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Eros in Ancient Philosophy
The 9th Cambridge Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy
3 - 4 May 2019

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Frisbee Sheffield (University of Cambridge) and Professor Raphael Woolf (KCL)

Programme:
Friday, 3 May 2019
G.21, Faculty of Classics

9:15-9:50 Registration, tea/coffee
9:50-10 Welcome
10-11:30 (Keynote Address) Dr Frisbee Sheffield (University of Cambridge): ‘Defending Plato’s Alcibiades’
11:30-11:45 Tea Break
11:45-12:45 Larkin Philpot (University of Pittsburgh): ‘Aristotle on Self-love and Being an Object of Desire for Oneself’ || Respondent: Seunghyun Angela Yeo (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
12:45-1:45 Sandwich Lunch (provided)
1:45-2:45 Maria Kristina Papanidi (American College of Greece): ‘Erôs and Intelligible Desire in Plotinus’ Enneads’ || Respondent: Stephan Stephanides (Christ’s College, Cambridge)
2:45-3:45 Dr Elena Bartolini (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca): ‘Philia and Eros. On what keeps logos together and on what breaks it’ || Respondent: Kaicheng Fang (Queens’ College, Cambridge)
3:45-4 Tea Break
4-5 Maria Victoria Salazar (CUNY): ‘Aristophanes’ Erotic Hiccups: Incestuous and Political Eros in Plato’s Symposium’ || Respondent: Solveig Gold (King’s College, Cambridge)

Saturday, 4 May 2019
G.21, Faculty of Classics

10-11 Elena Comay del Junco (University of Chicago): ‘Aristotle’s Erotic Theology’ || Respondent: Alessio Santoro (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
11-11:15 Tea Break
11:15-12:15 Dr Alexander S. Ramsay (Aarhus University): ‘Agathon’s Erotic Potential in Plato’s Symposium’ || Respondent: Joshua Kramer (St John’s College, Cambridge)
12:15-1:15 Sandwich Lunch (provided)
1:15-2:45 (Keynote Address) Professor Raphael Woolf (King’s College London): ‘Where did the love go? Eros in the Charmides’
2:45-3 Concluding Remarks

Registration
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The registration fee is £15 and includes the cost of lunch on both days, as well as refreshments and conference materials. (The conference is free for all members of Cambridge Classics.)

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