Call for Conference Papers and Volunteers

The Hope Center Plano, TX
February 29 – March 2, 2024

The Ciceronian Society invites proposals of papers, panels, and roundtables for our annual interdisciplinary conference.

Please note the earlier-than-usual deadline.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: September 1, 2023

2024 Call for Papers

The Ciceronian Society invites proposals of papers, panels, and roundtables for our annual interdisciplinary conference to be held at The Hope Center in Plano, TX February 29 – March 2, 2024.
Proposals Due by 11:59pm EST, September 1, 2023
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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.

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2024 Call for Papers

Proposals Due by 11:59pm EST, September 1, 2023

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