12-16 December 2012, International Conference, Plato’s Academy: A Survey of the Evidence, Athens, Greece

UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS  International Conference on PLATO’S  ACADEMY: A Survey of the Evidence ________ Athens, 12 – 16 December 2012   Organizing Committee: Chloe Balla (University of Crete) Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani (3d Ephorate of Antiquities, Athens) Paul Kalligas (University of Athens) Vassilis Karasmanis (Technical University of Athens)   Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Hall of Ceremonies, University of Athens   Morning Session. Chair: Paul Kalligas (Athens)   09:30-10:00 Paul Kalligas: Welcoming Address – Introduction 10:00-10:40 Paul A. Cartledge (Cambridge): ‘How Academic was Plato’s Academy? A Historian’s Judicious Review’ 10:45-11:25 Alexander Nehamas (Princeton, NJ): ‘The Academy at Work: Dialectic in Plato’s Parmenides’ 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break 12:00-12:40 István Bodnár (Budapest): ‘The Study of Natural Kinds in the Academy’ 12:40-13:30 Discussion 13:30-14:30 Lunch   Afternoon Session. Chair: Dionysios Anapolitanos (Athens)   17:00-17:40 John M. Dillon (Dublin): ‘Polemon, the “grosse Schatten” of the Old Academy’ 17:40-18:00 Discussion 18:00-18:40 David Sedley (Cambridge): ‘Carneades’ Theological Arguments’ 18:40-19:00 Discussion [...]

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4-7 October 2012, First U.S. Regional Meeting of the IPS, Plato’s Moral Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Plato's Moral Psychology U.S. Regional Meeting of the IPS University of Michigan, Ann Arbor October 4-7, 2012 The Departments of Classical Studies and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, along with the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University, held the first-ever U.S. regional meeting of the International Plato Society. The conference featured seven plenary speakers with commentators and seventy-five contributed papers in parallel sessions.    

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6-7 August 2012, Freedom and the State: Plato and the Classical Tradition, Oxford, U.K. [program]

Freedom and the State: Plato and the Classical Tradition 6-7 August 2012Seminar Room (1F), Classics Centre, 66 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LUJointly sponsored by Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity and JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project: Comprehensive Study on Interpretations and Receptions of Plato’s Theory of Justice Those who will attend, please contact Yoshinori Sano (e-mail: ysano@icu.ac.jp).

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14-16 June 2012, Plato’s Parmenides, Mediterranean Section, International Plato Society, Coimbra, Portugal

2nd Meeting of the Mediterranean Section of the IPS Coimbra June 14-16th 2012 Plato’s Parmenides Facultade de Letras Universidade de Coimbra Organising Committee Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho (Universidade de Coimbra) António Manuel Martins (Universidade de Coimbra) Francisco L. Lisi (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Josep Monserrat Molas (Universitat de Barcelona) Scientific Committee Mário Jorge Carvalho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ Unidade de Investigaçao Linguagem, Interpretação, Filosofia, Universidade de Coimbra). Álvaro Vallejo Campos (Universidad de Granada) Alonso Tordesillas (Université d’Aix-en-Provence) Franco Trabattoni (Università degli Studi di Milano) Samuel Scolnicov (University of Jerusalem)   Papers: The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 01/31/2012. Those who are interested should send an abstract of one page (single spaced) or 800 characters with spaces, together with a CV. The list of the selected papers will be announced on April 2012. Papers must be written in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan or English. The publication [...]

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