Past SPEP/APS Invited Speakers

SPEP/APS Meeting, University of Oregon, October 7, 1999

• David Roochnik, Boston University: “The Wonder of Self-Identity in Plato’s Theaetetus.”

• Claudia Baracchi, New School University: “Psychomachia: The Revolution of Platonic Dialogue.”

• Burt Hopkins, Seattle University: “Image and Original, The Dialectic of the Same and Other, and the Good in Plato’s Dialogues.”

SPEP/APS Meeting, Pennsylvania State University, October 5, 2000

• Mitchell Miller, Vassar College: “Stages On Plato’s Longer Way.”
   

• John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University: “Speaking of the Earth: Figures of Transport in Plato’s Phaedo.”

SPEP/APS Meeting, Goucher College, October 4, 2001

• Drew A. Hyland, Trinity College: “Against a Platonic ‘Theory of Forms’”
    

• Michael Nass, DePaul University: “Cyrus and Socrates: Parallel Lives of Virtue?”

SPEP/APS Meeting, Loyola University of Chicago, October 10, 2002

• Walter Brogan, Villanova University: “E-Motion and the Heart of Being: Plato’s Symposium.”

• Ronna Burger, Tulane University: “The Psychology of Thymos.”

APS/SPEP Meeting, Boston Massachusetts, November 6, 2003

• "Eros in the Timaeus, or Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places?", Jill Gordon, Colby College
• "Erotic Fantasies: Plato on Reconciliation With Imperfection," Charles Griswold, Boston University