Category Archives: Conferences

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Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue CFP

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The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ (JIRD) is pleased to issue a call for submissions for its inaugural edition. The Journal is a forum for academic, political, and social discussions related to the unique experiences and interactions of different religious traditions. Students, faculty, and alumni from seminaries of all affiliations are welcome to submit an original article.

The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ seeks to increase interchanges between religious communities, starting with clergy and leaders in inter-religious work. Although it aims to become a vehicle for improving relations between groups, the Journal encourages those interested in submitting pieces not to shy away from controversial issues. Prospective authors should feel welcome to address these topics head-on, though in a respectful and informed way.

Click here for the Call for Papers (.doc).

APS, General Info

Happy New Year 2009

The Executive Committee wishes everyone associated with the Ancient Philosophy Society a very happy and productive new year.  This year we are looking forward to our ninth annual independent meeting hosted by Gary Scott and Loyola College in Maryland, April 23-26, 2009.

The program committee is hard at work reviewing all 78 submissions to this year’s conference and we look forward to having the program set by the middle of February.

To register for the conference online, click here.  The hotel for the conference will be the Crowne Plaza Baltimore North-Hunt Valley, 2004 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, MD 21093, 1 (800) 261-9168.  A block of rooms is saved under the name of the Ancient Philosophy Society.

Thanks to all who make this society the supportive and intellectually stimulating community it is.

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2009 Conference Online Registration Now Available

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The online registration page for the Ninth Annual Independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society to be held in Baltimore, Maryland and hosted by Gary Scott at the Loyola College in Maryland on April 23-26, 2009 is now available.

Please visit the our registration page hosted by the Philosophy Documentation Center at: http://www.pdcnet.org/2009-APS-Conference.html to register for the conference.

For more information about the 2009 conference, including information related to the Crowne Plaza Baltimore North-Hunt Valley hotel, please click here.

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2009 Conference Submissions

We are happy to report that we have again received an enormous number of submissions to the 9th Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society to be held this year at Loyola College in Maryland April 23-26, 2009.  This year have received over 75 submissions for a program that has traditionally accommodated about 14 papers (not including invited keynote speakers.)

Although we have historically held to a tradition of having only plenary sessions at our annual conference, due to the large number of submissions we have been receiving over the past few years, we are looking into the possibility of having a few concurrent sessions so we can accept more of the excellent work submitted.

Decisions about the program will be made by February 15th, 2009 and we hope to have the online conference registration page for this year up and running by the end of December 2008.

Thank you to all who took the time to submit a paper to the Ancient Philosophy Society and know that we are working to accept as many excellent papers as possible.

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2009 Call for Papers

Download the pdf of the 2009 Call for PapersThe Ninth Annual Independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held in Baltimore, Maryland at Loyola College in Maryland and take place at the Graduate Center Timonium Campus from April 23-26, 2009.

Papers on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited. Papers should be no more than 3000 words, 30 minutes reading time. Panel proposals will be considered, though they should be as complete as possible. Please prepare papers for blind review, with personal information on a cover sheet. Abstracts will not be considered.

Submission Deadline:
November 30, 2008

Inquiries and submissions (four paper copies plus one electronic copy, prepared for blind review) should be directed to:

Gary Scott
Department of Philosophy
Loyola College in Maryland
4501 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210

For electronic submissions or inquiries use only this email address:
submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org

The 2009 Call for Papers is available for download in pdf format, we encourage you to print and post it in locations where interested people might view it.

Conferences, SPEP

APS at SPEP 2008

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We are very pleased to announce that the annual session of the Ancient Philosophy Society at the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy will be held this year on Thursday, October 16th from 9am to noon at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Our speakers this year will be:

  • John McCumber, University of California at Los Angeles
    “Infinite Life vs. fundamentum Inconcussum: Ennead III.7 (“On Time and Eternity”)
  • Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan
    “Socrates and Tyranny”

If you will attend SPEP this year or live in the area, please plan to attend this session. The discussion is always lively and insightful.

The full SPEP program is available here.

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9th Annual Meeting at Loyola, Maryland

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Plans are coming together for our 9th Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society in the spring of 2009.  The conference will be hosted by Gary Scott of Loyola College in Maryland and take place at the Graduate Center Timonium Campus from April 23-26, 2009.

The hotel for the conference will be the Crowne Plaza Baltimore North-Hunt Valley, 2004 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, MD 21093, 1 (800) 261-9168.  A block of rooms is saved under the name of the Ancient Philosophy Society.  The group rate should be $119 per night with a maximum of two people per room.

The keynote speakers for the 2009 conference will be:

  • Dr. Dorothea Frede, University of California, Berkeley; University of Hamburg
  • Dr. Joanne Waugh, University of South Florida

More details about the conference will follow in the months to come.  Look too, for the Call for Papers for our 2009 meeting in the weeks to come.

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Year of Antigones Final Conference

The final conference of the “Year of Antigones” program sponsored by DePaul University will take place on May 15-17, 2008.  Click here for Year of Antigones Program.

According to the Year of Antingones website:

“The Year of Antigones is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, and community-wide series of events focused on the figure of Antigone, the tragic heroine of Sophocles’ play of the same name, and the various historical and contemporary appropriations of this figure. These events are organized by the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University, but will take place at various colleges, universities, theaters, performance spaces, and other venues throughout Chicagoland during the 2007-2008 academic year.”

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APS at the New School

We have just completed a very successful conference at the New School this year. The program is accessible in .pdf format here.  

The entire Society would like to thank the New School for its generous support and, in particular, Claudia Baracchi, for her excellent planning and tireless work to make this a stimulating, elegant and excellent conference.   She also had help from some excellent graduate students, including: David Craig, Daniel Restrepo, Christopher Roberts, Fanny Soderback, Meghan Robison, Naz Su Madenci and Jeffrey Golub.

Here is a picture of some of us at the Banquet on Saturday, April 12th. The photo is courtesy of Kalliopi Nikolopoulou of SUNY Buffalo. Thanks Kalliopi!

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Registration Reminder

If you plan to attend the Annual Meeting of the APS this April at the New School, please note that you have until March 27th, 2008 to register at the $75 rate for individual faculty members ($25 for faculty who are already members of the APS for 2008-09). 

After this date, registration will cost will cost individual faculty members $85 (or $35 for 2008-09 APS members) to register for the conference.

Please register here now!  It will help us with our planning and save you money too.