Plato's Sophist

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).

FRIDAY MAY 14

7:00-8:10 AM Xin Liu, Nanjing University, China, “Koinōnia Megistōn Genōn: From the Exercise of One-Many in the Parmenides to the Exercise of Being-Nonbeing in the Sophist,” comments by Benjamin Keoseyan, University of Arizona

8:30-9:40 Pauline Sabrier, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, “Change, Rest and Greatest Kinds in Plato's Sophist,” comments by Chris Buckels, Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo, California

10:00-11:10 AM Colin C. Smith, University of Colorado Boulder, "Being as Communion: Sophist 248b2-8," comments by Timothy Clarke, University of California Berkeley

11:30-12:40 PM Annual Business Meeting: All participants invited

SATURDAY MAY 15

7:00-8:10 AM Keynote address by Mary Louise Gill, Brown

“Images of the Philosopher in the Prologue of the Sophist”

8:30-9:40 AM Jan Szaif, University of California Davis, “Paideia and Philosophy in Plato’s Sophist,” comments by Fiona Leigh, University College London, Great Britain

10:00-11:10 AM Catherine McKeen, Bennington College, “The Private Sophist and the Public Sophist,” comments by Fernando Muniz, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

11:30-12:40 PM Ryan M. Brown, Boston College, “A Proto-Account of the ‘Convertibility of the Transcendentals’ in Plato’s Sophist,” comments by Emily Perry, University of California Berkeley

SUNDAY MAY 16

7:00-8:10 AM Peter Moore, Xavier University, “Sophistry as Mimicry of True Arts: Why There is a Sophist but Not a Sophistic Technitēs,” comments by Cristina Ionescu, Catholic University of America

8:30-9:40 AM Anna Pavani , University of Cologne and Brown University, “The Value Free Method that Values Names,” comments by Evan Rodriguez, Idaho State University

10:00-11:10 AM Christopher Izgin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, “Are Aristotle’s Definitions of Truth and Falsity Platonic? Aristotle’s Metaphysics Γ.7, 1011b26–7, and Plato’s Sophist, 240e10–241a1,” comments by Mark Wheeler, University of California San Diego.