Regional reports – International Plato Society

Report on XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, Aug.13-20, 2018

As one of Society Sessions, the IPS participated in the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, Aug.13-20, 2018. Our IPS panel session titled “Plato and Learning to Be Human” was held on Aug.15, as follows: 9:00-9:10 Introduction by Yuji Kurihara, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 9:00-9:45 “The Concept of Will in Plato’s Gorgias and Meno” by Teng He, University of Bonn, Germany 9:45-10:25 “Plato on the Erotic Nature of Human Being” by Pauline Sabrier, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai Campus, China 10:25-10:40 Break 10:40-11:20 “Eudaimonia in the Timaeus” by Hyun Höchsmann, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China 11:20-12:00 “The Principle of ‘Doing One’s Own’ after Plato” by Tomohiko Kondo, Hokkaido University, Japan 12:00-12:40 General Discussion More than forty participants attended our panel, in which we discussed various issues, for example, the relation or contrast between the [...]

Olivier RENAUT2019-07-17T13:28:30+00:00Categories: Regional reports|

IPS Regional Meeting Report : “Forming the Soul: Plato and his Opponents” (20-22 April 2018, Taipei, Taiwan)

“Forming the Soul: Plato and his Opponents” 20~22 April 2018, Taipei The 2nd Asia Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society International Conference The International Conference “Forming the Soul: Plato and his Opponents” was held from 20th to 22nd April 2018 in Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan. The conference was endorsed by the International Plato Society as a Regional Meeting, and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. The conference received warm helps from international friends, including our Korean and Japanese IPS members, and local backing from the colleagues and students in the Department of Philosophy of Chinese Culture University, and other Taiwanese scholars who were doing ancient philosophy and history, and those who specialized in other fields but were friendly and helping to this Platonic event. The conference was the first formal academic activity of the International [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-09-05T13:23:21+00:00Categories: Announcements, Regional meetings, Regional reports|

Compte rendu du colloque international : “La vérité : Platon et les sophistes” (Aix-en-Provence, 9-11 octobre 2015)

L’Institut d’histoire de la philosophie (EA 3276) de l’université d’Aix-Marseille l’International Plato Society – Mediterranean Section, le Centre d’études sur la pensée antique « kairos kai logos », ont organisé en collaboration avec le Département de philosophie de l’université d’Aix-Marseille, le Dipartimento di scienze del patrimonio culturale (beni e attività culturali, filosofia, fonti e testi, territorio) dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno, le Dipartimento di filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Roma-La Sapienza, le Dipartimento di filologia, letteratura e linguistica dell’Università di Pisa, avec le soutien du Conseil général du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône et de la Communauté du Pays d’Aix et avec le concours du Musée Granet d’Aix-en-Provence, un colloque international de philosophie ancienne sur le thème : « La vérité : Platon et les sophistes ». Le colloque s’est tenu les vendredi 9 et samedi 10 octobre à la Faculté des arts, lettres, langues et sciences humaines, Maison de la Recherche, Bâtiment Multimédia, Salle des colloques, et [...]

Olivier RENAUT2016-11-02T22:57:14+00:00Categories: Regional reports, Reviews|

IPS Conference Report – Plato & Rhetoric

Plato & Rhetoric 25 April – 27 April 2014 Hiyoshi Campus of Keio University, Yokohama, Japan The International Symposium “Plato & Rhetoric” was held on 25-27 April 2014 at the Hiyoshi Campus of Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. The conference was endorsed by the IPS as a Regional Meeting, and supported by the JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project, in cooperation with Keio University (Research Centre for Thinking and Behavioral Judgment, Global Research Centre for Logic and Sensibility) and Mita Philosophy Society. The Organizing Committee, Noburu Notomi (Keio University), Yuji Kurihara (Tokyo Gakugei University) and Satoshi Ogihara (Tohoku University), appreciate their kind supports. This was the second international conference on Plato in East Asia. In 2-7 August 2010, the IX Symposium Platonicum was held at the Mita Campus of Keio University in Tokyo (Presidents: Shinro Kato and Noburu Notomi), in which over 260 scholars (130 from abroad) and 60 students [...]

Olivier RENAUT2014-09-02T15:02:39+00:00Categories: Regional meetings, Regional reports|

Local report : Italy

Local Report (Italy) Please read the associated pdf documents

Olivier RENAUT2013-11-12T15:42:12+00:00Categories: Regional reports|

Report on the workshop : “A Reconsideration of the Chronology of Plato’s Dialogues”

A one-day workshop on A Reconsideration of the chronology of Plato’s dialogues organized jointly by the Museum Graeco-Latinum (Moscow – http://en.mgl.ru/) and the Plato Centre (Dublin, Trinity College – http://www.tcd.ie/plato/) was held on the 11th of May in the Trinity College. Prof. John Dillon and Prof. Vasilis Politis kindly supported the initiative of the Moscow private scholarly institution Museum Graeco-Latinum and thus Russian researchers presented their approach to the chronology of Plato’s dialogues in the following papers: 1. Prof. Y. Shichalin. On the new approach to the chronology of the Corpus Platonicum. 2. Dr. A. Usacheva. Concerning the date of Plato’s Phaedrus. 3. A. Zolotukhina. On the position of the Crito in the Corpus Platonicum. 4. O. Alieva. Elenchus and ‘what is not’: the Sophist vs. the Gorgias. During a long and fruitful discussion, participants outlined the prospects of the presented ideas, which might significantly affect on the comprehension of [...]

