Carol Atack (Cambridge University) is Director of Studies in Classics, Bye-fellow and assistant tutor at Newnham College. Carol Atack has held teaching positions in Classics at Oxford and Warwick. Her research focuses on developments in fourth-century BCE Greek political thought and on the political culture of Athenian democracy and its contemporary reception. She is currently writing a monograph on temporality in Platonic dialogue and argument, and she is editing a volume on democracy in antiquity. Her latest publications include Anachronism and Antiquity (Bloomsbury Academic 2020), written together with Tim Rood and Tom Phillips, The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (Routledge Classical Monographs 2019), and “Plato, Foucault and the Conceptualization of Parrhēsia” (in History of Political Thought 2019).
Ryan K. Balot (University of Toronto) is Professor of Political Science and Classics. He is the author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2001), Greek Political Thought (Blackwell 2006), and Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens (Oxford University Press 2014). He is also the editor of A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Blackwell 2009), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides (Oxford University Press 2017). His current research focus is Plato’s Laws; after completing work on this project, he will turn his attention to Hegel.
Olof Pettersson (Uppsala University and Södertörn University) is Associate Professor (docent) in Theoretical Philosophy from Uppsala University and chair of SCAPh. Pettersson has been assistant project manager for the research project “Rational Self-Government: An Investigation of Personal Autonomy and its Platonic Origin” at Uppsala University, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen (Norway), and assistant coordinator for the international research project “Poetry and Philosophy” (on ancient Greek philosophy) also at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen (Norway). Pettersson’s research has been funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation), the Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), The Mind Association, the Classical Association, The Aristotelian Society, the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and by the Sweden-America Foundation. He is published by, among others, Cambridge University Press, Ancient Philosophy: A Journal devoted to Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Political Theory. He has also been invited lecturer at Keio University (Japan), Nagoya University (Japan), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Groningen (Netherlands), University of California at Berkeley (USA), Bard College (USA). Pettersson’s recent publications include “Power and Person in Plato’s Alcibiades I” (Ancient Philosophy 2021) and “Herdsmen and Stargazers: The Science of Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman” (Polis 2020). He is also the co-editor of Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition (under contract with CUP, edited together with P. Remes), Defending a Philosophical Life: Readings of Plato’s Apology (Rowman and Littlefield 2018) and of Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry (Springer 2017). Pettersson can be reached at: olof.pettersson@filosofi.uu.se or olof.pettersson@sh.se
Hans Ruin (Södertörn University) is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, and the founder of the Department of Philosophy and the research school Critical Cultural Theory. Ruin led a multidisciplinary research program on memory culture, Time, Memory, and Representation, between 2010 and 2016. He is co-founder of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology and has served as its president. Ruin has also conducted research as visiting scholar at the Sorbonne, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Amherst College, and served on the editorial board for the Swedish collected works of Nietzsche. He is also co-editor of the book series Södertörn Philosophical Studies. Ruin also sits on the editorial boards of Nietzsche-Studien, Danish Yearbook for Philosophy, and Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. Main book publications include: Enigmatic Origins. Tracing the Theme of Historicity Through Heideggers Works (diss, 1994), A commentary to the Heraclitean fragments (in Swedish, 1997), Metaphysics, Facticity, and Interpretation (with D. Zahavi and S. Heinämaa, 2003), The Past´s Presence. Essays on the Historicity of Philosophical Thought (with M. Sá Cavalcante, 2006), Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers (with J. Bornemark, 2010), Re-Thinking Time: Essays on History, Memory and Representation (with A. Ers, 2011), Phenomenology, Technology and Mediality (in Swedish, with L. Dahlberg, 2011), Ambiguity of the Sacred. Phenomenology, Politics, Aesthetics (with J. Bornemark, 2012), Freedom, Finitude and Historicity: Essays on Heidegger’s Philosophy (in Swedish, 2013), The Ethos of History (co-editor of 3-volume work, in Swedish, 2016), Between Memory and Forgetting: Essays in Cultural Memory (in Swedish, with J. Redin, 2016). His most recent book is Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Stanford UP, 2018). Ruin can be reached at: hans.ruin@sh.se
Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark College) is James F. Miller Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy. He won the “Outstanding Academic Book for 1994” award for his book Plato’s Socrates (with T. C. Brickhouse). His recent books include Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness, forthcoming with CUP, Summoning Knowledge in Plato’s Republic (OUP 2019) and What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology, edited together with S. Hetherington (Routledge 2019).
Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Södertörn University) specialize in ancient and medieval philosophy, in particular in the reception of Aristotle’s logic in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. More recently, she has also worked on the medieval Latin reception of the Parva naturalia. Thomsen Thörnqvist was appointed Professor at the University of Gothenburg 2016 and joined Södertörn University in 2023. Since 2004, she has been PI of several externally funded research projects, among which may be mentioned Representation and Reality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition, a research programme on the Medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia in the Greek, Latin and Byzantine traditions, funded 2013–2019 by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. During 2019–2024, she is project leader of the research project Filling the Gap: Medieval Aristotelian Logic 1240–1360. This project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and is a collaboration between Laurent Cesalli, Université de Gèneve, Leone Gazziero, Université de Lille/CNRS. Thomsen Thörnqvist has taught Classical Philology and the History of Philosophy regularly since 1998. She initiated and lead the development of the BA programme in Liberal Arts which was launched as the first programme of its kind in Sweden at the University of Gothenburg in 2011. She has also initiated and lead the development of an international MA programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Classical Philology (launched 2016) and a PhD programme within the same field (2019). In addition to teaching and research, she has held a number of administrative positions: Vice Dean for education at the Faculty of Arts (GU) 2011–2013 and Head of Department for the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (GU) 2014–2016.
Charlotta Weigelt (Södertörn University) is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University and former Head of the Department of Culture and Learning. She is the translator of Aristotle’s Physics and Nicomachean Ethics into Swedish, with an ongoing translation of Metaphysics. She is currently also President of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, board member of the Swedish Philosophy Foundation, and member of the editorial board of Aiolos: Journal of Literature, Theory, and Aesthetics. She is the author of Socrates and the Possibility of Political Art (Axl Books 2015), Socrates: The Philosopher’s Many Faces (Faethon 2023) and numerous articles on Plato and ancient Greek philosophy. Weigelt can be reached at: charlotta.weigelt@sh.se