CFP: Understanding and the Good Life in Antiquity
Submission deadline: March 15, 2013
Conference date(s):
June 7, 2013 - June 8, 2013
Conference Venue:
University of Melbourne
Melbourne,
Australia
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What is the relationship between understanding and the good life in Antiquity? We invite submissions addressing this question, broadly construed. Papers may focus on specific texts, particular thinkers, or schools and traditions of thought, from Homer and the Presocratics up to and including Simplicius.
The Colloquium aims to bring advanced graduate students and early-career researchers (who are within five years of receiving their PhD) together with established academics. We invite abstracts of up to 500 words (for papers of up to 3500 words), aiming for 6-8 papers. Each presenter will be paired with a discussant. There will be a keynote address, and a career development workshop.
Possible topics for papers include:
- Socrates on the unity of the virtues
- What does Socrates know--about himself and about the good life?
- Knowledge, suffering, and destruction in Sophoclean tragedy
- Knowledge of the Good and the philosophical life in Plato's Republic
- Aristotle on practical and theoretical knowledge
- Physics as a virtue in Stoic philosophy
- Epicurus' injunction: "Flee from all paideia!"
- Solon and Croesus in Herodotus' History
We expect to offer some small travel subsidies for presenters.
To submit a paper, please submit an abstract of 500 words to Andrew Shortridge [email protected]> by 1 March, 2013. Notification will be made by 15 March, 2013.