Abstract submissions for the 2025-2026 academic year are now OPEN .
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The PLP Graduate Forum warmly invites PhD students and junior scholars to submit abstracts for next academic year’s Seminar Series and the First Edition of the PLP Graduate Conference.
The Philosophy, Law & Politics Graduate Forum is a network of doctoral candidates, early career researchers, and established academics working at the intersection of legal, moral, and political philosophy from seven institutions in Southern England: the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of Surrey, the London School of Economics & Political Science, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, and University College London. Bringing together PLP disciplines, we seek to showcase exceptional and innovative work emerging from within our disciplines: from normative analyses of the present to the articulation of credible and inclusive narratives for the future.
We welcome submissions on a wide range of issues and themes. What matters is that the choice of topic is timely and of interest to all three of our disciplines. We seek work that is ambitious and willing to push traditional methodical, conceptual, or thematic boundaries.
If you are a doctoral student at any institution around the world and would like to present a paper at the Forum, whether in the context of the Seminar Series or the PLP Graduate Conference, please send an anonymised abstract of 500 words, plus bibliography (not included in the word count), to plpgraduateforum@gmail.com. Please title your email “PLP Forum submission,” and in the body of the email, please state your name, department, institution, year of your programme, and whether you would like your submission to be considered for the Seminar Series, the PLP Graduate Conference or both. We also encourage applicants to indicate whether their attendance depends on getting some funding from the PLP Graduate Forum to fund travel expenses.
We give strong preference to submissions from students in the later years of their doctoral programme, and will aim to put together a programme of papers on a diversity of topics of broad interest to our members, representing students from a wide range of institutions. Deadline for abstract submission is 17 August, 2025.
Selected speakers will be notified around mid-September. Sessions are scheduled throughout the academic year, and we will schedule the date of meetings with selected speakers at their convenience. The PLP Graduate Conference will take place during the first days of June, 2026 in the University of Oxford. Successful applicants will be paired with two commentators: one faculty member and one graduate student from out network.
