paper)
Your paper prepared for blind review (all identifying marks removed)