UCL Institut Supérieur de Philosophie

Université catholique de Louvain Centre De Wulf-Mansion

Beauty and Happiness in Plato’s Symposium

International Workshop

Salle du Conseil ISP “Jean Ladrière” (Collège Mercier)

Thursday, March 19

Chair: Pierre Destrée (UCLouvain)

14:00 -- Presentation

14:15 -- Narrative Temporalities and Models of Desire

Zina Giannopoulou (University of California-Irvine)

Chair: Marc-Antoine Gavray (Université de Liège)

15:45 -- Eros and the Pursuit of Form

F.C.C. Sheffield (University of Cambridge)

17:15 -- A Doctor’s Folly: Diagnosing the Speech of Eryximachus

Franco V. Trivigno (University of Oslo)

Friday, March 20

Chair: Jean-Michel Counet (UCLouvain)

09:30 -- Eros and personal love according to Diotima

Anthony W. Price (Birkbeck, University of London)

11:00 -- The Comic and the Tragic: A Reading of Aristophanes’ Speech

Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College)

Chair: Lambert Isebaert (UCLouvain)

14:15 -- Unfamiliar Voices: harmonizing the non-Socratic speeches and Plato's psychology
Jeremy Reid (University of Arizona)

15:45 -- Alcibiades the Profane: Mystery Imagery in Plato’s Symposium

Radcliffe Edmonds (Bryn Mawr College)

Respondent: Nicholas Smith (Lewis & Clark College)