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33rd Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Lanei Rodemeyer 

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Duquesne University

Prof. Matthew Coate, Program Coordinator

Logistics

For directions, please visit the Kent State University website.

Free parking is available for conference participants in the Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). View a map .  Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"

If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu

32nd Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th 

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Graham Priest 

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
CUNY Graduate Center

Prof. Matthew Coate, Program Coordinator

Logistics

For directions, please visit the Kent State University website.

Free parking is available for conference participants in the Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). View a map .  Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"

If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu

31st Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th 

Saturday, March 16th, 2024

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Anthony Steinbock 

Professor of Philosophy
Stony Brook University

Prof. Matthew Coate, Program Coordinator

Logistics

For directions, please visit the Kent State University website.

Free parking is available for conference participants in the Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). View a map .  Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"

If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu

• Vincent Tanzil — Intuition as Evidence
• J.A. Littler — The Jesus Who Cannot Save
• William Schumacher — Reasonableness Requires Good Reasoning
• Marlon Rivas Tinoco — Believing Rationally Given Your Actual Beliefs
• Najii Wilcox — Refusal and Double Consciousness
• Colby Clark — What is the Right Unit for the Ecological Resilience Concept?
• John Nolt — The Long-term Non-anthropocentric Ethics of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss (Keynote)

• Yifan Wang — Old Wine in New Bottle? A Marxist Critique of the Trend of Sustainable Brands
• Steven Winterfeldt — The Content of Perception: Inadequacy and Transcendence
• Sterling Hall — Haraway at the Crossroads: On Two Types of Materialism in the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’
• Isaac Shur — Should Private Property Rights Have Term Limits?
• William Burgess Applegate — Making the Implicit Explicit: The Narrative Self in Cavarero's Relating Narratives
• Jordan Myers — Replacing Retribution with Reactivity: How Restorative Justice Reduces Offender Harm
• Laura Hengehold — Locating Gendered Affects in the Political Imaginary (Keynote)

• Katherine Brichacek — A Tale of Two Movements: Hannah Arendt’s Inconsistently Nonideal Political Action in Zionism and the Civil Rights Movement
• Eric Shoemaker — The Equal Opportunity to be a Legislator: Why Randomly Selecting Legislators is More Democratic than Electing Them
• Andrew Stewart — The Life and Death of the State of Nature
• Emmanuel Cuisinier — Challenges and Contentions to Romantic Love in Spinoza’s Ethics
• Bowen Chan — Fairness, Friendship, and Proportionality
• Shoshana McClarence — Existentialism and Mysticism: Bridging the Divide Between the Individual and the Interconnectivity
• Sherri Irvin — Policing, Racialization, and Resistance: An Aesthetic Analysis (Keynote)

• Grady Stuckman — The Scope of Religious Freedom: Is There Room for Conscientious Objection in Healthcare?
• Alex K. Sell — Algorithmic Storytelling: the Narrative of Predictive Analytics
• Ayoob Shahmoradi — Seeing As Seeing-as and Thinking As Thinking-as
• David Cortright — Memory and Meaning: Kent State after 50 Years (Keynote)
• Dovie Jenkins — Sexism as Epistemic Negligence
• Clint Hurshman — Longino's Forgotten Virtue: The Epistemic Necessity of Novelty
• Matthew Turyn — Emotions & Motivations in Tappolet's Perceptual Theory

• Sofia Paz — A Defense of Hume's Theory of Action
• David DeMatteo — Practical Identity and Practical Principles: Kant contra Korsgaard
• Cullin Brown — Toleration and Equality in Public Institutions
• Troy Seagraves — Reasons and Virtue: an Aristotelian Constructivism
• Jenny Marsh — Kant on the Justification of Empirical vs. A Priori Concepts
• Marcia Baron — Reasonableness (Keynote)
• Julian D. Rios Acuña — Imagining Politics Otherwise: Ontology, Globalization and Absolute Locality in Adriana Cavaero
• Bailey Szustak — Captain America, Nazi: Why Identity Conditions for Fictional Characters Matter

• Adam White — Constitutional Revision: Term Accountability
• James Darcy — Grounding Necessitation and Composition
• Colin Bodayle — Hegel on Infinite Judgments
• David Wood — The End of the World as We Know It (Keynote)
• Min Tang — Poetry, Aesthetic Truths, and Transformative Experience
• Zach Thanasilangkul — Anarchism in the Wake of Marx: Subjectivity, Self-Activity, and Emancipation
• Javiera Perez-Gomez — Microaggressions

• Ross Colebrook — Does it Matter Whether Morality is Objective?
• Bryan Maddox — Active Interpretation: Arendt’s Hermeneutics of Dissent
• Michael Gregory — The Ontological Foundations of Holism
• Rachel McNealis — Hetero-Next-uals: Rupturing Straight Time in Cringeworthy Phases of Sexual Experimentation
• Walter Reid — Suffering, Self-Knowledge, and the Limits of Pessimism
• Evan Woods — The Wrongful Inclusion Problem and Jenkins' Analysis of Gender Concepts
• David Danks — Trust and the Ethics of Autonomous Machines (Keynote)
• Ryan Felder — Moral Responsibility and Liability of Defensive Harm
• Camille Charette — Art Before Science: A Deweyan Analysis of Artwork as a Model and Means of Growth
• Joseph Dunne — Here I Stand: Religious Conscience and Legal Exemptions