Conference Program

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SOCRATICA V, 11–14 July 2022

Rice University, Houston
Draft Program (1 Jul 22)

Plenary sessions in Humanities 117
Other sessions in Humanities 118
Conference Office in Humanities 120
Philosophy Department Office Humanities 225

 

Monday 11 July (all times Central; remote speakers in underline)

8:00–9.00        COFFEE        Philosophy Lounge, HUMA 216

9.00–9.30        WELCOME

9.30–10.00      Livio Rossetti   Socrate e l’arte di scrivere testi che non si configurino come trattati

                                                       HUMA 117                                                                   HUMA 118

10.15–10.45 Santiago Chame  On the Megarians of  Metaphysics IX 3 Dino de Sanctis  Socrate e le Sirene
10.45–11.15 Michele Corradi   Eubulide tra scena comica e dibattito filosofico nell’Atene del IV secolo Ryo Tashiro   The meaning of θεία μοῖρα in the Platonic Theages
11.30–12.00

 

 Jeremy Henry   The wisdom of Plato’s Socrates Evan Rodriguez   Three modes of protreptic
12.00–12.30

 

 Dustin Gish   A philosophic friendship Bernhard Kaiser   The Socratic elenchus and the σκοπός of Plato’s Gorgias

12.30–2.30      LUNCH on your own

1.30–2.15      TOUR of Rice campus (optional)

2.30–3.00        Alessandro Stavru   How Socratic Is “Socratic midwifery”? Contextualizing Tht. 149a–151d

3.00–3.30        Francesca Pentassuglio   A Wirkungsgeschichte of Socratic erôs: Hermias, Proclus and Olympiodorus compared

3.45–4.15         Thomas Slabon   Divine exemplarism and moral τύποι in Republic II and III

4.15–4.45         Rodrigo Illarraga   Order and divinity: The metaphysical foundations of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus

5.00–6.00        RECEPTION in HUMA lobby

 

Tuesday 12 July

8:00–9.00        COFFEE        Philosophy Lounge, HUMA 216

9.00–9.30        Louis-André Dorion   Diogène est-il un Socrate devenu fou

9.30–10.00      Aldo Brancacci   Socrate, il beltistos logos, e la determinazione del logos

                                                       HUMA 117                                                                  HUMA 118

10.15–10.45 Stefano Mecci   The reception of Socrates in early Christianity: the case of Justin Martyr Teresa Padilla   Socrates’ and his interlocutors’ silences and perplexities, or, the art of listening
10.45–11.15 Thomas Moody   Socrates’ affective complexity in the Phaedo Laura Milman   What Cyrus is not: Lessons on leadership
11.30–12.00

 

 Manfred Kraus   Πλάτων πατραλοίας – Plato’s ‘Parricide’ against Socrates in the Parmenides Máté Héthelyi   A Stoic interpretation of the aporetic Socrates
12.00–12.30

 

 Florian Marion   Le tournant mégarique en philosophie contemporaine

12.30–2.30      LUNCH on your own

2.30–4.00        KEYNOTE      Agnes Callard   Socratic Love

4.15–4.45        Carolina Araújo   Aristippus on the virtue of women

4.45–5.15        André Luiz Braga da Silva   The “Ideas as thoughts” hypothesis: Antisthenes in Plato’s Parmenides?

5.15–5.45        Alex Lee and Christopher Moore   Crito of Alopece and the earliest authors of Socratic writings

7.30–9.30        BANQUET      Sixty Vines Restaurant, 2450 Rice Blvd, Rice Village

 

Wednesday 13 July 2022

8:00–9.00        COFFEE        Philosophy Lounge, HUMA 216

9.00–9.30        Claudia Mársico   Antisthenes’ political philosophy: between the Cyclops and Plato’s healthy city

9.30–10.00      Gabriel Danzig   Socrates and the Social Virtues

                                                       HUMA 117                                                                  HUMA 118

10.15–10.45 Etienne Helmer   On trade as an ethical practice in Xen. Oec. 20.22–29 Claudia Luchetti   Socrates the delian diver: Heraclitusʼ depths in Socrates’ philosophy of self-consciousness
10.45–11.15 Mario Regali   Il motivo del “rendere migliori” e Socrate educatore in Platone, Senofonte ed Eschine Trinidad Silva   Re-enmarcar la pregunta Qué es x en los diálogos Socráticos de Platón

11.30–1.00      KEYNOTE      Irmgard Männlein-Robert   A post-Hellenistic Socrates on Death: Paradoxes in the Pseudo-Platonic Axiochus

1.00–1.30        SNACK LUNCH

1.30–2.30       BUSINESS MEETING

 

FREE AFTERNOON/EVENING

 

Thursday 14 July 2022

8:00–9.00        COFFEE        Philosophy Lounge, HUMA 216

9.00–9.30        Nicholas D. Smith   Socrates and the epistemology of testimony

9.30–10.00      David Johnson   The Good-natured Euthydemus

                                                       HUMA 117                                                                  HUMA 118

10.15–10.45 David Roochnik   The Apologia of Aristippus Fiorenza Bevilacqua   Socrates and Xenophon in Memorabilia, Anabasis and beyond
10.45–11.15 Florencia Castro Possi   An old women’s superstition? (Cic. Div. I.7) The Socratics’ attitude towards divination Milena Lozano Nembrot   Pleasure and desire in Xenophon’s Hiero
 

 
11.30–12.00

 

 Donovan Cox The anomaly of the last elenchos of Plato’s Euthyphro Jeremy Bredin   Éthique et épistémologie dans le Phédon
12.00–12.30

 

 Irina Deretic   Aspasia and Socratics Natalie Hannan   How Socratic Is the Socratic Paradox?

12.30–2.30      LUNCH on your own

2.30–3.00        Gabriele Cornelli   Setting Socrates and Alcibiades apart

3.00–3.30        Vitor de Simoni Milione   Socrate l’autourgos tês philosophias: remarques sur le Banquet 1.5 de Xénophon

3.45–4.15         Chloe Balla   Xenophon’s and Plato’s Socrates on law and persuasion, nature and procreation

4.15–4.45         Ivan Jordović   Xenophon on Erōs

5.00–5.30        Elena Bellini   Who is pregnant? Socrates within the erotic knowledge-making process

5.30–6.00        Sandra Peterson   Socrates reproaches Xenophon

 

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