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Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for the Best Dissertation on Plato 2016-2019

Dissertation Prize Results Every three years the International Plato Society awards a prize for the best dissertation on Plato. The prize is in honor of Conrado Eggers Lan (pictured above), Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Universities of Buenos Aires, Heidelberg, and Autónoma de México (UNAM), host of the First Symposium Platonicum (Mexico City, 1986), and one of the founders of our society. The Editorial Committee of the IPS has now evaluated the dissertations on Plato written between 2016 and 2019 that were submitted for the award and come to a decision. We are pleased to announce that the winner of the prize is: Evan Glenn Rodriguez, Exploring Both Sides: Plato's New Method for First Principles, a PhD dissertation completed in 2016 at Yale University and supervised by Verity Harte. The Editorial Committee would also like to recognize the excellence of two other dissertations written by: Carmen Di Lorenzo (second) and [...]

In memoriam Hans Richarz (1924-2020)

Hans Richarz, born 11 October 1924, Sankt Augustin, Germany, died in the same place, 7 April 2020. During the VII Symposium Platonicum at Würzburg from 26 to 31 July 2004, the General Assembly of the International Plato Society approved unanimously that Dr. Richarz be awarded the first Honorary Membership of the Society, which he accepted, remaining to date the only such recipient. Hans Richarz was the founder of Academia Verlag. On the initiative of Livio Rossetti and Rafael Ferber, he agreed in 1990 to publish the Proceedings of the Symposia Platonica and other books on Plato in the newly founded series «International Plato Studies» in the Academia Verlag, St. Augustin, Germany, now an imprint of Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden. Since 1990, there have been 39 published volumes. Among them are the proceedings of the Symposia Platonica, as well as dissertations and the works of leading Plato scholars of different orientations. From [...]