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Livio Rossetti, Honorary Citizen of Bevagna
The IPS is pleased to announce that Prof. Livio Rossetti will be appointed Honorary Citizen of Bevagna (where the IPS was founded in 1989) on May 18th, 2024. The distinction will be bestowed on him [...]
New book on the Timaeus
We are pleased to inform you of the publication of the following book on the Timaeus: Ordre et désordre dans l’univers Une étude sur l’expérience de pensée du Timée Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: [...]
XIV Symposium Platonicum. Plato’s Theaetetus / Call for papers
Call for papers XIV Symposium Platonicum Plato’s Theaetetus Madrid, May 5th-9th (in person) May 19th-21st (online) 2025 The International Plato Society organizes a symposium on a single Platonic dialogue every three years. We [...]
IPS Mid Term Meeting
The IPS is pleased to announce that the Mid-Term Meeting for the period 2022-2025 will be split into two parts, on close themes, and will be organized by two different teams: Part I will be [...]
Just published: Gerard Naddaf with Louis-André Dorion, Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson
Dear friends, It's a pleasure to announce the publication of this book by Gerard Naddaf with Louis-André Dorion, Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson, with McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/making-sense-of-myth-products-9780228020714.php
In memoriam Anne G. Wesinger
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Anne Gabrièle Wersinger in January 2024. A. G. Wersinger studied literature and philosophy (in preparatory classes and at the Université de Strasbourg), [...]
The 4th Asia Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society “Plato and Gods” 11-13 September 2024, Nagoya University, Japan
According to a middle Platonist, Alcinous, the aim of life is to become as godlike as possible, a theme that Plato addresses in various ways. Indeed, in Republic X, it is said that those who [...]
In Memoriam Giovanni Casertano (1941-2023)
Giovanni Casertano was a founding member of the IPS, was born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere on 6 March 1941. A pupil of Giuseppe Martano, the first holder of the History of Ancient Philosophy chair [...]
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