CFP: 4th Ancient Philosophy Workshop for Female Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers, Berlin, Dec 6-7, 2018

4th Ancient Philosophy Workshop for Female Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers, Berlin, Dec 6-7, 2018

We invite submissions by female graduate students and early career researchers (within five years of completion of their PhD) for the 4th Ancient Philosophy Workshop to be held on Dec 6-7, 2018 at the Humboldt University Berlin. This workshop is organised by Women in Ancient Philosophy and sponsored by the Research Training Group Philosophy, Science and the Sciences of the Humboldt University Berlin. Our goal is to provide young and highly talented female philosophers with the opportunity to present their work and interact with each other.
Papers should be about 5000 words long, and can be on any topic in Ancient Philosophy. Papers will be blind-reviewed. Format of the workshop: this is a pre-read conference; sessions last 75 minutes (15 minutes summary of the paper + 60 minutes discussion). Accommodation and travel expenses up to 600 Euro will be covered for all speakers.
Keynote Speaker: Susan Sauvé Meyer (University of Pennsylvania)

The submission deadline is: 1st October 2018.

Please send the following to [email protected] in .pdf format:
(1) A cover letter that contains (a) the author’s name, (b) institutional affiliation, (c) contact information, (d) the title of the paper, (e) a word count;
(2) The paper itself (around 5000 words), including the title and a short abstract (no more than 250 words), with no information identifying the author or the author’s institutional affiliation.
You will be notified of your status by the first week of November.
Please contact us with any questions: Juliane Küppers ([email protected])

Affiliated Research Projects:
Research Training Group: Philosophy, Science and the Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hannoversche Str. 6
10115 Berlin
https://ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de