Previous Conferences – International Plato Society

The Relation of Master and Disciple in Antiquity (Sept. 6, Madrid)

THE RELATION MASTER AND DISCIPLE IN ANTIQUITY: TRANSMISSION, TRANSFORMATION AND RECEPTION September 6, 2021 This conference is happening both in-person and online. For those interested in registering, send an email to Beatriz Bossi: beabossi@yahoo.es. Location: Facultad de Filosofía, Edificio A, Sala de Juntas (Ground floor on the left) Session 1: Chair: Patricia Marechal 9.30: Claudia Marsico: Socrates as a teacher and the nature of the Socratic circle 10.00: David Ebrey: Socrates as Model and Guide in the Phaedo 10.30: Jens Kristian Larsen: The Beauty in the Eye of the Other: Alcibiades 1 on justice, courage, and self-knowledge (online) 11.00: Carlo Cacciatori: A good student, an even better master: Plato on φρόνησις. 11.30: Coffee Break Session 2: Chair: David Ebrey 12.00: Ángel Pascual Martín: Hippocrates brings ‘bad news’ (Prot. 310b4; 310e3) On envy and threats from disciples to teachers 12.30: Jonathan Lavilla de Lera: Aporia in the Laches and the Gorgias (online) 13.00: Patricia [...]

Jonathan Greig2021-10-18T13:03:22+00:00Categories: Other Announcements, Previous Conferences|

IPS Mid-Term Meeting (July 19-22, 2021): Program and Abstracts

IPS Mid-Term Meeting: Koinonia in Plato’s Philosophy (Online – July 19-23, 2021) Conference Program (PDF) Conference Abstracts (PDF) REGISTRATION: https://cef.pucp.edu.pe/inscripciones/ The program schedule corresponds to Lima Time (UTC/GMT-5). All activities will be performed through the Zoom platform. Participants will receive by e-mail the password to enter the sessions.

Jonathan Greig2021-08-23T08:28:39+00:00Categories: Other Announcements, Previous Conferences|

The IPS at the APA Pacific Meeting—Virtually (Apr. 8-9, 2021)

The IPS will be hosting an online session at this year's Pacific Meeting for the APA on April 8–9, 2021. For more information on the session, visit the APA's meeting site. To register for the session, visit the signup page. For the schedule: April 8, Thursday 3:00–5:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Savings Time (Greenwich DST-8:00) [G12B International Plato Society, Session 1] Topic: Plato: Doxa and Episteme Chair: Harald Thorsrud (Agnes Scott College) Speakers: Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver): “False Judgment and Doxa without Judgment: Plato’s Insight at Tht. 187d-195c” Franco Trabattoni (Università degli Studi di Milano): “Recollection as Method of Inquiry? Meno 85c-d” David J. Murphy (Independent Scholar): “The Sophist’s Puzzling Episteme in the Sophist” April 9, Friday 3:00–5:00 PM Pacific Daylight Savings Time (Greenwich DST-8:00) [G15C International Plato Society, Session 2] Topic: Platonic Contrivances Chair: Richard D. Parry (Agnes Scott College) Speakers: Ioannis Kalogerakos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): “Education in the Laws” Gaia Bagnati [...]

Jonathan Greig2021-05-06T19:28:16+00:00Categories: Other Announcements, Previous Conferences|

CFP: Symposium Platonicum Pragense XIII, on Plato’s Phaedrus (Nov. 3-5, 2021)

The Czech Plato Society is pleased to announce the XIIIth Symposium Platonicum Pragense on Plato’s Phaedrus. The conference will be held on 3–5 November 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic. The Czech Plato Society has organised international and national conferences on Plato’s philosophy since 1997. There is a call for abstracts for the conference, due May 31, 2021. See their announcement for information.

Jonathan Greig2022-01-27T11:20:44+00:00Categories: Previous Conferences|

The IPS at the APA—Virtually (June 24 and 30, 2020)

The IPS will hold the two sessions originally scheduled for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division virtually on Zoom. Although the entire meeting of the APA was cancelled, we have managed to find times when all the participants in each session could be present at their session. Because we are truly an international organization and because reason cannot fully overcome necessity, many of our members around the world will not be able to participate in one or both sessions. We must also limit the number of participants to make the Zoom group manageable. If you would like to join the session, please register by sending an email to president@platosociety.org, and you will receive an invitation. Here is the schedule: I. Plato's Late Dialogues: Metaphysics Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 1:00-3:00PM EDT (=GMT-4) Chair: Georgia Mouroutsou (University of Western Ontario) Tom Tuozzo (University of Kansas), "The Being of the One that [...]

