2003 Conference Program

Trinity College - Hartford, CT - April 11-13

Friday, April 11th, 2003
  12:00-12:15 Welcome
Dean W. Miller Brown, Dean of the Faculty, Trinity College
  1:30-4:50 Panel: Struggling with the Presocratics
Chair: Gary Scott, Loyola University
Speaker:
Rita Alfonso, Stony Brook University: "Kreon and Ananke: The Doubling of Necessity in Presocratic Studies of Nature "
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Discussant: Cory Wimberly, Pennsylvania State University
Speaker: James Barrett, Colby College: "Struggling With Parmenides"
  Discussant: Karen Gover, Pennsylvania State University
  3:00-5:15 Panel: Philosophy, History, Tragedy
Chair: Adrian Switzer, Loyola University of Chicago
Speaker:
Will McNeill, DePaul University: "Theoria and Tragedy: A Reading of Aristotle’s Poetics"
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Discussant: P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Speaker: Elizabeth Hoppe, Lewis University: "Plato's Believe it or Not "
  Discussant: Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa
  5:30-6:45 Keynote Address
   
Chair: Walter Brogan, Villanova University
Speaker: Klaus Held, Berische Universität Wuppertal, "Wonder, Time and Idea: On the Greek Beginning of Philosophy "
  6:45-8:00 Reception: Faculty Club, Hamlin Hall
 
Saturday, April 12th, 2003
  9:00-12:15 Panel: Who is Socrates?/Who is Plato?
Chair: David Wolfsdorf, Boston University
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Jena Jolissaint, University of Oregon: "A Life of Leisure and the Death of a Fool: Socrates and Philosophy"
Discussant: Martha Beck, Lyon College

2.

Corrine Painter, Seattle University: "In Defense of Socrates: The Stranger’s Role in the Sophist"
Discussant: James Wood, Boston University

3.
Michael Nass, Depaul University: "Interpretation and Translation in the Dialogues"
Discussant: Mitchell Miller, Vassar College
  12:15-1:30 Lunch
  1:30-3:45 Panel: Plato and Platonism
Chair: Erik Vogt, Trinity College
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Michael Shaw, Villanova University: "To Drink From the Cup of Wisdom: Plato’s Use of Orego in the Phaedo"
Discussant: Lawrence Hatab, Old Dominion University

2.

Keith Whitaker, Boston College: "Simplicity and Eros in Plutarch’s Antony"
Discussant: Marjolein Oele, Loyola University of Chicago

  4:00-6:00 Aristotle, Women, and the City
Chair: David Roochnik, Boston University
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Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College of Rochester: "The Passive Female Role in Aristotle’s Embryology"
Discussant:Anna Lannstrom, Boston University

2.

Thornton Lockwood, Assumption College: "Justice in Aristotle’s Household and City"
Discussant: Steven Gardner, University of Tulsa

  6:15-7:30 Keynote Address
Chair: Drew Hyland, Trinity College
  Stanley Rosen, Boston University: "he Idea of the Bed: The Problem of Mimesis in Plato’s Republic"
  7:45 Banquet: Hamlin Hall
 
Sunday, April 13th, 2003
  9:00-11:15 Dialectic and Nature in Aristotle
Chair: Todd Ryan, Trinity College
1.
Ben Grazzini, New School University: "Nature's Habits "
Discussant: Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College
2.
Michael Bowler, University of Notre Dame: "Dialectic and First Principles in Aristotle’s Topics"
Discussant: Gerard Kuperus, DePaul University
  11:30-12:30 Business Meeting
  12:30-1:40 Adjournment