Plato today!
Programme
Monday (September 12)
1 – 09:00 – 12:00- Moderator: Bruno Conte (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
“Tripartition and the ambiguity of anger in Laws IX, 863b-868a”
Olivier Renaut (Université Paris Nanterre)
Commentary: Luiz Eduardo Freitas (Universidade de São Paulo)
“Sexual Differentiation and What it Means to Be Human in Timaeus”
Jill Gordon (Colby College)
Commentary: Priscila Alba (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
2 – 14:00 – 17:00 -Moderator: Pedro Dotto (New School for Social Research)
“The Timaeus as a Thought Experiment”
Luca Pitteloud (Universidade Federal do ABC)
Commentary: Samuel Yelton (New School for Social Research)
“Plato’s appropriation of τὸ ἐικός in the Phaedrus”
María Angélica Fierro (Universidade de Buenos Aires)
Commentary: Cássio Mercier Ramos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
Tuesday (September 13)
3 – 09:00 – 12:00 – Moderator: Luiz Eduardo Freitas (Universidade de São Paulo)
“Was Plato a dualist? Separation of Body and Soul in Plato’s Phaedo”
Gabriele Cornelli (Universidade de Brasília)
Commentary: George Matias de Almeida Júnior (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
“Wearing Virtue: Plato’s Republic V, 449a-457b and the Socratic Debate on Women’s Nature”
Cinzia Arruzza (New School for Social Research)
Commentary: Fernanda Pio (Universidade de Brasília)
4 – 14:00 – 17:00 – Moderator: Vicente Sampaio (Areté – Centro de Estudos Helênicos)
“Who are We, Where are We?’: Plato’s Narratives of the Soul”
Andrea Nightingale (Stanford University)
Commentary: Antonio Kerstenetzky (Princeton University)
“Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life”
Angie Hobbs (University of Sheffield)
Commentary: Celso Oliveira Vieira (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Wednesday (September 14)
5 – 14:00 – 17:00 – Moderator: Antonio Kerstenetzky (Princeton University)
“Philosophical dogs: Plato on knowledge and familiarity”
Jessica Moss (New York University)
Commentary: Pedro Dotto (New School for Social Research)
“Troublemakers”
Marco Zingano (Universidade de São Paulo)
Commentary: Luiz Fernando Pereira Aguiar (Universidade de São Paulo)
Contact
Roberto Bolzani (USP, Coordenador) – robertof@usp.br
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