Announcements

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 [...]

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.    

20-24 August, First Latin American Area Conference of the IPS, X Internacional Archai Seminar: Plato's styles and characters: between literature and philosophy, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.

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).

5-6 May, West Coast Plato Workshop, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

19-22 April, Ancient Philosophy Society, XII Annual Independent Meeting, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

CNRS (UPR-76), Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne (GRAMATA et ANHIMA), avec le soutien de la Société des Etudes Platoniciennes, l’International Plato Society, et de la Mairie de Paris Colloque international – International symposium Genre et sexualité dans la cite La politique du sexe dans les dialogues de Platon  Gender and sexuality in the city  Politics of sex in Plato’s Dialogues 1-3 mars 2012 INHA  Auditorium 2, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris   Les dialogues de Platon constituent un espace propice à la réélaboration des questions de genre, de sexe et de sexualité dans l’Antiquité ; l’un des enjeux de ce colloque international, qui annonce le Symposium Platonicum qui se tiendra à Pise en 2013 sur le Banquet de Platon, consiste à réaffirmer l’importance de ce philosophe quant à la constitution de repères et de thèses pour l’ensemble de l’Antiquité grecque. Tout d’abord, les dialogues sont une source textuelle pour le philologue, [...]