Welcome to the website for the 20th annual USC-UCLA graduate conference in philosophy.

• This year's conference will be held on April 5th, 2025, in SGM 101 on the campus of USC, in Los Angeles, California.

• Our keynote speaker will be Amia Srinivasan

Here's the schedule for the conference: 

• 9 to 9:30: Breakfast

• 9:30 to 10:40: 

  • Material Plenitude for Fineans
    Speaker: Antonio Freiles
    Commentator: Jin Zeng

• 10:50 to 12:00: 

  • Depiction and Synthetic Images
    Speaker: Joseph Masotti
    Commentator: Lavi Echeverria

• 12:00 to 1:30: Lunch

• 1:30 to 2:40: 

  • Slurs are Pronounciation Sensitive
    Speakers: Elek Lane and Edward Schwartz
    Commentator: Anja Chivukula

• 2:50 to 4:00: 

  • Skyward Stone by Stone: Duty and Human Liberation
    Speaker: Isaijah Shadrach
    Commentator: Hannah Widmaier

• 4:00 to 4:20: Short Break

• 4:20 to 6:30: 

  • Geneologies of Oppression: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Liberation
    Speaker: Amia Srinivasan