Goucher College’s Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

April 04, 2009 |

Goucher College will hold its Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House.

Keynote speaker 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, will give a free public lecture at the end of the conference.

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

The conference will also feature paper presentations by nine student speakers. The speaking slots are open to undergraduates from any college or university who submit a paper for a blind review.

Students who wish to participate can submit their papers on any philosophy topic to veritas@goucher.edu by Sunday, March 1.

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.

For more information, go to www.goucher.edu/philosophyconference.

This conference is sponsored by VERITAS, Goucher’s philosophy club, and the Philosophy Department.