Conference: Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2012
Date: 31 March - 1 April 2012
Location: Bridie Library, Glasgow University Union, 32 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LX
(E8 on the campus map)
Contact: Richard King
Saturday March 31st
2-4 Peter Adamson (KCL): "Relativizing Aristotle's Physics: al-Razi on Place and Time"
4-4.30 Tea
4.30-6.30 Dorothea Frede (Hamburg): "The determinacy of human nature in the Nicomachean Ethics."
Dinner 7.15pm (Wudon, Great Western Road)
Sunday April 1st
9-11 Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge): "Phusis in the Hippocratic Corpus."
11-11.30 Elevenses
11.30-12.30 Graduate paper: Yumi Suzuki (Durham) “Gorgias’ ‘On Nature’: You can also argue the opposite.”
12.30-1.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
1.30-3.30 George Boys-Stones (Durham): “‘The Second God is Also a Third One’: Numenius on the Soul.”
3.30-4.30 Graduate paper: Mark Wildish (Durham) “Sextus on nature, second nature, and subsistent nature.”
Registration £10. PGs free.
PG student bursaries for travel and accommodation are available.
If you are coming, it would be a great help if you could let the organiser know; also if you would like to have dinner on Saturday evening.
The meeting has received financial support from the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Mind Association, the Aristotelian Society, the Scots Philosophical Association, the Classical Association, the School of Humanities, Glasgow.
Also of interest to ancient philosophers in the vicinity: On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.) in Edinburgh 17th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy
'Moral Conscience: Ancient Origins of the Idea and Its Historical Aftermath'
Professor Richard Sorabji, (King’s College London and Wolfson College, Oxford)
Location: Reception Room, The McEwan Hall, Teviot Place (Doorway 2)
(http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/buildings/mcewan-hall: note the entrance is Doorway 2, located in the quad - roughly from the leftmost facet on the map; the same venue as in previous years).