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10th Annual APS Conference

The 2010 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will take place at Michigan State University, April 22-25.

Advance Registration

Registration—at rates for APS members and non-members—includes the option of reserving copies of the advance proceedings ($25) and places at the annual banquet ($60).  The Local Arrangements Committee urges all potential attendees to register in advance so amounts will be accurate for food and beverages, receptions, etc.  Click here to register through the Philosophy Documentation Center.

The early registration deadline is March 25th, 2010.

Late/On-site Registration

Increased rates (+ $10 for individuals, + $5 for students) apply for late and on-site registrations.  The conference venue will be available from 12:00 noon for on-site registration on the first day of the conference, Thursday 22 April.  After 14 April, however, copies of the proceedings ($30) and reservations for the banquet ($75) cannot be guaranteed.  For information about late availability, contact the Local Arrangements Committee.

Program Information

The 2010 APS program is set and now available!

Conference Hotel & Meeting Venue

All conference sessions will take place in the Riverside Room of the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on the banks of the scenic Red Cedar River on the MSU campus.  For the conference rate of $90/night, single or double occupancy (+13% tax), mention the “Ancient Philosophy Society” when you phone Kellogg Center toll-free 1-800-875-5090. Rates guaranteed through March 22, 2010.

The Kellogg Center offers free wi-fi throughout, including guest rooms, free parking, and a free shuttle service by reservation (make arrangements when reserving your room).  The shuttle picks up/drops off at Lansing’s Capitol City Airport (LAN), the campus Amtrak station, and the East Lansing bus stop of the MichiganFlyer, which serves Detroit Metro Airport (DTW).

Because of a carrot and a stick, the Local Arrangements Committee urges you to make your reservations as early as possible.  The carrot: what we pay for use of the Riverside Room, $0-$500, is proportionate to the number of room-nights booked, and the more we save on the meeting room, the more we’ll have available for complementary food and beverages.  The stick: When the block of APS rooms is used up or the deadline passes, rooms revert to the undiscounted rate of $119-$189 per night.

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Michigan State University
55 South Harrison Avenue
East Lansing, MI 48824-1022
phone:  (800) 875-5090 or (517) 432-4000

Travel to East Lansing and the Kellogg Hotel

By air: East Lansing is served by Lansing’s Capitol City Airport (LAN), to/from which the Kellogg Center operates a free shuttle for hotel guests; and by the Detroit Metro Airport (DTW), from which one can take the MichiganFlyer (by reservation) to its East Lansing stop, where the free Kellogg Center shuttle picks up/drops off.  Reserve the shuttle when making your hotel reservation.

By train: The East Lansing Amtrak station is located on the southwest corner of the Michigan State University campus and is served by the free Kellogg Center shuttle.  Reserve the shuttle when making your hotel reservation.

Driving directions: The Kellogg Center, 55 South Harrison Avenue, where all the sessions of the conference will be held, is located on the northwest corner of Michigan State University.  Complete directions for reaching the conference venue from all points, including links to a number of maps and more distant airports (from which one would rent a car), are available here.  Covered parking adjacent to the hotel is free for Kellogg Center guests.

Local Taxi: Green Cab, (517) 643-1905.  On the web: www.greencabcompany.net.

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MSU Conference Submissions Update

Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for the tenth annual independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.  We were very happy to receive 79 submissions this year.  We hope to be able to accept about 20 of them for the final program.

The program committee is now hard at work reading the submissions and the Society would like to thank them for their hard work.  We take the blind review process seriously, so the members of the program committee will remain unnamed for now, but we will thank them publicly at the end of the process.

We hope to have the program set by the end of December so people have the chance make travel arrangements.

The Society would also like to thank Debra Nails and Corinne Painter in particular for the work they have done thus far to make our gathering at MSU a success.

SPEP

Schmidt and Cherubin in APS Panel at SPEP

SPEPJust a reminder to those of you attending SPEP next week, please make a point of attending the Ancient Philosophy Society panel on Thursday morning from 9am-noon.

The panel will be chaired by one of our co-directors, Matty Woodruff, Middlebury College.  The speakers will be:

Dennis Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University,
“Telling the Truth: Homer, Plato and Heidegger”

Rose Cherubin, George Mason University,
“Parmenides: Another Way”

The panel will be held on:

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 9am to noon, in the Georgetown Salon B room at the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel in Arlington, VA.

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Call for Papers Deadline: One Month

Today marks one month until the deadline for submissions to the tenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 22-25, 2010 at the Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.

Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximmum to be prepared for blind review. Before sending your submission by email attachment, see the full call for papers instructions.

Submission deadline: Monday 2 November, 2009.

Decisions will be reported by the end of December.  Inquireies and submissions should be directed to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org

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2010 Call for Papers

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2010 APS Poster (pdf)

2010 APS Poster (pdf)

The tenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 22-25, 2010 at the Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.

Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximmum to be prepared for blind review. Before sending your submission by email attachment, see the full call for papers instructions.

Submission deadline: Monday 2 November, 2009.

Decisions will be reported by the end of December.  Inquireies and submissions should be directed to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org

We encourage you to download the poster and print and post them around your department.

We are proud to announce that the two keynote speakers for the 2010 Conference will be:

Catherine Heldt Zuckert
Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame

“Two Platonic Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timaeus”

Thomas M. Tuozzo
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Kansas

“How Dynamic is Aristotle’s Efficient Cause?”

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2009 APS@SPEP Panel Set

We are happy to announce that the panel for the annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy has been set.

We are honored to have two excellent speakers on a panel chaired by one of our co-directors, Matty Woodruff, Middlebury College.

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

The panel will be held on:

  • Thursday, October 29, 2009, 9am to noon, at the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel in Arlington, VA.

We hope as many of you as possible can attend.  We look forward to another excellent session at SPEP this year.

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2009 APS Conference Thanks

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2009 Banquet

2009 Banquet

Many thanks to all who attended, supported and participated in the 2009 Ancient Philosophy Society conference at Loyola College in Maryland.

Gary Scott and his wife Hilde were very generous hosts and we had a very productive and inspiring conference.

As we begin to turn our attention to our 10th Annual Conference to be held at Michigan State, April 22nd to the 25th, 2010, I thought it important to pause to reflect upon the wonderful community of scholars we have actively participating in the Society.

Once again this year, I found myself grateful for the spirit of dedicated philosophical dialogue and friendship that animated our gathering.

The Excutive Committee thanks all who participated this year and who continue to support the Society.  We look forward to our SPEP session on October 29th at the Marriot Key Bridge Hotel in Arlington, Virginia and then, of course, to our 10th Annual Independent Meeting at Michigan State.

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Executive Committee Members Elected

At Saturday’s business meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, the Society elected Sean Kirkland, DePaul University, as the next co-director of the Society, joining current co-director, Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College, and replacing me, Christopher Long, The Pennsylvania State University, outgoing co-director of the Society.  I will remain on the executive committee, however, having been elected Treasurer. In this capacity I will continue to serve as webmaster of the APS blog here.

The Society also elected Rob Metcalf, University of Denver at Colorado, as the incoming at-large member of the Executive Committee, joining current at-large member of the Society, Sara Brill, Fairfield University.

We are currently enjoying a wonderful conference here at Loyola College in Maryland, where we have been generously hosted by Gary Scott and his wife Hilde.

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Loyola Conference This Week!

For those of you attending this week’s 9th Annual Conference hosted by Loyola College in Maryland, I thought it would be nice to link to some of the resources we have posted here related to the logistics of the conference:

Click below for information concerning:

We look forward to another excellent gathering this year.