Annual Conference

Program Agenda

Day 1: Thursday, April 23rd

Time Agenda
1:00 pm Welcome & Check-In
1:30 pm Opening Remarks
Mor Segev
, University of South Florida
1:45 pm

Session 1
Chair: Jackson Garcia, University of South Florida
 
“Soul-Searching: Moving Inquiry Forward in De Anima 1.2” 
Ashley Attwood, University of Arkansas 
  
 “The ‘Whole Soul’ in Eudemian Ethics II.8”  
Jay Elliott, Bard College  

3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm

Session 2
Chair: Bridget Erickson, University of South Florida
 
 “Human Beings as Dependent Self-Movers in Plato’s Laws” 
Mariana Noé, University of Arizona 
  
“Interior Dialogue and Interior Assertion in Aristotle’s Moral Psychology” 
Timothy Buchanan, Biola University 

 

5:00 pm Break
5:15 pm Keynote Speech:
“Title” presented by  
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University 
7:00 pm Reception

Day 2: Friday, April 24th

Time Agenda
10:00 am Gathering & Coffee
10:30 am

Session 3
Chair: Hyder Arastu, University of South Florida  
“Does Plato Believe the Soul is Tripartite?”  
Megan Wu 

“Transformative Capacities in the Stoics” 
Jan Maximilian Robitzsch 

12:00 Noon Lunch
2:00 pm

Session 4
Chair: Jason Nethercut, University of South Florida  
“Crafting Judgment and Imagination in Plato’s Philebus”  
Kevin Kambo, University of Dallas 

“Lamp or Mirror? Imagination as Creative in Proclus” 
John V. Garner, University of West Georgia  

3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm

Session 5
Chair: Jesse Obert, University of South Florida  
“The Soul and Speech Perception in Gorgias and Early Greek Thought”  
R.J. Barnes, Purdue University 

“Vibrations, Movements, and the Soul: Perceptual Transmission in Plato’s Timaeus and Philebus” 
Sara De Leonardis 

“Aristotle on the Possibility of Simultaneous Perception”
Lianghua (Glenn) Zhou  

Day 3: Saturday, April 25th

Time Agenda
10:30 am Gathering & Coffee
11:00 am

Session 6
Chair: Madeline Martin-Seaver, University of South Florida  
“The Lamenting Part: Grief and Moral Psychology in Plato’s Laws”   
Lana Glozic, Princeton University  

“Stoic Emotions & Judgement Theories: a difference in movements”   
Liz Frissell, University of Nottingham 

12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm

Session 7
Chair: Peter Kotiuga, University of South Florida  
“Akrasia in Sophocles’ Ajax”  
Jake C. Haagenson, Columbia University 

“A Platonic Formula for Soul: Desire Plus Cognitive Power”  
Andrew Payne, St. Joseph’s University 

2:45 pm

General Discussion & Farewell