IX Symposium Platonicum: Plato's Politeia
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Invited Lectures
| Invited Speaker | Affiliation | Country | Paper Title | PDF file(s) | Lecture |
| Mario Vegetti | Università degli Studi di Pavia | Italy | How and why did the 'Republic' become unpolitical? | Ita. +Eng. | De Vogel Lecture |
| Gerard Boter | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | Αἰτία ἑλοµένου: but who makes the choices? Reading Plato's Republic in the new OCT. | Eng. | Philologica Lecture |
| Myles Burnyeat | University of Cambridge | UK | TBA | --- | Yamamoto Memorial Lecture |
Plenary Sessions
| Author | Affiliation | Country | Paper Title | PDF file(s) |
| Ferber, R. | Universität Lüzern | Switzerland | Ho de diōkei men hapasa psychē kai toutou heneka panta prattei | Ger. |
| Ferrari, F. | Università di Salerno | Italy | Intuizuione o fondazione? La natura della noesis nella Repubblica | Ita. |
| Ferrari, G.R.F. | University of California | U.S.A | Plato's Writerly Utopianism | Eng. |
| Kahn, C.H. | University of Pennsylvania | U.S.A. | Philosophical Motivation for the Doctrine of Forms | Eng. |
| Männlein-Robert, I. | Universität Tübingen | Germany | Katabasis und Hohle: Philosophische Entwurfe der Unterwelt in Platons Politeia | Ger. |
| Nails, D. | Michigan State University | U.S.A. | Plato's Republic in its Athenian Context | Eng. |
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| Rowe, C. | University of Durham | UK | On justice and the other virtues in the Republic: whose justice, whose virtues? | Eng. |
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| Szlezák, T.A. | Universität Tubingen | Germany | Platons Politeia: Aufbau, Handlung, Philosophiebegriff | Ger. |
Panel Sessions "Phyche"
| Author | Affiliation | Country | Paper Title | PDF file(s) |
| Fronterotta, F. | University of Salento-Lecce | Italy | Plato's psychology in Republic IV and X: how many parts of the soul? | Eng. |
| Gill, C. | University of Exeter | UK | What is the Point of the Tripartite Psyche in Plato's Republic? | Eng. |
| Renaut, O. | Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense | France | La fonction du θυμός dans la République | Fr./ Eng. |
Panel Sessions "Polis"
| Author | Affiliation | Country | Paper Title | PDF file(s) |
| Kurihara, Y. | Tokyo Gakugei University | Japan | Plato's "True" Tyrant in Republic Book 9 | Eng. |
| Lane, M. | Princeton University | U.S.A. | Founding as legislating: the figure of the lawgiver in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Lisi, F.L. | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Spain | ¿Modelo, proyecto o utopía? La posición de la República en el pensamiento político de Platón | Spn. |
Parallel Sessions
| Author | Affiliation | Country | Paper Title | PDF file(s) |
| Adluri, V. | Hunter College | U.S.A. | The Importance of Being Er | Eng. |
| Ahbel-Rappe, S. | University of Michigan | U.S.A. | Socrates the Cosmopolitan | Eng. |
| Araújo, C. | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | The definition of dunamis in Republic V and its argumentative role | Eng. |
| Baltzly, D. | Monash University | Australia | A Neoplatonic Defence of Philosopher-Queens | Eng. |
| Bartels, M. | Leiden University | the Netherlands | A wage for the rulers: the function of the μισθαρνητικὴ τέχνη | Eng. |
| Benson, H.H. | University of Oklahoma | U.S.A. | The Form of the Good as the Unhypothetical First Principle of Everything in the Republic | Eng. |
| Boeri, M.D. | Universidad Alberto Hurtado | Chile | Why does the spirited part of the soul become an ally of reason in the struggle against the irrational appetites? Plato's account to make the spirited closer to the rational part | Eng. |
| Bossi, B. | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Spain | Why does Plato use pleasure to persuade people to attain the good? | Eng. |
| Bourlogianni, X. | University of Crete | Greece | Psychic unity and partition in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Carpenter, A. | University of York | UK | Judging Striving to be Knowing | Eng. |
| Casanova, A. | University of Florence | Italy | Platonic Mimesis and the Foundation of the Kallipolis. Joking and seriousness, Consistency and Contradiction | Eng. |
| Casertano, G. | Università di Napoli | Italy | L'idea, il letto e la virtù | Ita. |
| Castelnérac, B. | Université de Sherbrooke | Canada | La chute du philosophe dans la cité, un mal nécessaire | Fr. |
| Charalabopoulos, N. | University of Patras | Greece | Dreams, autochthony, and metals: Why does Plato's ideal city need a foundation myth (Rep. III 414b-415d) | Eng. |
| Cornelli, G. | Universidade de Brasilia | Brazil | A city that listens and shares: an "archaeology" of the Republic of Plato | Eng. |
| Corradi, M. | Università di Pisa | Italy | Dal Protagora alla Repubblica: Platone e la riflessione di Protagora su letteratura e paideia. | Ita. |
| Costa, I. | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | El argumento de los relativos en República IV, logistikón y epithymetikón | Spn. |
| Delcomminette, S. | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium | Caractère et choix de vie | Fr. |
