Annual Conference

Program Agenda

Day 1: Thursday, April 23rd

Time Agenda
1:00 pm Welcome & Check-In
1:30 pm Opening Remarks
Mor Segev
, ۴ý
1:45 pm

Session 1
Chair: Jackson Garcia, ۴ý
 
“Soul-Searching: Moving Inquiry Forward in 'De Anima 1.2'” 
Ashley Attwood, University of Arkansas 
  
 “The ‘Whole Soul’ in 'Eudemian Ethics II.8'”  
Jay Elliott, Bard College  

3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm

Session 2
Chair: Bridget Erickson, ۴ý
 
 “Human Beings as Dependent Self-Movers in Plato’s 'Laws'” 
Mariana Noé, University of Arizona 
  
“Interior Dialogue and Interior Assertion in Aristotle’s Moral Psychology” 
Timothy Buchanan, Biola University 

 

5:00 pm Break
5:15 pm Keynote Speech:
“Plato on Wanting and Liking” presented by  
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University 
7:00 pm Reception

Day 2: Friday, April 24th

Time Agenda
10:00 am Gathering & Coffee
10:30 am

Session 3
Chair: Hyder Arastu, ۴ý  
“Does Plato Believe the Soul is Tripartite?”  
Megan Wu, University of California, Berkely

“Transformative Capacities in the Stoics” 
Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, University of ۴ý

12:00 Noon Lunch
2:00 pm

Session 4
Chair: Jason Nethercut, ۴ý  
“Crafting Judgment and Imagination in Plato’s 'Philebus'”  
Kevin Kambo, University of Dallas 

“Lamp or Mirror? Imagination as Creative in Proclus” 
John V. Garner, University of West Georgia  

3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm

Session 5
Chair: Jesse Obert, ۴ý  
“The Soul and Speech Perception in Gorgias and Early Greek Thought”  
R.J. Barnes, Purdue University 

“Movements and the Soul: Perceptual Transmission in Plato’s 'Timaeus' and 'Philebus'” 
Sara De Leonardis, Cornell University 

“Aristotle on the Possibility of Simultaneous Perception”
Lianghua (Glenn) Zhou, Texas A&M University 

Day 3: Saturday, April 25th

Time Agenda
10:30 am Gathering & Coffee
11:00 am

Session 6
Chair: Madeline Martin-Seaver, ۴ý  
“The Lamenting Part: Grief and Moral Psychology in Plato’s 'Republic'”   
Lana Glozic, Princeton University  

“Stoic Emotions & Judgement Theories: a difference in movements”   
Liz Frissell, University of Nottingham 

12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm

Session 7
Chair: Peter Kotiuga, ۴ý  
“Akrasia in Sophocles’ 'Ajax'”  
Jacob Haagenson, Columbia University 

“A Platonic Formula for Soul: Desire Plus Cognitive Power” 
Andrew Payne, St. Joseph’s University 

2:45 pm

General Discussion & Farewell