This is an excellent opportunity for undergraduates. I attended last year, and the students were professional and amazing. Please encourage your students to submit papers, or volunteer to comment.

Call for Papers

Eastern Michigan University’s 4^th Annual Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy

March 8^th and 9^th, 2014

The Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy is now accepting papers

for its conference to be held Saturday and Sunday, March 8^th and 9^th, 2014.  Papers selected for presentation will be allotted 20 minute presentation times, followed by “formal” comments and Q & A.  All papers in philosophy, broadly construed, will be considered for the conference; since this is an undergraduate conference, no papers by professionals, graduate students, or others holding an advanced degree (in philosophy) will be considered.

Papers submitted for the conference should be 8-12 pages in length and include an abstract approximately 250 words in length.

  

The deadline for submission is January 10, 2014, and only completed papers accompanied by an abstract will be reviewed.  We expect to announce the papers selected for presentation before the end of January.

We will also be using a “formal” commentator system; so, even if your paper is not selected for presentation, you may be considered for such a role.  Please let us know, along with your paper submission, if you are willing to comment.  This also means that all selected papers will receive formal feedback at the conference.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eric Stencil, Utah Valley University

Faculty Mentors:  Last year we enjoyed having faculty attend in a purely support role.  We strongly encourage students to bring faculty mentors to the conference.  The dialog among professors, discussion of pedagogy, and expansion of mentoring opportunities for students, are among the desirable benefits of this conference.

Papers, abstracts, and questions should be submitted electronically to [log in to unmask]

Faculty Supervisor:  Dr. W. John Koolage, [log in to unmask]

Publication Opportunity:  The top (3 to 5) papers submitted will be published in the inaugural run of our new undergraduate philosophy journal!  www.emich.edu/historyphilosophy/journals.php

Conference Website: www.emich.edu/historyphilosophy/emuucip.php

*Papers submitted and/or presented at other conferences will be given equal consideration in our review process.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Margaret
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Margaret A. Crouch
Professor of Philosophy
Department of History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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