CONF: Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy
2008年07月27日 23:02
The 2008 annual meeting of the Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy
will be held in Cambridge on Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 September. We will
be celebrating the work of Michael Frede in various ways, with a number of
the speakers former pupils.
Papers will be given in the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
Accommodation and meals (breakfast and dinner) will be in Newnham College.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 18 September
4.00 tea
4.30-6.30, Lesley Brown (Oxford) ‘Reflections on Frede’s Sophist’
8.30-10.30. A reading from one of Michael Frede’s unpublished Sather
Lectures; followed by Jonathan Barnes, ‘Remembering Michael Frede’
Friday 19 September
10.00-12.30, George Boys-Stones (Durham) ‘How does God think? Divine
epistemology in Origen’
4.00-4.30 tea
4.30-6.30, papers by two recent PhD students:
Eleni Kechegia (Oxford), ‘Plutarch’s discussion of ancient atomism
in the Adversus Colotem’
Paul Scade (Exeter), ”Leo Strauss and the study of ancient
philosophy: the problem of esotericism”
Evening, party
Saturday 20 September
9.30-11.30, James Allen (Pittsburgh), ‘Why there are ends of goods
and evils in ancient ethical theory’
11.30-12.00 business meeting
PLEASE INDICATE - NOT LATER THAN 31 AUGUST - ATTENDANCE INTENTIONS, BY
TICKING RELEVANT BOOKING OPTION(S):
Inclusive package (dinner*, bed and breakfast, with conference fee):
£134.80.
Dinner* Thursday: £23.19.
Dinner* Friday: £23.19.
Conference fee (payable by all particIpants): £5.
*NB not inclusive of wine, which can be purchased at table.
CHARGES ARE PAYABLE AT THE MEETING (THE ORGANISERS REGRET THAT THESE REMAIN
PAYABLE ON THE PART OF ANY PARTICIPANT NOT GIVING NOTICE OF CANCELLATION
BEFORE MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER).
Further details (including paper abstracts) will be circulated in early
September.
Malcolm Schofield
