The Aristotle Bash 2026
March 13 - March 15
March 13-15, 2026
Royce Hall 314 & Dodd Hall 247
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Please join us from Friday to Sunday, March 13-15, for The Aristotle Bash!
Conference Program
Friday, March 13, 2026 | Royce Hall 314
4:00 – 6:00 PM – Colloquium: Voula Tsouna (UCSB) – “Is there such a thing as defective goodness? Virtue and the faulty polities and characters in Plato’s Republic 8-9”
6:00 – 7:00 PM – Reception with food
Saturday, March 14, 2026 | Dodd Hall 247
10:30 – 11:00 AM – Coffee & light breakfast
11:00 AM -12:30 PM – Gabor Betegh (Cambridge) (Presenting via Zoom) – “Plato on Forgetting and Re-Understanding”
12:30 – 2:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 PM – Merrick Anderson (USC) – “The Opening of Laws Book 3”
3:45 – 5:45 PM – Workshop*: “Passages from Republic Books 8-9.578c” led by Voula Tsouna (UCSB) and Gavin Lawrence (UCLA)
5:45 – 6:15 PM – Light reception
*Please bring texts. We will let you know some particular passages and issues to focus on.
Sunday, March 15, 2026 | Dodd Hall 247
9:00 – 9:30 AM – Coffee & light breakfast
9:30 – 11:00 AM – Christopher Shields (UCSD) – “Acting, Well, Metaphorically”
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Sean Kelsey (Chicago) – “Forms of understanding in Aristotle’s De Anima”
1:00 – 2:00 PM – Lunch
With the participation of Richard McKirahan (Pomona), Monte Johnson (UCSD), and David Blank (UCLA)
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