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 APS Program
Third Annual Independent Conference

 Trinity College, Hartford, CT
April 11-13, 2003

All sessions will take place in the Reese Room of the Smith House.

Friday, April 11:
   
12:00-12:15: Welcome: Dean W. Miller Brown, Dean of the Faculty, Trinity College
   
12:15-2:45: Panel: Struggling with the Presocratics
 

  
Chair: Gary Scott
         Loyola University of Maryland

“Kreon and Ananke: The Doubling of Necessity in Presocratic Studies on Nature”
Rita Alfonso, Stony Brook University

Discussant: Cory Wimberly, Pennsylvania State University

“Struggling With Parmenides”
James Barrett, Colby College

Discussant: Karen Gover
                Pennsylvania State University

   
3:00-5:15: Panel: Philosophy, History, Tragedy
    
Chair: Adrian Switzer
         Loyola University of Chicago

“Theoria and Tragedy: A Reading of Aristotle’s Poetics”
Will McNeill, DePaul University

Discussant: P Christopher Smith
University of Massachusetts, Lowell

“Plato’s Believe it or Not”
Elizabeth Hoppe, Lewis University

Discussant: Jacob Howland
                University of Tulsa

   
5:30-6:45: Keynote Address
   
  Moderator: Walter Brogan
                Villanova University
   
  Klaus Held, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal: “Wonder, Time, and Idea: On the Greek Beginning of Philosophy”
   
6:45-8:00: Reception: Faculty Club, Hamlin Hall
   
Saturday, April 12
   
9:00-12:15: Panel: Who is Socrates?/Who is Plato?
   
  Chair: David Wolfsdorf
         Boston University
   
 

“A Life of Leisure and the Death of a Fool: Socrates and Philosophy”
Jena Jolissaint, University of Oregon

   
  Discussant: Martha Beck
                 Lyon College
   
 

“In Defense of Socrates: The Stranger’s Role in the Sophist”
Corrine Painter, Seattle University

   
  Discussant: James Wood
                Boston University
   
  “Interpretation and Translation in the Dialogues”
Michael Nass, Depaul University
   
  Discussant: Mitchell Miller
                 Vassar College
   
12:5-1:30: Lunch
   
1:30-3:45: Plato and Platonism
   
  Chair: Erik Vogt, Trinity College
   
  “To Drink From the Cup of Wisdom: Plato’s Use of Orego in the Phaedo”
Michael Shaw, Villanova University
   
  Discussant: Lawrence Hatab
                Old Dominion University
   
 

“Simplicity and Eros in Plutarch’s Antony”
Keith Whitaker, Boston College

   
  Discussant: Marjolein Oele
                Loyola University of Chicago
   
4:00-6:00: Aristotle, Women, and the City
   
  Chair: David Roochnik
         Boston University
   
 

“The Passive Female Role in Aristotle’s Embryology”
Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College of Rochester

   
  Discussant: Anna Lannstrom
                Boston University
   
 

“Justice in Aristotle’s Household and City”
Thornton Lockwood, Assumption College

Discussant: Steven Gardner
                 University of Tulsa

   
6:15-7:30: Keynote Address
   
  Moderator: Drew A. Hyland
                Trinity College
   
  Stanley Rosen, Boston University: “The Idea of the Bed: The Problem of Mimesis in Plato’s Republic”
   
7:45: Reception and Banquet: Hamlin Hall
   
Sunday, April 13
   
9:00-11:15: Dialectic and Nature in Aristotle
   
  Chair: Todd Ryan
         Trinity College
   
 

“Nature’s Habits”
Ben Grazzini, New School University

   
  Discussant: Martha Woodruff
                Middlebury College
   
 

“Dialectic and First Principles in Aristotle’s Topics”
Michael Bowler, University of Notre Dame

   
  Discussant: Gerard Kuperus
                 DePaul University
   

11:30-12:30:

Business Meeting
   
12:30: Adjournment