The Ancient Philosophy Society is holding a virtual seminar on Dorota Dutsch’s book Pythagorean Women Philosophers: Between Belief and Suspicion on Friday, January 29th. See the attached flier for further information. We look forward to seeing you there!
Conference Announcement
We are very much looking forward to hosting the Ancient Philosophy Society here in Chicago from April 2nd-5th, for its 2020 Annual Meeting. The program promises four days of stimulating talks.
A block of rooms has been reserved for April 1st-5th at the Hotel Lincoln, 1816 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614, 312.254.4700. There is a reduced conference rate of $169/night. To request the conference rate, ask for “DePaul University Ancient Philosophy Society” and do so on or before March 5th.
https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/CHIJL/G-ARTS
A more affordable option would be the Getaway Hostel, 616 W. Arlington Pl., Chicago, IL, 60614, 844.929.5380, which is an approximately 20 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride from the Hotel Lincoln, where most of the conference events will take place.
The registration fee for the conference is $75, with a reduced rate of $40 for students. This must be paid by all participants prior to attending the conference. Also, please do note that all conference participants are expected to have paid their annual APS dues for 2020.
And we encourage you to register for and attend the Saturday Night Banquet at the Alhambra Palace, 1240 W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60607. The banquet will include a two-hour open bar and a buffet dinner of sumptuous Mediterranean cuisine, with many vegetarian options. And it will feature, on the Alhambra stage, the celebratory panel, Twenty Years of the APS: Vital Themes and Questions, with papers by Jill Gordon, Drew Hyland, and Rob Metcalf.
The registration fee and the banquet fee, as well as APS annual dues, can be paid through the Philosophy Documentation Center, here:
If your paper has been accepted to the conference, you may be eligible for one or both of the following Ancient Philosophy Society prizes—the Emerging Scholar Prize and the Diversity Prize. Please contact us at APS2020@depaul.edu to self-nominate by February 1st, 2020.
Finally, we will be sending along a digital copy of the conference proceedings in the next week or so. Don’t hesitate to contact us if any questions or concerns arise. See you all in April!
Best regards,
APS 2020 Conference Hosts
Sean D. Kirkland, Will McNeill, and Michael Naas
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.