Jonathan Greig2021-02-02T14:09:18+00:00Categories: Previous Conferences|

West Coast Plato Workshop (May 14-16, 2021)

This year, the 2021 West Coast Plato Workshop will be hosted by Northern Arizona University's Department of Philosophy. The focus of this year's Workshop is Plato's Sophist, with topics on: the greatest Kinds and their interrelations; the definitions of sophistry; and the Stranger's method of doing philosophy. For workshop details and registration, head over to: www.nau.edu/cal/plato. List of speakers and their topics: Keynote: Mary Louise Gill (Brown University): "Images of the Philosopher in the Sophist" Xin Liu (Nanjing University, China): “Koinōnia Megistōn Genōn: From the Exercise of One-Many in the Parmenides to the Exercise of Being-Nonbeing in the Sophist" Comments by Benjamin Keoseyan (University of Arizona) Pauline Sabrier (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany): “Change, Rest and Greatest Kinds in Plato’s Sophist” Comments by Chris Buckels (Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo, California) Colin C. Smith (University of Colorado Boulder): “Being as Communion: Sophist 248b2-8” Comments by Timothy Clarke (University of California Berkeley) Jan Szaif [...]

Jonathan Greig2021-06-29T19:35:31+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences|

Call for papers: Image and Imagination in Plato (Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 27–29, 2020)

Plato’s attitude towards images is ambiguous. On the one hand, there are unmistakable signs that he denounces the status of images. In the simile of the Line, he puts images in the lowest subsection. He criticizes image-makers such as poets and painters. One of his main criticisms of the sophists is also that they are image-makers. On the other hand, Plato’s dialogues are full of vivid images. He may even have thought that the use of images and imagination is an intermediate step and a necessary means for achieving the highest level of understanding. How should we account for this ambiguity? Traditional studies on Plato’s views of image and imagination have focused mainly on the Republic and the Sophist, especially on his negative treatments of images and image-makings in them. In recent decades, however, more attention has been given to his positive views both in these dialogues and in other [...]

Jonathan Greig2021-02-02T10:19:32+00:00Categories: Previous Conferences, Uncategorized|

The IPS at the APA Central Division—Virtually (Feb. 24, 2021)

The IPS will be holding a session (co-sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies) originally scheduled for the American Philosophical Association Central Division virtually on Zoom, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to join the session, please register at the APA's site, and you will receive an invitation. For more information about the meeting, see the APA program page. Here is the schedule: I. Topic: Socrates Wednesday, February 24, 2020 at 7:00–10:00 PM CST (=GMT-6) Chair: Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University) William Altman (Independent Scholar), "Xenophon and Plato: Back and Forth with the Two Greatest Socratics" Sophia Stone (Lynn University), "What Socrates Teaches" Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma), “Socrates' Two technai"

Jonathan Greig2021-03-02T13:41:48+00:00Categories: Previous Conferences|

Symposium Platonicum XII – Plato’s Parmenides – Call for papers

Call for papers - Symposium Platonicum XII Plato’s Parmenides Paris, July 15th-20th 2019 The International Plato Society organizes a symposium on a single Platonic dialogue every three years. We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the XII Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Parmenides. The Symposium will take place July 15–20, 2019, in Paris. Although the dialogue has been the object of intense scholarly scrutiny, many issues remain to be explored. Submissions on any aspect of the dialogue, including its presocratic sources as well as later reception, will be considered. We also would like to encourage papers that address issues in the dialogue’s second half since it has received relatively less attention. We welcome abstracts from all IPS members, full and associate. If you are not yet a member of the International Plato Society, criteria for membership and information about joining are available at: https://platosociety.org/membership/. Length Papers should be [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:19:24+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences, Symposium Platonicum, Symposium Platonicum XII|

Call for Papers : Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies (St. Petersburg, August 28th-30th 2018)

The International Plato Society (IPS) is pleased to announce the colloquium “Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies”, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia on the 28th and 30th of August 2018. The colloquium will serve as a platform for the IPS Executive Committee’s mid-term meeting. The study of Plato’s heritage is a way of diagnosing modernity - in so far as it is made explicit in philosophical discourse. This is precisely why intellectual transformations and new research strategies are relevant themes for both international and Russian Plato studies. We propose the following topics for the colloquium: The history of Plato interpretation as an element of the evolution of European culture. Different periods and tendencies of interpretive programs. Schools of thought and intellectual trends which shaped and determined the study of Plato in the 19th and 20th centuries. The specifics of the study of Plato’s heritage [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:26:51+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences, Regional meetings|