Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen
Room 208/209, Sydnesplassen 12/13
4-6 June 2013
Wednesday, June 4th
11.45 鈥� 12.30 Lunch will be served in room 210 (coffee, tea, sandwiches)
12.30 鈥� 12.45 Welcome
12.45 鈥� 14.45 Keynote lecture by Marina McCoy, “The Protagoras, Poetry, and the Platonic Imagination”
15.00 鈥� 16.15 Olof Pettersson, 鈥淒angerous Voices: On Written and Spoken Discourse in Plato鈥檚 Protagoras鈥�
19.00 Dinner
Thursday, June 5th
09.15 – 10.30 Paul Woodruff, 鈥淧oetry in Education: Why Protagoras Makes It Central鈥�
10.45 鈥� 12.00 Vivil Valvik Haraldsen, “Is Pleasure Any Good?”
12.15 鈥� 13.30 Knut 脜gotnes, 鈥淪ocrates鈥� Sophisticated Attack on Protagoras鈥�
13.30 鈥� 14.30 Lunch
14.30 鈥� 15.45 Hayden W. Ausland, 鈥淥n the Treatment of Virtue in Plato’s Protagoras鈥�
16.00 鈥� 17.15 Vigdis Songe-M酶ller, “Socrates鈥� Irony: A Voice from Nowhere?”
19.00 Dinner
Friday, June 6th
09.15 鈥� 10.30 Gro R酶rstadbotten, 鈥淭he Protagoras: A Tragedy?鈥�
10.45 鈥� 12.00 Jens Kristian Larsen, 鈥淏y What Is the Soul Nourished?鈥�
12.15 鈥� 13.45 Lunch / Project meeting
13.45 鈥� 15.00 Cynthia Freeland, “The Science of Measuring Pleasure and Pain鈥�
15.00 鈥� 16.15 Hallvard Fossheim, “Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Protagoras”
16.15 鈥� 16.30 Closing remarks
The symposium is free and open to all. Lunch is included.
Registration to: Kirsten Bang (kirsten.bang@fof.uib.no) before May 19.