Ancient Philosophy Society, Sixteenth Annual Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ancient Philosophy Society

Sixteenth Annual Independent Meeting

28 April-1 May, 2016 in Portland, Maine

Co-sponsored by Colby College and the Ancient Philosophy Society

Honoring the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society supports phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, Tübingen School, hermeneutic, psychoanalytic, queer, and feminist interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary works.

Submit papers by e-mail attachment to [email protected] on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Deadline: November 22, 2015. The author’s name, institution, and references pertaining to the identity of the author must be omitted from the paper, notes, and bibliography. The e-mail accompanying the submission must include the author’s name, the title of the paper, address, telephone, and e-mail address.

•Papers must be written in English. Submission implies that the paper is entirely the author’s own unpublished work and that, where appropriate, the contributions of others are acknowledged.

•Papers should be submitted as pdf or MS Word™(pdf is preferred, especially if untransliterated Greek is used).

•Papers may not exceed 3,000 words (30 minutes’ reading time, max.), exclusive of footnotes and bibliography. Longer papers will not be forwarded to the Program Committee. Abstracts will not be considered for the program.

•Because papers selected for presentation are collected and provided to meeting participants in a single Proceedings, please observe the following conventions: single-spacing, 1-inch margins on all sides, pages numbered, 12-point font for text, 10-point for footnotes.  

•Receipt of papers will be acknowledged by e-mail as soon as feasible after it has been submitted.

•Only one submission per author will be considered, and no one may present a paper in consecutive years.

All papers are reviewed by a Program Committee selected by the Host to represent the range of interpretive traditions. Decisions about papers accepted for the program will be reached by 18 January 2016, and authors will be notified either way by e-mail shortly thereafter. Those who participate on the program must be APS members in good standing.

For the first time this year, the APS will award two travel prizes of $300 each:

•The Diversity Prize: awarded to the best paper that is chosen for the program through the anonymous selection process written by a person from a group underrepresented in the discipline.  Please self-identify in the body of your email when you submit your paper, saying, “I would like to be considered for the Diversity Prize after the program selection process.” Please keep your paper free of any identifying information.

•The Emerging Scholar Prize: awarded to the best paper that is chosen for the program through the anonymous selection process written by a scholar who is either ABD or up to 6 years post Ph.D.  Please self-identify in the body of your email when you submit your paper, saying, “I would like to be considered for the Emerging Scholar Prize after the program selection process.”  Please keep your paper free of any identifying information.

•Scholars may be considered for both prizes but can only be awarded one.

The APS values diversity and particularly invites submissions from members of groups underrepresented in philosophy, including women, people of color, LGBTQI individuals, and people with disabilities. The APS conference is wheelchair accessible.

For current information about the meeting, as well as membership information, consult the APS website: www.ancientphilosophysociety.org.

Please direct all inquiries to [email protected].