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Ancient Philosophy Society
20th Annual Independent Meeting
10th – 12th June 2021
All times are Eastern Daylight Time • All sessions will take place via Zoom
Thursday 10 June
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Meeting ID: 819 0351 4006 Pass Code: Thales
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81903514006?pwd=cEcxUWplbnk5WG9ZVlRKYzVTMU5EUT09
Panel 1
11 AM – 1 PM
Circles of Stoicism
Chair: Tim DeGriselles (University of Toledo)
a.Robin Weiss (American University in Cairo) “No Human Being is a Stranger: The Stoics and the So-Called ‘Community of Reason’”
b.Basil Evangelidis (FernUniversität Hagen, Germany) “Lucretius on the swerve and free-action”
c.Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California) “Hierocles’ Concentric Circles”
Panel 2
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Empedocles and The Pythagorean Tradition
Chair: Daniel W. Graham (Brigham Young University)
a.Ginger Guin (Fordham University) “Irigaray’s Elemental and the Forgetting of Physis in Empedocles”
b.Leon Wash (University of Chicago) “Aristotle’s Metaphorical Empedocles”
c.Justin Humphreys (Villanova University) “Aristotle and the Italians”
Panel 3
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Injustice and the Self in the Gorgias and Protagoras
Chair: Kevin Cales (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
a.Jeremy Bell (Emory University) “Order and Egoism in Plato’s Gorgias”
b.Adriel M. Trott (Wabash College) “The Art of Measure, Hedonism and Akrasia in Plato’s Protagoras”
c.Mary Townsend (St. John’s University) “Plato’s Gorgias and Protagoras on the Injustices of Women”
APS Social Hour
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Friday 11 June
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Meeting ID: 831 9226 7431 Pass Code: Thales
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83192267431?pwd=azR0UC9XTWd6VkdPb1ZVRTdndWVlZz09
Panel 4
11 AM – 1 PM
Politics and Shame
Chair: Emanuela Bianchi (New York University)
a.Pieta Päällysaho (University of Jyväskylä) “On Alcibiades’ Shame”
b.Elena Bartolini (University of Milano-Bicocca) “Imagination, Freedom, and the Political Context: On φαντασία and λόγος in Aristotle”
c.Marina Marren (University of Nevada, Reno) “State Violence and Weaving: Implications of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata for Plato’s Statesman”
Panel 5
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Energeia and Kinesis
Chair: Matthew Clemons (SUNY Stony Brook)
a.Humberto José González Núñez (Villanova University) “Toward a Unitary Interpretation of Metaphysics ϴ: Reading ϴ 10 in Light of Aristotle’s Discussion of Being as Potency and Activity”
b.Mark Sentesy (Pennsylvania State University) “Aristotle’s Kinetic Concept of Anamnesis”
c.Brian Marrin (Universidad de los Andes) “‘So Endless an End:’ Ergon and Energeia in Aristotle”
Panel 6
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Desire and Difference in Plato
Chair: Anne-Marie Schultz (Baylor University)
a.Lydia Winn (Boston College) “Double-Blindness of the Soul: On the ‘Mixed Nature’ of the Ascent to the Good”
b.Stephen Mendelsohn (Boston College) “Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Possibility of the True Lie in Plato’s Republic”
c.Michael Wiitala (Cleveland State University) “The Parts of Difference in Plato’s Sophist”
5:45 – 6:45 PM
APS Social Hour
Saturday 12 June
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Saturday Meeting ID: 848 7254 1268 Pass Code: Thales
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84872541268?pwd=ODdjR2U2bk9Fc2pyZ052V1JiUnFadz09
Panel 7
11 AM – 1 PM
Silence and the Remainder
Chair: Ryan Harte (Utah Valley University)
a.Tuhin Bhattacharjee (New York University) “The Silence of Ananke: Logos, Psyche, and the Maternal in the Myth of Er”
b.Sean Driscoll (Brigham Young University) “Cratylus’ Silence about Linguistic Correctness”
c.Claudia Baracchi (University of Milano-Bicocca) “Biography, Autobiography, and the Fugitive”
Panel 8
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Life and Contradiction in Aristotle
Chair: Aurora Yu (University of North Carolina)
a.Pascal Massie (Miami University of Ohio) “Contradiction, Being, and Meaning in Aristotle’sMetaphysics Gamma”
b.Cameron F. Coates (DePaul University) “The Unity of Aristotle’s Concept of Life”
c.Philip Sutherland (Marquette University) “Aristotle and Consciousness”
Panel 9
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Aristotle and Puzzling Bodies
Chair: Marta Jimenez (Emory University)
a.Velvet Yates (University of Florida) “The Link Between Body Heat and Courage in Aristotle”
b.Van Tu (Bowdoin College) “Aristotle on Women’s Deliberative Capacity as Akuron: A Puzzle about Coming-to-Be”
c.Martha Woodruff (Middlebury College) “Aristotle’s Remembrance of Xenia in Poetics and Hermeneutics”
APS Social Hour
5:45 – 6:45 PM
