2025 Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy Meeting

15-16 September
Gillis Lecture Theatre, Balliol College

Organised by Simon Shogry and Alex Bown

 

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy meeting will take place in Oxford on September 15–16, 2025.

Please register for the conference in advance, here. The same link will allow you to book the conference dinner (after clicking ‘Book Event’). Discounted rates are available for current postgraduate students. Registration will remain open until September 8, 2025.

Participants who require accommodation may book rooms in a college of their choice via this website.

In case of any questions or difficulties, please write to either or both of the organisers, Alex Bown (alexander.bown@philosophy.ox.ac.uk) and Simon Shogry (simon.shogry@philosophy.ox.ac.uk).

 

Confirmed speakers are as follows.

Main speakers:

Nicolò Benzi (Kent)
Gábor Betegh (Cambridge)
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL)
Marion Durand (Oxford)
Daniel Kranzelbinder (Chicago)

Graduate student speakers:

Glenda Hall (Birkbeck)
Yfke van der Heijden (Cambridge)

Conference Schedule

Monday 15th September

2-3:30: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL), ‘Elpis in Plato’s Laws’

 

Break for tea and coffee

 

4-5:30: Nicolò Benzi (Kent), ‘The Paradox of Fiction: Modern Problems, Ancient Perspectives’

 

Conference dinner (Somerville College)

 

Tuesday 16th September

9:30-10:15: Yfke Van Der Heijden (Cambridge), ‘Naturally Suited…For What? Natural Differentiation and Specialisation in Plato’s Republic’

10:15-11: Glenda Hall (Birkbeck), ‘Reconsidering the Species Form of the Name in Plato’s Cratylus (389b-390e)’

 

Break for tea and coffee

 

11:30-1: Daniel Kranzelbinder (Chicago), ‘Aristotle on Teaching and Production’

 

Lunch

 

2-3:30: Marion Durand (Oxford), ‘The truth and nothing but the truth: a worry for the Stoic account of knowledge’

 

Break for tea and coffee

 

4-5:30: Gábor Betegh (Cambridge), paper topic tbc