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Presentation: InteractiveThe Long Road

Is Reading Writing?

Un-Keynote Address: The Writing in Digital Environments/Eastern Michigan Un-Conference, October 12, 2015.
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 12, 2015
Digital Dialogue PodcastSocratic and Platonic PoliticsThe Evolving Book

Digital Dialogue 72: Reading Plato

It is probably fair to say that Will Altman and I met one another in my book Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy. Perhaps it is strange to think of a book as a place in…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJune 10, 2015
Socratic and Platonic PoliticsThe Long Road

Plato's Dialogues in Digital

There is nothing more fun to teach than Plato's dialogues. Whether they love him or hate him, the figure of Socrates Plato draws in his dialogues move students to think more deeply about their relationships…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2015
The Evolving BookThe Long Road

Birthing the Digital Book

The print edition of my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, has been ready since May, but I asked Cambridge to hold back its release until they completed development of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 23, 2014
Presentation: AcademicVita

Philosophy and the Networked Public

Philosophy has always been a public activity, although its relationship with the public and its own public nature have long been fraught with anxiety for philosophy and the public both. At this year’s Society for…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Socratic and Platonic Politics

This presentation argues that there is a difference, and a similarity, between the ways Socrates and Plato practice politics. Socratic politics, as depicted in Plato's dialogues, may be characterized as the practice of using spoken…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 5, 2014
BooksThe Evolving BookThe Long Road

Cover Art: Matthew Paris's Plato and Socrates

This drawing from Mathew Paris (1217-1259), made famous more recently by Derrida's disquisition on it in The Postcard, appears in a 13th century manuscript that contains a series of fortune-telling tracts. Now, with the generous…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 20, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: InteractivePresentationsVita

Keynote Address: Socrates and the Politics of Finitude at #PCAP14

In this interactive keynote address to the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy hosted by Villanova University, I argue that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue. We tweeted the keynote and the entire PCAP…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 16, 2014
Socratic and Platonic PoliticsThe Evolving BookThe Long Road

Setting an Infrastructure for Collaborative Reading

With the spring release of Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, we are working hard to create the infrastructure for the online discussion the enhanced digital book will be designed to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 11, 2014
The Evolving BookThe Long Road

Tracing the Contours of the Enhanced Digital Book

Now that Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading is in galley proofs, the contours of the enhanced digital book are beginning to take shape. In order to determine the features of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 5, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: InteractivePresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Socrates, Plato and Digital Scholarship at #ECDS

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship asked me to give a version of the presentation at gave at #DH2013 last summer entitled eBook as Ecosystem of Digital Scholarship Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2013
BooksDigital HumanitiesThe Evolving BookThe Long Road

The Evolving Book: Introduction

As my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, goes officially into editorial production on the print side of Cambridge University Press, I have started to work with Mike Chaplin on…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 4, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

The Politics of Reading … in China

NANJING, China - I must admit, I am a bit uneasy about delivering this talk on Plato and the Politics of Reading here at Nanjing University. You see, I am simply not sure what it…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 22, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Public Philosophy in Digital Dialogue

There is a difference between the ways Socrates turns those with whom he speaks in Plato's dialogues to consider questions of justice, beauty and the good and the ways Plato's writing turns his readers to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 15, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Plato and the Politics of Reading

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - To give a lecture on the politics of collaborative reading without inviting one's listeners to become active participants would be a performative contradiction. So, in this lecture, Plato and the Politics…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 21, 2012
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal

Christopher P. Long, "Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal," Ideas y Valores, 61, 149: 2012. This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socratic political speaking and those of Platonic political writing.…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2012
BooksThe Evolving BookThe Long Road

The Book As Ecosystem of Scholarly Dialogue

Consider this an invitation to continue along a path we have traversed together over the past three years. This path, which began in the wake of my 2009 Summer Faculty Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellowship,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJune 25, 2012
ArticlesPublication: JournalSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Attempting the Political Art

Christopher P. Long, "Attempting the Political Art," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2012): 153-74. The main thesis of this essay is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 28, 2012
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

"The Politics of Truth" at University of Kansas

LAWRENCE, KS - The paper I presented here today, entitled The Politics of Truth, argued that Socratic politics is a matter of speaking truth with a concern for justice and the good. I suggested further…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 25, 2011
Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 44: The Apology

For Digital Dialogue episode 44, I have joined Nicolas Parra, Norman Mora and Sergio Ariza in their home city of Bogotá, Colombia to discuss the seminar we held today on Plato's Apology and a paper…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 1, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Seminar on the Apology in Bogotá

Seminar on the Apology Originally uploaded by cplong11 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - Today I gave a seminar on Plato's Apology at the Universidad de los Andes to graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. The seminar was…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 25, 2011
Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 35: Socratic Strangeness

Sean Kirkland joins me for Digital Dialogue episode 35 to joins me today to talk about a book project he is completing entitled Ontology and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues. Our discussion focuses on the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJune 15, 2010
Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 32: Crisis of Community

Episode 32 of the Digital Dialogue is a recording of my paper on Plato's Protagoras entitled, "Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics," delivered at the 10th Annual Independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 3, 2010
Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 31: Shame and Justice

Ryan Drake, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and graduate of Penn State's Philosophy Department, joins me for Digital Dialogue 31 which focused on the paper I will deliver at the 2010 Ancient Philosophy…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 20, 2010
Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 22: Transformative Dialogue

A group of students from my Philosophy 200, Ancient Greek Philosophy, course join me for episode 22 of the Digital Dialogue. Drew Bullard, Jordan Sanford, Cody Yashinsky, Anthony Zirpoli, Tony Arnold, Pam Doran and Joni…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 15, 2009
Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue 09: Erotic Politics

In episode 9 of the Digital Dialgoue, I am joined by Jill Gordon, who is currently Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, but in just a few days, on September 1st, she will be the Charles A.…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 20, 2009
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