SAGP
Society for Ancient
Greek Philosophy
Annual Conference 2026

SAGP Annual Conference 2026

November 14–15, 2026 · via Zoom · All times listed in Pacific Standard Time.

About the conference

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy’s 2026 Annual Conference takes place on Zoom on November 14–15, with four sessions on Empedocles and the Derveni Papyrus, Plato on tyranny, deliberation and contingency in Aristotle’s philosophy, and Hellenistic and Roman philosophy.

Attendees must be dues-paying members of SAGP in good standing. To register, please email SAGPcontact@gmail.com.

Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 14, 2026

Empedocles and the Derveni Papyrus

7:00am PST

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Moderator: Benjamin Harriman, University of Edinburgh

  • Chiara Ferella, Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz — “From the Derveni Papyrus through Parmenides and Beyond: The Philosophical Afterlife of a Cosmogonic Motif”
  • Simon Trépanier, University of Edinburgh — “The New Empedocles”

Plato on Tyranny

10:00am PST

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Moderator: Rusty Jones, University of Oklahoma

  • Eric Solis, University of Alabama — “The Tyrant’s Regret”
  • Andrew Culbreth, Boston College — “Plato on Shamelessness, Democracy, and Capitulating to Tyranny”

Sunday, November 15, 2026

Deliberation and Contingency in Aristotle’s Philosophy

7:00am PST

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Moderator: Klaus Corcilius, University of Tübingen

  • Simona Aimar, University College London — “Productive Deliberations in Aristotle”
  • Sylvia Berryman, University of British Columbia — “Aristotle’s Practical Deliberation, Particularism and Silencing”

Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

11:00am PST

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Moderator: Phillip Mitsis, New York University

  • Phillip Mitsis, New York University — “Matters of Mind: Epicurus on Soul, Animals, and τὸ παρ’ ἡμᾶς”
  • Attila Németh, Hungarian Academy of Sciences — “Epicurus on the Soul”
  • Pamela Zinn, Texas Tech University — “Epicurus on Animals”
  • Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi, University of Vienna — “Leveraging underdetermination from luck to what depends on us”

Time Zones

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