[SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop Program: August – December 2024

[Callista Sheridan]



Dear all, 
 
We are excited to announce that the Critical Antiquities Workshop will return for August-December 2024. Please find the attached flyer detailing the program and descriptions of the upcoming talks. 
 
For our first workshop, we are thrilled to begin with Melissa Lane (Princeton University) as she launches her book Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political (Princeton UP, 2023). Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong) and Demetra Kasimis (Cambridge University) will be discussants for the launch. 
 
The event will take place on Zoom on Monday, August 5, 11:00pm-12:30am (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane time). 
 
Here is the time in other locations:
 
Los Angeles/Vancouver: Monday, August 5, 6:00am-7:30am
Mexico City: Monday, August 5, 7:00am-8:30am 
Chicago: Monday, August 5, 8:00am-9:30am
New York: Monday, August 5, 9:00am-10:30am
Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: Monday, August 5, 10:00am-11:30am
Dublin/Belfast/London: Monday, August 5, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Paris/Berlin/Rome: Monday, August 5, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: Monday, August 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Monday, August 5, 9:00pm-10:30pm
Tokyo: Monday, August 5, 10:00pm-11:30pm
Darwin/Adelaide: Monday, August 5, 10:30pm-12:00pm
  
To register, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links and CAN announcements: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rf4tCVARKgC0YyJBBSGTLFa?domain=signup.e2ma.net
 
Two sample chapters of the book will be circulated to registrants prior to the talk. 
 
Here is the abstract:
 
Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so, Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. Adopting a longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled, Plato’s major political dialogues—the Republic, the Statesman, and Laws—explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. With this book, Lane offers the first account of the clearly marked vocabulary of offices at the heart of all three of these dialogues, explaining how such offices fit within the broader organization and theorizing of rule. Lane argues that taking Plato’s interest in rule and office seriously reveals tyranny as ultimately a kind of anarchy, lacking the order as well as the purpose of rule. When we think of tyranny in this way, we see how Plato invokes rule and office as underpinning freedom and friendship as political values, and how Greek slavery shaped Plato’s account of freedom. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic, Greek, and contemporary political thought.
 
We hope to see you there, 
 
Callista, on behalf of Tristan and Ben. 
 
Callista Sheridan 
Critical Antiquities Network 
criticalantiquities.org <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1txvCWLVXkUzVqE33ix1Ifw?domain=criticalantiquities.org> 
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