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2013 APS Call for Papers

APS 2013 Call for Papers

The thirteenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 4-7, 2013 at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.

Papers in English on any topic in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy are welcome.

There is a 3,000 word maximum for submissions, which should be prepared for blind review. Before submitting your paper by email, please see the full guidelines for submissions to the 13th annual conference in April 2013.

Submit papers by email to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org.

The deadline for submissions is:

Thursday, November 15, 2012.

We are proud to announce that the two keynote speakers for the 2013 conference will be:

G.R.F. (John) Ferrari
Department Chair, Professor of Classics
University of California, Berkeley

Mary P. Nichols
Professor of Political Science, Associate Director of the Graduate Program
Baylor University

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Program for 2012 APS in San Francisco

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The 2012 Ancient Philosophy Society program is now available.

Download the 2012 APS Program.

We look forward to our time together in San Francisco.  Please be sure to complete your registration by April 1, 2012, when the early registration rate will expire.

http://www.pdcnet.org/pages/Services/2012-APS-Conference.htm

If you still need to book a hotel, please visit the link below to all the relevant hotel information:

http://www.ancientphilosophysociety.org/?p=739

We look forward to seeing everyone at the conference.

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APS 2012 Conference Registration Open

Downtown Cityscape San Francisco by davidyuweb via Flickr

We are very excited to welcome everyone to San Francisco for the 12th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, April 19-22, 2012.

You are now invited to register for the conference by visiting our Conference Registration page with the Philosophy Documentation Center:

http://www.pdcnet.org/pages/Services/2012-APS-Conference.htm

Please note that early registration is open until April 1, 2012, at which point the registration fee increases by $20 for both faculty and graduate students.  So register early!

For information about hotels, you can visit the post on 2012 APS Hotel Information:

http://www.ancientphilosophysociety.org/?p=739

We look forward to an excellent conference.

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2012 APS Hotel Information

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California Street by Thomas Hawk via Flickr

Here is hotel information for the 2012 Ancient Philosophy Society meeting in San Francisco. More information about how conference registration will be forthcoming

The Laurel Inn
Reservation link:

https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=712467&hotelID=5612

Phone Number: (415) 567-8467
Address: 444 Presidio Avenue, San Francisco 94115.
Website: http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/laurel_inn
Specifics: “Boutique Hotel,” walking distance to USF (1 mile)

Rates:

  • Presidio King/Double offered at $179.99 per night.
  • City View King/Double at $179.99 per night.
  • Presidio King/Double Kitchenette offered at $188.00 per night.
  • City View King/Double Kitchenette offered at $197.00 per night.

Parking: $20 per day.

Hotel Kabuki
Reservation link:

https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=634738&hotelID=13098

Phone Number: (415) 922-3200
Address: 1625 Post St. San Francisco 94115
Website: http://www.jdvhotels.com/kabuki/
Specifics: “elegant Japanese style luxury hotel”; would likely need to take public transportation or drive to reach USF (1.7 mile)

Rates:

  • 2 Double beds offered at $165 per night.
  • King size bed offered at $165 per night.

Parking: $18 per night (no in/out privileges) or $35 valet.

Stanyan Park Hotel
Phone Number: (415) 751-1000. Must call to reserve. Our contact is Royisha.
Address: 750 Stanyan St. San Francisco 94117
Website: http://www.stanyanpark.com/
Specifics: Located across Golden Gate Park; Small Hotel; Includes Continental Breakfast; Walking distance to USF (0.6 miles); This hotel fills up very quickly.

Rates:

  • Superior Queen or Twin room offered at $155 per night
  • Deluxe Queen or Twin room offered at $177 per night
  • 1 bedroom suite offered at $275 per night
  • 1.5 bedroom suite offered at $300 per night
  • 2 bedroom suite offered at $330 per night

Suites include full kitchen, dining and living rooms.
Parking: Street or lot parking.

The Carl Hotel
Phone Number: (415) 661-5679. Must call to reserve.
Address: 198 Carl St, San Francisco 94117.
Website: http://carlhotel.ypguides.net/
Specifics: Very “basic” hotel; extremely affordable rates; walking distance to USF (0.8 miles)

Rates:

  • Twin bed offered at $78 per night.
  • Full bed offered at $86 per night.

Parking: Street or lot parking.

The Red Victorian
Phone Number: (415) 864-1978. Must call to reserve.
Address: 1665 Haight St. San Francisco 94117.
Website: http://www.redvic.com/
Specifics: for the more eclectic; located in the midst of the Haight-Ashbury district; close to USF (0.5 miles)

Rates:

  • Twin and Full beds offered at $99 per night.
  • Queen bed (with private bathroom) offered at $159 per night.
  • King bed with 2 twin beds offered at $189 per night.

Parking: Street or lot parking.

Monte Cristo Inn
Please note that the Monte Cristo was not able to offer us any special deals. They are a” Bed and Breakfast Hotel.”
Phone Number: (415) 931-1875. Can call or reserve online via their website.
Address: 600 Presidio Ave, San Francisco 94115
Website: http://bedandbreakfastsf.com/
Specifics: Bed and Breakfast; quaint rooms; distance to USF 0.9 miles.

