Schedule

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