The Board of Directors of SAAP has extended the deadline for submissions to the program for our 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Submissions will now be accepted until October 1st at midnight, PCT. In order to encourage submissions this year, as we continue to return to norms of conference travel after pandemic disruptions, we have special funding opportunities to share, funded by a generous SAAP donor.
In addition to our usual funding for graduate student travel, SAAP is also able to help fund travel this year for junior faculty who lack or have inadequate travel support. Grants of up to $500 are being offered as reimbursement for junior faculty who are on the program in some fashion (whether as presenter, commentator, or session chair).
If you are interested in applying, please send a brief note to our treasurer, Bill Myers, at bmyers@bsc.edu, expressing your interest. If you get on the program, the abovementioned financial support is guaranteed.
CALL FOR PAPERS
SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
50th ANNUAL MEETING
March 9-11, 2023
Location (in-person): Denver, Colorado
The Westin Denver Downtown Hotel
1672 Lawrence St
The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy cordially invites the submission of papers and proposals for its 50th annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. The theme of the conference is “Equity and Solidarity in Perilous Environments.” While papers and proposals in all areas of American Philosophy are welcome, some preference will be given to papers and proposals that respond to this year’s conference theme. Scholars who are not presently members of the Society, but whose work is in American thought, are especially encouraged to submit.
CONTACTS: For all correspondence regarding the program content, contact the Program Co-Chairs Sergio Gallegos (sgallegos@jjay.cuny.edu) and Tess Varner (tvarner@cord.edu).
Extended deadline: The Board of Directors of SAAP has extended the deadline for submissions to the program for our 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Submissions will now be accepted until October 1st at midnight, PST. In order to encourage submissions this year, as we continue to return to norms of conference travel after pandemic disruptions, we have special funding opportunities available, funded by a generous SAAP donor.
In addition to our usual funding for graduate student travel, SAAP is also able to help fund travel this year for junior faculty who lack or have inadequate travel support. Grants of up to $500 are being offered as reimbursement for junior faculty who are on the program in some fashion (whether as presenter, commentator, or session chair).
If you are interested in applying, please send a brief note to our treasurer, Bill Myers, at bmyers@bsc.edu, expressing your interest. If you get on the program and are a junior faculty member, the abovementioned financial support is guaranteed.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
You do not need to be a member to submit a paper or a proposal, but you must be a member in
order to present your accepted submission. To become a member, please visit the Society’s
membership page.
https://www.conftool.net/saap2023
Electronic submission requires the following: (1) Submission Title, (2) Submission Type, (3) Author(s) Information, (4) Abstract, (5) Keywords, (6) a Submission File prepared for anonymous review. (Please note: audio/visual technologies are not available in conference rooms.)
Anonymity: Papers and Panel Proposals must be suitable for anonymous review. Please refrain from making references to your own work, your location, or anything obvious that could reveal your identity. If the author’s identity can be determined through self-references, endnotes, etc., the submission may be disqualified. Avoid headers/footers because they often contain information that breaches anonymity. NOTE: PDF files are preferred. MS Word documents can sometimes reveal the author’s identity through word tags. Microsoft explains how to change or erase these here.
Number of Submissions: Multiple submissions will not be accepted and persons participating in
invited sessions may not submit to the regular program.
Commentators and Session Chairs: Persons interested in serving in these capacities should contact the 2023 Program Co-Chairs, Sergio Gallegos and Tess Varner.
SUBMISSION TYPES
Submissions that do not meet the following guidelines will not be considered.
Paper: Papers should be no longer than 3000 words (excluding endnotes, footnotes, and
bibliography). Longer papers will not be considered. Submissions must include a 100–150 word
abstract. Accepted authors will have 20 minutes to present their work during a session and, in most cases, will be followed by a ten-minute commentary and a period of open discussion.
Panel Discussion: A panel discussion should provide an opportunity to examine specific problems or topics from a variety of perspectives and should do more than present a set of related papers. Panel proposals should include a description of the issue that the session will address, an explanation of the relevance of this issue to the study of American philosophy or to wider social and philosophical issues, and an indication of how each paper in the panel addresses this issue. Panel Discussion proposals should include:
- A title
- An abstract for the panel as a whole (450-600 words) and either (i) complete papers that meet the specifications mentioned above or (ii) abstracts for each paper in the panel (250-400 words each)
Please do not send a separate file for each panelist.
Author Meets Critics Proposals: Author Meets Critics proposals must include:
- Name and affiliation of the book’s author(s).
