Conferences, Fellowships, and Publishing Opportunities

The library at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln has a great guide to undergraduate philosophy journals here: https://unl.libguides.com/c.php?g=51642&p=333917

Check this resource out for ongoing research on publishing your undergraduate work.

Dialogue accepts articles by undergraduate or graduate students of philosophy, but not from those with terminal degrees (a terminal M.A. or a doctorate). Topics may be in any area of contemporary interest in philosophy or its history. Membership in Phi Sigma Tau is not a condition for publication. Authors are encouraged to use gender-inclusive language. For matters of style, please consult the latest version of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Prospective authors should email a copy of their paper to the editor. Any word processing format is acceptable though RTF (rich text format) or WORD files are preferred. The texts for papers should be double-spaced throughout (including quotations and notes), and with notes gathered at the end. Special symbols and characters in non-Roman alphabets should be avoided. Greek terms should be transliterated. Authors should also send a SUBMISSION SHEET containing:

Author’s name, mailing address, and phone number
(with email address if available).
TITLE of the paper submitted.
A brief ABSTRACT of fifteen lines or less.
A brief AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT.

Hard copies are acceptable, but they must be accompanied by a disk copy of the paper. If a disk copy of the paper is sent, the disk label should contain: (1) Author Name; (2) Disk format (e.g., DOS, MAC, UNIX); and (3) Formatting software and version. The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript copies, which cannot be returned. Authors should enclose a self-addressed postcard if they want immediate acknowledgment of receipt of their manuscripts.

Offprints are not available, but authors of articles will receive ten copies of the complete issue containing their article (reviewers, five copies). Abstracts of articles will be supplied for indexing to The Philosopher’s Index.

Learn more about the journal here.

Aperto Animo is an annual, student-run philosophical journal that publishes the work of undergraduate students in the field of philosophy. Aperto Animo seeks to facilitate thoughtful philosophical discussions on campus, and to prompt students to explore philosophy outside of the classroom. We want to help students learn how to interpret and critique philosophy across the years, and to bring students to be more analytical and aware of the world around them.

We are looking for submissions in a range of philosophical subcategories, including ethics, value theory, political thought, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of the mind, philosophy of language, and critiques of other philosophers’ writings. Submissions can be anywhere from very brief explorations of the various philosophical components at play in a contemporary issue, to longer papers. We generally look for submissions within the range of 2-to-15-page range but are open to reading longer submissions as well.

Please direct any and all questions about Aperto Animo to phisigmatauunc@gmail.com.

Examples of Past Student publications:

• 2024 Edition
  • “Blameworthiness, Labor Exploitation, and Consumer Responsibility.” By Ciara Maria Nuss, Page 39
    • Written for PHIL 5001 Global Justice.

The Philosophy Department at Providence College’s first annual interdisciplinary conference on March 21, 2026 seeks to provide a welcoming forum for undergraduates to share their scholarship in what we might call engaged philosophy.

In this call for papers, we solicit submissions of undergraduate work in either a branch of philosophy—ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary—or in an interdisciplinary connection between philosophy and psychology, philosophy and business, law or politics, and philosophy and health or nursing or medicine, etc. We welcome submissions in Continental and Analytic thought. And we welcome submissions in ethics, either general or applied.

Accepted papers will be presented in person and discussed among those attending the conference. Each paper should be written for a 20-30 minute presentation time (approximately 10 typed pages).

Boston College’s undergraduate philosophy journal, Dianoia has opened its submission window for Issue XIII, to be published in Spring 2026.

Students are encourage to submit class essays, senior theses, or independent research papers to be considered for publication. We welcome thoughtful, original work on any philosophical topic.

Submission Guidelines:

• Author must be a student pursuing an undergraduate degree or equivalent
• Manuscripts must be written in English
• No minimum or maximum length requirement
• Manuscripts must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (doc or docx)
• Text must be double-spaced, use a 12-point font, and employ italics rather than underlining (except for URLs)
• Citations are required. Any standard citation style may be used upon submission; however, accepted manuscripts must be converted to Chicago Manual of Style for publication
• Manuscripts must be anonymized for blind peer review. Authors should remove their name and any personally identifying information from the Microsoft Word document; the only identifying detail should be the email address from which the manuscript is submitted (the email message itself does not need to be anonymous)

For any questions or to explore past issues, please visit dianoiabc.org or contact us at dianoia@bc.edu. Submissions are open until January 16, 2026, and undergraduate students can submit their work by emailing dianoia@bc.edu in accordance with the guidelines on the attached call for submissions poster.

The 29th Annual SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will take place May 2nd & 3rd, 2025.

Undergraduate students are invited to submit papers on any philosophical topic.

Submitted papers should be suitable for a 20 minute presentation. Authors should prepare their submissions for blind review by removing any of their identifying information from the text.

In a separate file, please include a 100 word abstract of the paper along with

• Your name
• Paper title
• Institutional affiliation

Materials should be submitted as .docx files.

Review is on-going and papers will be accepted on a rolling basis.

The Final Deadline for submission is Feb 28th, 2025.

Please email submissions or questions to: oneontaphilosophyconference@gmail.com

For more information, view the webpage here.

The Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Sponsorship Program (CUSP) in Bioethics provides promising undergraduate students with a year-long mentorship opportunity and financial support to attend the annual American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) conference.

In addition to this mentorship opportunity, recipients will receive financial support to attend this year’s American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) conference in Portland, Oregon from October 22-25, 2025.

Current undergraduate students, from any major and any university in North America, are eligible to apply. Applications will be competitively reviewed on a rolling-basis by an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional committee.

Applicants can access the online application here. The application deadline is August 22, 2025.

For more information, access the website here.