2002 Conference Program

Colorado University - Denver, CO - April 19-21

Friday, April 19th, 2002
  12:00-12:15 Welcome
Dean Smith and Mitchell Aboulafia, Chair of Philosophy
  12:15-3:00
Chair: Gary Scott, Loyola University
Speaker:
Francisco Gonzalez, Skidmore: “Conversing About Virtue Everyday: The Apology’s Defense of Care and Dialogue”
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Discussant: Naomi Reshotko, University of Denver
Speaker: Martha Beck, Lyon College:“Nussbaum, Saxonhouse and Piety in the Euthyphro
  Discussant:Jill Gordon, Colby College
  3:00-5:15 Panel: Logos in the Nicomachean Ethics
Chair: Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College
Speaker:
Peter Warnek, University of Oregon: “Aristotle’s Pharmakon: Transformative Logos in the Nichomachean Ethics
Speaker: Claudia Baracchi, New School University: “Living with Logos: Ethics as First Philosophy According to Aristotle”
  Discussant: P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  5:30-6:45 Keynote Address
   
Chair: Walter Brogan, Villanova University
Speaker: John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University, "On Nature"
  6:45-8:00 Reception
 
Saturday, April 20th, 2002
  9:00-12:00 Panel: In Dialogue with Plato
Chair: Susan Schoenbohm, Pennsylvania State University
1.

Ashley Pryor, University of Toledo: “Socrates in Drag: Images of Helen of Troy in Plato’s Phaedrus”

2.

Christopher P. Long, Richard Stockton College: “Dancing Naked with Socrates: Pericles, Aspasia and Socrates at Play with Politics, Rhetoric and Philosophy”

3.
Gerard Kuperus, DePaul University, Chicago:“The Dialectical Labyrinth, Finding Ways in the Phaedo
Discussant: Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University
  12:15-1:30 Lunch
  1:30-3:45 Panel: Thinking Across Genre
Chair: Katherine Loevy, Vanderbilt University
1.

James Barrett, Colby College: "Doing Philosophy in the Theatre: The Case of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

2.

Phil Hopkins, Southwestern University: “Speech and Narrative: Expositional and Philosophical Practice in Thucydides”
Discussant: Ryan Drake, Pennsylvania State University

  4:00-6:15 Panel: Zenophilia
Chair: Holly Moore, Villanova University
1.

Rose Cherubin, George Mason University: “Zeno’s Paradoxes and the Episteme of Phusis”
Discussant:Gina Zavota State University of New York, Stony Brook

2.

Eric Sanday, Penn State University: “The Being of Non-Being: Zeno’s First Hypothesis and Socrates’ Account of Participation in Plato’s Parmenides”
Discussant: Marjolein Oele, Loyola University, Chicago

  6:15-7:00 Business Meeting
  8:00 Banquet: Rialto Café
 
Sunday, April 21st, 2002
  9:00-11:15 Panel: The Character of Plato's Thought
Chair: Sara Brill, Pennsylvania State University
1.
Bernard Freydberg, Slippery Rock University: "Platonic Agôn"
2. Daniel Price, University of Houston: “Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education”
3.
Sean Kirkland, University of Wuppertal: “αλήθεια, δόξα, διαλεκτική: On the Absence of Objective Being in Platonic Philosophical Method”
Discussant:Michael Shaw, Villanova University