Bucharest Conference in Applied Ethics 2010: "Legislating Ethics"

We have just published the final draft of the BUCHAREST CONFERENCE IN APPLIED ETHICS 2010 agenda: http://www.bcae.ro/2010_agenda.php

OCTOBER 29, 2010 - FRIDAY
Opening Session
Constantin Radulescu-Motru Amphitheater, 1st Floor
Chairman: Emanuel Socaciu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest)
10.00.-10.30. | Morality, Legality, and Security. An Analysis of Pervasive Technologies
Ion Vezeanu (Grenoble University)
10.30.-10.45. | Discussions
10.45.-11.15. | Why Law Experts Do Not Love Us?
Valentin Muresan (University of Bucharest)
11.15.-11.30. | Discussions
11.30.-12.00. | Legislating Ethics for Judges and Prosecutors
Ion Copoeru (Babes-Bolyai University) & Cristi Danilet (Oradea Court Law)
12.00.-12.15. | Discussions
12.15.-12.30. | Coffee Break
Roundtable
Do We Need Moral Evaluations in Adopting Laws?
12.30.-14.00.
Protocol Room, 1st Floor
Chairman: Valentin Muresan (University of Bucharest)
14.00.-16.00. | Lunch Break
Panel 1
Constantin Radulescu-Motru Amphitheater, 1st Floor
Chairman: Cristian Ducu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest)
16.00.-16.20. | Social Responsibility between Ethics and Law
Mihaela Frunza (Babes-Bolyai University)
16.20.-16.30. | Discussions
16.30.-16.50. | Freedom vs. Imposing: how far we legislate?
Emanuel Socaciu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest)
16.50.-17.00. | Discussions
17.00.-17.20. | “Ethical Expertise and Social Action” – or how Research Ethics Committees Do (Not) Work in Romania
Mihaela Frunză, Iulia Grad, Cătălin Bobb, Ovidiu Grad, Lorin Ghiman (Babes-Bolyai University)
17.20.-17.30. | Discussions
17.30.-17.50. | A Kantian Model of Applying the Moral Law
Daniel Nica (University of Bucharest)
17.50.-18.00. | Discussions

OCTOBER 30, 2010 - SATURDAY
Panel 2
Mircea Florian Amphitheater, 1st Floor
Chairman: Cristian Ducu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest)
09.30.-09.50. | Specific Conditions of Legal Normativity in Environment Ethics
Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest)
09.50.-10.00. | Discussions
10.00.-10.20. | The Complex Task of Ethical Regulation in Business
Imre Zrinyi Ungvari (Babes-Bolyai University)
10.20.-10.30. | Discussions
10.30.-10.50. | The Ethics of Research and the Shortcomings of the Peer Review System
Maria Cernat (Spiru Haret University)
10.50.-11.00. | Discussions
11.00.-11.20. | Does Public Interest Transcend the interest of the public?
Sonia Cristina Stan (Spiru Haret University)
11.20.-11.30. | Discussions
11.30.-11.50. | Coffee Break
Panel 3
Mircea Florian Amphitheater, 1st Floor
Chairman: Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest)
11.50.-12.10. | The Effectiveness of University Codes of Ethics in Romania. A Disregarded Issue
Cristian Ducu, Georgiana Ciobanu, Raluca Enescu (University of Bucharest)
12.10.-12.20. | Discussions
12.20.-12.40. | Can Ethical Norms Make the Difference in Romanian Hospitals?
Cristian Ducu, Iulia Anghel, Gabriela Ionascu, Oana Radu (University of Bucharest)
12.40.-12.50. | Discussions
12.50.-14.00. | Lunch Break
Panel 4
Mircea Florian Amphitheater, 1st Floor
Chairman: Maria Cernat (Spiru Haret University)
14.00.-14.20. | Ethical Aspects of International Standards concerning Corporate Social Responsibility
Mihaela Constantinescu (University of Bucharest)
14.20.-14.30. | Discussions
14.30.-14.50. | Ethics Regulations as Obstacle in Scientific Research and Technology Innovation
Emanoel Roman (University of Bucharest)
14.50.-15.00. | Discussions
15.00.-15.20. | Ethics Training for Ethical Adjudicators
Diana Constantinescu (University of Bucharest)
15.20.-15.30. | Discussions
15.30.-15.45. | Coffee Break
15.45.-16.05. | Malpratice, Legalism, and Wittgenstein
Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest)
16.05.-16.15. | Discussions
16.15.-16.35. | A Key Factor in Implementing Ethics
Ana Bazac (Politehnica University of Bucharest)
16.35.-16.45. | Discussions

Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation, and Cultural Capital

CALL FOR PAPERS

Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation,
and Cultural Capital

The Graduate Students of George Mason University invite paper proposals
for our 4th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. The Conference will
take place on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia.

This conference considers practices, institutions, and products that
promise happiness, in a sense of inducing “the good life,” typically
expressed as self-realization or finding one’s purpose—borrowing
Agamben’s term, subjective technologies that have a specific
relationship to social and political forces. How do practices designed
or claimed for such diverse purposes as personal stress management,
recovering from colonization, parenting, global conglomeration, and
corporate development work? What kinds of transformations do they
bring, in terms of personality, power, and communitas? And what becomes
of the living cultural traditions from which these practices are
abstracted, as in the care of the psychotherapeutic practice of
“western Buddhism,” which Zizek claims is the “hegemonic ideology par
excellance of late capitalism?” From the transmission of packaged
idealisms and practices with a putative relationship to traditional
sources to the commodified transactions for services and goods, the
conference organizers seeks papers that investigate the growing cultural
industries, both global and local, devoted to manufacturing happiness.

The wide-ranging contexts for our investigation include, but are not
limited to: the social positions within the family, home, workplace,
community, or nation-state; geographical and global considerations of
institutional development and affiliation; the political economy of
corporate training models; cultural capital and legitimation; media and
mediation (print, television, DVD, Internet, radio, etc.); religious
connections and origins; the confirmation and construction of
identities (gender, physical, class, spiritual, national, sexual, and
race) in social or political realms; and the rise and intensity of
ecological subjectivities.

Examples:
• Integral Institute, Integral Naked, and Ken Wilber
• est Training
• Shambhala Training
• Eckhardt Tolle and Oprah’s Book Club
• Weight loss and Constructing Beauty
• The “Human Potential” Movement
• The Zen Alarm Clock
• The Secret
• Hollywood Kabballah Centre
• Transpersonal Psychology
• The “Self-Help” Industry
• Magazines such as What Is Enlightenment?

Please e-mail a 500-word abstract of your presentation along with a
short CV to Michael Lecker (mlecker@gmu.edu) no later than June 15,
2009.

IX Symposium Platonicum

IX Symposium Platonicum in Tokyo in 2010

(1) General information
The IX Symposium Platonicum will be held at the Mita Campus of Keio
University (2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo). Please note that the IPS
Tokyo office is located at another campus, i.e. Notomi’s Office in Hiyoshi
Campus, while the Mita Campus is in central Tokyo. The dates are 2-7
August, 2010. The registration and hotel booking will start in mid
January 2010, about which the information will be circulated late this
year.
The topic of the Symposium is the “Republic”, and the program will follow
the custom of the past symposia; the sessions are held from the afternoon
of Monday to the morning of Saturday, with one afternoon for excursion (a
Tokyo City Trip). The General Assembly will be held on one late afternoon
(probably Thursday). The TOC is inviting, as guest speakers, Mario
Vegetti (Pavia), Gerald Boter (Amsterdam), and Myles Burnyeat (Cambridge).

(2) Call for papers
The deadlines and other conditions for the submission of abstracts of
proposed papers were fixed at the mid-term meeting of the Executive
Committee.
Submissions are received between 14 September, Monday, and 16 October,
Friday. Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length
(including bibliography, if any); applicants should indicate preference
between the “shorter” paper (presentation of 20 minutes) for the
“Parallel” session and the “longer” paper (of 40 minutes) for the
“Plenary/Panel” sessions. The Executive Committee will establish two
Panels on the general topics of the “Republic”, for which three papers for
each (total six) are selected out of the “longer papers”.
Judging from the previous symposia, a larger number of papers may be
submitted than we can accommodate. In that case, the evaluation by the
Executive Committee will become crucial, so we advise all applicants to
write abstracts clearly and carefully.
The privilege of submitting papers is confined to paid-up members of the
Society: each member can submit one abstract, written in any of the five
official languages. The author’s information (contact address, e-mail
address, fax, and affiliation) should be attached to the abstract (not
included in the word limit).
The abstract can be submitted through the “IPS 2010” conference website
(to start in summer; it will be indicated on the site how to submit the
file), or sent to the following e-mail address / fax / postal address of
the IPS Tokyo Office at Keio.
Website: http://phil.flet.keio.ac.jp/ips2010/
E-mail: ips2010@phil.flet.keio.ac.jp
Fax: +81-(0)45-566-1102 (addressed to Notomi at Keio University)
Postal Address: IPS Tokyo Organizing Committee,c/o Noburu Notomi, Faculty
of Letters, Keio University, 4-1-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama,
223-8521, Japan

We will acknowledge the receipt by e-mail or surface mail (the latter only
for those who do not use e-mail), so if you do not receive any response
over a week, please contact the TOC (ips2010@phil.flet.keio.ac.jp /
notomi@z8.keio.jp).

All papers will be evaluated by the Executive Committee in the last two
months of 2009, and notifications will be sent out early in January 2010.
Those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation are next requested to
submit enlarged abstracts in two languages (e.g. German & English, Italian
& French) by mid April. Full papers should be sent to the TOC by June
2010, to be posted on the website in the “pdf” file for “download”.

(3) Election of new Regional Representatives, and choice of venue for the
2016 Symposium
Two members of the committee, François Renaud (representing North
America) and Álvaro Vallejo Campos (one of the two members
representing Europe) are due to retire in 2010, and must be replaced. The
other regional representatives will be re-elected automatically unless
other candidates are nominated. The election will be held at the General
Assembly in the Tokyo Symposium, and nominations, signed by at least two
members in good standing, may be sent to the TOC by the end of June 2010.
Proposals are also invited for a venue for the meeting of 2016, after the
X Symposium Platonicum in Pisa in 2013. Statements of willingness to host
such a meeting should be submitted to the TOC with the details of the
venue proposed and the expected degree of support, by the end of March
2010. The proposal(s) will be circulated well in advance, and the venue
will be decided, in accordance with the Statutes, by a vote of the members
present at the General Assembly.

First Annual Dutch Conference in Practical Philosophy, 2-3 Oct 09

The Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy (Onderzoekschool Ethiek) is pleased to announce the first Annual Dutch Conference in Practical Philosophy, which will be held on 2-3 October in conference centre Zonheuvel, in Doorn, the Netherlands.

Link: http://www.ozse.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=1

Cicero rewriting Plato: three exploratory seminars

The Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition (http://www.dur.ac.uk/classical.tradition/) is in the early stage of developing a research project tentatively entitled ŒCiceroniani sumus: the influence of Cicero on the cultural imaginary of the West¹. A central theme here is Cicero¹s role in mediating and transforming Greek philosophy, not least through his translations and adaptations of Plato. As a first sounding of this territory, the Centre will sponsor three exploratory seminars in Epiphany term 2009 that will look at Cicero¹s engagement with Plato in the de Republica:

Seminar 1: Cicero, de Republica 1.65-67 ~ Plato, Politeia 8. 562c - 563c.

Seminar 2: Cicero, de Republica 3.27 ~ Plato, Politeia 2.360e - 362b.

Seminar 3: Cicero, de Republica 6.26-29 ~ Plato, Phaidros 245cff.

The seminars are open to all. Indeed, an analysis of Cicero¹s reception of Plato should ideally draw on expertise in an unusually wide range of areas within the field: ancient Greek, Greek philosophy, Latin, Roman history, and political theory, among others. The seminars are designed to bring together experts in all of these areas, in what we hope will be a mutually illuminating conversation. We shall work with the original texts, but also translations, and, even though we shall be discussing points arising from the Greek and the Latin, there is no expectation that participants have these languages.

Dates and times:

Seminar 1: Friday, 6 February, 1 - 2.30 pm
Seminar 2: Friday, 27 February, 1 - 2.30 pm
Seminar 3: Friday, 13 March, 1 - 2.30 pm


If you are interested in joining, please contact either Louise Hodgson
(l.l.hodgson@durham.ac.uk) or Ingo Gildenhard (ingo.gildenhard@dur.ac.uk).

We shall distribute readings (original texts, translations, commentaries) to all participants early next week.

Louise Hodgson
Ingo Gildenhard

CONF: Neo-Platonism and Its Legacy

Call for Abstracts

2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
April 24th and 25th 2009

NEO-PLATONISM AND ITSCLEGACY

Keynote Speakers
John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin
Stephen Gersh, University of Notre Dame
Wayne Hankey, Dalhousie University

The MA Philosophy Program at Franciscan University of Steubenville invites all scholars

working in the area of Neo-Platonism to submit abstracts on any topic relevant to the

theme of the conference. This includes especially the Medieval, or Renaissance periods,

but can be the Modern or Contemporary periods as well. Graduate students are welcome

to submit proposals. Abstracts should not exceed one page and must be received by email
or hard copy by March 24th 2009. Finished papers should not exceed 25 minutes reading
time. Proceedings of the conference will be published in Fides Quaerens Intellectum.
Conference and meal fees, including lunches, dinner and closing banquet are waived for
all those presenting papers. Submissions should be sent to:

Dr. Mark Roberts
Director, MA Philosophy Program
Franciscan University of Steubenville
1235 University Blvd.
Steubenville, OH 43952
Email: mroberts@franciscan.edu

CONF: Teleology in the Ancient World. The Dispensation of Nature

Venue: The University of Exeter, 8-11 July 2009

Organisers: Dr. Julius Rocca and Prof. Christopher Gill

An international conference which will discuss the ways teleological arguments were used in medicine and philosophy in antiquity, and how these arguments have continued to inform and influence current debate on evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. As well as examining philosophical contributions to the subject, ranging from Platonism to Stoicism, a special aim of the conference is to show how ancient medical thinking on this topic relates to ancient philosophical ideas. Examining teleological methodologies in ancient medical thought from Hippocrates to Galen will offer a critical evaluation on the place of teleology within medical science, its cultural contexts, its account of human development, and teleological responses to competing explanatory theories of human structure and function.

Keynote speaker Professor David Sedley, University of Cambridge, “Socrates’ place in the history of teleology.”

Other speakers include: Elizabeth Craik, University of St. Andrews; John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin; Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge; R. J. Hankinson, The University of Texas at Austin; M.R. Johnson, University of California, San Diego; Mariska Leunissen, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; Jan Opsomer, University of Cologne; Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University; Samuel Scolnicov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; R.W. Sharples, University College London; Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia; Philip van der Eijk, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

For further information, including accommodation and conference booking, please contact:

Dr Julius Rocca or Professor Chris Gill,

Department of Classics and Ancient History,

University of Exeter,

Amory Building,

Rennes Drive,

Exeter, EX4 4RJ,

UK

J.S.C.Rocca@exeter.ac.uk

C.J.Gill@exeter.ac.uk

Colloque international, Université de Nancy 2: "Expertus sum : l’expérience par les sens en philosophie naturelle médiévale"

Date et lieu

Du jeudi 5 février 2009 à 9h00 au samedi 7 février à 13h, à l’Université Nancy 2, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 3 place Godefroid de Bouillon, 54000 Nancy, France.

Organisation et Contacts

• Atelier Vincent de Beauvais, Encyclopédisme et transmission des connaissances (UMR 7002 Moyen Age) : Isabelle Draelants isabelle.draelants@univ-nancy2.fr
• Laboratoire d’histoire des sciences et de Philosophie, Archives Henri Poincaré, (UMR 7117) : Thomas Bénatouïl thomas.benatouil@univ-nancy2.fr

Thématique

La thématique de l’expérience sera abordée sous les aspects de la théorie de la connaissance, des liens entre experientia et auctoritas, de la formulation de l’expérience dans les textes et du genre littéraire consacré à l’expérience. On envisage d’examiner les questions suivantes :

Comment l’expérience par les sens est-elle considérée par les philosophi naturales par rapport à la rationalité ?

Importance de la transmission des connaissances dans l’évolution de la notion d’expérience.

Influence des textes traduits du grec, de l’arabe et de l’hébreu sur l’émergence de l’expérience et les mutations consécutives des classifications des sciences.

Parts respectives de l’auctoritas livresque et de l’expérience par les sens dans les ouvrages de philosophie naturelle. Signification des expressions expertus sum, cum expertum fuerit, experimentator, etc., dans les textes philosophiques (commentaires, compilations didactiques, questions disputées, etc.).

Théories de la forme spécifique, de la forme substantielle, des qualités naturelles, etc. : la philosophie de la nature face à l’expérience.

Naissance du genre des experimenta – leur place dans les domaines de la médecine, de la pharmacopée, de l’alchimie, de l’astrologie, de la physiognomonie et en général dans les sciences naturelles. Avec une attention particulière pour l’évolution des disciplines savantes suite à l’émergence de la magie.

Limites chronologiques et principe d’organisation

La période d’assimilation des connaissances qui accompagne ou succède à la traduction des textes greco- et arabo-latins (12e-14e s., avec prolongements éventuels), mais en tenant compte de la transmission des savoirs depuis l’Antiquité.

C’est la raison pour laquelle l’organisation du colloque prévoit non seulement l’intervention de médiévistes comme orateurs, mais aussi de spécialistes de l’Antiquité comme « discutants » pour chacune des « sessions » du colloque.

More details on Calenda

Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy

"Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy", international conference to be held in 2009 at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham.

Keynote speaker: Rev. Brian Davies, O.P.

Official website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmrs/conferences/anselm2009/
Blog: http://anselm2009.blogspot.com/

The Virtues and the Formation of the Feminine Moral Subject: 1250-1550

As part of the 7th ANZAMEMS Conference to be held 2-6 December 2008 at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, we propose to hold a symposium, with several sessions, devoted to the construction of women as virtuous agents in texts written by and for them during the period 1250-1550 This symposium will explore the construction of women as virtuous agents in texts written by and for them during this period. This was time during which there were great political upheavals and setbacks for women, such as their exclusion from the succession in France but which also spawned the Reformation and /querelle des femmes/, and produced a number of significant texts which demonstrate women’s effective moral didacticism.

Our focus will be on works dedicated to women or written for their edification, such as devotional texts and manuals for princesses, as well as ethical and didactic works written by women such as Marguerite Porete, Christine de Pizan, Laura Cereta, Vitoria Colonna, Gabrielle Bourbon, Marguerite of Navarre, etc. Writing during a period when contemplative spirituality vied with more classical representations of active virtue, and against the background of Aristotelian and biblical representations of women as defective males and as particularly susceptible to vice, the above women adopted various strategies of self-authorization. We are particularly interested in exploring the continuities and discontinuities between women’s texts, and in women’s understanding of the good life for women and men, as well as the differences, if any, between female and male authored texts. We also invite the discussion of Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian and monastic conceptions of virtue in women’s self-representation as
virtuous subjects.

Could those interested in contributing to this stream indicate their interest as soon as possible and no later than 1st July 2008 to Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au. A 500 word abstract will be required by 20th August 2008.

A published volume on the topic is proposed. Contributors who are unable to attend the Hobart Conference, but would like to contribute a paper to the volume are invited to submit papers for consideration by December 15th 2008.

Convenors: Janice Pinder, Constant Mews and Karen Green.

Platonic Colloquia, IX (2008), Phaedrus

The conference will take place in the Kłodzka Valley in OCTOBER 2008. The papers should be submitted in one of the following languages: English, German, Polish. They will be qualified the ground of the abstracts. Papers written in Polish should be accompanied by the abstract translated into another language, preferably English. The texts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The abstracts should be sent no later than 30th April 2008. All participants will be notified by mail and e-mail before 31th May 2008. The registration fee is 350 PLN (about 80€).

The abstracts please send to:
Dr. Artur Pacewicz
University of Wroclaw
Institute of Philosophy
ul. Koszarowa 3
51-149 Wrocław
art_pac@wp.pl

Oxford Plutarch Conference

Oxford Plutarch Conference
14-15 July 2008

Plutarch and Philosophy- scholarship and/or dilettantism?


Plutarch quite possibly would have wanted to be remembered as a
philosopher or teacher of philosophy. Yet it is his monumental Lives of
Greek and Roman statesmen that, for the most part, have lent him a
standing reputation through the centuries. Plutarch’s philosophical side
remained more or less in the shadow of his moralist biographies partly, it
seems, because of its dilettante and popularised appearance and partly
because of its sometimes mystical obscurity. Fortunately, this no longer
seems to be the case: in the last few decades there has been a growing
interest in, and appreciation of, Plutarch as a philosopher-scholar. The
conference on ‘Plutarch and Philosophy’ seeks to appraise the changing
tide in the approaches to Plutarch’s philosophical activity and move the
debate forward, by bringing together international scholars with expertise
on different aspects of Plutarch’s oeuvre.

