Colorado State University Graduate Student Conference – Understudied and Underrepresented Philosophies

Colorado State University Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy

Understudied and Underrepresented Philosophies

April 3, 2027

Fort Collins, Colorado

The Philosophy Department at Colorado State University invites submissions for its first Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, to be held on Saturday, April 3, 2027, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The theme of this year’s conference is Understudied and Underrepresented Philosophies. We invite graduate student submissions that engage philosophical traditions, figures, questions, methods, and communities that have historically received less attention within mainstream academic philosophy. Our aim is to create a welcoming and intellectually serious space for graduate students to present work that expands the scope of philosophical inquiry and brings historically marginalized or understudied traditions into deeper conversation with contemporary philosophical debates.

We welcome submissions in areas including, but not limited to:

African and Africana philosophy

Arabic and Persian philosophy

Buddhist philosophy

Caribbean philosophy

Chinese philosophy

Comparative philosophy

Continental philosophy

Environmental philosophy from underrepresented traditions

Feminist philosophy

Hindu philosophy

Indigenous philosophy

Islamic philosophy

Jewish philosophy

Latin American philosophy

Non-Western ethics

Non-Western political philosophy

Philosophy of disability

Philosophy of immigration

Philosophy of neurodiversity

Philosophy of racePhilosophy of religion in non-Western traditions

Queer and trans philosophy

Other non-listed understudied figures, texts, or traditions in ancient, medieval, modern, or contemporary philosophy

Submissions may be historical, comparative, constructive, critical, or interdisciplinary in approach. Papers that place understudied or underrepresented traditions in conversation with ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, or other major areas of philosophy are especially welcome.

Format

Each graduate student speaker will have a one-hour session, structured as follows:

30 minutes for presentation

10 minutes for commentary

5 minutes for speaker response

15 minutes for general Q&A

Selected presenters will be asked to submit a full paper version of their talk in advance so that commentators can prepare their responses. Full papers should be no more than 5,000 words, excluding notes and bibliography, and should be suitable for a 30-minute presentation.

The conference will also include a keynote lecture and keynote Q&A.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an anonymized abstract of up to 750 words prepared for blind review. References do not count toward the word limit. Please also submit a separate cover sheet containing:

Author name

Email address

Institutional affiliation

Title of paper

Topic area

Three keywords

Short abstract for the program, maximum 100 words

Submissions should be sent in PDF or Word format to: [email protected]

Only one submission per author will be considered.

We especially encourage submissions from graduate students who are members of groups underrepresented in academic philosophy.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: December 18, 2026

Notification of decisions: Early February

Full papers due: February 26, 2027

Conference date: April 3, 2027

Support

There will be no registration fee for accepted speakers. Additional information about housing, travel, the keynote speaker, conference location, and the final program will be provided closer to the conference date. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to hosting Colorado State University’s first Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy.

The CSU Graduate Philosophy Conference Organizing Committee