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Social Media and the #APS11

This year we would like to encourage those attending the 11th Annual gathering of the Ancient Philosophy Society to use our various social media resources to enhance the quality of our academic experience at the conference.

The idea will be to enrich our time together, expose our work to a wider community and crowd source artefacts that will serve as a lasting record of what is sure to be an excellent conference.

So, here is how you can prepare:

At the conference, we encourage you to:
  • Tweet about the event using the #APS11 hash tag.
  • Post comments and pictures to our Facebook page.
  • Post pictures of Flickr using the APS11 tag.
  • Blog about the event; Tweet and Facebook links to your posts.
  • Have fun and enjoy the conference.
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2011 APS Conference Information

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Panoramic of Mount Timpanogo

Mt. Timpanogos by CodyHatch @ Flickr via CC

We are all ready for our 11th Annual gathering April 13-17, 2011 at Sundance in Utah, hosted by Michael Shaw and all the good people at Utah Valley University.

Here you will find all the information related to the conference, which is set to be one of our biggest on record.

You may download, view and print a PDF version of the 2011 Ancient Philosophy Society Program here.

As always, you can register for the conference through the Ancient Philosophy Society Conference Registration page hosted by the Philosophy Documentation Center.  Register as soon as possible, but definitely before March 20th, 2011, after which a late registration will be assessed.

For lodging reservations at the Sundance Resort, please contact Tiffany Nez, the UVU Honors Program Coordinator at:

tiffany.nez@uvu.edu
801.863.6223
(Monday through Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm)

For more information about the Sundance Resort where the conference will be held, visit: www.sundanceresort.com.

For those participating in and following the event on Twitter and Flickr, we will use the #APS11 hash tag.  Follow us on Twitter @ancientphil and on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/AncientPhilosophySociety

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2011 APS Conference Program and Registration Coming Soon

For everyone waiting for the official 2011 APS program and information about the conference registration, we are finalizing the details of both this week. We had to wait for the Sundance Film Festival to end before we could finalize the cost of registration and the lodging information.

Keep your eyes on the blog at the end of the week for the program and registration information.

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Gonzalez and Deslauries to Speak at APS@SPEP

We at the Ancient Philosophy Society are very excited to have two excellent speakers joining us the annual SPEP meeting being held this year in Montreal.

Francisco Gonzalez of the University of Ottawa will be presenting “What’s in a Moment? Time for Aristotle (and Heidegger)” and Marguerite Deslauriers of McGill University will be speaking on “Sexual Difference and Divine Being in Plato’s Statesman and Symposium.”

Please join us on Thursday morning, 9am to noon, November 4th, 2010 in Maisonneve D at the Marriott Château Champlain Hotel.

Also, don’t forget, the deadline for the Call for Papers for the 2011 APS Conference at Sundance in April is November 15, 2010.

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2011 Call for Papers

2011 Call for Papers (pdf)

The eleventh annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 14-17, 2011 at the Sundance Resort, Sundance, Utah, and hosted by Utah Valley University.

Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximum to be prepared for blind review.

Submission Deadline is: Monday 15 November 2010.

Inquiries and submissions should be directed to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org

To ensure a fair and efficient review process, please carefully review and follow the APS Call for Papers 2011 Guidelines.

We are proud to announce that the two keynote speakers for the 2011 conference will be:

Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished
Service Professor of Law and Ethics,
University of Chicago

Walter Brogan
Professor of Philosophy,
Villanova University

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Gordon, Brill and Long Discuss Zuckert’s Keynote

Jill Gordon, Sara Brill and I gathered after the keynote address given by Catherine Zuckert at this year’s Ancient Philosophy Society meeting at Michigan State to discuss the lecture entitled, “Two Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timeaus.”

Catherine Zuckert has recently published an extensive study of the dialogues entitled Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues with the University of Chicago Press.  In that text, she offers a reading of the dialogues in accordance with the chronological order of the drama they articulate.

We also talked about the Ancient Philosophy Society in general and continued our ongoing discussion of the meaning and nature of Plato’s writing.

Digital Dialogue 33: Brill, Gordon and Long on Zuckert’s Keynote at APS 2010

To subscribe to the Digital Dialogue through iTunesU, click here.

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Pictures from the 2010 APS at Michigan State

This year we made a much more concerted effort to document the events of the 2010 Ancient Philosophy Society in pictures.  Here you will find a set of pictures of the 2010 Ancient Philosophy Society held at Michigan State this year.  Here is a slideshow of some of our pictures:

Thank you to everyone who made the 2010 APS conference possible.

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Facebook and Digital Dialogue

As we prepare to meet again in Michigan for the 10th year, I want to celebrate a milestone for the APS Facebook page: we have reached and surpassed the 300 fans mark.  If you have not already, I invite members to join our facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/AncientPhilosophySociety

Encourage your friends on Facebook to become fans, or to “like” our page.

I would also like to invite you to listen to Ryan Drake and I talk about the paper I will give on Saturday at the conference.  The paper is on the Protagoras and Ryan joined me on episode 31 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss some of the issues I will raise in that paper.  Thanks, Ryan, for a great conversation.

Listen to episode 31 entitled Shame and Justice here.

To subscribe to the Digital Dialogue via iTunes, click here.

For more information, visit my Digital Dialogue blog and the page related to my project on Socratic Politics.

I hope everyone has a safe trip to East Lansing, and don’t forget, if you tweet, use the #APS10 hash tag!

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APS Digital Community Update

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I thought I would give everyone a few updates on things related to our digital community at the Ancient Philosophy Society as we begin to turn our attention to the upcoming conference at Michigan State.

First, I am very pleased to see that we have, as of this writing, 292 fans on the Ancient Philosophy Society Facebook page. I encourage all readers of this blog to join us on Facebook where not only posts from this blog appear, but also comments and posts from others writing on our wall can be found.  I would love to see a more dynamic conversation both here and there on the Facebook page.

In order to facilitate that, I would like to propose that we use the following twitter hash tag for the 2010 conference: #APS10.  You can follow my tweets about the conference at: http://www.twitter.com/cplong and I invite other members who use twitter to comment below with your twitter name and to use the #APS10 hash tag when you tweet something related to this year’s conference.

Also, I hope people will take pictures of the activities around the APS conference this year and post them on the Facebook page as well.  Those of you with Flickr accounts can also use the APS10 tag for your pictures if you post them so we can begin creating a collection of photos for the Society.

Finally, if there are members of the APS who would be interested in co-authoring this blog with me, please contact me at admin@ancientphilosophysociety.org.  I would love to see if we can generate some more content for this blog from members interested in posting things related to our work together on the ancient texts.

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Early Registration and Hotel Reservation Deadlines

Those of you planning to attend the 10th Annual APS Conference at Michigan State, April 22-25, please be sure to register for the conference at the Philosophy Documentation Center Registration page prior to the March 25th early registration deadline.

The block of discounted rooms the APS has reserved at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center will expire on March 22nd.

The hotel is booked to capacity for that weekend aside from the rooms we have reserved for the conference, so if you intend to stay at the hotel, make sure you make your reservation by calling: 1-800-875-5090.  Mention that you are with the “Ancient Philosophy Society.”

We look forward to seeing everyone in East Lansing in April!