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