YAPN (CHiPhi) Dates for 2010-11

We are now officially a research group within the Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHiPhi – pronounced as the two Greek letters), so have this appended to our name. More details about this centre at http://www.chiphi.eu.

Dates for 2010-11 are as follows:

• 5th November (York)
• 28th January (Hull)
• 20th May (Leeds) – (AMENDED from 13/5 originally announced)

The 5th November will be designated as part of the CHiPhi calendar, and will be subsidised accordingly for staff and students attending from the White Rose universities.

The format for each of these days will be a reading group in the morning, and 2 or more research papers in the afternoon.

The first two sessions (5/11 and 28/1), the text for the reading group will again be Plato, Republic, focusing on the portions relevant to poetry and aesthetics. We will read passages from Rep II and III in November, and Rep X in January.

May 21st – YAPN3

The 3rd meeting of the Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network will be on 21st May, in Seminar Room 2, Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied CETL, University of Leeds.

Location: Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (IDEA CETL), 8-12 Fenton Street (just off Woodhouse Lane, opposite Old Broadcasting House / Leeds Met ‘rusty tower’), Leeds. LS2 9JT

15-20 mins walk from Leeds Railway Station. Directions here.

Programme:

10:00-12:30 Reading Group

Plato Republic IV, 435-445 (using Grube/Reeve translation, publ. Hackett)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Stephen Makin (Sheffield)

“Amusing Gorgias: Why does the Encomium of Helen end as it does?”

15:00-15:15 Coffee

15:15-16:45 James Wilberding (Newcastle)

“Secret Life of Plants in Galen”

If you are planning to attend, please contact Amber Carpenter, Jamie Dow or Antony Hatzistavrou as soon as possible. We aim to circulate papers about a week in advance, and presume to have read them ahead of the meeting.

Feb 5th YAPN2

The 2nd meeting of the Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network will be on 5th Feb, in the Board Room at the Wilberforce Institute, Hull.

Location: WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation), University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE

10 mins walk from the Hull Railway Station. Map here.

Programme:

10:00-12:30 Reading Group

Plato Republic IV, 428-435 (using Grube/Reeve translation, publ. Hackett)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Malcolm Heath (Leeds)

“‘Why are humans poetical animals? An experiment in Aristotelian anthropology.”

15:00-15:15 Coffee

15:15-16:45 Amber Carpenter (York)

“Does Plato think it is good for us to aim at happiness?”

If you are planning to attend, please contact Amber Carpenter, Jamie Dow or Antony Hatzistavrou as soon as possible. We aim to circulate papers about a week in advance, and presume to have read them ahead of the meeting.

YAPN Meeting Dates 2009-10

Dates of meetings of the Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network for the academic year 2009-10:

30th October, 2009 (University of York)

5th February, 2010 (University of Hull)

21st May, 2010 (University of Leeds)

Each session will comprise a morning reading group, this year on Plato Republic IV, and two afternoon sessions with papers presented usually by those involved in the network.

Meetings are open to all, and we hope to attract academic staff and postgraduates from within Yorkshire, and further afield.

Persuasion, the Truth and Donkeys in the Phaedrus

One major area in which the Socrates of the Phaedrus distinguishes his understanding of rhetoric from that of Gorgias, Thrasymachus and other writers of technai, concerns whether the expert orator needs to know the truth about their subject matter. Socrates clearly holds that they do. His arguments for this rather surprising claim are — to say the least — quite tricky to make out!

30th October – YAPN First Meeting

The first meeting of the Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network will be on Friday 30th October, 2009, in Heslington Hall HG/19, at the University of York.

Morning Session:

10am-12pm:

Reading Group on Plato Republic IV (in English) – we aim to cover Republic IV, 419-432b (plus Republic II, 367-372) in this session, focusing on a handful of key passages. Translation: GMA Grube (Hackett).

Afternoon Session:

1-2.30pm:

Antony Hatzistavrou (Hull), on “Socrates and the Laws in Plato’s Crito”

3-4.30pm:

Jamie Dow (Leeds), “Proof-Reading Aristotle’s Rhetoric“

All welcome. No charge. No booking. (Lunch: own arrangements)

Note also that Prof. Terry Irwin (Oxford) is speaking at the University of York the evening of the 30th October, an event for which people may wish to stay on in York.

Directions / Maps: http://www.york.ac.uk/np/maps/