Yale — King’s College London Plato Republic Seminar

Organized by Professor Verity Harte (Yale) and Professor M.M. McCabe (King’s College London), the Yale–King’s College London Plato Republic seminar meets annually, alternately in London and Yale. The seminar brings together faculty and graduate students specializing in ancient philosophy from Yale and King’s College London, as well as invited faculty and graduate students from Cornell and invited faculty from other universities in both the US and UK (such as Brown, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Oxford, and Virginia), who meet over the course of 5 days to read and discuss the Greek text of a book of the Republic.

To date, the seminar has met to read Book I (London: June 11–15th, 2007); Book II (Yale: June 9–13, 2008); and Book III (London: June 15–19, 2009). The group will meet at Yale to read Book IV in June 2010. Minutes of the seminar meetings (produced by the graduates of the current year’s host institution, Yale or King’s College London) are distributed to all participants in the seminar.

In addition to the benefits of the seminar itself, the intensive nature of the seminar and its organization (five days during which participants lunch — and often dine — together), offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate participants to get to know and discuss their research with the distinguished group of international faculty as well as their London and Cornell graduate peers. Yale students working in ancient philosophy who have advanced to candidacy are eligible to receive financial support to travel to and participate in the London-based seminars.

The seminar is sponsored, at Yale, by the Provost’s Office and by the Whitney Humanities Center. For more information, contact: verity.harte@yale.edu

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