Rates:

  • Petite Queen room offered at $165 per night.
  • Standard Queen room offered at $175 per night.
  • Lyon or Napoleon rooms offered at $225 per night.
  • Junior Suite offered at $255 per night.

Parking: Street or lot parking.

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APS at SPEP 2011 in Philadelphia

via CC licence by Scott Baldwin

Here is a friendly reminder that the APS will be meeting at SPEP in Philadelphia on Wednesday from 3pm to 6pm, October 19th at the Sheraton Society Hill.

Because our ability to continue hosting a satellite program at SPEP every year depends upon the number of people who come to the APS at SPEP session, it is critical that as many of our members and friends of the APS attend the Wednesday session.

This year SPEP celebrates its 50th anniversary in Philadelphia and the conference will begin on Wednesday, October 19th rather than on its usual Thursday in order to accommodate an extended program.

Speakers this year will be:

Jill Gordon
Charles Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College
“Eros and Nostos in the Phaedo”

Walter Brogan
Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University
“Pathos and Logos: The Place of Virtue and Affect in Aristotle’s Ontology of Human Being”

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Lucretius and Modernity Conference

Long time APS member, Emma Bianchi, who will be joining the Comparative Literature Department at NYU, called our attention to this conference on Lucretius and Modernity to be held there this October.

Here is the description:

The long shadow cast by Lucretius’s poem falls across the disciplines of philosophy, literary history and criticism, religious studies, classics, political philosophy… Over the past two decades, interest in De rerum natura in each of these fields has grown dramatically, in some cases as hidden Epicurean influences on well-known writers have come to light, in others when the decline of a school or of a particular orthodoxy has left room for a return to Lucretius, and to the Epicurean tradition more broadly—as with the eclipse of normative materialisms in philosophy and politics. Contemporary physics has found in the ancient atomist tradition a strange and evocative mirror; the place of Lucretius’s poetics in the development of modern poetic genres, techniques, and themes has come into sharp focus; political philosophers have identified what Althusser called a “subterranean current” in the materialist tradition, flowing from Epicurus through Spinoza and Marx and to Deleuze, propelled by Lucretius’s great poem.

“Lucretius and Modernity” is the first conference to bring together classicists, philosophers and literary critics from Europe and the United States interested centrally in the work of Lucretius and in the long history of his reception. Clustered about four topics—1. What is modern about Lucretius? 2. What is Lucretian about modernity? 3. How to do things with Lucretius: Physics, Politics, Poetics; and 4. Following Lucretius—the papers presented at “Lucretius and Modernity” will provide the occasion for a reflection across disciplinary borders on the poem’s continuing, growing importance.

For more information, visit the Lucretius and Modernity conference site on the Comp Lit website at NYU.

Given Stephen Greenblatt’s recent essay on Lucretius’s “On The Nature Of Things” in the New Yorker, it seems that Lucretius is in the air.

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2012 APS Call for Papers

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2012 APS CFP Poster

The twelfth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 19-22, 2012 at the University of San Francisco.

Papers in English on any topic in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy are welcome. In light of the vibrant political scene of the city of San Francisco, papers on the theme of the polis are particularly welcome.

There is a 3,000 word maximum for submissions, which should be prepared for blind review.  Before submitting your paper by email, please see the full guidelines for submissions to the 12th annual conference in April 2012.

Submit papers by email to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org.

The deadline for submissions is:

Tuesday, November 15, 2011.

We are proud to announce that the two keynote speakers for the 2012 conference will be:

Christof Rapp
Chair for Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munich

Andrea Nightingale
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Stanford University

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APS at SPEP 2011

via CC licence by Scott Baldwin

This year SPEP celebrates its 50th anniversary in Philadelphia.  The conference will begin on Wednesday, October 19th rather than on its usual Thursday in order to accommodate an extended program.

As a result, the Ancient Philosophy Society meeting at SPEP this year will be held from 3pm to 6pm on Wednesday, October 19th at the Sheraton Society Hill.

Speakers this year will be:

Jill Gordon
Charles Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College
“Eros and Nostos in the Phaedo”

Walter Brogan
Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University
“Pathos and Logos: The Place of Virtue and Affect in Aristotle’s Ontology of Human Being”

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The 11th Annual Ancient Philosophy Society Conference

Mt. Timpanogos during the APS11 Conference by cplong11 via Flickr

The 11th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at Sundance, Utah was a great success.  Thanks to the generous hosting institution, Utah Valley University, and to Michael Shaw and the UVU Honors program, the Ancient Philosophy Society gathered together for a full and philosophically rich five days in Utah’s Wasatch mountain range.

The APS Facebook page as a number of links to blog posts, images and other resources related to the conference, but I thought I would gather a few resources here as well.  I invite others who have written about or posted artifacts surrounding our 11th annual conference to link to those resources here in the comments section.

I have also embedded a slideshow with some of the pictures posted to Flickr of the event: