The 2025 meeting will be on March 21-22 at Wake Forest University (Wake Downton building, Winston-Salem, North Carolina), and the keynote speaker will be Zena Hitz, Tutor at St. John’s College. The title of her talk is “The Life of the Mind and the Practical Life.”
Important: The meeting will be held at the Wake Downtown building.
CfP
Click here to download the Call for Papers.
Program
The conference will begin at 1pm on Friday March 21st and conclude at 6:30pm on Saturday March 22nd. Presentations will be in 40-minute blocks with about 20 minutes for presenting, 10 for Q&A, and 10 for padding and switching between presenters.
Click here to download the final version of the program (version of March 20)
Prize Winners
Congratulations to our prize winners! They are:
Conference fee
The fee is to be paid at the registration desk via Venmo or in cash with the exact amount.
Accommodations and travel
(D) Here are five hotels that are all near the conference site (within walking distance):
(1) Hotel Indigo Downtown Winston-Salem (For a slightly reduced price at $180 see North Carolina Philosophical Society The deal will cancel out on Feb. 25th at 11:59 pm.)
(2) Hampton Inn Downtown Winston-Salem
(3) Marriott Courtyard Downtown Winston-Salem.
These are all priced under $200 per night for March 21 and March 22 with Hampton Inn only slightly over $100. But their prices keep changing. They all charge for valet parking, but they are also all near some public parking decks.
The two (slightly) pricier hotels downtown are:
(4) Klimpton Cardinal Hotel
(5) Winston-Salem Marriott (not to be confused with the aforementioned Marriott Courtyard)
Cardinal is in the refurbished former headquarters of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. It is a very nice Art Deco building—the prototype of Empire State Building by the same architect—the closest to the Conference site. Both are close to public parking decks—option to their valet parking.
Of course, if one is driving, there are many other hotels in Winston Salem. Also, for those who are driving, there should be plenty of parking available near the conference.
To those who are flying, our Wake Forest host (Win-Chiat Lee) suggests that the airport to fly to is GSO (Greensboro) which is less than half-an-hour by car to Downtown Winston-Salem. Taxis, Uber and shuttles (which needs to be pre-arranged) are available for transportation to and from the airport.
Parking and Restaurants
Click here to download a map that indicates where the parking lot is. The red arrows point to the Wake Downtown building.
The gate to the P5 parking lot will be lifted at the following times to allow for entry:
When the gate is not lifted, parked cars can still leave the lot.
Also, there are street parking spaces all around the buildings. 2 hours parking and parking meters are not enforced after 6pm on Friday and also not on Saturday.
Click here to download a file with restaurant information.
