CFP: Southwest Graduate Philosophy Conference

Theme: Civility and Incivility

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sukaina Hirji (University of Pennsylvania). 

The annual Southwest Graduate Philosophy Conference will resume in Spring 2026 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. This year, our theme will be Civility and Incivility. We welcome graduate student submissions from any area of philosophy, but priority will be given to papers relevant to the theme and/or relevant to social philosophy broadly constructed. This year our conference is co-hosted by ASU’s MAP chapter, so we particularly encourage graduate students to submit papers on topics that are relevant to marginalized communities.

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Sukiana Hirji from the University of Pennsylvania as our keynote speaker. The keynote presentation will be the final talk of the conference on Saturday, April 25th.

Further details:

The Conference will take place in person on Friday & Saturday, April 24th & 25th 2026 in Coor Hall at Arizona State University.

Each presenter will be given 30 minutes for their presentation and 15-20 minutes for comments and Q&A, so please keep in mind a word limit of 3000-3500 words. 

Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review. You will be asked for the following materials: 

• Name
• Institution
• Title of paper 
• Abstract (250 words or fewer) 
• Contact information. 
• An indication of your willingness to be a commenter/respondent on another student’s paper (commentary should be around 2-3 minutes).
• An anonymized paper of 3,000-3,500 words.

To submit the application materials, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/UaF8KLBJcvjyWtqE7 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Scout Etterson at [email protected]. 

Submission deadline: January 9th, 2026. 

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by February 2nd, 2026.