KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 11:00 AM
ED LANDRETH AUDITORIUM
“Wisdom Without Knowledge: Socrates Today”
Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)

 

I. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1:30-5:00 PM
ROACH CONFERENCE ROOM, TUCKER TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Chair: Ellen Wagner (University of North Florida)

1:30 Workshop Session
“Some Remarks on Xenophon’s Moral Psychology”
Speaker: Don Morrison (Rice University)
Response: Mark Warren (Classics, UT Austin)

2:45 Symposium Session
“What Are Friends For, Anyway? Lysis 216c-221d”
Speaker: Russell Dancy (Florida State University)

4:00 Symposium Session
“Socrates between Virtue and Pleasure: the Function
of the ‘Simonides Passage’ in the Structure of Plato’s Protagoras”
Speaker: Shinro Kato (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

5:00-7:00: Break for dinner

II. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 7:30-9:45 PM
ROACH CONFERENCE ROOM, TUCKER TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Chair: Jim Butler (Berea College)

7:30: Workshop Session
“Plato’s Charmides: Intellectualism on Trial”
Speakers: Daniel Graham and James Siebach (Brigham Young University)
Response: John Bowin (Philosophy, UT Austin)

8:45 Workshop Session
“Miscommunication in Plato’s Gorgias”
Speaker: David Robertson (Felician College)
Response: Blinn Combs (Philosophy, UT Austin)

III. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 9:00 AM-12:30 PM
STUDENT CENTER BALLROOM
Chair: Jim Hankinson (UT Austin)

9:00 Workshop Session
“Socrates’ Therapeutic Use of Inconsistency in the Axiochus”
Speaker: Tim O’Keefe (Georgia State University)
Response: Wayne Olson (Classics, UT Austin)

10:15 Symposium Session
“Socratic Learning”
Speaker: Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma)
Response: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)

11:30 Symposium Session
“The Socratic Method in Plato’s Republic”
Gerasimos Santas (University of California, Irvine)

Friday afternoon excursion to The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
and the Kimbell Art Museum

Friday evening: Open

IV. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 9:00 AM-12:30 PM
KELLY ALUMNI CENTER
Chair: Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)

9:00 Workshop Session
“The Dangers and Blessing of philosophia:
Socrates vs. the ‘Gentlemen of Athens’ on the Good Life”
Speaker: Emese Mogyorodi (Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.,
and University of Szeged, Hungary)
Response: Michael Sevel (Philosophy, UT Austin)

10:15 Workshop Session
“The Secret Life of Socrates”
Speaker: Carl Huffman (DePauw University)
Response: Pavlos Kalligas (University of Athens/Greece)

11:30 Symposium Session
“The Fragmentation of Virtue: Socrates contra Gorgias”
Speaker: Dominic Scott (Cambridge University)

Lunch: 12:30-2:00

V. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2:00-5:30 PM
KELLY ALUMNI CENTER
Chair: Alexander Mourelatos (UT Austin)

2:00 Symposium Session
“Socratic Courage”
Speaker: Paul Woodruff (UT Austin)

3:10 Symposium Session
“Talking to Socrates”
Speaker: Mary Margaret McCabe (King’s College London)

4:15 Symposium Session
“Socrates on How Wrongdoing Damages the Soul”
Speaker: Nicholas Smith (Lewis and Clark College)
Response: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)

Saturday evening: Reception for participants at the home of Ronald Moore.

 

FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The International Socrates Symposium
and 27th Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
are made possible by the generous financial support of

The Ronald E. Moore Foundation,
                          and
TCU Office of Marketing and Communication,
                          and
TCU AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
                          and
Travel grants to participants awarded by the following institutions:
Brigham Young University; DePauw University; Felician College;
Georgia State University; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University; Rice University; Texas A&M University; University of Texas at Austin.

SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP CONVENER
Blake Hestir

SYMPOSIUM PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION
Hugh Benson, Richard Enos, Blake Hestir, Kathryne McDorman,
Ron Moore, Alex Mourelatos, Nick Smith, and Mary Volcansek

WORKSHOP PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION
Blake Hestir, Alex Mourelatos, and Steve White

PUBLICITY
Tracy Syler-Doctson, Gorland Mar

WEB PAGE CREATION
Doug Owings

HOSTS OF PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
University of Colorado (1995)
Florida State University (2001)
University of Houston (1989)
University of Oklahoma (1993)
Rice University (1979, 1989)
Texas A&M University (1996, 2003)
Texas Christian University (2000)
University of Texas at Austin (1978, 1980-88, 1990-2, 1994, 1997-8, 2002)
Trinity University (1999)

CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATIONS
Towne Place Suites by Marriott