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 suitable for 20-minute presentations, but authors may be asked to expand their papers to be presented at one of the 40-minute plenary sessions. Your abstract should be written in any two of the Society’s five official languages (i.e. English and French, Italian and Spanish, English and German…). Each abstract should be around 800-1200 words (so 2400 words for the two abstracts). To ensure blind-review by the IPS Executive Committee please remove any identifying information from the abstract and the file properties.

Any queries about the abstract should be sent to symposiumplatonicum12@gmail.com.

Deadline

All submissions must be received by September 30, 2018. Submitters will be notified of the Committee’s decision in January 2019.

How to submit your abstract

The submission process is entirely online at http://www.platosociety.org/.

Here is the full procedure :

1) You have to log in first. If you forgot your password, please use the link “Forgot your password ?”.

2) Once logged in, you should be automatically redirected to your Profile Page. (If not, you can access it in the menu “Membership/My Profile“).

3) On your profile page, you can see if you are a regular paid-up member for the triennal period 2016-2019. (If you see Full Member or Associate Member, you are a paid-up member. If you see only “Member”, it means that you were previously a member of the society, but you must pay your triennal fees 2016-2019.) If you have to pay your fees, you can click on the bottom of the page on the image Full Member or Associate member, depending on your status.

4) You will find on your profile page a section for uploading your abstract.

For any quieries, feel free to write to  symposiumplatonicum12@gmail.com.

 

(Updated Sept. 13rd 2018)