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Students Present Papers at Conferences

The following conferences provide an opportunity for you to give a presentation. Talk to a faculty member in the department or follow the links for more information.

	DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS	DATES OF CONFERENCE
North Carolina Religious Studies Association	Sept./Oct.	November
North Carolina Philosophical Society	December	February
American Academy of Religion (SE Region) "SECSOR"	December	March
NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research)	December	April
Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference	January	March
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (at UNCA)	February	March
WCU Women's Studies Gender Conference	February	March
WCU Undergraduate Expo	March	April

Get Published - Journals

 

	DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Stance - Ball State University,  Muncie, IN	mid-December for  April publication
Aporia - Brigham Young University,  Provo, UT	Sept. or Oct. for  Fall publication  Jan. or Feb. for  Spring publication
The Dualist - Stanford University,  Stanford, CA	January for late-  Summer publication
Paideia - Ruprecht-Karls-Universität  Heidelberg, Germany	February for  March publication
Ephemeris - Union College,  Schenectady, NY	February for  Spring publication

 

Visiting Scholars

Each semester the philosophy and religion department invites several scholars to speak to classes, give a departmental talk, and, in conjunction with The Honors College, deliver a Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities.

 

 

 

2012-2013 Visiting Scholars

 

 

Michael  Hodges	Jerry Jackson Lecture:  “The God that Does Not Exist”	10/4/12
Kevin Schilbrack	PAR Faculty paper: "Anti-Metaphysics"	9/26/12
David Henderson	PAR Faculty paper: "Wilderness in Henry Bugbee: The Metaphyisical and the Montanan"	11/14/12
James McLachlan	PAR Faculty paper: "Hell Is Not Other People: Ideas of Hell and Relational Theologies	11/28/12
John Sanders	Jerry Jackson Lecture: "How the Human Mind Thinks of God: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Anthropomorphic God Concepts"	3/18/13
Christian Miller	Jerry Jackson Lecture: "Are Most of Us Honest People? Or Dishonest? Or Neither?"	4/19/13

2011-2012 Visiting Scholars

 

Greg Hoskins	Jerry Jackson Lecture: “Gettysburg at Ground Zero, and Other Conundrums in the Philosophy and Politics of History”	10/10/11
Kevin Gustafson	Jerry Jackson Lecture: “Discovering Sodom and Gomorrah in the Medieval West”	11/1/11
Marin Smillov	“How Many Bad Actions Make Me A Bad Person?”	11/4/11
Mary Caldwell	“The Hospital’s Obligations to the Uninsured and the Undocumented”	11/9/11
Aaron Simmons	“Continental Philosophy of Religion: A Future”	11/11/11
Emily Ball	"Understanding Homelessness" (Homeward Bound organization)	11/17/11
Diane Perpich	" Feminism and Multiculturalism Revisited: French Feminism and the Ni Putes Ni Soumises Movement (Neither Whores Nor Doormats)"	12/2/11
Rob Bass	“Understanding Animal Minds”	2/8/12
James Keller	"Process Theism and Some Problems of Evil"	2/16/12
Katharine Schweitzer	"Being Open to Change: The Paradox of Provisionality"	3/8/12
Aaron Simmons	"A Goldilocks God?: A Comment on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion”	4/19/12