From: Mark McPherran <[log in to unmask]>
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The Seventh Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy:
Plato, Myth, and Religion
February 15th, 16th, 17th, 2002
University of Arizona, Tucson
The Seventh Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy will be held at
the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 15-17, 2002. This
year's theme will be Plato, Myth, and Religion. Here below is the
tentative program:
Friday / 15th
8:45-9:00: Opening remarks
Mark McPherran, Julia Annas, and Chris Maloney
Session I -- Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
9:00-10:10: Mark McPherran (University of Maine at Farmington) -- Justice
and Pollution in the Euthyphro
-- comments by Mitchell Miller (Vassar College)
10:20-11:30: Kathryn Morgan (UCLA) -- Imprisonment, Prophecy, and
Authority in the Phaedo
-- comments by Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)
11:40-12:50: Mary Margaret McCabe (King's College London) -- Protean
Socrates: Mythical Figures in the Euthydemus
-- comments by Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma)
Lunch at Chris Maloneys house (2105 E. 4th Street).
Session II -- Chair: Darrel Colson (Pepperdine University)
2:40-3:50: Thomas Brickhouse (Lynchburg College) and Nicholas Smith (Lewis
and Clark College) -- The Myth of the Afterlife in Platos Gorgias
-- comments by Daniel Russell (Wichita State University)
4:00-5:10: Fred D. Miller Jr. (Bowling Green State University) -- Myth or
Reason? Plato on the Afterlife
-- comments by Jennifer Baker (University of Arizona)
Session III -- Chair: Enrique Hulsz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
7:00-8:10: John Armstrong (Southern Virginia University) -- Piety and
Intelligence in the Laws
-- comments by Jacques A. Bailly (University of
Vermont)
8:20-9:30: Donald Morrison (Rice University) -- Statesman as Demiurge:
What Does the Beginning of the Timaeus Imply for Political Theory?
-- comments by Aimee Koeplin (University of Washington)
Saturday / 16th
Session IV -- Chair: James Highland (University of Hartford)
9:00-10:10: Matthew Ostrow (Wesleyan University) -- Images and a Sense
of the Sacred in the Republic
-- comments by Matthew Fulkerson (Tufts University)
10:20-11:30: Michael Morgan (Indiana University) -- The Gods of Plato's
Republic
-- comments by Ellen Wagner (University of North Florida)
11:40-12:50: John Ferrari (University of California, Berkeley) -- The
Myth of Er
-- comments by Gale Justin (California State
University at Sacramento)
Session V -- Chair: Barry Vaughan (Mesa Community College)
2:40-3:50: Socrates, Euthyphro, and Piety -- George Rudebusch (Northern
Arizona U.)
-- comments by Joel Martinez (University of Arizona)
4:00-5:10: Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University) -- Mything the Point: Why
Mythos is No Logos
-- comments by Jill Gordon (Colby College)
5:20-6:30: Paul Woodruff (University of Texas) -- Plato's Appropriation
of Motifs from Mystery Religion
-- comments by Anne Farrell (University of Minnesota)
7:00-9:30: Reception at Julia Annas and David Owens house.
Sunday / 17th
Session VI -- Chair: Joel Martinez (University of Arizona)
9:00-10:10: Elizabeth Belfiore (University of Minnesota) -- Dancing With
the Gods: The Chariot Myth in Phaedrus
-- comments by Paul Dotson (University of Arizona)
10:20-11:30: David OConnor (Notre Dame University) -- Dionysus Will
Judge: Myth and Dialectic in the Symposium
-- comments by Scott LaBarge (University of Santa
Clara)
There is a registration fee of $75 [$35 for graduate students]),
due by February 1, 2002, made out to 'The Department of Philosophy,
University of Arizona'. It should be sent to the Department at P.O. Box
210027, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-9559.
For further information, please contact Mark McPherran,
Philosophy, University of Maine, 270 Main Street, Farmington, Maine 04938,
USA, (207)-778-7453, [log in to unmask]; or the Colloquium Assistant,
Jennifer Baker, Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721,
USA, [log in to unmask] Also see the colloquium website at:
http://come.to/plato2002.
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