PROPOSAL DEADLINE: September 1, 2026
The Ciceronian Society invites proposals for panels, paper presentations, and roundtables for the 2027 conference.
March 11-13, 2027
Founders Inn / Regent University
Virginia Beach, VA
NOTES:
- Membership is not required to submit a proposal or attend the conference
- Full panel proposals (3-4 people) are strongly encouraged but not required
- Virtual/remote presentations are not permitted. Presenters must be physically at the event
- There is no designated theme for our 2027 conference, but topics broadly related to our Christian faith, and the themes of tradition, place, and “things divine.”
- Looking for some panel and topic ideas? Check out this page of suggestions.
- Click here for descriptions of the different panel/session formats
Previous conferences have included scholars and practitioners from classics, agriculture, ministry, philanthropy, political science, law, sociology, linguistics, religious studies, architecture, art, philosophy, theology, history, economics, literature, and more!
We’ve seen papers on Wendell Berry, Aquinas, Bob Dylan, Philip Rieff, Hayek, Albert Jay Nock, Thoreau, Aristotle, Cormac McCarthy, the American Founders, Tocqueville, Kant, MacIntyre, Walker Percy, Adam Smith, Raymond Chandler, C.S. Lewis, Edmund Burke, Dante, Lincoln, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Augustine, T.S. Eliot, Mises, Seneca, Shakespeare, Robert Nisbet, Hawthorne, and, of course, Cicero.
Our presenters have covered an enormous range of topics, including constitutionalism, farming, political theology, American political development, friendship, aristocracy, religious liberty, moral theory, agrarianism, Biblical hermeneutics, historiography, Catholic social teaching, rights, conservatism, liberalism, virtue, pedagogy, literary criticism, race, democracy, natural law, hospitality, ideology, conservation, and imagination.