2005 Conference Program

University of Oregon - Eugene, OR - April 14-16

Thursday, April 14th, 2005
  8:30-9:00 Registration
Gerlinger Lounge
  9:00-9:15 Welcome
John Lysaker, Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon
  9:15-11:45 Session 1 - The Triple Goddess of Demeter: Birth, Life, and Death in 3 Platonic Dialogues
Chair: Christopher Long, Pennsylvania State University
1.
 Jena Jolissaint, The University of Oregon, “Sacred Dorrways: Traces of the Body in Plato's Timaeus”
2.
 Carolyn Culbertson, The University of Oregon, ”Waiting for the Inevitable: A reading of time and sacrifice in the death of Socrates"
3.
 Melissa Shew, The University of Oregon, ”What We Owe the Dead: In praise of Theaetetus"
  11:45-1:15 Lunch
  1:15-2:15 Session 2
    Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver, "Psychagogia and the Economy of Pleasures"
  2:15-5:35 Session 3
Chair: Garry Gurtler, Boston College
1.
 Emanuela Bianchi, New School University, "Material Vicissitudes and Technical Wonders: The Ambiguous Figure of Automaton in Aristotle's Biology of Sexual Difference"
Discussant :Eric Sanday, Vanderbilt University
2.
 Omar Rivera, The Pennsylvania State University, "The Comedy of Patricide (Or: A Passing Sense of Manliness)"
Discussant: Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University
3. Thomas A. Davis, Whitman College, "Implication and Self-Inoculation at Laches 187e-188c."
Discussant: Gary Gabor, Fordham University
  5:35-6:00 Break
  6:00-7:30 Featured Speaker (Gerlinger Lounge)
Debra Nails, Michigan State University, "The Two Tragedies of Theaetetus."
  7:30-8:30 Reception at Museum Library
  8:00-9:30 Banquet Susie Papé Reception Hall
 
Friday, April 15th, 2005
  9:00-12:20 Session 4 (Knight Library Browsing Room)
Chair: Corinne Painter, Emporia State
1.

Yancy Hughes Dominick, University of Kansas, "The Role of Images in Plato's Seventh Letter."
Discussant: Phil Hopkins, Southwestern University

2.

Larry Hatab, Old Dominion University, "Writing Knowledge in the Soul: Orality, Literacy, and Plato's Critique of Poetry."
Discussant: P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts Lowel

3.
 Kevin O'Neill, University of Redlands, "Philosophy and the Figurative: Phaedo, 57a-61c."
Discussant: J. Walter Sterling, St. John's College Santa Fe
  12:20-2:00 Lunch
  2:00-5:00 Session 5 - Book Panel Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato
  Walter Brogan, Villanova University - Heidegger
Dennis Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University - Gadamer
Michael Naas, DePaul University - Derrida
Jason Wirth, Oglethrope University -Irigiray
Silva Benso, Siena College - Cavarero
Response: Drew Hyland, Trinity College
  5:00-5:30 Break
  5:30-7:00 Featured Speaker (Lawrence Hall)
  David Krell, DePaul University, “Dipl' ereo, 'A Double Tale I Shall Tell...' Empedocles and Hölderlin on Tragic Nature and Tragic Purification."
  7:00-7:30 Reception
 
Saturday, April 16th, 2005
  9:30-12:50 Session 6 (Education 176)
Chair: Michael Shaw, Utah Valley State College
1.
 Sean Kirkland, DePaul University, "Thinking in the Between with Heidegger and Plato."
Discussant: Sara Brill, Fairfield University
2.
 John Kress, St. John's College, “Phronesis or Sophia? Aristotle's Question of the hexis in Nichomachean Ethics VI (with Reference to Heidegger)."
Discussant: Adam Arola, University of Oregon
3.
 Henry Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, "Mesotes, Energeia and Aletheia - Discovering an Ariadne's Thread through Aristotle's Moral and Natural Pilosophy."
Discussant: Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  12:50-2:10 Lunch
  2:10-5:30 Session 7
Chair: Claudia Zatta, University of Oregon
1.
 Jeremy Bell, DePaul University, "Learning Ignorance, Pursuing Good: Education in Plato's Thought."
Discussant: Ömer Aygün, The Pennsylvania State University
2.
 Aaron Chait, Northwestern University, "Elenchus in Republic 1."
Discussant: Alain Beauclair, University of Oregon
3.
 Joe McCoy, Catholic University of America, "The Road to the Good in the Philebus."
Discussant: James Wood, Boston University
  5:40-6:15 Business Meeting (Education 176)