Conrado Eggers Lan was Ancient Philosophy Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Heidelberg and Autónoma de México (UNAM). Co-founder of the International Plato Society and host of the First Symposium Platonicum held in Mexico City in 1986.

In accordance with its mission to promote Platonic studies throughout the world as well as communication between scholars of diverse disciplines working on Plato and the publication of books and series on Plato, the International Plato Society is glad to announce the 2nd edition of the Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Platonic studies.

We invite submissions of dissertations that resulted in the award of the Ph.D. degree between January 1, 2014, and July 31, 2018. The submissions will be judged by a special committee appointed by the IPS Editorial Board. The prize-winning dissertation will be offered the opportunity of publication as a book in one of the leading IPS series.

Nominated dissertations must be written in one of the five official languages of the IPS (English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish) or fully translated into one of them.The full text of the dissertation should be sent in PDF format to the email prize@platosociety.org by August 1, 2018, along with a letter from the dissertation supervisor or director,  supporting the submission, and a certificate of graduation from the relevant degree-granting institution, indicating the date of the degree awarded.

For further information, please contact the IPS Editorial Board special Committee at prize@platosociety.org or the President of the International Plato Society at president@platosociety.org.