CFP: 1st UChicago WAMIP Philosophy Graduate Conference: Practical Philosophy & Philosophy’s Practicalities

UChicago’s Women in Philosophy (WIP) and Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) invites abstracts for the first WAMIP (Women & Minorities in Philosophy) Philosophy Graduate Conference, taking place on April 17-18, 2026 at the University of Chicago.

This conference brings together graduate students and scholars working on moral philosophy, broadly construed, coming from a wide variety of philosophical backgrounds to discuss issues in philosophy and academia. In addition to discussing research, it is our conference’s explicit aim to make tacit institutional knowledge about academia more explicit, foster community, and just generally help each other excel.

Location University of Chicago
Dates April 17-18, 2026
CFA Deadline February 2, 2026

Keynotes
Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
Annette Martín (UIC)
Mikayla Kelley (UChicago)

The first day of the event is a topical conference on moral philosophy (see below for more info). It includes two keynotes and two graduate panels. On the graduate panels, each graduate student has 15-20 minutes to present their work. After each one has presented, there will be an open Q&A for all panelists.

The second (half-)day will include a panel discussion where we invite our keynotes to talk about pragmatics in academia, with a particular focus on supporting and highlighting the experiences of minorities in philosophy. The point of this is really to make tacit knowledge about these things more widely available.

April 17
9-10.30 Annette Martín (UIC)
11-12.30 Graduate Student Panel
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15 Graduate Student Panel
15.30 - 17 Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)

April 18
9-10.30 Mikayla Kelley (UChicago)
11-12.30 Keynote Panel Discussion on the Pragmatics of Academia

CFA

We especially welcome submissions on research areas of our keynotes, and by members of underrepresented groups in philosophy. Some topical questions include, but are not limited to:

• What does it mean to be a moral agent/patient?

• What does it mean/take to be blameworthy or praiseworthy?

• What, if anything, is gender?

• How can we hold groups accountable for what they do?

• What grounds moral value?

• Is intentional agency inherently morally infused?

• What must we do to rectify past wrongs, and who must do it?

Submission Information

Length max. 500 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation

Deadline February 2, 2026

Format Please send a suitably anonymized abstract [email protected]. 

• The subject line should be “WAMIP Submission”.

• In the body of the email, please include the following information:

• Name

• Paper Title

• Institutional Affiliation (e.g. PhD Student at UChicago)

• Email address

Some features of a good abstract:

Your talk need not be a paper that is ready to be published. The idea can be rough, but it should be clearly communicated. In the best case, the abstract makes clear which parts of a specific debate you are engaging with: please cite the relevant sources. It also clearly outlines how you propose to intervene in this literature. Even if the paper is not yet fully worked out, we want to get a sense where you are headed.

(If you’re not sure whether you should submit, you should feel free to send an email [email protected]. But generally, when in doubt: just submit something!)

We look forward to your submissions!
Kind regards,
Martin & Emily