2017 – Memphis, TN

• Gabriel Richardson Lear, University of Chicago “Thauma: Philosophical Passion in Plato’s Symposium”
• Dmitri Nikulin, New School for Social Research “Democracy and the Politics of Comedy”

2016 – Salt Lake City, UT

• David Halperin, W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality University of Michigan “Love Against Sex”Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Cinzia Arruzza, New School for Social Research “The Demos and its Son: Tyranny and the Critique of Democracy in Plato’s Republic”

2015 – Atlanta, GA

• Michael Naas, DePaul University “Plato, Plotinus, and the Invention of Life”
• Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, University at Buffalo “Reflections on Tragedy for an Un-Tragic Age”

2014 – New Orleans, LA

• Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa “A Shimmering Socrates: Eros and Anxiety in Kierkegaard’s Platonic Authorship”
• Sara Brill, Fairfield University “Beyond Zōē and Bios: On the Concept of Shared Life in Aristotle’s Ethics”

2013 – Eugene, OR

• Marina McCoy, Boston College “Re-imagining the Platonic Imagination”
• Sean Kirkland, DePaul University “Aristotle on Temporality”

2012 – Rochester, NY

• Claudia Baracchi, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca “The Life and the Name: On Plato’s Timaeus,”
• Silvia Benso, Rochester Institute of Technology “Recovering Socrates’ Love of the World,”

2011 – Philadelphia, PA

• Jill Gordon, Colby College “Eros and Nostos in Plato’s Phaedo”
• Walter Brogan, Villanova University “Pathos and Logos: The Place of Virtue and Affect in Aristotle‟s Ontology of Human Being”

2010 – Montreal, Canada

• Francisco Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, “What’s in a Moment? Time for Aristotle (and Heidegger)”
• Marguerite Deslauriers, McGill University “Sexual Difference and Divine Being in Plato’s Statesman and Symposium”

2009 – Arlington, VA

• Dennis Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University, “Telling the Truth: Homer, Plato and Heidegger”
• Rose Cherubin, George Mason University, “Parmenides: Another Way”

2008 – Pittsburgh, PA

• John McCumber, UCLA, “Infinite Life vs. fundementum Inconcussum: Ennead II.7 (“On Time and Eternity”)”
• Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, “Socrates and Tyranny”

2007 – Chicago, Illinois

• Paul Woodruff, University of Texas, Austin, “Plato’s Work on Forms in Ethics”
• William McNeill, DePaul University, “In Force of Language: Language and Desire in Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Theta”

2006 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Alexander Nehamas , Princeton University, “‘Only in the Court of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living’ (Plato Symposium 211D)”
• Lawrence Hatab ,Old Dominion University, “Before Good and Evil: Tragic Values in Greek Poetry”

2005 – Salt Lake City, Utah

• Ruby Blondell, University of Washington, “Where is Sokrates on the ‘Ladder of Love’?”
• Peter Warnek, University of Oregon, “What, then, is up to us? Tragic nature in the eph’ hemin of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics“

2004 – Memphis, Tennessee

• Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College, “Ontological Differences: Being and Substance in Book 5 of the Metaphysics“
• Christopher Long, Pennsylvania State University, “Aristotle’s Phenomenology of Form: The Shape of Beings that Become“

2003 – Boston, Massachusetts

• Charles Griswold, “Erotic Fantasies: Plato on Reconciliation With Imperfection”
• Jill Gordon, Colby College, “Eros in the Timaeus, or Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places?”

2002 – Loyola University of Chicago

• Walter Brogan, Villanova University, “E-Motion and the Heart of Being: Plato’s Symposium“
• Ronna Burger, Tulane University, “The Psychology of Thymos“

2001 – Goucher College, Maryland

• Drew Hyland, Trinity College, “Against a Platonic ‘Theory of Forms'”
• Michael Nass, DePaul University, “Cyrus and Socrates: Parallel Lives of Virtue”

2000 – Pennsylvania State University

• Mitchell Miller, Vassar College, “Stages On Plato’s Longer Way”
• John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University, “Speaking of the Earth: Figures of Transport in Plato’s Phaedo”

1999 – University of Oregon

• Claudia Baracchi, New School University, “Psychomachia: The Revolution of Platonic Dialogue”
• Burt Hopkins, Seattle University, “Image and Original, The Dialectic of the Same and Other, and the Good in Plato’s Dialogues”
• David Roochnik, Boston University, “The Wonder of Self-Identity in Plato’s Theaetetus”