- Unitarian Christian Alliance, Australia are pleased to announce a general call for papers to be presented at our conference at ‘The Tops’ Conference Centre in Stanwell Tops (1hr South of Sydney) 27 – 29 March 2026. Watch here for the opening of registration.
- The paper submission deadline is the end of the day (Sydney time) of Thursday, 8 January, 2025.
- If you have already submitted a paper, you are welcome to re-submit a revised version before that deadline and only the later version will be considered.
- Please do not submit multiple papers.
- We are looking for scholarly (or at least: informed, insightful, and well-argued) papers which are also accessible to an educated lay audience on topics which can advance the cause of unitarian Christianity. Previous conference presentations can be seen on YouTube and some “model” papers are here.
- While all submissions will be considered, we are especially interested in submissions from unitarian Christians in Australia or elsewhere in Oceania, so in your submission email please state your country of residence.
- Topics may include but are not limited to: biblical theology, systematic theology, biblical studies, textual criticism, history of theology, history of unitarian Christianity, apologetics, Christian philosophy, analytic theology. An author may submit even if they are neither a member of the UCA nor a unitarian Christian.
- Paper submissions must conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (Notes and Bibliography style, with footnotes and bibliography).
- A fully written paper must be submitted; an outline or proposal is not enough.
- The main text should be no longer than 6,000 words, so that the presentation is no longer than 45 minutes. Submitted papers longer than 6,000 (in the main text – so, not including footnotes) will be automatically rejected.
- Authors should plan on about 10 minutes of audience Q&A after their talk. Papers may be read, although authors are encouraged to present the material in an engaging way.
- After removing any self-identifying features (e.g. your name, references to your other publications or other work), please email your submission to conference@unitarianchristianalliance.org. A UCA Board member will ensure that the papers are suitable for blind review and then pass them on to the committee.
- Submissions will be blind-reviewed by a committee of three.
- The committee’s decisions will be emailed to authors by the end of 15 January, 2026.
- Authors of accepted papers must supply a PowerPoint or Keynote or Google Slides presentation to accompany their talk by the end of Sunday, 1 March, 2026 (emailed to the address below).
- Conference presentations will be video-recorded and may be posted on the UCA YouTube channel, and our social media committee may also snip out interesting “sound bites” for short videos. By submitting a paper, you agree that your presentation may be filmed and used in these ways by the UCA.
