Held annually since 1923, our 2026 Conference will be hosted by The University of Waikato - Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, Sunday 5 to Thursday 9 July.

The conference is designed to give professional philosophers and philosophy postgraduate students the opportunity to present and discuss papers in all areas of philosophy. Each year it attracts between 200-300 philosophers from around the world, with 200 presentations. It is one of the largest philosophy conferences in the Southern Hemisphere.

2026 Conference Organisers

Waikato: Dan Weijers (lead), Justine Kingsbury, Tracy Bowell,

Stephanie Gibbons, Liezl van Zyl.

AAP: Nick Munn, Joe Ulatowski

Key Dates:

Registrations open: mid February

Postgraduate Presentation Prize entries: 30 April

Postgraduate travel subsidy: 7 May

Abstract deadline: 3 June

Early Bird deadline: 10 June