For everyone waiting for the official 2011 APS program and information about the conference registration, we are finalizing the details of both this week. We had to wait for the Sundance Film Festival to end before we could finalize the cost of registration and the lodging information.
Keep your eyes on the blog at the end of the week for the program and registration information.
2011 Call for Papers (pdf)
The eleventh annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 14-17, 2011 at the Sundance Resort, Sundance, Utah, and hosted by Utah Valley University.
Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximum to be prepared for blind review.
Submission Deadline is: Monday 15 November 2010.
Inquiries and submissions should be directed to:
submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org
To ensure a fair and efficient review process, please carefully review and follow the APS Call for Papers 2011 Guidelines.
We are proud to announce that the two keynote speakers for the 2011 conference will be:
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished
Service Professor of Law and Ethics,
University of Chicago
Walter Brogan
Professor of Philosophy,
Villanova University
Jill Gordon, Sara Brill and I gathered after the keynote address given by Catherine Zuckert at this year’s Ancient Philosophy Society meeting at Michigan State to discuss the lecture entitled, “Two Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timeaus.”
Catherine Zuckert has recently published an extensive study of the dialogues entitled Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues with the University of Chicago Press. In that text, she offers a reading of the dialogues in accordance with the chronological order of the drama they articulate.
We also talked about the Ancient Philosophy Society in general and continued our ongoing discussion of the meaning and nature of Plato’s writing.
Digital Dialogue 33: Brill, Gordon and Long on Zuckert’s Keynote at APS 2010
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This year we made a much more concerted effort to document the events of the 2010 Ancient Philosophy Society in pictures. Here you will find a set of pictures of the 2010 Ancient Philosophy Society held at Michigan State this year. Here is a slideshow of some of our pictures:
Thank you to everyone who made the 2010 APS conference possible.
As we prepare to meet again in Michigan for the 10th year, I want to celebrate a milestone for the APS Facebook page: we have reached and surpassed the 300 fans mark. If you have not already, I invite members to join our facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/AncientPhilosophySociety
Encourage your friends on Facebook to become fans, or to “like” our page.
I would also like to invite you to listen to Ryan Drake and I talk about the paper I will give on Saturday at the conference. The paper is on the Protagoras and Ryan joined me on episode 31 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss some of the issues I will raise in that paper. Thanks, Ryan, for a great conversation.
Listen to episode 31 entitled Shame and Justice here.
To subscribe to the Digital Dialogue via iTunes, click here.
For more information, visit my Digital Dialogue blog and the page related to my project on Socratic Politics.
I hope everyone has a safe trip to East Lansing, and don’t forget, if you tweet, use the #APS10 hash tag!
I thought I would give everyone a few updates on things related to our digital community at the Ancient Philosophy Society as we begin to turn our attention to the upcoming conference at Michigan State.
First, I am very pleased to see that we have, as of this writing, 292 fans on the Ancient Philosophy Society Facebook page. I encourage all readers of this blog to join us on Facebook where not only posts from this blog appear, but also comments and posts from others writing on our wall can be found. I would love to see a more dynamic conversation both here and there on the Facebook page.
In order to facilitate that, I would like to propose that we use the following twitter hash tag for the 2010 conference: #APS10. You can follow my tweets about the conference at: http://www.twitter.com/cplong and I invite other members who use twitter to comment below with your twitter name and to use the #APS10 hash tag when you tweet something related to this year’s conference.
Also, I hope people will take pictures of the activities around the APS conference this year and post them on the Facebook page as well. Those of you with Flickr accounts can also use the APS10 tag for your pictures if you post them so we can begin creating a collection of photos for the Society.
Finally, if there are members of the APS who would be interested in co-authoring this blog with me, please contact me at admin@ancientphilosophysociety.org. I would love to see if we can generate some more content for this blog from members interested in posting things related to our work together on the ancient texts.
Those of you planning to attend the 10th Annual APS Conference at Michigan State, April 22-25, please be sure to register for the conference at the Philosophy Documentation Center Registration page prior to the March 25th early registration deadline.
The block of discounted rooms the APS has reserved at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center will expire on March 22nd.
