The twelfth annual Cambridge graduate conference in ancient philosophy will be held on March 17th and 18th, online and in-person at Downing College on March 17th and the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, on March 18th. Keynote speakers include MM McCabe (KCL) and Shaul Tor (KCL).
To register, please sign up via eventbrite. A zoom link for the conference will be available on this page.
If you are interested in attending in person, please also fill out this form. As a note, we will be providing a small lunch, as well as refreshments, on both days. There will also be a conference dinner on Friday March 17th. Please note on the form if you would like to attend. Unfortunately, we will not be able to pay or subsidize the dinner. If you have any questions, please contact us at cambridgeancientphilosophy@gmail.com.
Conference Schedule
Friday March 17th (Downing College, Wilkins Room)
10 am-10:15 Coffee and Refreshments; Opening Remarks
10:15-11:15 “The Necessity of being just according to Philodemus”, Eleni Athanasiadou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Respondent: Francesco De Vita (Cambridge)
11:30-12:30 “A new approach to injustice: Augustine, De Civitate Dei XIX, 6”, Joachim Haddad (Aix Marseille University)
Respondent: Melissa Jones (Cambridge)
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 “Need Justice (yi) Conflict with Filiopiety (xiao)?”, Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Yale)
Respondent: Arthur Harris (Cambridge)
2:45 – 3:45 “The Reactionary Plato of Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism (1970)”, Kiran Pizarro-Mansukhani (Brown University)
Respondent: Stephen Peprah (Cambridge)
4:00-5:00 “Linguistic Injustice in Hippocratic Gynaecology: A Critique of the Hippocratics’ Ascription of Animalistic Properties to Menstruation and the Womb”, Kirsty Ironside (Wayne State)
Respondent: Zoe Audra (Cambridge)
Conference Dinner at Olive Grove, 7 p.m.
Saturday March 18th (Faculty of Classics, G21)
9:45-10:00am Coffee and Refreshments
10:15-11:15 Keynote: “Socrates in Prison”, Mary Margaret McCabe (Kings College London)
11:30- 12:30 “What’s Missing from Aristotle’s Account of Friendship: How Valuing Aesthetic Features of Your Friend Can Help Combat Oppression”, George Surtees (Sheffield)
Respondent: Ashley Lance (Cambridge)
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 “The possibility of the ‘mindlessly unjust’ agent according to NE V: an Aristotelian Defense”, František Špinka (Ludwig-Maximillian Universitat)
Respondent: Andrew Romanowski (Cambridge)
2:45-3:45 “The Daimones and Their Purification: A Reinterpretation of The Broken Oath and its Relation with Love and Strife”, Joel Alvarez (University of South Florida)
Respondent: Liz (Shiyoun) Kim (Cambridge)
4:00-5:00 Keynote: “Providence, injustice and buying off the gods in Plato’s Laws 10”, Shaul Tor (Kings College London)