2006 Conference Program

DePaul University - Chicago, IL - April 20-22

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
  8:00-10:00 Participants Arrive
Informal Reception in the Presidential Suite of the Belden-Stratford Hotel, 2300 North Lincoln Park West, (773) 281-2900.
 
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
  8:30-9:00 Registration
Munroe Hall 2312 N. Clifton Ave.
  9:00-9:15 Welcome
Rick Lee, Chair, Department of Philosophy, DePaul
Chuck Suchar, Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences, DePaul
  9:15-12:15 Plato I (114-116 Munroe Hall)
Chair: TBA
1.
Heather Reid, Morningside College, “The Socratic Agon: Turning Philonikia toward Philosophia in Plato’s Dialogues”
Response: Gary Scott, Loyola College of Maryland
2.
Mike Cantrell, Baylor University, “Rearming the ‘Irrationalist’ Potential of Belief in the Divine: Socrates, Abraham, and the Reason-Transforming Power of the Divine Encounter”
Response: Ryan Drake, Georgia Southern University
3.
Jussi Backman, University of Helsinki, “All of a Sudden: Heidegger and Plato’s Parmenides”
Response: Karen Gover, Bennington College
  12:15-2:00 Lunch (see Restaurant Guide)
  2:00-4:00 Aristotle I (Salvatore's Restaurant; 525 W. Arlington Place, (773) 528-1200)
Chair: TBA
1.
Michael Marx Shaw, Utah Valley State College, “Teleology and Nutrition in DeAnima, B.4”
Response: Gary Gurtler, Boston College
2.
Corinne Painter, Michigan State University, “A Critical Appropriation of Aristotle’s Conception of the Non-Moral Status of the Animal: On the Connection Between Action, Natural Capacity, Blameworthiness, and Morality”
Response: Deborah Achtenberg, University of Nevada-Reno
  4:00-4:30 Break
  4:30-6:00 Keynote Address (Salvatore's Restaurant, 525 W. Arlington Place, (773) 528-1200)
Welcome: Fr. Dennis Holtschneider, President, DePaul University
Chair:
Will McNeill, DePaul University
Address:
Francisco Gonzalez, Skidmore College, “Dialogue Discontinued: Heidegger on a Few Pages of Plato’s Theaetetus"
  6:00-8:00 Reception at Salvatore’s Restaurant
  8:00 Dinner (see Restaurant Guide)
 
Friday, April 21st, 2006
  9:00-12:00 Myth, Poetry, Philosophy (114-116 Munroe Hall)
Chair: Jena Jollissant, Oglethorpe University
1.
Thomas Thorp, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, “Odysseus Lies”
Response: Omar Rivera, University of Wisconsin at Lacrosse
2.
Sara Brill, Fairfield University, “Four Seals, Three Fingers, Two Non-Beings: On the Persistence of the Corporeal in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle”
Response: Emanuela Bianchi, New School for Social Research
3.
Ryan McBride, St. Norbert College, “A Theogony for the Intellect: On the Status of the Likely Story in Plato’s Timaeus”
Response: TBA
  12:00-1:30 Lunch (see Restaurant Guide)
  1:30-3:30 Aristotle II (Munroe Hall 114-116)
Chair: TBA
1.
Marjolein Oele, Loyola University, Chicago, “Being Split in Motion: Aristotle’s Poiein and Paschein Revisited”
Response: Steven Skultety, Northwestern University
2.
Benjamin Grazzini, New School University, “Putting it on Wax”
Response: Adriel Trott, Villanova University
  4:00-6:00 Roman Philosophy and Literature (Munroe Hall 114-116)
Chair: David Krell, DePaul University
1.
P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, “Virgil’s Destruktion of the Stoic Rational Agent: Rereading Aeneid IV after Nietzsche and Heidegger”
Response: Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College
2.
Hans-Helmuth Gander, Universität Freiburg, “The Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius’s TA EIS EAUTON”
Response: Peter Warnek, University of Oregon, Eugene
  6:00-7:30 Translation Panel (DePaul Center 220)
Chair: John Sallis, Boston College
1.
Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College, “Translating Ousia”
2.
Rob Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver, "On Translation and
Interpretation: Heidegger's Aristotle"
3. Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College, “The Style and Substance of Aristotle’s Language: Challenges for Translation”
 
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
  9:30-12:30 Plato II (Faculty Lounge, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave.)
Chair: Jill Gordon, Colby College
1.
John Rose, Goucher College, “Plato by Ear: Musical Harmony in Plato’s Symposium”
Response: Elizabeth Hoppe, Lewis University
2.
Eric Sanday, Marquette University, “Philosophy as the Practice of Musical Inheritance: Book II of Plato’s Republic”
Response: Greg Recco, Skidmore College
3.
Bernard Freydberg, Slippery Rock University, “Concerning the Regulation of Eros: A Serious Philological/Philosophical Inquiry”
Response: Colin Anderson, Hiram College
  12:00-1:30 Lunch (Box Lunches Provided by DePaul University)
  1:30-2:00 Business Meeting (Faculty Lounge, Roosevelt University)
  2:00-4:00 Book Panel Christopher Long, The Ethics of Ontology (SUNY Press, 2004)
Chair: Larry Hatab, Old Dominion University
Speakers:
Walter Brogan, Villanova University
Claudia Baracchi, New School for Social Research
Dennis Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University
Response: Christopher Long, Pennsylvania State University
  4:45-6:15 Keynote Address
Chair: Drew Hyland, Trinity College
Address:
Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona, "Arendt Interprets Plato"
  7:00-10:00

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