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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!

New bibliography list for 2020-2021, compiled by Luc Brisson, is now up in our Bibliography section—download here.

The International Plato Society plans to sponsor sessions at each of the American Philosophical Association meetings in 2022.  The first one, the Eastern Division meeting, will be held in person in early January of 2022.  It is now scheduled for January 5-8, 2022 in Montreal, Canada; however, the date and the time may be changed.  If you are interested in presenting a paper at this in person meeting, please send an abstract of your paper to president@platosociety.org by June 30, 2021.  Be sure to indicate that you want your abstract considered for the Eastern Division in-person meeting. The APA’s Central Division will meet in Chicago, February 23-26, 2022. It will be jointly sponsored with the International Society for the Study of Socrates.  So our papers will focus on the early dialogues or other Socratic writings.  The APA’s Pacific meeting will be in Vancouver April 13-16, 2022.  If you are interested [...]