Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Please Note: This page is set up for the regular blog contributors (not the general user) — and it is in need of updating, as well. If you are not a regular contributor to this blog, PLEASE ignore this page! Just fill in as much information as you can about the conference you want to add, and I will edit and tweak it before it goes public.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of adding events here, it’s important to note how this website is set up:

There are two main areas of content:

1. The blog, which essentially the front page of the website. It contains a monthly listing of all of the CFPs and events, as well as occassional announcements.
2. The event and CFP entries themselves. The detailed event entries DO NOT appear on the front page blog (they are only referred to by the monthly listing). So, a user can get the details of these entries by either (a) clicking on their links through the front page blog, (b) browsing the calendar in the right-hand column of the website or (c) clicking on the entry links in their calendar program, if they subscribe to the vcal calendar (with, e.g., iCal or google calendar). And note these entries are listed under their relevant date in the calendar (i.e., under the first day of the event, if it is a conference entry, or the deadline for the call for paper, if it is a CFP entry).

So, entering individual event or CFP listings is not terribly difficult, but you have to set it up so that (1) it doesn’t appear as an entry on the front-page blog, and (2) it appears under the correct date. This is done by tweaking some of the post’s options when you are making up the entry. Here are the details of posting an event or CFP:

1. Log in to the WordPress dashboard using your username and password (WordPress is the blogging program that runs this website). This can be done by clicking on “Register” in the upper-hand menu of the website, then clicking on “Login” on the subsequent page. Alternatively, you can go to the website: http://philosophyconferences.com/wp-login.php
2. This will take you to the Dashboard. At the top of the dashboard you’ll see a menu. Click on “Write” from that menu.
3. Now you will be at a little interface to write a post. However, I use a special form to add event and CFP posts. You can get to this by clicking on “Event” from the smaller menu near the top of the page. Then click on “Conference” from the list it then gives you.
4. Now you are at the form for filling in the conference or CFP information:
• Under “categories” make sure that “Event” is checked (it should be checked by default. It is this selected option that tells WordPress to include this in the calendar, and NOT to include it on the front-page blog). Then check “Philosophy Conference” if it is a conference entry or “Philosophy Call for Papers” if it is a call for papers entry. (Generally, if a conference has a call for paper whose deadline has not passed, I will categorize it as a call for paper.)
• If it is a conference, the title of the entry will be the conference name. If it is a CFP, the title of the entry will be the conference name, preceded by “CFP:”.
• Enter in the rest of the info: the conference name again where it asks for it (if you don’t, a glitch in the program makes it format funny), location of conference, dates of conference, date of CFP deadline (if relevant), description, link (I just usually use the link address as the link “title”), and anything else that’s relevant.
• Under “keywords” add some relevant keywords. If it is a CFP, I usually put the conference montha as a keyword (e.g., “May 2006 Conference”), as well as general categories under which the conference or CFP falls (e.g., “Kant” “Ethics” “Philosophy of Mathematics”).
5. When you’re finished entering in all of the info, click “Save as Draft” from the bottom of the page. (Do NOT click on “Publish” yet!).
6. Click on “Manage” from the top menu. When you do so, it will take you to an interface where there should be a listing of your “drafts” at the top (including the one you just made).
7. Click on the link to the draft.
8. This should take you to an editing interface where you’ll see the entry you made all nicely formatted. If you need to, you can make additional edits here (e.g., add some additional links, etc). But the important thing you need to do at this point is change the post date for the entry. On the right hand side of the edit section you’ll see a little menu, one entry of which is labelled “Post Timestamp”. Click on that - this will open up a little dropdown menu where you can change the date of the entry. Check “Edit Timestamp”, then change the date: If it is a conference, change the date to the first day of the conference. If is is a CFP, change the date to the deadline of the CFP.
9. Once you’re done with that, you can publish the entry. At the bottom of the edit section will be a “Publish” button. Click that.
10. You’re pretty much done! All you have to do then is just email me the link to this new entry (so that I can email subscribers about the update). To find the link, you have to browse for it from the home page.
• Click on the “View Site” link at the very top right-hand side of the page. This will take you back to the blog.
• Find your new entry by browsing the calendar in the right-hand menu. If the date was set to a month that’s visible, just click on the date of the entry. If the date is much farther in the future, you’ll have to browse through the calendar by clicking on the arrows (>>) above it.
• Once you click on the right date, all of the entries for that date will then pull up (including yours). Right-click on the title of your entry, select “Copy link address” and then copy and paste that link address to the email you send me.
11. Whew! All done!