Friday, April 6
Location: Campbell 115
8:45-9:15 Continental Breakfast
Panel 1
Chair: Hal Thorsrud (Agnes Scott)
9:15-9:30 Welcome: K. Scarlett Kingsley, Harald Thorsrud, Joshua Billings
9:30-10:30 André Laks (Princeton) "Hesiod and Philosophy"
Respondent: Richard Patterson (Emory)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 Tom Mackenzie (UCL), “Creon and Teiresias Thinking Fast and Slow: Cosmology and Decision-Making in Sophocles’ Antigone”
Respondent: Cindy Patterson (Emory)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
Panel 2
Chair: K. Scarlett Kingsley (Agnes Scott)
1:30-2:30 Josh Billings (Princeton), “The agon sophias in the late fifth century”
Respondent: Hal Thorsrud (Agnes Scott)
2:30-3:30 Kathryn Morgan (UCLA), “Isocrates, Thucydides, and the stasis in words”
Respondent: Peter O'Connell (University of Georgia)
3:30-4:00 Coffee
Keynote Location: Francis Graves Auditorium 4:00-5:30 David Konstan (NYU), "Homer the Philosopher"
5:30-6:30 Drinks reception (Dana)
7:00-8:30 Dinner for speakers (downtown Decatur)
Saturday, April 7
Location: Campbell 115
9:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast
Panel 3
Chair: Marta Jimenez (Emory)
9:30-10:30 K. Scarlett Kingsley (Agnes Scott College), "Meteorology in the Peloponnesian War: Thucydides on Wind and Fire"
Respondent: Athanasios Samaras (UGA)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 Rachel Barney (Toronto), "Hippo of Croton: Last and Least of the Presocratics"
Respondent: Tim O'Keefe (GSU)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Panel 4
Chair: Josh Billings (Princeton)
1:00-2:00 Gabriel Danzig (Bar-Ilan), “Socrates and the life of practical accomplishment”
Respondent: Richard Parry (Agnes Scott)
2:00-3:00 Ava Shirazi (Princeton), "Love Otherwise: Beauty, body, and the beloved in Pseudo-Demosthenes’ Erotikos"
Respondent: Gina White (Vanderbilt)
3:00-3:30 Concluding remarks