Goucher College's Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Goucher College will hold its sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, 2009 in the college's Alumnae/i House.

Admission to the conference is free and open to the public. Check out the conference schedule.

The keynote speaker is Jason Read, assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital, Marx and the Prehistory of the Present.

Read's work focuses on social and political philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, critical theory, philosophy of history and Baruch de Spinoza, his favorite philosopher.

The conference will also feature nine student papers, which will be selected through blind review. Submission is open to undergraduates from any college or university.

Students wishing to participate can submit their papers on any philosophical topic to veritas@goucher.edu by Sunday, March 1. Students are encouraged to submit multiple papers.

Submission guidelines:

• Papers should be no more than 12 pages long.
• Papers must be doubled-spaced and typed in 12-point Times New Roman font.
• All contact information and identifying marks must be removed from the body of the paper in preparation for blind review.
• Each paper must include a cover sheet with your name, e-mail address, phone number, school, paper title, and a one to three sentence description of your paper.

The conference is sponsored by VERITAS, Goucher's philosophy club, and the Philosophy Department.

For more information e-mail VERITAS at veritas@goucher.edu.