Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2018

October 24, 2017

Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2018—Aristotle on Phusis, Psuchê, and Anthrôpos
July 9-27th, Città di Castello, Italy
Directed by Sean D. Kirkland, DePaul University

The topic of the 2018 Collegium Phaenomenologicum will be the Thought of Aristotle. The Collegium will convene once again in Città di Castello, in Umbria, Italy, from July 9-27th. And this year participants will attend courses, hear lectures, and participate in text seminars on various texts in the Aristotelian corpus addressing the themes of phusis, psuchê, and anthrôpos. They will watch as the human being emerges in relation to (as an extension of or even perhaps in a certain opposition to) the way of being of natural beings in general. There will be a “Zôê-Drawing” course for participants with artist-in-residence Matthew Girson and weekend trips to Orvieto and Ravenna.

Please see the poster and visit the website (www.collegiumphaenomenologicum.org) for information on how to apply.

Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2018 Poster

APS

Ancient Philosophy Society Call for Papers 2018

September 7, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS: APS 2018 AT Emory UNIVERSITY

Ancient Philosophy Society

18^th Annual Independent Meeting

Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

April 26-April 29, 2018

Honoring the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society encourages submissions from a variety of interpretive perspectives. Phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, Tübingen School, hermeneutic, psychoanalytic, queer, feminist, and any other interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary works are welcome.

Please submit papers by e-mail attachment to APS2018@emory.edu. Deadline: November 22, 2017. The author’s name, institution, and references pertaining to the identity of the author must be omitted from the paper, notes, and bibliography. The e-mail accompanying the submission must include the author’s name, the title of the paper, address, telephone, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.

Papers must be written in English. Submission implies that the paper is entirely the author’s own unpublished work and that, where appropriate, the contributions of others are acknowledged.
Papers may not exceed 3,000 words (30 minutes’ reading time, max.), exclusive of footnotes and bibliography. Longer papers will not be forwarded to the Program Committee.
Because papers selected for presentation are collected and provided to meeting participants in a single Proceedings, please observe the following conventions: single-spacing, 1-inch margins on all sides, pages numbered, 12-point font for text, 10-point for footnotes.
Papers should be submitted in PDF.
Receipt of papers will be acknowledged by e-mail.
Only one submission per author will be considered.
No one may present a paper in consecutive years.

All papers are reviewed by an anonymous Program Committee selected by the Host and Executive Committee to represent the range of interpretive traditions. Decisions will be reached in January 2018, and authors will be notified by e-mail. You do not need to be a member of the society to submit a paper, but you must join the society to be on the program.

The APS values diversity in its membership as well as in its scholarly perspectives. We particularly invite submissions from members of groups underrepresented in philosophy, including women, people of color, LGBTQI individuals, and people with disabilities. The APS conference is wheelchair accessible.

In keeping with this commitment to diversity, the APS will award two prizes of $300 each:

The Diversity Prize:awarded to the best paper that is chosen for the program through the anonymous selection process written by a person from a group underrepresented in the discipline. Please self-identify in the body of your email when you submit your paper, saying, “I would like to be considered for the Diversity Prize after the program selection process.” Please keep your paper free of any identifying information.
The Emerging Scholar Prize:awarded to the best paper that is chosen for the program through the anonymous selection process written by a scholar who is either ABD or up to 3 years post Ph.D. Please self-identify in the body of your email when you submit your paper, saying, “I would like to be considered for the Emerging Scholar Prize after the program selection process.” Please keep your paper free of any identifying information.
Scholars may be considered for both prizes but can only be awarded one.

For current information about the meeting, as well as membership information, consult the APS website: www.ancientphilosophysociety.org.

Please direct all inquiries to APS2018@emory.edu.

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The Ancient Philosophy Society At SPEP

August 24, 2017

The Ancient Philosophy Society will have an upcoming session at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) hosted by the University of Memphis at the Sheraton Memphis, Downtown Memphis, TN, on Thursday October 19, 2017. Please do share with your colleagues and students, graduate and undergraduate. Please see below for details or go to: http://www.spep.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Program2017.pdf

Our invited speakers are Gabriel Richardson Lear, author of Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”, and Dmitri Nikulin, recently the author of The Concept of History, Memory: A History, and co-editor of Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity .

SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (SPEP)
Sheraton Memphis
Downtown Memphis, TN

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY (APS)

St. Louis
Thursday October 19, 2017
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Moderators:
Ryan Drake, Fairfield University
Emanuela Bianchi, New York University

“Thauma: Philosophical Passion in Plato’s Symposium” Gabriel Richardson Lear, University of Chicago

“Democracy and the Politics of Comedy” Dmitri Nikulin, New School for Social Research

Journals

Polis journal Announcement

June 23, 2017

Since 1978 Polis: the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought has published ground-breaking scholarship on classical Greek political thought, its history, and its later reception. The journal’s Editorial Board would like to inform the academic community about some important developments in the structure, coverage and organization of the journal.

First, as of 2018, Brill will increase the frequency of Polis from two issues to three issues annually. This will offer authors the opportunity to publish their work in a distinguished journal in a timely fashion; furthermore, the additional issue will allow Polis to publish more book reviews for a field of scholarship that has experienced a robust growth over the last few decades.

Second, Polis will broaden its research domain to include articles on all aspects of Hellenistic and Roman political thought and their subsequent reception. Recent decades of scholarship have demonstrated that the Greek polis and civic political thought, far from dying at Chaironeia, remained vibrant in the centuries after Alexander, both preserving traditional features and developing in new directions. Polis will now provide a forum for debate about citizenship and civic ideals across the Hellenistic world. The new scope of the journal will also encourage studies, not only of the Greek polis across its history, but also of the different political structures and theories of both the Hellenistic dynasties and the Roman civitas. The continuities and differences between all three forms of political institution offer fruitful opportunities for inquiry, both within each historical period, comparatively, and in relation to the reception of those institutions in subsequent historical periods. Our goal is to make Polis a preeminent source for theoretical, historical, and reception-orientated scholarship on both Greek and Roman political institutions and thinkers.

Third, in conjunction with these important developments, three new associate editors have joined the editorial board: Carol Atack will oversee submissions on Greek political thought, Benjamin Gray will oversee submissions on Hellenistic political thought, and Daniel Kapust will oversee submissions on Roman political thought.

Examples of Polis’ published scholarship can be found at the journal’s website (www.brill.com/agpt). The editorial board looks forward to publishing ground-breaking scholarship and book reviews not only on the polis, which gave birth to concepts such as democracy and tyranny, but also on the civitas, which both developed and offered novel alternatives of political organization to the polis. The scholarly field of Greek and Roman political thought has reached a level of sophistication and academic seriousness that calls for a journal commensurate with the academic promise of that field’s scholars. Polis takes these major editorial steps in order that it become the preeminent source of publication for this exciting and growing research domain.

Yours sincerely, with best wishes

Executive Editor of Polis

Kyriakos N. Demetriou (University of Cyprus)

Associate Editors

Carol Atack (University of Oxford)
Benjamin Gray (Birkbeck College, University of London, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Daniel Kapust (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Rosanna Lauriola (Randolph-Macon College)
Peter Liddel (University of Manchester)
Thornton C. Lockwood, Jr. (Quinnipiac University) (Book Reviews)

Books

Epicurus on the Self

June 7, 2017 Attila Németh

Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics, which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum, On Nature XXV. The aim of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Epicurus’ moral psychology, ethics and of its robust epistemological framework and to show how the notion of the self emerges in Epicurus’ struggle to express the individual perspective of oneself in the process of one’s holistic self-reflection as an individual psychophysical being.

Attila Németh is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, currently looking for an academic position.

“Németh’s book is an original and valuable contribution to our understanding of Epicureanism, exploring Epicurus’ notion of the self in a comprehensive manner, throwing light on its many different aspects: physical, psychological, epistemic, moral, and spiritual. To my knowledge, this is the only published study to undertake and successfully accomplish such a broad task.”

– Voula Tsouna, University of California at Santa Barbara

“This monograph represents a very significant body of independent work, re-evaluating in a constructive and supportive spirit some central areas of Epicurean philosophy – notably self-cognition, agent autonomy and friendship – and displaying probable interconnections among those areas that have remained unnoticed or at least under-exploited in the existing scholarship. This is a considerable achievement. …Chapter 1’s bold reconstruction, from very fragmentary textual material that is rarely made accessible to readers, of an Epicurean theory of self-cognition breaks a good deal of new ground; and the novel approach to Epicurean friendship in chapter 5 is both philosophically and historically attractive. …What this monograph offers is a major new set of perspectives on current debates, able to reshape, challenge and enrich future discussions.”

