2023 West Coast Plato Workshop
Schedule of Events
All times are local: GMT -07:00
FRIDAY, JUNE 23
9:00-1:00 Sedona tour and hike
2:30-2:55 Welcome
3:00-4:10 Evanthia Speliotis, Bellarmine University
“Paradigm and Method in Plato’s Statesman”
Comments by Emily Hulme, University of Sydney
4:30-5:40 Sara De Leonardis, Cornell University
“The Place of the World-Soul in the Myth of the Statesman and its Ethical Dimension”
Comments by Cynthia Shihui Ma, Tulane University
SATURDAY, JUNE 24
8:30-9:30 Keynote by Christopher Rowe, Durham University
“Contemporary Politikoi and Other Sophists”
9:50-11:00 Sarale Ben-Asher, University of Chicago
“The Rule of Bisection in Statesman 262a–263b”
Comments by Dong-geun Kim, University of Edinburgh
11:20-12:30 Freya Möbus, Loyola University Chicago
Justin Vlasits, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Division and Animal Sacrifice in Plato’s Statesman”
Comments by John Proios, University of Chicago
12:45-2:00 Lunch at TBD
2:20-3:30 Pauline Sabrier, Université Libre de Bruxelles
“The Stoicheia tôn Pantôn at 278d1: Plato’s definition of an internal principle”
Comments by Thomas Slabon, Stanford University
3:50-5:00 Ross Gilmore, University of Kansas
“The Statesman’s Craft in Context in Plato’s Statesman”
Comments by Hande Akyar, Northwestern University
SUNDAY, JUNE 25
8:30-9:30 Keynote by Susan Sauvé Meyer, University of Pennsylvania
“Plato on the Rule of Law”
9:50-11:00 Lia Theodoroudi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Who are the Kompsoi of 285a1?”
Comments by Vilius Bartninkas, Vilnius University
11:20-12:30 Catherine McKeen, Bennington College
“Laws and Political Expertise in Plato’s Statesman”
Comments by Rupert Sparling, Stanford University
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:20-3:30 Jeremy Reid, San Francisco State University
“The Analysis of Constitutions in Plato’s Statesman”
Comments by Christopher Turner, California State University Stanislaus
3:50-5:00 Joseph Bjelde, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
“Making Divine Bonds”
Comments by Holly Moore, Luther College
MONDAY, JUNE 26
Grand Canyon tour and hike to view Temples of Jupiter, Venus, and Apollo