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The 31st Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, "Kant, Proust and the Appeal of Beauty," at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be held April 3-4, 2009. Graduate students may submit papers on any topic of philosophical interest and from any philosophical perspective.  This conference typically features papers representing the best graduate work being done in Analytic and Continental philosophy. See flyer for submission information. The submission deadline is January 15, 2009.


Philosophy Graduate Student Conference on Political Philosophy will held at the University at Albany, SUNY, March 28, 2009.  Papers may address any area of political philosophy. Papers should be suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation (approx. 12-15 pages). Papers should be submitted by email with subject line "submission" as rich text (rtf) or PDF format file to: uapa.email@gmail.com.  If email submission is not possible, please mail to: University at Albany SUNY, Department of Philosophy, UAPA President, Humanities 257, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222.  For more information please contact Pete Murry at the above email address.  The submission deadline is January 23, 2009.


  The 13th Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will be held at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, April 17-18, 2009.  The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of philosophical work of undergraduates to their peers.  Papers are required to be of philosophical content, but there are no specific restrictions on subject matter within the arena of philosophical discussion itself. Electronic submissions are preferred and can be sent to David Boersema at boersema@pacificu.edu. Hard copy submissions may be sent to: David Boersema, Department of Philosophy, Pacific University, Forest Grove OR 97116. For more information, contact Professor Boersema at the address above or to the conference website: http://www.pacificu.edu/as/philosophy/conference/index.com Submission deadline is February 1, 2009.


14th Annual Philosophy Conference at Villanova University. Submissions will be considered in any theme in contemporary French philosophy which might engage figures including (but not limited to): Badiou, Ranciere, Descombes, Meillassoux, Compagnon, Laruelle, Kristeva, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Cixous, Stiegler, Deleuze, Marion, Balibar, Aron, Laplanche, Castoriadis, Latour, Ferry, Ricoeur, Derrida, Virilio, Lefort, Henry,Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Gauchet, Manent, Renaut, Baudrillard, Lazarus, Macherey, Rabate, Gaillard, Brisson, Romano, malabou, Lyotard, Milner, Seres, and others.  Please submit in blind review format to ryan.feigenbaum@villanova.edu. Submission deadline is February 1, 2009


3rd Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference on Why Nietzsche? Which Nietzsche? will be held at Duquesne University, March 28, 2009. Possible paper topics include (but are not limited to): Nietzsche as precursor to phenomenology, Nietzsche and aesthetics, appropriations of Nietzsche by feminism and critical race theory, Nietzsche and the political, Nietzsche and laughter, Nietzsche and the history of philosophy, Nietzsche and the future of philosophy, Nietzsche and post-structuralism/post-modernism, Nietzsche and the textuality of the text. Submit papers by email to in either Word or PDF electronic formats to duquesneGSIP@gmail.com.  For further information, questions, or problems with submissions contact Patrick Craig at craigp@duq.edu. Submission deadline is February 1, 2009.

 


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