Events: 2nd Ancient Philosophy & Science Network Graduate Conference, Humboldt, Berlin, June 29-July 1, 2012
2nd APSN Graduate Conference
Three-day conference at Berlin
Presentations by doctoral students from Chicago, Leuven, Princeton, Toronto, and Berlin. Sessions will be chaired by faculty members from the partner departments of the Ancient Philosophy & Science Network (APSN). The program will be made available by the end of May.
Attendees:
Agnes Callard (Chicago)
John Cooper (Princeton)
Jan Opsomer (Leuven)
Liba Taub (Cambridge)
Jennifer Whiting (Toronto)
Arnold Brooks (Chicago)
Wei Cheng (Berlin)
Willie Costello (Toronto)
Adam Crager (Princeton)
Frank de Jonge (Berlin)
Ana Laura Edelhoff (Berlin)
Mareike Hauer (Leuven)
Robert Howton (Toronto)
Dhananjay Jagannathan (Chicago)
Mor Segev (Princeton)
Anders Dahl Sorensen (Berlin)
Jonathan Beere (Berlin)
Christoph Helmig (Berlin)
Stephen Menn (Berlin)
Philip van der Eijk (Berlin)
For more information visit: http://www.gsap.hu-berlin.de/events-erfassung/APSN-graduate-conference-2012
PhD Position: ‘Paul among the Ancient Philosophers’, University of Groningen, deadline May 15
PhD position (4 years fulltime) “Paul among the Ancient Philosophers: ‘Pistis’ as Reasonable Trust” at the University of Groningen, under the supervision of Prof. George van Kooten
This position is part of the joint research project “Overcoming the Faith-Reason Opposition: Pauline Pistis in Contemporary Philosophy” between the University of Groningen and the Radboud University Nijmegen, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Deadline: May 15, 2012
Suitable candidates pursue an interest in Classics, Ancient Philosophy or New Testament Studies. They are fluent in English and have, or will soon have completed an MA in a relevant field.
Interviews: June 13-14, 2012
For further information, see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEF100/two-phd-positions-in-philosophy-and-theology/
The candidate will also closely cooperate with the research group working on the recently established “Brill’s Ancient Philosophical Commentary on the Pauline Writings”, see www.rug.nl/ggw/philpaul .
Contact: www.rug.nl/staff/g.h.van.kooten
Email: g.h.van.kooten@rug.nl
Events: Phillip Mitsis lecture on Ancient Philosophers on Friendship, Towson University, May 2, 2012
Ancient Philosophers on Friendship
Wednesday, May 2 at 6:30pm
University Union, Potomac Lounge University Union, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USA
Professor Phillip Mitsis will be the guest lecturer for the Fourteenth Annual Ian Moore Memorial Lecture. Professor Mitsis is Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization. He came to NYU from Cornell, where he was Mellon Chair in the Humanities. He has been a visiting professor at Aberdeen, Pittsburgh, and Princeton, and a recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Howard Foundation, the ACLS, and the NEH. At present, he is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. His interests are in Greek epic and tragedy as well as in ancient philosophy and its reception in Byzantium and the early modern period.
6:30pm – Reception, 7:00pm – Lecture, 8:30pm – Reception
For more information, call 410-704-2755.
Source: http://events.towson.edu/event/ancient_philosophers_on_friendship
Events: Epictetus and Stoicism, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, April 26-27, 2012
CONFERENCE ON EPICTETUS AND STOICISM: CONTINUING INFLUENCES AND CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
April 26-27, 2012
Thursday 26 April Location: Interfaith Center, Skalny Room
2:00-2:50 Jeffrey Fisher (Notre Dame University) “Epictetus’ Moral Epistemology”
3:00-3:50 Christopher Davidson (Villanova University) “Foucault on Askesis in Epictetus”
4:00-5:30 Carlson Auditorium (Bldg. 76-1125) Keynote Address: Katja Vogt (Columbia University)
“Taking the Same Things Seriously and Not Seriously”
Friday 27 April Location: Lowenthal (Bldg. 12), Room 1135
9:00-9:50 Eleni Tsalla (Xavier University) “Epictetus on the Meaning of Names and on Comprehensive Impressions”
10:00-10:50 Brian Johnson (Fordham University) “Epictetus on Socrates’ Competing Roles”
11:00-11:50 Matthias Rothe (University of Minnesota) “Kant and Epictetus”
1:00-1:50 Carrie L. Bates (SUNY Potsdam) “Self-Identity in Epictetus: Rationality and Role”
2:00-2:50 Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University) “The Curious Case of Epictetus, Enchiridion 33”
3:00-3:50 Matthew Pianalto (Eastern Kentucky University) “In Defense of Patience”
Sponsored by: The Philosophy Department, The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and The Hale Chair in Applied Ethics
The conference is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
For additional information, please contact: david.suits@rit.edu
Events: Programme and registration open for ‘Ancient Conceptions of Happiness’ Conference, St. Andrews, May 12-13, 2012
Ancient Conceptions of Happiness
May 12-13, 2012 – University of St Andrews
Conference information: https://sites.google.com/a/st-andrews.ac.uk/eudaimonia
Registration for the conference is now open. Whilst there is no cost in attending, please note that space is quite limited.
