UC Riverside-Leipzig-Doktoranden-Konferenz

Attention: Submission deadline extended until April 15, 2024!

We invite submissions for the inaugural annual UC Riverside-Leipzig graduate student conference to take place at the Villa Tillmanns at Universität Leipzig, Germany, from June 21 to June 22, 2024 (https://www.ga.uni-leipzig.de/graduiertenakademie-leipzig/villa-tillmanns). Our host this year is Adrian Haddock (Leipzig), and our co-organizer is Sasha Newton (UCR).

Our aim is to select three graduate student papers from UCR and three from Universität Leipzig, and to have three talks on each day.

Please note: this conference is not restricted to doctoral students; Masters level students (e.g., MA students) also count as graduate students, for our purposes.

We welcome contributions on all topics in philosophy. Papers will be read ahead of time by all participants so that our time can be focused on discussion.

Submission instructions: Please submit abstracts of 750 to 1,000 words (excluding bibliography). Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and include a word count. Please supply author name, affiliation, and contact information in a separate file. Abstracts may be in German or in English, but the papers for the event should be written in English. Please submit abstracts by email to Mrs. Katharina Krause (katharina.krause(at)uni-leipzig.de)

Unfortunately, we cannot offer travel stipends for UCR students for this year’s event, but we will continue to look for external funding for future years. However, we encourage graduate students at UCR to apply for funding from the department of philosophy, which offers students up to $750 for conferences abroad (https://philosophy.ucr.edu/graduate-program/funding), and from the Graduate Students Association (GSA), which offers up to $1,100 for events on another continent (https://gsa.ucr.edu/ctg/). These sources are independent of each other: you can get both.  We also hope to be able to offer graduate students from UCR private accommodations in Leipzig to reduce their overall costs.

(Note to Leipzig students: Please indicate whether you would be willing to host a student from UCR during this event!)