– David Sedley, University of Cambridge

“The topic is a good one and Németh makes some interesting and important new claims, bringing together discussions of Epicurean moral psychology, ethical improvement and moral responsibility in a way that shows the integrated and holistic nature of the Epicurean system. …Németh makes good use of difficult evidence from Nat. XXV, perhaps for the first time showing what can be done with it beyond the well-worn topic of moral responsibility. …Németh also has interesting and often novel things to say about some other central questions in Epicureanism, such as the atomic swerve.”

– James Warren, University of Cambridge

Available in the Issues in Ancient Philosophy series, Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Epicurus-on-the-Self/Nemeth/p/book/9781138633858

Conferences

Call for Papers: Hellenistic Philosophy Society

June 6, 2017

The Hellenistic Philosophy Society invites abstracts for papers to be presented at the group session of the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 28-April 1, 2018, in San Diego, CA. Abstracts are due by July 15, 2017. Presenters will be notified of selections by mid-August.

The HPS invites abstracts of 400-600 words. Please prepare abstracts for blind review, and submit them here: www.hellenisticphilsociety.org/meetings<http://www.hellenisticphilsociety.org/meetings>. More information about the HPS, including scope and membership, can be found on the website.

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Central APA Call for Papers

May 8, 2017

Ancient Philosophy Society member Adriel Trott is on the program committee for the 2018 meeting of the Central APA in Chicago and would like to encourage members of this society to submit their work. There will also be a panel with APS members Sean Kirkland (DePaul), Jeremy Bell (Georgia Southern) and Gina Zavota (Kent State) on Continental Engagements with Ancient Philosophy. Papers can be submitted at: http://www.apaonline.org/?papersubmission

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APS 2017 Program And Travel Information

February 22, 2017

The program for the 2017 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at Baylor University in Waco Texas is now available.
APS Final Schedule

The Ancient Philosophy Society is fast approaching. We are very much looking forward to the conference. Here is some basic travel information.

The conference hotel is the Waco Hilton. Most sessions will be held at the Hilton. Two evening sessions are on the Baylor Campus. Transportation will be provided to those events from the Hilton.

Here is the link to the hotel. You will need to make your reservations by April 5 to receive the conference rate.

There is a shuttle service from the airport to the Hilton and from the Hilton to the Airport. You can call this number to arrange pick up upon your arrival. 1-254-754-8484.

Uber is also available in Waco. Once you are in Waco, you will not need a car unless you plan on doing some sightseeing to surrounding areas.

The Waco Hilton is in the heart of downtown Waco. There are many restaurants and bars within walking distance. If you are a Fixer Upper fan, you’ll be happy to know that the famous Silos are also near by. The award winning Balcones Distillery is also very close to the Hilton. Also plan to take advantage of the lovely Cameron Park on the banks of the Brazos River, which has numerous hike and bike, trails throughout.

Here is a link to a variety of venues in the downtown area.

http://wacoheartoftexas.com/things-to-do/downtown-waco-cultural-district/

I am working on a more thorough list of options that I think will suit the APS.

The first session will start Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 9:00 AM and the conference will end after the Banquet on Saturday April 29, 2017. I suggest arriving Wednesday afternoon or evening. The conference rate is available that night as well.

There is an airport in Waco. American services it. The code is ACT. Particularly if you are flying on another airline besides American, it may be cheaper to fly into Dallas (DFW) or Austin (AUS). Both are about two hours from Waco. However, you will need to rent a car if flying into either Dallas or Austin.

If you are interested in trying to share a rental car from either Dallas or Austin, please contact Jared_Brandt@baylor.edu. He will try to put people in contact with each other.

April and early May is a lovely time to visit Texas and if your schedule allows, you might want to spend a couple of extra days looking at the wildflowers and exploring the surrounding areas. I will be gathering together some information about other destinations in the Central Texas Area.

You will need to join APS for the year and register for the conference and the banquet if you would like to attend the banquet. The registration for the event is at https://www.pdcnet.org/wp/services/2017-aps/