Call for Papers: Oxford Dharma Conference 2026, Abstract Submission Deadline- 10 July 2026
About the Conference
The Oxford Dharma Conference is annually hosted at All Souls College, University of Oxford. The Conference brings together scholars, policy practitioners, jurists, and institutional leaders to examine Dharma as a conceptual framework for ethical responsibility, social order, and institutional life across cultures and disciplines.
The inaugural 2025 Conference received submissions from more than 400 scholars representing over 330 institutions worldwide. The 2026 edition seeks to deepen these conversations through sustained engagement on the relationship between Dharma and contemporary questions in law, governance, applied ethics, systems theory, community life, and the arts.
Contributions are invited from faculty members, scholars, policymakers, and independent researchers whose work engages with the conference themes.
Intellectual Orientation
The Conference approaches Dharma as a conceptual framework for examining the principles through which societies, institutions, and systems sustain legitimacy, continuity, and normative order across time. Dharma is approached as a mode of reasoning — concerned with how roles, obligations, and structures are aligned within larger systems of order, and how such systems maintain coherence amidst social, political, technological, and ecological transformation.
Key Dates
Submission Categories
- •Research Paper
- •Analytical Article
- •Scholarly Essay
- •Textual or Manuscript-based Study
- •Critical Edition / Translation of Original Manuscripts
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Submission Guidelines
Each submission should include: title of the paper or presentation; abstract of 350–500 words; 4–6 keywords; author affiliation and designation; and contact information.
Co-authorship is permitted. Only the first author should submit the abstract. Selected participants shall be invited to submit full-length papers for conference presentation and subsequent inclusion in the conference proceedings or associated publications.
Use of AI: Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the preparation of submissions. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, argumentation, citations, and intellectual integrity of their work.
All submissions must be made through this website only. No other forms of submission will be accepted.
