Meeting 2025

The 2025 meeting of the Southern Association

The 2025 annual meeting of the Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy will take place in Oxford on September 15–16, 2025.

Further details below.

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.

The registration fee (£25.00) includes refreshments, and lunch on the 16th September.

The conference dinner will be in Somerville College on 15th September.

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

The local organisers for this year's event are Alex Bown and Simon Shogry. They can be contacted on alexander.bown@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

simon.shogry@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.

Programme

All talks will take place in the Gillis Lecture Theatre, Balliol College, Oxford.

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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)

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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), ‘Plato on Forgetting and Re-understanding’

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