Programme:
Thursday, 30 May 2024
9:30-10:00 Tea and Coffee
10:00-11:15 Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) - Sipping Wisdom: The Virtues of Intoxication in Plato's Laws
11:30-12:45 Rachel Barney (Toronto) - Protagoras and the Sightlovers
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Branislav Kotoc (KCL) - Courage and Conversation in the Laches
15:30-16:45 Fiona Leigh (UCL) - Elenchus, Dialectic, and Epistemic Virtue in the Republic
16:45-17:15 Tea and Coffee
17:15-18:30 Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge) - The Ethics of Inquiry and the Importance of Character
18:30 Edith Hall (Durham) - On M.M. McCabe
Friday, 31 May 2024
9:30 - 10:00 Tea and Coffee
10:00-11:15 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala) - Conflicting and Hierarchical Norms of Conversation: The Protagoras and the Gorgias
11:30-12:45 Melissa Lane (Princeton) - 'To Know is to Act; to Act is to Know': Plato's Republic on How to Educate True Rulers
12:45 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00-15:15 Verity Harte (Yale) - Fighting Words: The Philebus and Gorgias
15:30-16:45 Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell) - Aristotle on Why We [Should] Blame 'Ignorance in the decision'
17:00 M.M. McCabe - Closing Remarks
Location: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), Strand Campus, King's College London
The conference is organised with the generous support of the Foundation for Platonic Studies.
For enquiries, please contact Branislav Kotoc (branislav.kotoc@kcl.ac.uk).
