Annual Conference

The annual conference is returning!

Date: March 4th and 5th, 2026

Location: SHSU Huntsville campus

Keynote speaker

This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Jennifer M. Morton, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Chair of the Philosophy Department, with a secondary appointment at the Graduate School of Education, at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Morton received the American Philosophical Association’s Scheffler Prize for her work in the philosophy of education.

Her first book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility focuses on the ethical sacrifices that first-generation and low-income students make in pursuing upward mobility. It was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Education and the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. It was also selected as Princeton President Eisgruber’s Pre-Read for the Class of 2025. You can learn more at: Hidden Brain podcast, The Atlantic, Inside Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, New York Daily News, Times Higher Education, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Public Books, Forbes, and Vox.

 

Interested in presenting?

Call for Proposals

Submission deadline October 3rd. 

Renaming of the annual conference

Our conference needs a new name! Have a suggestion? Let us know your ideas below! 

Conference Name Survey