Register for the conference here: http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=255&deptid=29&catid=57
Please email all inquiries concerning the conference to
Dan Labriola (dl293@st-andrews.ac.uk) or
Martin Sticker (ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk)
The conference is kindly supported by the Scots Philosophical Association, the Aristotelian Society, GRADskills (St Andrews), and the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies (St Andrews).
Events: First Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy, University of Alberta, May 3-5, 2012
The program for the first Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy has been announced. Visit http://ccap2012.tumblr.com/ for details.
Events: Appetite, Voluntariness and Virtuous Action – A workshop in ancient philosophy, Uppsala University, May 24-25, 2012
Appetite, Voluntariness and Virtuous Action: A workshop in ancient philosophy
Uppsala University, Sweden, May 24-25 2012
Thursday May 24 (Room IX, Main University building):
10.00-11.15 Nicholas Smith (College of Lewis and Clark): “Emotions and Appetites in Socratic Motivational Intellectualism.”
11.30-12.45 Gösta Grönroos (Stockholm University): “Plato and Aristotle on Doing Wrong Voluntarily” Lunch 14.15-15.30
Katja Vogt (Columbia University): “I Shall Do What I Did: Stoic Views on Action? 15.45-17.00
Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University): “Plotinus on Phronesis”
Friday May 25 (Room IX, Main University building):
Graduate sessions: 10.00-11.15 Tor Freyr (Uppsala University): “Yet Another Socratic Puzzle: Plato’s Apology (30a-b) on the Private and Public Benefits of Virtue”
11.30-12.45 Olof Pettersson (Uppsala University): “Reason and Appetite: The Psychology of Political Reluctance in Plato’s Republic”.
The 2012 Ancient Philosophy Society program is now available.
Download the 2012 APS Program.
We look forward to our time together in San Francisco. Please be sure to complete your registration by April 1, 2012, when the early registration rate will expire.
http://www.pdcnet.org/pages/Services/2012-APS-Conference.htm
If you still need to book a hotel, please visit the link below to all the relevant hotel information:
http://www.ancientphilosophysociety.org/?p=739
We look forward to seeing everyone at the conference.
Events: The fourth annual John Ackrill Memorial Lecture in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford, March 8, 2012
The fourth annual John Ackrill Memorial Lecture in Ancient Philosophy will take place at Brasenose College on the evening of Thursday 8th March 2012. Professor Gisela Striker, CBE, FBA will speak on ‘Two ways of deliberating – Aristotle and the Stoics’.
Professor Striker has recently retired from a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University. She taught philosophy at Göttingen from 1971-1986, then at Columbia University in the late 1980s, and at Harvard from 1989 until 1997. She taught at the University of Cambridge until 2000, when she returned to teaching at Harvard. She is interested in ancient philosophy, teaching Plato and Aristotle, as well as earlier and later Greek and Roman authors. She has written mostly on topics in Hellenistic philosophy and on Aristotelian logic.
Professor John Lloyd Ackrill, a leading figure in the study of Ancient Greek philosophy, joined Brasenose College in 1953 and became Professor of the History of Philosophy at Oxford in 1966. He published widely on Aristotle and Plato and, for over 40 years, he edited the Clarendon Aristotle Series, which are translations of Aristotelian texts accompanied by philosophical commentaries. The John Ackrill Memorial Lecture, inaugurated in 2009, is held in honour of the outstanding contribution he made to the study of ancient philosophy.
The lecture will take place at 5pm in Lecture Room XI at Brasenose College on Thursday 8th March (8th week), followed by drinks. For more information visit http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/288/about-brasenose-31/news-152/john-ackrill-memorial-lecture-in-ancient-philosophy-963.html
Events: Program for the Princeton Ancient Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, March 10, 2012
Princeton Ancient Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2012
Program
1st speaker/commentator: 1-2:30
Allison Glasscock: Models of Motivation: Challenges to Socratic Intellectualism in Plato’s Gorgias. Comments by Thomas Miller, Princeton University.
1st coffee break: 2:30-2:45
2nd speaker/commentator: 2:45-4:15
Ana Laura Edelhoff, Humboldt University: The Structure of Metaphysics M and N. Comments by Rosemary Twomey, CUNY University.
3rd speaker/commentator: 4:15-5:45
Willie Costello, University of Toronto: “That Which Completely and Purely Is”: Some Lessons from Plato’s Sophist. Comments by
Whitney Schwab, Princeton University.
2nd Coffee Break: 5:45-6:00
Keynote: 6:00-7:30
Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania: The Motivation for Plato’s Doctrine of Forms.
All of the proceedings will take place in Chancellor Green 105, Princeton University.
Source: http://philosophy.princeton.edu/images/documents/Events/gradconf-2012.pdf
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