Something of relevance for grad students who also work in ethics or applied ethics:

The graduate students of the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech are hosting their fifth annual conference on 7-8 November 2008. The topic of the conference is Twentieth Century Ethics, and the keynote speaker is Simon Blackburn.

Graduate students are invited to submit papers in metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics, or on the development of ethics throughout the century. Papers should be no longer than 3500 words (20-30 minutes presentation), and should include a short abstract of 200-250 words. Please prepare them for blind review and email as a MS Word document to Heather Oldham by 1 October 2008. Also include a separate cover sheet with your name, the paper title, your mailing address, email address, telephone number, and institutional affiliation.

Via Jacob T. Levy:

The Department of Government (FAS) at Harvard University will host its second conference for graduate students in political theory and political philosophy from October 31 - November 1, 2008. Papers on any theme or topic within political theory—from the history of political thought to contemporary normative and conceptual theory—will be considered. Between seven and twelve papers will be accepted.

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The Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Student Philosophy Conference will be held in Wellman Hall at Davis on 5 April 2008. Papers from graduate students at California universities in all areas of philosophy are invited. Papers of about 35 minutes in length (4500 words) should be prepared for blind review and submitted (as MS Word or pdf documents) by 1 February to the organisers. Include your name, affiliation, contact information, paper title, and 100-200 word abstract in the body of the email. Follow the link for more details or contact Brad Morris. This is one of the best opportunities for grad students on the west coast to meet and present their work.

More mountainous philosophy, via the new Philosophy Updates Google Group organised by Fritz Allhoff and students at Western Michigan:

The Philosophy Department at the University of Utah will be holding the fifth Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference from 27-29 March 2008. All areas of philosophy are welcome. Papers should be no more than 3500 words in length and prepared for blind review. Nadeem Hussain (Stanford) is the keynote speaker. Papers and questions should be emailed to Jamie Hardy. The deadline is 31 January 2008. Follow the link for more.

A third graduate conference CFP coming up soon: “Philosophy of Ice,” hosted by the graduate students of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, from 29 February to 1 March 2008. Keynote speaker is J. David Velleman. CFP deadline is 10 December 2007. Here’s the flyer. (more…)

Another conference for graduate students, this time at Fordham University in the Bronx, from 11-13 April 2008. The topic is “Cosmopolitanism in Philosophical Contexts”; the keynote speaker is Yale’s Seyla Benhabib and the plenary speaker is Fordham’s John Davenport. Papers or abstracts should be emailed by 1 December 2007. Here’s the flyer. (more…)

This is one I’ve been meaning to post for a while. The Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton will take place from 11-12 April 2007. The deadline for papers is 15 December 2007, and these should be submitted via a submission form. (more…)