Call for Abstracts: London Ancient Science Conference

This is a call for papers for the 17thLondon Ancient Science Conference 2024.

The 17th London Ancient Science Conference will be held at the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, from Monday, April 8th to Wednesday April 10th.

Abstracts of around 200 words should be sent to Prof. Andrew Gregory by 31st January. Decisions early February.

Papers are welcomed from established academics, postdocs and postgraduate students. Papers are welcomed on science in any ancient culture treated philosophically, historically, sociologically or technically. Science is construed quite broadly and may include epistemology, metaphysics and ontology relating to the natural world.

Prof. Andrew Gregory will chair a session on Leucippus and Democritus.

Paper proposals are welcomed for this session.

Papers generally will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion though some papers may be invited to give longer presentations.

There is a website for this conference at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-people/sts-academics/gregory-andrew/london-ancient-science-conference

The website has links to the programmes of all the past conferences.