- Complete title of the book.
- Publication date and name of publisher (only books published in or after 2019 will be
considered).
- Brief statement of the book’s significance for American philosophy and rationale for inclusion in the program.
- Names and affiliations of confirmed critics and session organizer, and why they were chosen.
The committee anticipates a very limited number of these sessions, perhaps two or three.
Book/Article Discussion: Proposals should include a brief summary of the book or article to be
discussed and its general relation to American philosophy or wider social and philosophical issues. Proposals should not exceed 1500 words.
If you have ideas for special sessions beyond the categories indicated in this CFP, please contact the Program Co-Chairs by July 1, 2022.
Confirmation: All persons making submissions to the annual meeting website will receive automatic confirmation of receipt of their submission. If the listed contact person for a submission does not receive an automatic confirmation shortly after completing the submission process, then that person should check their spam folder. If the automatic confirmation is not in the spam folder, please contact the Secretary at tunstald@gvsu.edu .
Decisions. If you have not received notification regarding the Program Committee’s decision about your submission by November 15th, please contact the Secretary.
Scheduling: The Program Committee will schedule papers and sessions between Thursday at 1:00 pm, and Saturday late afternoon. By submitting to this conference, participants are indicating they can and will be able to attend their session, if accepted.
Availability of accepted submissions online: SAAP will post accepted papers, panel proposals,
book/article discussion submissions, and Author Meets Critics proposals to the annual meeting
website. Those submissions will be removed from the website shortly after the 2023 meeting ends.
The Secretary will inform the authors of accepted submissions that their submissions have been
removed from the website via email.
NOTE WELL, GRADUATE STUDENTS: Travel funds are available to assist students whose papers are accepted for the program. Please contact Bill Myers, SAAP Treasurer, at bmyers@bsc.edu for more information.
PRIZES
Prizes: Only papers that are accepted to the regular program (that is, not panels or invited group
presentations) are eligible for the Greenlee, Blau, Mellow, Harris-Jones, and Inter-American
Philosophy Prizes. Panels (as a whole) and individual panel papers are eligible for the Addams Prize if completed papers are submitted along with the panel abstracts. Papers previously submitted to The Pluralist are not eligible for prizes. For full descriptions of the prizes, please click here.
Greenlee Consideration: If you are currently a student or within five years of having completed your Ph.D., you are eligible for consideration for the Douglas Greenlee Prize. If you qualify for the Greenlee Prize, please select the “Greenlee Prize Consideration” option when prompted during the online submission process.
Addams Prize Consideration: Any submission on issues in feminist thought as they occur in American philosophies, including their intersections with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, (dis)ability and age,etc., is eligible for this prize. Complete papers submitted as part of a panel are also eligible for consideration for this prize. If your submission is eligible for the Addams Prize, please indicate this on your submission by writing “Yes” for “Addams Prize Consideration” when prompted during the online submission process.
Harris-Jones Prize Consideration: This prize will serve to recognize work in all areas relevant to the Philosophy of the Black Experience, particularly in the Americas. Example areas of interest include recovery/exposition of relevant ideas of an overlooked Black philosopher, or a philosophical inquiry of the Black Experience in connection to culture/ cultural production, religion, political thought/ political economy, or existential humanism (broadly conceived).
Publication Possibilities: SAAP will plan to publish selected papers from the annual SAAP meeting in The Pluralist. If your paper is accepted for the annual meeting, it will be considered for publication unless you indicate in your submission under “Optional Comments” that you do not wish this to be the case. Only those papers that are complete at the time of submission will be considered for publication.
Note on Review Process and Conference Theme Selection: All submissions are anonymously
reviewed by at least three members of a six-person program committee. Four of the program
committee members are members of the SAAP Executive Board—namely, the two first year at-large Board members and the two program co-chairs. The other two program committee members are SAAP members appointed by the President. Each paper or proposal is reviewed by a team of three reviewers, with each team including one program co-chair. Each paper or proposal receives a numerical score, and the top scoring papers and proposals are accepted for presentation.
Response to submissions will be limited to acceptance status. Eligible papers are reviewed a second time for the various prizes.
CONTACTS
For all correspondence regarding the program content, contact the Program Co-Chairs:
Tess Varner Sergio Gallegos
Concordia College John Jay College
tvarner@cord.edu sgallegos@jjay.cuny.edu
Local Arrangements and Conference Host:
David Hildebrand
david.hildebrand@ucdenver.edu
SAAP Secretary:
Dwayne Tunstall
tunstald@gvsu.edu