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Call for Papers: Twelfth International Congress of the IPS
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming international congress has been postponed to 2021.
Please see the new date below.
Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire
2-5 September 2021, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland
The Call for Papers is now available. More information about the conference will be coming soon.
The International Plutarch Society announces its 13th International Congress, to be held 11-13 June 2025, in Groningen, Netherlands. The theme for the congress is "Plutarch and the Natural World." For more information, please visit the webpage for the congress .
The German Section of the International Plutarch Society has issued a call for papers for a conference on Plutarch and Emotions, which will take place at the University of Hamburg on 13th-14th September 2023 . Plutarch and Emotions It has been more than twenty years since classical scholars have turned their attention to the study of the emotions of the Greeks and Romans, resorting to an interdisciplinary methodological framework that combines insights from the more traditional fields of literary studies, textual criticism, ancient history, archaeology, papyrology, with the new impulses provided by the neurosciences, social linguistics, communication theories and psychology. Several studies (e.g. A. Chaniotis, Unveiling Emotions 1, 2 and 3, Stuttgart 2012, 2013, 2021; D. Cairns, A Cultural History of the Emotions. 1, In Antiquity , London/New York 2019; D. Konstan, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature , Toronto 2006) led to a better unders...
Transformations, Transfigurations & Alterations in Plutarch University of Córdoba, 6-8 November 2025 This Conference proposes a space for reflection around the work of Plutarch, a fundamental author in ancient literature who explores, through his Parallel Lives and Moralia, concepts of change, identity and alterity. The versatility of his work allows these issues to be addressed from varied perspectives and disciplines, which is why four thematic blocks are proposed: Mythology: This block will analyze how Plutarch transforms and adapts mythical stories, interpreting them in light of moral and philosophical values, which reveal his ethical and pedagogical vision. History: This block will study Plutarch's approach to historical events, observing how biographical narratives are shaped, reinterpreted and adapted to meet moral purposes. Linguistics and Narrative: The stylistic, rhetorical and linguistic resources that Plutarch uses to construct his texts will be explored, observing ...