The hotel is booked to capacity for that weekend aside from the rooms we have reserved for the conference, so if you intend to stay at the hotel, make sure you make your reservation by calling: 1-800-875-5090. Mention that you are with the “Ancient Philosophy Society.”
We look forward to seeing everyone in East Lansing in April!
The 2010 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will take place at Michigan State University, April 22-25.
Registration—at rates for APS members and non-members—includes the option of reserving copies of the advance proceedings ($25) and places at the annual banquet ($60). The Local Arrangements Committee urges all potential attendees to register in advance so amounts will be accurate for food and beverages, receptions, etc. Click here to register through the Philosophy Documentation Center.
The early registration deadline is March 25th, 2010.
Increased rates (+ $10 for individuals, + $5 for students) apply for late and on-site registrations. The conference venue will be available from 12:00 noon for on-site registration on the first day of the conference, Thursday 22 April. After 14 April, however, copies of the proceedings ($30) and reservations for the banquet ($75) cannot be guaranteed. For information about late availability, contact the Local Arrangements Committee.
The 2010 APS program is set and now available!
All conference sessions will take place in the Riverside Room of the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on the banks of the scenic Red Cedar River on the MSU campus. For the conference rate of $90/night, single or double occupancy (+13% tax), mention the “Ancient Philosophy Society” when you phone Kellogg Center toll-free 1-800-875-5090. Rates guaranteed through March 22, 2010.
The Kellogg Center offers free wi-fi throughout, including guest rooms, free parking, and a free shuttle service by reservation (make arrangements when reserving your room). The shuttle picks up/drops off at Lansing’s Capitol City Airport (LAN), the campus Amtrak station, and the East Lansing bus stop of the MichiganFlyer, which serves Detroit Metro Airport (DTW).
Because of a carrot and a stick, the Local Arrangements Committee urges you to make your reservations as early as possible. The carrot: what we pay for use of the Riverside Room, $0-$500, is proportionate to the number of room-nights booked, and the more we save on the meeting room, the more we’ll have available for complementary food and beverages. The stick: When the block of APS rooms is used up or the deadline passes, rooms revert to the undiscounted rate of $119-$189 per night.
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Michigan State University
55 South Harrison Avenue
East Lansing, MI 48824-1022
phone: (800) 875-5090 or (517) 432-4000
By air: East Lansing is served by Lansing’s Capitol City Airport (LAN), to/from which the Kellogg Center operates a free shuttle for hotel guests; and by the Detroit Metro Airport (DTW), from which one can take the MichiganFlyer (by reservation) to its East Lansing stop, where the free Kellogg Center shuttle picks up/drops off. Reserve the shuttle when making your hotel reservation.
By train: The East Lansing Amtrak station is located on the southwest corner of the Michigan State University campus and is served by the free Kellogg Center shuttle. Reserve the shuttle when making your hotel reservation.
Driving directions: The Kellogg Center, 55 South Harrison Avenue, where all the sessions of the conference will be held, is located on the northwest corner of Michigan State University. Complete directions for reaching the conference venue from all points, including links to a number of maps and more distant airports (from which one would rent a car), are available here. Covered parking adjacent to the hotel is free for Kellogg Center guests.
Local Taxi: Green Cab, (517) 643-1905. On the web: www.greencabcompany.net.
Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for the tenth annual independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. We were very happy to receive 79 submissions this year. We hope to be able to accept about 20 of them for the final program.
The program committee is now hard at work reading the submissions and the Society would like to thank them for their hard work. We take the blind review process seriously, so the members of the program committee will remain unnamed for now, but we will thank them publicly at the end of the process.
We hope to have the program set by the end of December so people have the chance make travel arrangements.
The Society would also like to thank Debra Nails and Corinne Painter in particular for the work they have done thus far to make our gathering at MSU a success.
Today marks one month until the deadline for submissions to the tenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 22-25, 2010 at the Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.
Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximmum to be prepared for blind review. Before sending your submission by email attachment, see the full call for papers instructions.
Submission deadline: Monday 2 November, 2009.
Decisions will be reported by the end of December. Inquireies and submissions should be directed to: