Sheffield Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:
The Spring 2018 edition of PhilonoUS, the University of Sheffield’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy and the annual Sheffield Undergraduate Philosophy conference are now accepting submissions. This year PhilonoUS: The Sheffield Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy and the Sheffield Undergraduate Philosophy Conference are teaming up so that authors need only submit once and will be considered for both the conference and journal unless they indicate otherwise within their email submission.
We welcome students from all philosophy departments, and we welcome submissions from students at all levels of study. The conference and journal are open to and aimed at all philosophy undergraduates, so please don’t think that only final year students are experienced enough to give a talk or submit a paper, that really isn’t the case.
The conference will take place on the 24th and 25th of March 2018 in the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield’s main campus. Papers should be no more than 6000 words in length, but can relate to any area of Philosophy. The deadline for submissions is Friday 9th February 2018 at 5pm (GMT), and submissions should be sent to u.g.phil.journal@sheffield.ac.uk . No identifying information should be present within the paper, but the body of your email should contain your name, contact email, University of study and year of study. If your paper is under review elsewhere, we cannot consider you for the journal, but we would still love to consider you for the conference. Authors will be notified of decisions at least four weeks prior to the conference.
If your paper is selected for the conference you will be asked to give a talk and this can either be a shorter talk of 15-20 minutes or a longer one of 30 minutes. Please, let us know your preference when submitting your paper/abstract. The talk will be followed by approximately 15 minutes of questions, which will be an opportunity to explore your ideas further. Don’t be put off by the length of time you will be asked to speak – it really isn’t as daunting as it sounds and the event will be a friendly, encouraging and collaborative environment.
All further details regarding submissions, publication and purchasing a copy of the journal can be found on our website at www.uosphilosophyjournal.wordpress.com
Should you require any further information please feel free to contact us at the above email address.
Many Thanks,
The Sheffield Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Organisers & PhilonoUS Editors-in-chief