Events
Upcoming Conferences and Events
‘Plato on forgetting and re-understanding’
Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture, Tuesday 14 April 2026, 5:30pm to 7:00pm in School III.
‘Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world’
Workshop, Monday 18 May 2026, S11 Swallowgate, School of Classics.
9.30-10.30 Nicolas Wiater
10.40-11.40 Jon Hesk: The Rhetoric of War and Peace. Folk Psychology and Behavioural Economics in Demosthenes.
12-12.40 Alice König: The Militarism(s) of Livy’s Peace Lessons.
1.30-2.30 Consuelo Martino: Just War or Just Empire? War, Moral Legitimacy, and Imperialism in Roman Imperial Historiography.
3-4 Mehmet Erginel: Plato on the Sources of Conflict.
4.10-4.50 Alex Long: War-readiness and Plato’s incomplete Atlantis story.
‘Care and Indifference in Ancient Philosophy’
Graduate conference, 5-6 May 2026, University of St Andrews. View call for papers.
Keynote speakers: Frisbee Sheffield (University of Cambridge), and Shaul Tor (King’s College London)
Greek reading group
We are reading select parts of Plotinus’ Enneads. All welcome. Email Alex Long ([email protected]) for the Teams link.
Past events
Death and immortality in Greek philosophy and early Christianity, 2015
The Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Annual Meeting, 2016
Mind and Cosmos in Ancient Philosophy and Science: The Reception of Plato’s Timaeus in Hellenistic Times, 2016 (St Andrews – Edinburgh cooperation)
Law and deliberation in Athenian philosophy and oratory, 2017
St. Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy, 2018
St. Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy, 2019
New Trends in the Study of Eleatism, 2022
Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, 11 – 12 April 2023, St Andrews.
Philopoiētai 2, a workshop on ancient poetry and philosophy, 3 May 2023, St Andrews
St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy – The Ideal Citizen 25-26 September 2023
‘Aristotle’s psychology and its reception’
Speakers: Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)
Seminar, Monday 4 March 2024 4-6pm, Swallowgate S4
Work-in-progress papers in Ancient Philosophy
19 July 2024, online (MS Teams).
Informal event hosted by the Classics-Philosophy reading group.
Schedule
10.00 Alex Long, “Divine Virtue and Tripartition in Plato’s Timaeus and Laws“
10.45 Christos Panayides, “The Sight-Lovers of Republic V and Plato’s Critique of their Ontology”
11.30 break
11. 45 Mehmet Erginel, “Plato on the Pains of Philosophy”
12.30 break
13.30 Julia Pfefferkorn, “Lyric Poetry in Adeimantus’ Speech (Republic 365a4-c6)”
14.15 Yan Tang, “Due Consideration in Confucianism”
