The Joint Program in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to host the 49th Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop. The event will be held on March 27–28, 2026, in Waggener Hall on the UT Austin campus. The schedule is as follows:

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2026 – WAG 316
10:15-10:30 – Opening Remarks

10:30-12:00 – Diego García Rincón (Toronto) – Understanding, True Belief, and Overlap: The Argument for Forms in Plato’s Timaeus (51d–52a)
––Respondent: Van Tu (San Bernardino)

Lunch break

1:30-3:00 – Jiyao Tang (Santa Barbara) – Strict-Energeia in Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1048b18-35
––Respondent: Landon Hobbs (Berkeley)

3:30-5:30 – Keynote – Christopher Frey (Tulsa) – On Death’s Cause

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2026 – WAG 116
9:30-11:00 – Frank Li (Harvard) – Self as a User of Tools: Teleology in Alcibiades 129b–130d
––Respondent: Melle van Duijn (Oklahoma)

11:15-12:45 – Soham Shiva (Stanford) – Indeterminate Motion and the Limits of Phantasia: Aristotle on Incomplete Animals in De Anima III.11
––Respondent: Glenn Zhou (Texas A&M)

Lunch break

2:15-3:45 – Leonardo Chiocchetti (Munich) – Something is Nothing: The Stoics on the Supreme Genus of Reality
––Respondent: Zhonghua Zheng (UT Austin)

4:00-5:30 – Vikram Kumar (Purdue) – Essence and Modality in Porphyry’s Isagoge
––Respondent: Ross Preuss-Greene (UT Austin)