"Plato today!" (September 12, 13, and 14)

[Pedro Dotto]

Monday (September 12)

1 - 09:00 - 12:00 - Moderator: Bruno Conte (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)

“Tripartition and the ambiguity of anger in Laws IX, 863b-868a”
Olivier Renaut (Université Paris Nanterre)

Commentary: Luiz Eduardo Freitas (Universidade de São Paulo)

“Sexual Differentiation and What it Means to Be Human in Timaeus”

Jill Gordon (Colby College)

Commentary: Priscila Alba (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)

2 - 14:00 - 17:00 - Moderator: Pedro Dotto (New School for Social Research)

“The Timaeus as a Thought Experiment”

Luca Pitteloud (Universidade Federal do ABC)

Commentary: Samuel Yelton (New School for Social Research)

“Plato’s appropriation of τὸ ἐικός in the Phaedrus”

María Angélica Fierro (Universidade de Buenos Aires)

Commentary: Cássio Mercier Ramos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)

Tuesday (September 13)

3 - 09:00 - 12:00 - Moderator: Luiz Eduardo Freitas (Universidade de São Paulo)

“Was Plato a dualist? Separation of Body and Soul in Plato’s Phaedo”

Gabriele Cornelli (Universidade de Brasília)
Commentary: George Matias de Almeida Júnior (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

“Wearing Virtue: Plato’s Republic V, 449a-457b and the Socratic Debate on Women’s Nature”

Cinzia Arruzza (New School for Social Research)

Commentary: Fernanda Pio (Universidade de Brasília)

4 - 14:00 - 17:00 - Moderator: Vicente Sampaio (Areté - Centro de Estudos Helênicos)

“Who are We, Where are We?’:  Plato’s Narratives of the Soul”

Andrea Nightingale (Stanford University)

Commentary: Antonio Kerstenetzky (Princeton University)

“Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life”

Angie Hobbs (University of Sheffield)

Commentary: Celso Oliveira Vieira (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Wednesday (September 14)

5 - 14:00 - 17:00 - Moderator: Antonio Kerstenetzky (Princeton University)

“Philosophical dogs: Plato on knowledge and familiarity”

Jessica Moss (New York University) 

Commentary: Pedro Dotto (New School for Social Research)

“Troublemakers”
Marco Zingano (Universidade de São Paulo)

Commentary: Luiz Fernando Pereira Aguiar (Universidade de São Paulo)