CALL FOR PROPOSALS
MIAMI UNIVERSITY (OXFORD, OH), HALL AUDITORIUM, GREEN ROOM
SATURDAY MARCH 14
Submit an abstract (150-200 words) to philosophy@miamioh.edu
Format: 15 minutes for presentation followed by a 30-minute discussion.
Deadline February 15
Edited by Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes
Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the “new materialisms”, which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human and dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things.
Antiquities beyond Humanism seeks to explode the presumed dichotomy between the ancient tradition and the twenty-first century “turn” by exploring the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human. Greek philosophy in particular is filled with metaphysical explanations of the cosmos grounded in observations of the natural world, while other areas of ancient humanistic inquiry – poetry, political theory, medicine – extend into the realms of plant, animal, and even stone life, continually throwing into question the ontological status of living and non-living beings. By casting the ancient non-human or more-than-human in a new light in relation to contemporary questions of gender, ecological networks and non-human communities, voice, eros, and the ethics and the politics of posthumanism, the volume demonstrates that encounters with ancient texts, experienced as both familiar and strange, can help forge new understandings of life, whether understood as physical, psychical, divine, or cosmic.
Contributors: Claudia Baracchi, Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, Adriana Cavarero, Rebecca Hill,Brooke Holmes, Miriam Leonard, Michael Naas, Ramona Naddaff, Mark Payne, James I. Porter, Kristin Sampson, Giulia Sissa
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/antiquities-beyond-humanism-9780198805670?cc=us&lang=en&#
The program for the 2019 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, hosted by Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, is now available.
Registration can be completed here.
Feminism & Classics VIII will take place May 21–24, 2020, in Winston-Salem, hosted by the Department of Classics and the Department of Philosophy of Wake Forest University. (A CFP will come later; abstracts for proposed papers and panels will be due around September 2019.)
The co-organizers, Professor Emily Austin and Professor T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, intend to form a Program Committee not of Wake Forest faculty but of scholars from a diversity of regions, institutions, disciplines, backgrounds, career stages, and theoretical approaches — and we would like YOU to take part!
The Program Committee will have the following responsibilities, in collaboration of course with the co-organizers:
* determine the conference theme, or decide not to have one (FemClas VII was “VISIONS”)
* draft the CFP
* evaluate, accept, and reject abstracts
* assemble sessions and the program more generally
* advise the co-organizers on keynote speakers, breakout sessions, * programming beyond the standard conference-paper format, and so forth
If you are interested in being a member of the FemClas ProgComm, apply by emailing THM at thmgg@wfu.edu<mailto:thmgg@wfu.edu> no later than February 1, 2019, with the following:
* an informal statement of interest (a paragraph or so)
* a current c.v.
* how you’d like your name and affiliation listed
* the best way(s) to contact you
We will acknowledge receipt of applications, and will get back to all applicants by February 15. Please pass the word on to anybody you know of who might be interested!
In response to the incidents of overt racism at the 2019 Society for Classical Studies meeting, reported in Inside Higher Ed and in Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta’s trenchant response, the Ancient Philosophy Society affirms and deepens its commitment, articulated in its statement on diversity, to creating a welcoming and supportive environment for scholars of color, and to fostering critical approaches to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity from a multiplicity of perspectives. We invite all our members and visitors to read Professor Padilla Peralta’s response, and to evaluate and work to transform in its light disciplinary practices at our home institutions (including in hiring, admissions, mentoring, and judgments about what constitutes serious and mainstream versus marginal scholarship), in our editorial and publishing activities, as well as at our scholarly meetings.
APS statement on diversity: 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.
For anyone attending the A.P.S. session at S.P.E.P. this year, S.P.E.P. is being held at Pennsylvania State during Parent’s Weekend. For this reason space in the area will be at a premium. You are strongly encouraged to make your reservations and accommodation arrangements as soon as possible.
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.
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
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