Annual Conference

Program Agenda

Day 1: April 25th

Time Agenda
1:00 pm Welcome & Check-In
1:30 pm Opening Remarks
Mor Segev
, University of South Florida
1:45 pm

Session 1 
“Defining Engagements: Approaching Genre in the Theognidea”   
Lawrence Kowerski, Hunter College  
 
“The use of aphorism in Heraclitus and Epicurus: two opposite models?”  
Ignacio García Peña, University of Salamanca 

3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm

Session 2  
“Tragedy and Horror in Euripides’s Medea”
Craig Jendza, Denison University,    
  
“The ‘Fabula Anilis’ for the Dead: Women and Imparted Knowledge of the Underworld” 
Stephen Fodroczi, Cornell University 
 

5:00 pm Break
5:15 pm Keynote Speech: Kathryn Morgan
7:00 pm Reception

Day 2: April 26th

Time Agenda
10:00 am Gathering & Coffee
10:30 am

Session 3
“Self-Knowledge in Tragedy, Comedy, Philosophy”
Andrew Payne, St. Joseph’s University, 
 
“The Nature of Beauty Between Sappho and Plato” 
Jonathan Fine, Georgetown University

12:00 Noon Lunch
2:00 pm

Session 4 
“A Dialogue within a Dialogue: The Many Purposes of Plato’s Frames”  
Cara Cummings, Morgan State University 
 
“Persuasion and Justice in the Afterlife Myths of Phaedo and the Gorgias” 
Nicholas Baima, Florida Atlantic University 

3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm

Session 5 
“Comic Sense and Tragic Sensibility in Plato’s Philebus”  
Kevin Kambo, University of Dallas  
  
“Multivalence and Candor in Plato’s Menexenus” 
Alfredo Watkins, Duke University 

Day 3: April 27th

Time Agenda
11:00 am Gathering & Coffee
11:30 am

Session 6
“The Four Causes of Tragedy”   
Benjamin Koons, University of St. Thomas 
  
“Probability and Necessity in Aristotle’s Physics”   
Eugene Garver, St. John’s University/ University of Texas

1:00 pm Break
1:15 pm

Session 7 
“Generic Cognition in Post-Hellenistic Rhetoric: ps.-Demetrius, Dionysius, and Hermogenes”  
Henry Bowles, University of Oxford 
 
“Between Pedagogue and Poet: Michael Psellos and the Genre of Homeric Epimerisms”  
Arshy Azizi, University of Chicago

2:45 pm

General Discussion & Farewell