All times UTC-7 (Phoenix\, Arizona time). For example\, subtract 9 hours for Beijing time (so in Beijing the conference is 10:00 PM-3:40 AM)\; add 9 hours for German time (so in Germany the conference is 4:00 PM-9:40 PM).
\nFRIDAY MAY 14
\n7:00-8:10 AM Xin Liu\, Nanjing University\, China\, &ldquo\;Koinōnia Megistōn Genōn: From the Exercise of One-Many in the Parmenides to the Exercise of Being-Nonbeing in the Sophist\,&rdquo\; comments by Benjamin Keoseyan\, University of Arizona
\n8:30-9:40 Pauline Sabrier\, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg\, Germany\, &ldquo\;Change\, Rest and Greatest Kinds in Plato's Sophist\,&rdquo\; comments by Chris Buckels\, Juní\;pero Serra High School\, San Mateo\, California
\n10:00-11:10 AM Colin C. Smith\, University of Colorado Boulder\, "Being as Communion: Sophist 248b2-8\," comments by Timothy Clarke\, University of California Berkeley
\n11:30-12:40 PM Annual Business Meeting: All participants invited
\nSATURDAY MAY 15
\n7:00-8:10 AM Keynote address by Mary Louise Gill\, Brown
\n&ldquo\;Images of the Philosopher in the Prologue of the Sophist&rdquo\;
\n8:30-9:40 AM Jan Szaif\, University of California Davis\, &ldquo\;Paideia and Philosophy in Plato&rsquo\;s Sophist\,&rdquo\; comments by Fiona Leigh\, University College London\, Great Britain
\n10:00-11:10 AM Catherine McKeen\, Bennington College\, &ldquo\;The Private Sophist and the Public Sophist\,&rdquo\; comments by Fernando Muniz\, Federal University of Minas Gerais\, Brazil
\n11:30-12:40 PM Ryan M. Brown\, Boston College\, &ldquo\;A Proto-Account of the &lsquo\;Convertibility of the Transcendentals&rsquo\; in Plato&rsquo\;s Sophist\,&rdquo\; comments by Emily Perry\, University of California Berkeley
\nSUNDAY MAY 16
\n7:00-8:10 AM Peter Moore\, Xavier University\, &ldquo\;Sophistry as Mimicry of True Arts: Why There is a Sophist but Not a Sophistic Technitēs\,&rdquo\; comments by Cristina Ionescu\, Catholic University of America
\n8:30-9:40 AM Anna Pavani \, University of Cologne and Brown University\, &ldquo\;The Value Free Method that Values Names\,&rdquo\; comments by Evan Rodriguez\, Idaho State University
\n10:00-11:10 AM Christopher Izgin\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, Germany\, &ldquo\;Are Aristotle&rsquo\;s Definitions of Truth and Falsity Platonic? Aristotle&rsquo\;s Metaphysics &Gamma\;.7\, 1011b26&ndash\;7\, and Plato&rsquo\;s Sophist\, 240e10&ndash\;241a1\,&rdquo\; comments by Mark Wheeler\, University of California San Diego.
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