Newsletter Feb. 2025

  INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY   XIV SYMPOSIUM PLATONICUM In person Sessions MADRID   Venue: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y FILOLOGÍA EDIFICIO A UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID CAMPUS DE MONCLOA PLAZA MENÉNDEZ PELAYO SIN NÚMERO      Confirmed Plenary Speakers:   Christopher Rowe (Durham University) (De Vogel Lecturer online) Ronald Polansky (Duquesne University) (De Vogel Lecturer in person) Mary Margaret McCabe (King’s College, London) Franco Ferrari (Università di Pavia) Marcelo Boeri (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Franco Trabattoni (Università di Milano) Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee (Colorado University at Boulder) Anne Balansard (Aix-Marseille Université)  Barbara Sattler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle, Australia) Laura Marongiu (Università di Milano) We kindly encourage you to post your full paper in English by April 25(or at least your main hypotheses and arguments). Upload it to  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HxsEvTdh1iGQm97QbvbDKTHagkyToryt?usp=sharing indicating your surname in the filename or send it to symposiumplatonicum14@gmail.com so that everyone can follow your presentation even if the language of your [...]

Cornelia de Vogel Prize – International Plato Society Call for Submissions

  In line with our commitment to promoting Platonic studies and following the indications of the Cornelia de Vogel Foundation, the International Plato Society (IPS) is pleased to announce the Cornelia de Vogel Prize for the first time in the history of our Institutions.   Five prizes of 800 Euros each will be awarded to the best papers presented by young scholars at the forthcoming XIV Symposium Platonicum to be held in Madrid (May 5-9, 2025). Eligibility:   To participate, candidates must meet the following criteria:   - Be classified as a junior scholar (defined as 40 years of age or younger).   - Be a current member of the IPS whose abstract has been selected for presentation at the XIV Symposium Platonicum. - Submit a full paper of no more than 3,500 words by April 15, 2025, to:   symposiumplatonicum14@gmail.com   including the following information in the email:  Full [...]

VIIIth Platonic Summer Seminar on Plato’s Parmenides (23.06–30.06.2024)

  The eighth edition of the Platonic Summer Seminar in Lanckorona (Poland) on Plato’s Parmenides will take place on 23.06–30.06.2024. We will attempt to interpret the dialogue as an exposition of the theory of principles. We are also going to discuss the implied meaning of the Parmenidean One and its dialectical relation to the Many, as well as the multifarious interpretations of the One. A close reading of the text in conjunction with classical Neoplatonist commentaries (Plotinus, Proclus, Damascius) and modern studies (Hegel, Natorp, Heidegger, Colli, Benardete) will be complemented with lectures by contemporary scholars: Claudia Baracchi, Massimo Cacciari, Lloyd Gerson, Francisco Gonzalez, Edward Halper, Claudio Moreschini, Carlos Steel. For further information please consult the website https://platon.up.krakow.pl/

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 during a special session of the municipal council and will be followed by a public speech by Prof. Rossetti himself. The event will be broadcast live on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100051040046981&sk=videos.

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 are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the XIV Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Theaetetus. The Symposium will take place in two separate modalities: In Person: May 5–9, 2025, at the Facultad de Filosofía (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Online: May 19-21, 2025, from the Facultad de Humanidades (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid). Presentation length: As we want to encourage discussion, speakers will be given double time on this occasion. Papers should be suitable for 40-minute presentations (suggestion: 20 minutes of reading plus 20 minutes of discussion). Authors may be asked to expand their papers to be presented at one of the 1- hour plenary sessions. Abstracts We welcome abstracts from all IPS members, full and associate. If [...]

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