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The Editorial Committee of the International Plato Society has chosen the winner of the 3rd Edition of Conrado Eggers Lan Prize. The edition was a very successful one. The IPS received 20 submissions of dissertations that had resulted in the award of the Ph.D. degree between July 31, 2018, and July 31, 2021. Congratulations to Julia Pfefferkorn! We are pleased to announce that the winner of the prize is: Julia Pfefferkorn: Platons tanzende Stadt: Moralpsychologie und Chortanz in den Nomoi, a PhD Dissertation completed in 2020 en cotutelle at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Università degli studi di Salerno under the supervision of Irmgard Männlein-Robert and Franco Ferrari. Julia's book will be released in December in Brill's new Plato Studies Series (vol. 11): see the book page for more information. The Editorial Committee would also like to recognise the excellence of the dissertation written by Roberto Granieri: [...]

The annual Platonic Summer Seminar in Lanckorona (Poland) will hold its sixth meeting this Aug. 21-27. The theme this year will be “Οὐσία in Platonic-Aristotelian Psychology”, discussing Plato's and Aristotle's psychological writings in conjunction with Martin Heidegger’s 1921 interpretation of De Anima. The event is organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University of Kraków, the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, and the Philosophical Journal Kronos. For further info, see the seminar's site: http://www.platon.up.krakow.pl/ - and to register, contact the organizers here: platonicsummerseminar@gmail.com.

Proceedings from the IPS' 2021 Mid-Term Meeting are now out in a special issue of Areté (vol. 36: "Koinōnia en la filosofía de Platón"). Table of Contents: Communication and Kinship. On “Koinōnia” and “Syngeneia” in Plato’s Dialogues (Carlo Delle Donne) Common Ground or Double Bind? The Possibility of Dialogue in Plato’s Crito (Sarah Feldman) The Koinon Agathon of Plato’s Charmides (Alan Pichanick) Koinōnia and the Psychology of Possession (Veronika Konrádová) Koinōnia in the Symposium: from community to communion? (Zdenek Lenner) El comercio según Platón: ¿factor de división o de comunidad política? (Etienne Helmer) The Women’s Law (tou gynaikeiou nomos) in the Kallipolis of Plato’s Republic (Gabriele Cornelli, Rosane Maia) Psicología, política y poesía en República IV y X (Lucas Soares) Plato on the Mechanics of Koinōnia Formation (Stephanos Stephanides) La ciencia en sí misma y la ciencia en nosotros: en torno al rol de la epistḗmē en el Fedro (Gabriel García) Koinōnía y Justicia. De la República al Parménides (Raúl Gutiérrez) Three [...]

IPS at the American Philosophical Association: Central Division Chicago, Illinois Friday, February 25, 7:00–10:00 P.M. Session jointly sponsored with the International Society for the Study of Socrates Topic: Three New Books on Xenophon’s Socrates Chair: Donald Morrison (Rice University) Speakers: Thomas Pangle (University of Texas at Austin), “Socrates in Xenophon’s Socratic Writings” David Johnson (Southern University of Illinois Carbondale), “Xenophon’s Socratic Works” Commentators: Christopher Moore (The Pennsylvania State University) Emily Baragwanath (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) IPS at the American Philosophical Association: Pacific Division Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Wednesday, April 13, 6:00–9:00 P.M. Chair: J. Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Speakers: Sophia M. Connell (Birkbeck College London), “Love as Infectious Disease in the Phaedrus 250c8-252c2” Claudia Luchetti (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), “On the Non-Aporetic Character of the Socratic ἔλεγχος in the Euthyphro” Marina Marren (University of Nevada, Reno), “Plato’s Philosophical Method: The Second Sailing”

For those who applied for this year's Symposium Platonicum XIII in Athens, GA (USA): due to the delayed application deadline last November, we are taking extra time to evaluate submitted abstracts. We anticipate final decisions to be announced by the end of February, and will notify applicants then. We apologize for the delay!