Conrado Eggers Lan was Ancient Philosophy Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Heidelberg and Autónoma de México (UNAM). Co-founder of the International Plato Society and host of the First Symposium Platonicum held in Mexico City in 1986.

In accordance with its mission to promote Platonic studies throughout the world as well as communication between scholars of diverse disciplines working on Plato and the publication of books and series on Plato, the International Plato Society is glad to announce the institution of the Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Platonic studies. We invite submissions for the best dissertation that resulted in a Ph.D. degree being awarded between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2013. The submissions will be judged by a special Committee appointed by the IPS Editorial Board. The prize-winning dissertation will be offer the opportunity of publication of the dissertation as a book in one of the leading IPS Series.

The dissertations must be written in one of IPS five official languages (English, French, German, Italian or Spanish) or fully translated to one of them.

The full text of the dissertation should be sent in PDF format to the email prize@platosociety.org by October 1st, 2014, along with a letter from the Supervisor supporting the submission and a certificate of graduation from the relevant degree-granting institution indicating the date of the degree being awarded.

For further information, please contact the IPS Editorial Board special Committee at prize@platosociety.org or the President of the International Plato Society at president@platosociety.org.