Keynote Address: Professor Donald Russell (Emeritus Professor, University
of Oxford)

Speakers: Prof. Keimpe Algra (Utrecht), Dr Mauro Bonazzi (Milan), Prof.
Frederick Brenk (Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome), Prof. John Dillon
(Trinity College Dublin), Prof. Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp (Bonn), Prof. Judith
Mossman (Nottingham), Prof. Jan Opsomer (Cologne), Prof. Chris Pelling
(Oxford), Prof. Aurelio Pérez Jiménez (Málaga), Prof. Luc van der Stockt
(Leuven), Prof. Frances Titchener (Utah State University), Dr James Warren
(Cambridge)

Conference Organiser: Dr Eleni Kechagia (Keble College, Oxford)

Venue: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles,
Oxford

STUDENT BURSARIES AVAILABLE

DEADLINE FOR BOOKINGS: 10 JUNE 2008

The Conference is funded by: the John Fell OUP Fund, the Hellenic Society,
the Classical Association and the Faculty of Classics, University of
Oxford.

'Truth and Faith in Ethics' Conference

An International Moral Philosophy Conference—Truth and Faith in Ethics—will be presented in Sydney in June 2008 (24th-27th). The event is presented by the University of Notre Dame Australia, with support from the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

Theme

Anti-consequentialist thinking unites many philosophers with faith to many philosophers without it. Many Christian and non-Christian ethicists today share common concerns (eudaimonism, virtue ethics, deontological prohibitions, tradition and community, natural law and rights, human dignity…). The aim of this Conference is to bring together moral philosophers with overlapping interests working in Catholic and non-Catholic contexts. The Conference will explore such questions as:

“Is mainstream moral philosophy growing closer to Catholic moral tradition or further away?”
“What can Christian ethics learn from secular ethics, and vice versa?”
“What difference, if any, has faith made to ethical debate and practice?”

Speakers

John Finnis (University of Oxford)
Julia Annas (University of Arizona)
John Haldane (University of St. Andrews)
Raimond Gaita (University of London, Australian Catholic University)
Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham)
Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Jude Dougherty (Catholic University of America)
Peter Coghlan (Australian Catholic University)
Christopher Cordner (University of Melbourne)
Edward Spence (Charles Sturt University)
Robert George (Princeton University)
Hayden Ramsay (University of Notre Dame Australia)

URL: http://www.nd.edu.au/sydney/philosophyconference/

Journée d’études "LA RATIONALITÉ DE PLOTIN"

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
UPR 76 — CENTRE JEAN PÉPIN
Journée d’études
LA RATIONALITÉ DE PLOTIN
Vendredi 14 décembre 2007

Matinée
9 h Accueil avec une tasse de café
9 h 30 Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, Wilfried Kühn : Ouverture
Présidence : Michel Narcy
10 h - 11 h 15 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Rome)
« Essentialisme et idéalisme : Plotin, Aristote, Alexandre d’Aphrodise ».
11 h 15 - 12 h 30 Isabel Koch (Aix en Provence)
« Plotin critique de la phantasia stoïcienne ».

Après-midi
Présidence : Pierre Thillet
14 h 30 - 15 h 45 Pavlos Kalligas (Athènes)
« Logos as a principle of rationality in Plotinus ».
Pause café
16 h 15 - 17 h 30 Denis O’Brien (Paris)
« Plotin : rationnel ou irrationnel ? »

Une discussion est prévue après chacune des conférences.
La journée d’études aura lieu au Campus CNRS, Bâtiment D, 7 rue Guy-Môquet, Villejuif, Métro Paul-Vaillant Couturier. Renseignements au 01 40 38 25 05 (Wilfried Kühn)

Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

It is very interesting to see that the last four and the current "Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy" are all about Plato:

13th Annual Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy - Plato's "Republic" (2008)
12th Annual Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy - Plato and Socrates on the Nature and Teaching of Virtue (2007)
11th Annual Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy - Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric, and Therapy. (2006)
10th Annual Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy - The Socratic Legacy (2005)
9th Annual Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy - Plato on Method and Plato's Methods (2004)

I am very curious to find out the reason for such orientation. Are they engaged in a long-term project on Plato's work? If you do have information about this issue, please share it with us using the comments section.

The Thirteenth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Plato's Republic

The Thirteenth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Plato's Republic
February 15-17, 2008
University of Arizona, Tucson

This coming year the Arizona Colloquium will focus on one text: Plato's Republic. Speakers will include Julia Annas, Rachana Kamtekar, Malcolm Schofield, Hugh Benson, James Lesher, Constance Meinwald, Carl Huffman, Zena Hitz, Nicholas Smith, Rachel Singpurwalla, Jessica Moss, C.D.C. Reeve, Jonathan Lear, Mark McPherran, Michael Morgan, and Rachel Barney.

Url: http://phil. web.arizona. edu/events/ ancientphilo. htm