PROGRAMME
Thursday, 10 December
18.30-19.15 Registration
19.15-19.30 Opening and Welcome
19.15-19.20 Address by Prof. Michalis Pieris, Dean of the Faculty of Letters
19.20-19.25 Welcome by Prof. Antonis Tsakmakis, Department of Classics and Philosophy
19.25-19.30 Opening Remarks by Dr Eleni Kaklamanou
KEYNOTE SPEECH
19.30-20.30 Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews)
“Where are you going and where have you come from?” Philosophy and discursive form in Plato’s dialogues
20.30 Dinner
Friday, 11 December
SESSION 1
Chair: Demokritos Kaltsas (University of Cyprus)
9.30-10.00 Jörg Hardy (Free University of Berlin)
‘The importance of what we care about': Considerations about the prologue of the Laches
10.00-10.30 Pauliina Remmes (Uppsala University)
The prooemium and the skopos: Proclus' Commentary on the First Alcibiades
10.30-10.50 Elizabeth Pender (University of Leeds)
Socrates Framed: Opening and Closing the Death-scene in Four Episodes (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo)
10.50-11.20 Discussion
11.20- 11.50 Coffee & Tea
SESSION 2
Chair: Eleni Kaklamanou (Οpen University of Cyprus/Plato Centre, TCD)
11.50-12.20 Michael Erler (University of Würzburg)
Argumentative aporia and dramatic euporia. The closures of and in the Protagoras and the Euthyphro
12.20 -12.50 Zacharoula Petraki (University of Crete/Open University of Cyprus)
“In touch with Socrates”: the dramatic frame of the Phaedo
12.50 -13.20 George Karamanolis (University of Vienna)
The Literary Form of Plato’s Timaeus
13.20-13.50 Discussion
13.50-15.30 Lunch
SESSION 3
Chair: Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews)
15.30- 16.00 Kathryn Morgan (University of California, LA)
Erotic Openings in the Platonic Dialogues
16.00-16.30 Andrea Capra (University of Milan)
Poetic beginnings and silenic closures in Plato's erotic dialogues
16.30-17.00 Discussion
17.00- 17:30 Coffee & Tea
KEYNOTE SPEECH
17.30-18.30 Luc Brisson (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris)
The opening of the Charmides: self-restraint in question
20.30 Dinner
Saturday, 12 December
SESSION 4
Chair: Antonis Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
9:00-9:30 Carlotta Capuccino (University of Bologna)
Paradoxical Proems: The relationship between diégesis and mímesis in Plato' s dialogues.
9:30-10:00 Maria Pavlou (University of Cyprus)
Leisure, Philosophy, and Teaching in the Protagoras
10:00-10:30 Antonis Tsakmakis (University of Cyprus)
The Necessity of Writing: The Introduction of Plato’s Theaetetus
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee & Tea
SESSION 5
Chair: Panagiotis Christias (University of Cyrpus)
11:30-12:00 Spyridon Rangos (University of Patras)
On the proems and closures of Plato’s dialogues in the third Thrasyllian tetralogy
12:00-12.30 Jenny Bryan (UCL)
On the openings of Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus
12.30-13.00 Discussion
Overview and Discussion
13.00-13.10 Margalit Finkelberg (Tel Aviv University)
Framing the Dialogues: Closing Remarks
13.10-14:10 Open Discussion
End of Conference
Thursday, 10 December
18.30-19.15 Registration
19.15-19.30 Opening and Welcome
19.15-19.20 Address by Prof. Michalis Pieris, Dean of the Faculty of Letters
19.20-19.25 Welcome by Prof. Antonis Tsakmakis, Department of Classics and Philosophy
19.25-19.30 Opening Remarks by Dr Eleni Kaklamanou
KEYNOTE SPEECH
19.30-20.30 Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews)
“Where are you going and where have you come from?” Philosophy and discursive form in Plato’s dialogues
20.30 Dinner
Friday, 11 December
SESSION 1
Chair: Demokritos Kaltsas (University of Cyprus)
9.30-10.00 Jörg Hardy (Free University of Berlin)
‘The importance of what we care about': Considerations about the prologue of the Laches
10.00-10.30 Pauliina Remmes (Uppsala University)
The prooemium and the skopos: Proclus' Commentary on the First Alcibiades
10.30-10.50 Elizabeth Pender (University of Leeds)
Socrates Framed: Opening and Closing the Death-scene in Four Episodes (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo)
10.50-11.20 Discussion
11.20- 11.50 Coffee & Tea
SESSION 2
Chair: Eleni Kaklamanou (Οpen University of Cyprus/Plato Centre, TCD)
11.50-12.20 Michael Erler (University of Würzburg)
Argumentative aporia and dramatic euporia. The closures of and in the Protagoras and the Euthyphro
12.20 -12.50 Zacharoula Petraki (University of Crete/Open University of Cyprus)
“In touch with Socrates”: the dramatic frame of the Phaedo
12.50 -13.20 George Karamanolis (University of Vienna)
The Literary Form of Plato’s Timaeus
13.20-13.50 Discussion
13.50-15.30 Lunch
SESSION 3
Chair: Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews)
15.30- 16.00 Kathryn Morgan (University of California, LA)
Erotic Openings in the Platonic Dialogues
16.00-16.30 Andrea Capra (University of Milan)
Poetic beginnings and silenic closures in Plato's erotic dialogues
16.30-17.00 Discussion
17.00- 17:30 Coffee & Tea
KEYNOTE SPEECH
17.30-18.30 Luc Brisson (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris)
The opening of the Charmides: self-restraint in question
20.30 Dinner
Saturday, 12 December
SESSION 4
Chair: Antonis Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
9:00-9:30 Carlotta Capuccino (University of Bologna)
Paradoxical Proems: The relationship between diégesis and mímesis in Plato' s dialogues.
9:30-10:00 Maria Pavlou (University of Cyprus)
Leisure, Philosophy, and Teaching in the Protagoras
10:00-10:30 Antonis Tsakmakis (University of Cyprus)
The Necessity of Writing: The Introduction of Plato’s Theaetetus
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee & Tea
SESSION 5
Chair: Panagiotis Christias (University of Cyrpus)
11:30-12:00 Spyridon Rangos (University of Patras)
On the proems and closures of Plato’s dialogues in the third Thrasyllian tetralogy
12:00-12.30 Jenny Bryan (UCL)
On the openings of Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus
12.30-13.00 Discussion
Overview and Discussion
13.00-13.10 Margalit Finkelberg (Tel Aviv University)
Framing the Dialogues: Closing Remarks
13.10-14:10 Open Discussion
End of Conference