CFP: Twenty-Third Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

CALL FOR PAPERS

The twenty-third annual meeting of the Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern 

Philosophy will be held at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia from July 08 - 10, 2026. Like similar seminars in other parts of the world, the Atlantic Canada Seminar is an informal group, formed to foster interaction among scholars of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (Early Modern) Western philosophy. All are welcome to submit papers. The format of the seminar is generally in-person only for presenters from North America, with a possibility for scholars outside North America Zooming in. Auditors will also be able to attend via Zoom. (Check the website or contact me for information on that.)  Papers on any subject in Early Modern Western Philosophy (roughly, the period from Montaigne up to and including Kant) are welcome.  Reading times are approximately 50 minutes with 30 minutes for discussion. There are no concurrent sessions. A few speakers are invited, though most participants will be vetted through a selection process that includes external refereeing.  Reports will usually be available to authors. We make space for some graduate students. (If you are a graduate student, please indicate.) Non-presenters are also welcome to attend and will be included in all our activities and listed on the program. No funding is provided (this also applies to invited speakers) but breakfasts, lunches and snacks are provided, and inexpensive accommodations in university-residence housing is available, in addition to a variety of hotel accommodations in the vicinity of the conference. The website of the conference is linked to the homepage of the Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University. Its’ URL is: https://www.dal.ca/sites/acsemp.html .

The deadline for submitting abstracts (of approximately 750 words) is 15 March, 2026. We will try to have the program available by May 01, 2026. Information on accommodations and travel will be available at that time.

Abstract preparation. Please send 2 files of your abstract. The first file should contain the title, date of submission, your abstract and your name and affiliation as you would like it to appear on the program, in MS Word, with the file name as in this example, where Tom Vinci is the submitter and Descartes is the topic of the submission; ”vinci.tom_Descartes_abstr_identified.docx”. The second file should be prepared for blind review – no identifying information in the text -- with the file name as in this example: “vin_Descartes_abstr_blind.docx”.