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Symposia

BAPS (Bergen Ancient Philosophy Symposium) is an annual event, usually taking place in Bergen around the end of the spring semester. Over the years the research group has hosted many such exciting meetings, combining junior and senior researchers and putting a premium on discussion.

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Internal Workshop: Timaeus (Voss, 7-8 December, 2023)

Nature and Humanity in an Ancient Greek Perspective (12-13 June, 2023)

Friendship and Political Expertise in Plato and Aristotle (2-3 June, 2022)

The Politics of Self-Recognition: Plato’s Charmides and Alcibiades I (3-4 June, 2021)

BAPS Internal Publishing Workshop (27-28 May, 2019)

Platonic Dialectic: Inquiring into the Nature of Things (DICTUM, 31 May-2 June, 2018)

Democracy and Its Rivals: Plato’s Statesman and Laws (24-25 May, 2018)

Paideia, Power and Persuasion: Political Thinking in and around Plato (12-13 June, 2017)

Myth, Ritual, and Initiation in Plato’s Republic (2-3 June, 2016)

Poetry and Philosophy Internal Workshop: Myth and Philosophy in Plato (Athens, 21-24 October, 2015)

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Apology (10-12 June, 2015)

Poetry and Philosophy Internal Workshop (Athens, 9-11 October, 2014)

Poetry and Philosophy: On Plato’s Protagoras (workshop) (Rome, 17-19 October, 2013)

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Sophist (14-16 May, 2013)

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Symposium (7-8 June, 2012)

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Laws (24-25 May, 2011)

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Phaedrus (25-26 May, 2009)

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Republic X (7-8 January, 2008)