CFP: The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO): 11th Annual Conference

The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO) is now accepting abstracts for our 11th annual conference, hosted by TEMPO at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. We will be meeting on Friday, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st, 2027. Details, past programs, and other information can be found at http://tempo-conference.net

We welcome papers on any aspect of Modern philosophy from Montaigne through Mill (in Europe or elsewhere) or the teaching of it.  

Submissions on the topic of our reading group—the Venetian women philosophers Marinella, Tarabotti, and Fonte—and related figures, methods, and themes are particularly encouraged.  

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Keynote Presentation by Elliot Samuel Paul (Queen’s University), “Cartesian Freedom: How Clarity Liberates”

Plenary Talk by Elena Gordon (University College Dublin), “Male Tyranny, Misogyny, and Online Spaces: Lessons from the History of Feminism”

Author Meets Critics on The Eternal Ocean of Mind: Mary Shepherd’s Metaphysics by Manuel Fasko (University of Basel), moderated by David Landy (San Francisco State University), featuring Don Garrett (New York University), Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia), and Maité Cruz (Union College)

Panel “Teaching Non-Canonical Figures in Non-Canonical Ways” facilitated by Allauren Forbes (McMaster University), featuring Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) and Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)

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Please prepare your 300-500 word proposals for anonymous review. Papers should be suitable for a 25 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.

Submit paper abstracts and other submissions through http://tempo-conference.net/submit. Submissions from graduate students are eligible for the TEMPO Outstanding Paper Prize.

The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2027. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by February 19th.

Find out more about the conference at http://tempo-conference.net, including information about the Outstanding Paper Prize and our upcoming reading group on the Venetian women philosophers Marinella, Tarabotti, and Fonte.

The TEMPO Board remains committed to increasing the representation of diverse voices across Modern philosophy scholarship. Please see http://tempo-conference.net/diversity.html

Please direct questions to our program committee chair for 2027, Virginia Sharpe, at [email protected]