Feminist and animal rights advocate Carol Adams will be the keynote speaker at the 18th annual SUNY Oneonta undergraduate philosophy conference this Friday and Saturday in the college’s Morris Conference Center.

Adams will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Her talk and the more than 30 student presentations offered throughout the conference are free and open to the public.

During the two-day conference, students from across the country will present papers on topics ranging from “corporation’s fulfillment of conditions of personhood” to “science and miracles.”

Along with three students from SUNY Oneonta, the conference will include presenters from a wide variety of institutions, including Hartwick College, Penn State University, the University of Toronto and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

First conceived in 1996 under the supervision of the late Douglas Shrader, distinguished teaching professor of philosophy at SUNY Oneonta, the event has become one of the most prestigious and widely attended undergraduate philosophy conferences in the United States.

It is sponsored by the college’s philosophy club and organized by a student conference committee with support from faculty adviser Dr. Michael Koch.

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