02 April 2008

Texas Workshop, and an Insult to Hoeller

This weekend, the annual Texas Workshop; I once found the full schedule on the web, but that's disappeared. For now, the first two days:

THIRTY-FIRST ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

APRIL 3-5, 2008

All sessions are in 501 Rudder Tower

Thursday, April 3

7:00-8:30 PM “Plotinus on the Objects of Sense Perception”

Speaker: Steven Strange (Emory University)

Commentator: Scott Austin (Texas A&M University)

Friday, April 4

8:30-9:00 Refreshments

9:00-10:30 “What’s So Funny About Being Overcome by Pleasure? Protagoras

352a-358d”

Speaker: Brooks Sommerville (University of Toronto)

Comments: Howard Curzer (Texas Tech University)

10:30-12:00 “The Aporia of Euthydemus 288d-292e”

Speaker: Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma)

Comments: Anthony Carreras (Rice University)

12:00-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:00 ”Doxophilia”

Speaker: Sean Kelsey (UCLA)

Comments: Blinn Combs (Trinity University)

3:00-5:00 Keynote address: “Socrates in the Phaedo and Aristophanes”

Speaker: Marwan Rashed (´ Ecole Normale Sup´erieure)

6:00-9:00 PM Reception/Buffet Dinner at the home of Carolyn and Robin Smith


On a different note, what I've been listening to this morning, an album that competes for 'ugliest design ever'. It looks like something nightmarish from the DDR, not WDR.

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