THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
A new date may be announced at a later time.
The Department of Classics will hold an International Conference on “Plato and Lyric Poetry” on Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, 2024, in Dodd 248.
Session 1
9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in Plato”
10.45 am-11.45 am. John Tennant (Stanford University): “Speaking lyrically, speaking proverbially.”
12.00- 1.30 pm: Lunch break
Session 2
1.30 pm-2.30 pm. Eleonora Rocconi (University of Pavia): “The role of melopoiia in Plato’s taxonomy of lyric genres”
2.35 pm.-3.35 pm. David Blank (UCLA): “The presence of Plato in Diogenes of Babylon’s treatise On Music”
3.35-3.50 pm: Coffee break
Session 3
3.50 pm-4.50pm. Julia Pfefferkorn (University of Trier): “The gods’ rewards: Plato, lyric poetry, and divine retribution”
5.00 pm-6.00 pm. Kathryn Morgan (UCLA) “The great contest: exploring life choices through Pindar in Plato’s Republic”
Saturday May 11, 2024
9 am. Breakfast
Session 1
9.30 am-10.30 am. Giulia Sissa (UCLA) “No hymns to Eros? Platonic rhythms and rhymes in the Symposium”
10.45 am-11.45 am. André Rehbinder (University of Paris, Nanterre) “Plato’s encounter with lyric in the Phaedrus”
12.00- 1.00 pm: Lunch break
Session 2
1.15 pm-2.15 pm. Marcus Folch (Columbia University) “Lyric and the geographic imagination in Plato’s Laws”
2.25 pm.-3.25 pm. Michael Brumbaugh (Tulane University) “Between nature and culture: Platonic chorality in the Guaraní Republic of Paraguay”
3.30-3.50 pm: Coffee break
Session 3
3.50 pm-4.50 pm George Gazis (Durham University) “Dialectic lyricism: subjectivity and the search for true doxa”
5.00 pm-6.00 pm. Pierre Destrée (Université catholique de Louvain) “Plato and iambic humor”