Olivier RENAUT2013-11-12T15:41:19+00:00Categories: Regional reports|

Report on the X Simpósio Internacional da Sociedade Brasileira de Platonistas and VI Seminário Internacional Archai: A República de Platão, Brasil, August 2009

TWO REPORTS by Tom Robinson and Maurizio Migliori of the X Simpo?sio Internacional da Sociedade Brasileira de Platonistas and VI Semina?rio Internacional Archai : A Repu?blica de Plata?o Universidade Federal de Uberla?ndia, 25 a 28 de agosto de 2009, Brasil. First Report With support from - among other sources - The International Plato Society, a combined conference comprising the Tenth International Symposium of the Brazilian Plato Society and the Sixth International Seminar ‘Archai’ took place at the Santa Monica campus of the Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil, from August 25 to 28, 2009. The theme of the conference was ‘The Republic of Plato’. It was the first time that I personally had attended a meeting of either Society, and I was much impressed with the intellectual vitality that marked the occasion. Twenty eight scholars, from Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Italy, Peru and Venezuela were present (the number from Italy, it must be [...]

Olivier RENAUT2016-11-02T22:57:16+00:00Categories: Regional reports|Tags: Republic|

Report on “Socratica 2008”, Naples, December 2008

Second ‘Socratica’ Conference in Naples On December, 11-13 2008 an international conference entitled Socratica 2008. Seconde giornate di studio sulla letteratura socratica antica was held in Naples (Italy). The symposium was the follow- up of the Socratica meeting held in 2005 in Senigallia (the proceedings of which appeared in 2008). Another one is scheduled for 2011. The scientific aim of these conferences is to provide a broad approach to the context of Plato’s work: Socrates, the Socratics as a group, Xenophon, and the other major Socratics. The event was sponsored by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, the Universities of Naples “Federico II” and “Orientale”, the University of Salerno, and the International Plato Society. It was held as well under the auspices of the “Fondazione Alario per Elea-Velia”. The coordinators were Livio Rossetti (Perugia), Franco Ferrari (Salerno), Giovanni Casertano, Lidia Palumbo, and Alessandro Stavru (Naples). The symposium was attended [...]

Olivier RENAUT2016-11-02T22:57:16+00:00Categories: Regional reports|Tags: Socrates, Socratics|

Report on Archai 2008, Brasília, June 2008

Report on “Archai 2008” and Platonic studies in Brazil A week-long conference entitled “V Seminário Internacional Archai 2008” on the general theme of “The Ancient City” (A Cidade Antiga) was held at the University of Brasília from the 2nd to the 6th June, 2008, and I was kindly invited to give the opening lecture. The conference was supported by the Sociedade Brasileira de Platonistas (institutional member of the IPS) and the Núcleo de Estudos Clássicos, and was organized by Gabriele Cornelli (Professor at the Universidade de Brasilia; President of the SBP and member of the IPS) and his team. I congratulate them on the success of this huge and ambitious conference. In addition to the Brazilian classicists and graduate students, several guest speakers from abroad gave talks: Giovanni Casertano, Franco Trabattoni (both from Italy), Francisco Lisi (from Spain), and Marcelo Boeri (from Chile). I am happy to report that I [...]

Olivier RENAUT2016-11-02T22:57:16+00:00Categories: Regional reports|Tags: Politics|

Report on III Coloquio Internacional de Filosofia Griega, Caracas, November 2008

Report on “III Coloquio Internacional de Filosofia Griega” in Venezuela. Between November 11th and 13th this year, the “III Coloquio Internacional de Filosofia Griega: en torno a la República de Platón” was held at the “Universidad Central de Venezuela” (in Caracas), organized by Francisco Bravo. The event was supported by the “Centro de Estudios Clásicos” (founded in 1989) – institutional member of the Internacional Plato Society – and sponsored by the “Faculdad de Humanidades y Educación”, by the area of Philosophy in the “Universidad Central de Venezuela” and by the IPS (with the contribution of the Universities “Simón Bolívar”, “Católica Andrés Bello” and the “Sociedad Venezolana de Estudios Clásicos”). I was kindly invited by Professor Bravo not only to take part in the “Coloquio” as a conferee, but also to write a brief report about the days we spent in Venezuelan land. The purpose, according to him, was to [...]

Olivier RENAUT2016-11-02T22:57:16+00:00Categories: Regional reports|