Colloquium Schedule

13th Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy:
Plato's Republic

Friday -- Manning House, Tucson, AZ     

8:30-8:45: Opening remarks -- Mark McPherran, Julia Annas, and Chris Maloney

Session I -- Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)

8:45-9:55: Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma) “Dialectic in the Republic: The Divided Line (510b-511d)”
-- comments by Michelle Jenkins (University of Arizona)

10:05-11:15: James Lesher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Saphêneia in Plato's Divided Line”
-- comments by Patricia Curd (Purdue University)

11:25-12:35: Constance Meinwald (University of Illinois, Chicago) “The Metaphysics of the Republic”
-- comments by Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)

Lunch at the Manning House: 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Session II -- Chair: Mark Wheeler (San Diego State University)

2:00-3:10: Carl Huffman (DePauw University) “Mathematics in the Republic”
-- comments by Dominic Bailey (University of Colorado)

3:20-4:30: Zena Hitz (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) “Degenerate Regimes in Plato's Republic ”
-- comments by Nils Rauhut (Coastal Carolina University)

4:30-5:00: Break

Session III -- Chair: Lee Shepski (University of Arizona)

5:00-6:10: Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona) "The Defense of Justice in the Republic"
-- comments by Eric Brown (Washington University)

6:20-7:30: Nicholas Smith (Lewis and Clark College) “Return to the Cave”
-- comments by Shigeru Yonezawa (Tsukuba University)

Dinner at the Manning House: 7:30 - 9:00

Saturday -- Integrated Learning Center, Room 130

Session IV -- Chair: Teresa Padilla (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

9:00-10:10: Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland) “The Ideal City and the Republic”
-- comments by Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College)

10:20-11:30: Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge University) “Music All Pow'rful”
-- comments by Pierre Destrée (Catholic University of Louvain)

11:40-12:50: Jessica Moss (University of Pittsburgh) “Rational and Non-Rational Parts of the Soul”
-- comments by Patrick Miller (Duquesne University)

Session V -- Chair: Mark McPherran (Simon Fraser University)

2:40-3:50: C.D.C. Reeve (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Turning the Soul Around: Education in the Republic”
-- comments by David O'Connor (University of Notre Dame)

4:00-5:10: Julia Annas (University of Arizona) “The Atlantis Story: The Republic and the Timaeus”
-- comments by Anthony Long (University of California, Berkeley)

5:20-6:30: Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago) “Mythic Justice”
-- comments Helmut Heit (Technical University of Berlin)

7:00-9:30: Reception at Rachana Kamtekar’s house.

Sunday -- Integrated Learning Center, room 130

Session VI -- Chair: Harvey Goldman (University of California at San Diego)

9:00-10:10: J. Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee) "The Greatest and Most Decisive of the Overthrows"
-- comments by Robert Wagoner (University of Arizona)

10:20-11:30: Michael Morgan “Becoming Like the Divine in Plato's Republic”
-- comments by Zina Giannopoulou (University of California, Irvine)

11:40-12:50: Rachel Barney (University of Toronto) “Ring-Composition in the Republic and Beyond”
-- comments by Russell Jones (University of Oklahoma)