This year&rsquo\;s annual 3PR conference\, Attention and the Virtues of Mind and Heart\, will take place on March 28-29\, 2025 at Princeton University.
\nWhat we pay attention to matters\, and we should pay attention to what matters. Attention is a power we appear to have some control over\; and how we choose to direct that power affects what we cognize\, value\, feel\, and believe. However\, attention is in turn subject to influence. For instance\, we are all too familiar with recent concerns about &lsquo\;attentional capture&rsquo\; and the ways large companies increasingly compete to monetize our attentive capacities. It is accordingly no surprise that attention has recently resurfaced as a topic of serious interest in many different philosophical traditions and subfields. The goal of this conference is to bring these different areas into productive conversation with one another. To that end\, we are excited to be bringing together philosophers working on the normativity of attention in a very wide range of different traditions and subfields\, ranging from philosophy of mind to ethics\, Buddhist philosophy to phenomenology and 19th-20th century British philosophy\, and many more.
\nAll are welcome. If you would like to attend\, please register by emailing pppr@princeton.edu
\nPlease see conference schedule on our website and register for the location.
ORGANIZER;CN="Bas Tönissen";CN=Smriti Khanal: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T004228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T170000 SUMMARY:Princeton University Graduate Conference in Political Theory UID:20260321T135842Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:8c16:90ff:fea7:70aa%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Princeton\, United States DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that Princeton University&rsquo\;s 18th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory will be held on Friday\, April 17 and Saturday\, April 18\, 2026. We welcome submissions related to any topic in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory\, including projects that are methodologically innovative or center voices traditionally marginalized in the discipline.
Our conference offers graduate students a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on works in progress. Each session focuses exclusively on one paper\; after receiving feedback from a discussant\, each author will engage in a question and answer period with Princeton faculty\, students\, and guests.
We are thrilled that Professor Shatema Threadcraft\, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Philosophy\, and Political Science at Vanderbilt University\, will deliver the conference&rsquo\;s keynote address on Friday\, April 17.
Please see our call for papers to apply. \;
We are pleased to announce Motion and Soul: The Soul as Principle of Motion in Ancient Philosophy\, a workshop to be held at Princeton on October 31-November 1. We invite submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers\, selected through an open call.
\nThe workshop will feature a keynote address by M. M. McCabe (King&rsquo\;s College London) and a series of workshop sessions. Each workshop session will consist of a presentation of a pre-circulated paper\, ranging from 15 to 30 pages\, followed by comments from a discussant and a Q&\;A session.
\nWe invite submissions on topics related to the soul as a principle of motion in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. Possible subjects include (but are not limited to!) the soul in Plato&rsquo\;s Phaedrus (proof of immortality\, the myth of the winged chariot\, recollection and eros\, rhetoric and psychagogia)\, Laws (soul and self-motion\, psychology and legislation\, preludes and persuasion\, theology and cosmology)\, Timaeus (cosmic soul and necessity\, structure of the human soul\, embodiment\, eschatology)\, as well as in Aristotle&rsquo\;s De Anima\, De motu animalium\, Physics\, Parva naturalia and other treatises. Submissions about the reception of these ideas are also welcome\, such as in the Hellenistic\, Roman\, Arab\, Byzantine\, Medieval\, and Renaissance traditions.
\nPlease send fully anonymized abstracts to motionandsoul@gmail.com by December 1st\, 2025. Abstracts should be 500 words or fewer\, excluding the bibliography. Please also send\, in a separate file\, a cover page with your name\, home institution\, contact information\, and a brief bio describing your research. Please indicate in your email whether you would be willing to be a discussant. We will pair you with someone working on topics that interest you\, as indicated by your brief bio.
\nAccommodation and meals will be provided for all presenters and discussants. We can cover travel costs up to $120\, and possibly more. Please indicate in your email if you need further travel assistance\, and we will do our best to accommodate you. A Zoom option will be provided for anyone for whom travel is not possible.
\nThis event is made possible by the generous support of the University Center for Human Values\, the Princeton Philosophy Department\, the Princeton Classics Department\, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, the Graduate School\, IHUM\, the Council of the Humanities\, and the Program in Classical Philosophy. \;
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