Annual Conference

Program Agenda

Day 1: April 25th

Time Agenda
1:00 pm Welcome & Check-In
1:30 pm Opening Remarks
Mor Segev
, 堁階傭部app
1:45 pm

Session 1
Chair: Jason Nethercut, 堁階傭部app

Defining Engagements: Approaching Genre in the Theognidea&紳莉莽梯;
Lawrence Kowerski, Hunter College  
 
The use of aphorism in Heraclitus and Epicurus: two opposite models?&紳莉莽梯;
Ignacio Garc穩a Pe簽a, University of Salamanca

3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm

Session 2
Chair: Stephen Lasse, 堁階傭部app
 
Tragedy and Horror in Euripidess Medea
Craig Jendza, Denison University, 胼&紳莉莽梯;
&紳莉莽梯;
The Fabula Anilis for the Dead: Women and Imparted Knowledge of the Underworld 
Stephen Fodroczi, Cornell University 
 

5:00 pm Break
5:15 pm Keynote Speech:
Plato and the Carnival of Genre presented by Kathryn Morgan, UCLA
7:00 pm Reception

Day 2: April 26th

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

Session 3
Chair: Lillian King Abadal, 堁階傭部app

Self-Knowledge in Tragedy, Comedy, Philosophy
Andrew Payne, St. Josephs University, 
 
The Nature of Beauty Between Sappho and Plato 
Jonathan Fine, Georgetown University

12:00 Noon Lunch
2:00 pm

Session 4
Chair: Madeline Martin-Seaver, 堁階傭部app

A Dialogue within a Dialogue: The Many Purposes of Platos Frames 
Cara Cummings, Morgan State University 
 
Persuasion and Justice in the Afterlife Myths of the Phaedo and the Gorgias&紳莉莽梯;
Nicholas Baima, Florida Atlantic University 

3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm

Session 5
Chair: Jessica Williams, 堁階傭部app

Comic Sense and Tragic Sensibility in Platos Philebus&紳莉莽梯;
Kevin Kambo, University of Dallas&紳莉莽梯;
&紳莉莽梯;
Multivalence and Candor in Platos Menexenus&紳莉莽梯;
Alfredo Watkins, Duke University 

Day 3: April 27th

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

Session 6
Chair: Jackson Garcia, 堁階傭部app

The Four Causes of Tragedy&紳莉莽梯;
Benjamin Koons, University of St. Thomas 
&紳莉莽梯;
Probability and Necessity in Aristotles Physics胼&紳莉莽梯;
Eugene Garver, St. Johns University/ University of Texas

12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm

Session 7
Chair: Clinton Kinkade, 堁階傭部app

Generic Cognition in Post-Hellenistic Rhetoric: ps.-Demetrius, Dionysius, and Hermogenes&紳莉莽梯;
Henry Bowles, University of Oxford 
 
Poets and Pedagogues: A Comparison of Homeric Epimerisms&紳莉莽梯;
Arshy Azizi, University of Chicago

2:45 pm

General Discussion & Farewell