October 29th, 2009

THE WEST COAST PLATO WORKSHOP
Third Annual Conference
Topic: Plato’s Phaedrus
Date: 22-23 May 2010
Place: Philosophy department, University of California, San Diego

Keynote speaker: Rachana Kamtekar
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona

The conference organizer invites proposals for 30 minute talks (to be followed by 45 minutes of commentary or discussion) on any topic related to Plato’s Phaedrus. Please send proposals (abstracts) to monte@ucsd.edu by 15 December 2009. Also, please forward this announcement to anyone who might be working on the Phaedrus or interested in attending.

The first conference, on Plato’s Theaetetus, was held in 2008 at the University of California, Davis; the second, on the Euthydemus, in 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley. The conferences are open to all students and faculty, and are organized on an ad hoc basis by the
host university.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions. Thank you, and I look forward to seeing in La Jolla next year!

Monte Ransome Johnson
ucsd.academia.edu/MonteJohnson

October 27th, 2009

Greetings SAGP members. Just “click here” to download a PDF version of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy for the current academic year. Enjoy!

October 27th, 2009

The Fifteenth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy – The Work of Julia Annas

February 5th-6th, 2010
University of Arizona, Tucson

Friday — Rogers College of Law, Room 164

• 8:30-8:45: Opening remarks — Mark McPherran, Julia Annas, and Chris Maloney

Session I — Chair: Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona)

• 8:45-10:15: Paul Woodruff (University of Texas) — “Justice as a Virtue of the Soul” – Comments by Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College)
• 10:30-12:00: Nick Smith (Lewis and Clark College) — “Plato on Ignorance as a Cognitive Power” – Comments by Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma)

Lunch Eddie Lynch Pavillion:  12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Session II — Chair: Barry F. Vaughan (Mesa Community College)

• 2:00-3:30: Dan Russell (Wichita State University) — “Aristotle’s Virtues of Greatness” – Comments by Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College)
• 3:45-5:00: Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut) — “Eudaimonia and Practical Rationality” – Comments by Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)

5:00-5:30: Break Session III — Chair: Teresa Padilla (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

• 5:30-7:00: Mark LeBar (Ohio University) and Nathaniel Goldberg (Washington & Lee University) — “Psychological Eudaimonism and Interpretation in Greek Ethics” – Comments by Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland)

Saturday  –  Rogers College of Law, Room 164

Session IV — Chair: Michael Morgan (Indiana University)

• 9:00-10:30: Christopher Gill  — “The Stoic Providential Universe — Does Physics Depend on Ethics?” – Comments by Michael White (Arizona State University)
• 10:45-12:15: Brad Inwood — “How Unified is Stoicism Anyway?” – Comments by Eric Brown (Washington University)

Session V — Chair: Toby Chow (University of Chicago)

• 2:30-4:00: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University) — “Did the Stoics Invent Human Rights?” – Comments by David O’Connor (University of Notre Dame)4:15-5:45: Scott LaBarge (Santa Clara University) — “How (and maybe Why) to Grieve Like an Ancient Philosopher” – Comments by Marina McCoy (Boston College)
• 6:00-7:30: Tony Long (University of California at Berkeley) — “Plotinus, Ennead 1.4 as a Critique of Earlier Eudaimonism” – Comments by Zina Giannopoulou (University of California at Irvine)

7:45-9:30:  Reception at Rachana Kamtekar’s house

There is a registration fee of $160 ($100 for graduate students), due by February 1, 2010, made out to ‘U of A Foundation, Philosophy’.  It should be sent to Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210027, Tucson, AZ  85721-0027.

For further information, please contact Mark McPherran, Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, CANADA, (778)-846-6186, mark_mcpherran@sfu.ca; or the Colloquium Assistant, Michelle Jenkins (jenkinsm@u.arizona.edu), Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721-0027, USA.

Also see the colloquium website at: http://phil.web.arizona.edu/events/ancientphilo.htm

October 6th, 2009

Ancient Philosophy Society
Xth Annual Meeting 22-25 April 2010
Michigan State University

The Ancient Philosophy Society was established to provide a forum for diverse scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman texts.  Honoring the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the society supports phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, hermeneutic, Tübingen School, psychoanalytic, and feminist interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary works.  Within the larger aim of assessing the meaning and significance of ancient texts, the society is intended to serve as a site for critical engagement among these various schools of interpretation and to encourage creative and rigorous independent readings. Click here to download the conference poster as a PDF file.

Keynote Speakers
Catherine Heldt Zuckert
Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
“Two Platonic Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timaeus”

and

Thomas M. Tuozzo
University of Kansas Department of Philosophy
“How Dynamic is Aristotle’s Efficient Cause?”

Call for Papers
Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited:  3,000-word maximum, prepared for blind review.  Before submission by e-mail attachment, see full instructions at

www.ancientphilosophysociety.org

Submission deadline:  Monday 2 November 2009.
Decisions will be reported by the end of December.  Inquiries and submissions should be directed to

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org