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Call For Abstracts: Work, Productivity, and Meaning
THE MIDWEST ETHICS SYMPOSIUM: Work, Productivity, and Meaning
The Midwest Ethics Symposium is an annual conference where scholarship and public life converge. Hosted by the Prindle Institute for Ethics, the symposium brings together academics, professionals, and students for rigorous, forward-looking conversations about the moral questions that shape our world. Each year centers on a timely theme inviting participants to connect expertise with experience and imagine new ways of thinking about what’s at stake.
2027 SYMPOSIUM: APRIL 13-15, 2027
Work, Productivity, and Meaning
What are we working for? That question sits at the center of the fifth annual Midwest Ethics Symposium.
We invite abstracts from researchers, professionals and students on any aspect of this year’s theme. We especially welcome submissions that fit one of the following three categories.
- PERSONAL MEANING
How does work contribute to or detract from a meaningful life? - COMMUNITY IMPACT
What role does work play in bringing communities together for shared endeavors? - SOCIETAL IMPACT
If work changes significantly, what does that mean for society, and for identities so often tied to our ability to do needed, useful, productive things?
We invite extended abstracts (750-1,000 words) on any topic related to this year’s theme. ABSTRACTS DUE JAN. 10, 2027
2027 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Grant Rozeboom
Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Saint Mary’s College of California
Grant Rozeboom is associate professor of business ethics and social responsibility in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department at Saint Mary’s College of California. His recent research focuses on the nature of corporate responsibility and on the social norms and virtues associated with establishing social relations of equality in the workplace.
He co-edited “Working as Equals” (Oxford University Press, 2023) and is co-editing “The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Work.” He is also at work on a forthcoming monograph, “The Character of Equality at Work.”
