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

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

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

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 student panels. One the graduate student 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 underrepresented groups in philosophy. The point of this is really to make tacit knowledge about these things more widely available and lend support to one another.

Friday, April 17

9 - 10.30 Annette Martín (UIC)

11 - 12.30 Graduate Student Panel

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 3 Graduate Student Panel

3.30 - 5 Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)

Saturday, April 18

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