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SUMMARY:Penn Ancient Workshop on Plato's Menexenus
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LOCATION:University of Pennsylvania\, Pennsylvania\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Penn Ancient Philosophy Workshop invites paper proposals for fifteen minute presentations to be given at a workshop devoted to Plato&rsquo\;s<em>Menexenus</em>&nbsp\;and held on Saturday January 18th\,&nbsp\;&nbsp\;2014 at 402 Cohen Hall\, University of Pennsylvania.</p>\n<p>While the&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em>&nbsp\;has received scholarly attention\, it nevertheless remains a deeply understudied dialogue. This is especially so given the rich and provocative nature of the text. At once ironic and interventionist\, the<em>Menexenus</em>&nbsp\;teasingly intersects with a broad range of Platonic concerns and other dialogues.</p>\n<p>Proposals should address the&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em>&nbsp\;explicitly although they need not do so exclusively. (Intertextual arguments are welcome.) Although the eventual papers should be around 2000 words in length\,&nbsp\;<em>paper proposals</em>need only be 300 words in length.</p>\n\n<p>The following is a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics under which a proposal might fall.</p>\n\n<p>- frame-dialogue\, structure of dialogue\, meta-textual elements\, Socrates-Aspasia problem</p>\n<p>- active citizenship\, civic ideology\, civic institutions\, tradition\, the role of the polis</p>\n<p>- politics and philosophy</p>\n<p>- Plato\, philosophy and rhetoric\, funerary rhetoric in particular</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;<em>Symposium&nbsp\;</em>vs.&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em></p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;<em>Laws&nbsp\;</em>vs.&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em></p>\n<p>-<em>&nbsp\;Statesman&nbsp\;</em>vs.&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em></p>\n<p>- Anthropological myth in the&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em></p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em>&nbsp\;as contemporary political intervention\, Plato and recent Greek history</p>\n<p>-<em>&nbsp\;</em>Contribution of&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em>&nbsp\;to proto-natural law and/or proto-just war theory</p>\n<p>- Philosophy\, power\, empire\, imperial resistance</p>\n<p>- History\, historicity\, patterns in history\, the politics of historiography</p>\n<p>- Plato/Socrates/Aspasia vs. Thucydides/Pericles</p>\n<p>- Plato and race</p>\n<p>- Socratic-Platonic hierarchy of goods in the&nbsp\;<em>Menexenus</em></p>\n<p><em><br></em></p>\n<p>Proposals are due by Monday December 2nd\, 2013 at&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>penn.philosophia@gmail.com</p>\n<p>Acceptance notifications will be sent by Monday December 9th\, 2013.</p>\n<p>Upon acceptance of proposals\, participants must submit their papers electronically to&nbsp\;penn.philosophia@gmail.com</a>&nbsp\;by Monday January 6th\,&nbsp\;2014.</p>
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