Annual Conference

Session 1 (Chair: Stephen Lasse, University of South Florida)

“Free but not Wholly Free: Freedom as Obedience to the Law in parta and Beyond”
Susan O. Shapiro, Utah State University

“Spartan Slaves No Longer: Narratives of Boeotian Liberation in Plutarch”
Michael Furman, Florida State University

Keynote Speech (Chair: Madeline Martin-Seaver, University of South Florida)

“(Re)Writing the History of Freedom in Ancient Athens”
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, University of Michigan 

Session 2 (Chair: Simon Dutton, University of South Florida)

“Heraclitus on Human Freedom and the Efficacy of Political Projects”
Jackson Garcia, University of South Florida

 “Apelletic Agency: Engineering Pyrrhonian Ataraxia with Zhuangzi”
Matthew Dupree, Florida State University

Session 3 (Chair: Ryan Hom, University of South Florida)

“Enchantment and Enchainment: Philosophical Freedom of Speech in Plato’s Phaedrus”
Giulia Cervato, University of Padua

“The Ethics of Freedom in Xenophon’s Memorabilia”
Ernest Thomas Finan, Boston University

Session 4 (Chair: Stephen Lasse, University of South Florida)

“The Self-made Man: Aristotle on responsibility for character”
Audrey Anton, University of Western Kentucky

Session 5 (Chair: Simon Dutton, University of South Florida)

“Is Freedom Good?”
Edward C. Halper, University of Georgia

Session 6 (Chair: Jackson Garcia, University of South Florida)

“Freedom and Free Speech in Thucydides’ History”
Jennifer T. Roberts, City University of New York

“Freedom of Speech in Polybius”
Mary Frances Williams, Independent Scholar

General Discussion & Farewell