RoME 2021

Fourteenth Annual

Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress

University of Colorado, Boulder
August 12-15, 2021
Boulder, Colorado

Rome XIV Full Program

Keynote 1: Graham Oddie
Keynote 2: Dale Miller
Keynote 3: Elinor Mason

RoME XIV will be held in a hybrid format. While the CU Boulder campus is open for in person events, many of our participants are unable to travel to conferences at this time. Approximately 55% of the sessions will be in person (some with remote commentators), and the rest will be remote (on Zoom). The current plan is to have all in person sessions streamed live, so they can be accessed remotely. We will post more details of this as we work them out.

Awards and Support

To encourage participation of junior scholars, as well as scholarship in underrepresented branches of ethics, the University of Colorado offers four targeted awards. Applicants may submit their paper to as many prizes as they are eligible, though please be sure to read the eligibility criteria:

  • First, as we have for over ten years, we award the Young Ethicist Prize (YEP) of $500 for most meritorious submission.  The prize competition is open to any participating untenured philosopher (including, but not limited to, tenure-track faculty, instructors, and graduate students).
  • Second, since 2017 we have been awarding the Minorities and Philosophy Ethicist Prize (MAP) of $500 for the most meritorious submission on a topic that addresses a moral, social, political, or legal question or set of questions (i) relating to issues in the profession regarding members of under-represented groups, (ii) regarding philosophy of gender, race, sexual orientation, class, disability, native language, etc. or (iii) addressing normative philosophical questions from an under-represented group perspective.
  • Third, RoME is pleased to announce the availability of a $500 stipends to support graduate student travel for those working in Analytically-informed Applied Ethics of Technology (TEP). This stipend, made possible by an anonymous donation, is intended to support travel for graduate students who would not otherwise be able to present their exemplary work at the conference.

Deadlines

Submission of abstracts: April 15, 2021.
Notification of acceptance: Sometime in May, 2021.
Full paper submission for Young Ethicist Prize Consideration: June 15, 2021.

Format

  • Abstracts only (750-1000 words).  Shorter or longer abstracts will not be accepted.
  • Double spaced, prepared for blind-review.
  • (Anticipate full papers at half-hour reading time or 4500 words, whichever is shorter.)


In order to be considered for the Young Ethicist Prize, complete papers must be submitted by June 15, 2020 and abstracts must have already been accepted for participation.  Announcement of a winner will be made at the event.

Indicate in your submission whether you would consider being a commentator on another paper, should your paper not be accepted to the conference for presentation.

Please submit abstracts electronically (in Word format) to Benjamin Hale (bhale@colorado.edu) and Alastair Norcross (Alastair.Norcross@colorado.edu).  For record-keeping purposes, please submit with your document title in the following format: [Lastname], [Firstname] -- [Title].docx

(For example: Hale, Benjamin -- How to Title a RoME Paper.docx)

Visit our website at /cvsp/events/rocky-mountain-ethics-congress

Download this CFP in PDF format here!