| Destrée, P. | FNRS/ University of Louvain | Belgium | Status, and functions of the allegory of the cave | Eng. |
| Dorion, L.-A. | Université de Montreal | Canada | La critique de la réfutation socratique au livre VII de la République (537d-539d) | Fr. |
| Dunshirn, A. | University of Vienna | Austria | Philosophos und Philologos in Politeia IX | Ger. |
| El Murr, D. | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | France | The Ethical Importance of the Idea of the Good in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Erginel, M.M. | Eastern Mediterranean University | Turkey | How Smart is the Appetitive Part of the Soul? | Eng. |
| Erler, M. | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | Germany | Zitat und Argument Das dritte Argument für das Glück der Gerechten (IX 583b-588a) und der 'Griesgram' im Philebos (42c-44d) | Ger. |
| Gonzalez, F. | University of Ottawa | Canada | Philosophy and/as Politics in Plato’s Republic: Ancient and Contemporary Interpretations | Eng. |
| Gutiérrez. R. | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | Peru | El retorno a la caverna y el conocimiento de sí mismo | Spn. |
| Halper, E.C. | University of Georgia | U.S.A. | Knowledge of the Whole | Eng. |
| Harbsmeier, M.S. | Humboldt University | Germany | "...and indeed not by poetry either" Mimetic Poetry and the Choice of the Best Life in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Harte, V. | Yale University | U.S.A. | Falsehood and Ignorance; Truth and Simplicity | Eng. |
| Havlíček, A. | The University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně | Czech | Gerechtigkeit, Gutes und Dialektik | Ger. |
| Helmer, E. | University of Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico | Le remodelage politique de l’oikos dans la République: de la famille au modèle familial | Fr. |
| Ho, H.K. | Chinese Culture University | Taiwan | The Art Education and the Tripartite Soul | Eng. +Fr. |
| Hourcade, A. | Université de Rouen | France | L' euboulia dans la République (I, 348b8-348e4; IV,428a11-429a4) | Fr. |
| Iwata, N. | Kyoto University | Japan | Analysis of the Objects: Plato's Epistemology in Republic V | Eng./ Fr. |
| Izumi, C. | Chiba University | Japan | The Role of Stereometry in Plato’s Republic | Eng. |
| Johnstone, M. | McMaster University | Canada | The Desires of Reason in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Kallas, T. | Tallinn University | Estonia | Platonic images as shaped by the translations of the Republic | Eng. |
| Kamtekar, R. | University of Arizona | U.S.A. | Ethics and Politics in Socrates’ Defense of Justice | Eng. |
| Kondo, T. | Akita University | Japan | Chrysippus' criticism of the theory of justice in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Larivée, A. | Carleton University | Canada | Eros Tyrannos: Alcibiades, Model of the Tyrant in the Republic | Eng.+ Fr. |
| Lefka, A. | Université de Liège | Belgium | L'eudaimonia des gardien(ne)s philosophes | Fr. |
| Liatsi, M | Universität Ioannina | Greece | Plato’s Theory of Signs in the Politeia on the way to Semiotics in the Seventh Letter | Eng.+ Ger. |
| Long, A.G. | University of St Andrews | UK | Political origins and the defence of justice in Republic 8 | Eng. |
| Lynch, T. | University of St Andrews | UK | «μὴ νεωτερίζειν»: Platonic worries about the risk of ethico-esthetical paranomia between harmonics and politics. | Eng./ Ita. |
| Marion, M. | Université du Québec à Montréal | Canada | ON THE ROLE OF DIALECTICAL GAMES IN THE REPUBLIC | Eng. |
| McCabe, M.M. | King's College | UK | 'Look, see!': Plato on moral vision | Eng. |
| McPherran, M.L. | Simon Fraser University | Canada | The Gods of the Republic | Eng. |
| Mesquita, A.P. | Lisbon University | Portugal | Evidencing Ideas in Plato's Republic VII (524c-525a) | Eng. |
| Migliori, M. | Università di Macerata | Italy | Complessita e unita della Repubblica: il sostrato teoretico | Ita. +Eng. |
| Monserrat Molas, J. | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | Un personaje secundario de La república y una cuestión central: Clitofonte y la defensa de Trasímaco | Spn. |
| Mouroutsou, G. | Humboldt Universität | Germany | The Allegory of the Cave: Methodos and Kathodos | Eng. |
| Mróz, T. | University of Zielona Góra | Poland | Reception of Plato's Republic and his Political Ideas in Polish Philosophy | Eng. |
| Naddaf, G. | York University | Canada | Philosophic and poetic inspiration in the Republic | Eng. |
| Obdrzalek, S. | Claremont McKenna College | U.S.A. | Erōs Tyrannos: Philosophical Passion and Psychic Ordering in the Republic | Eng. |
| Ogihara, S. | Tohoku University | Japan | A Literal Interpretation of the Myth of Er in the Republic | Eng. |
| O'Leary, J.S. | Sophia University | Japan | Heidegger's Mobile Assessment of Plato's Discourse on the Good | Eng. |
| Padilla, M.T. | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico | La matemática y la dialéctica en República V-VII | Spn.+ Eng. |
| Palumbo, L. | Università di Napoli | Italy | La mimesis nella Repubblica | Ita. |
| Parry, R.D. | Agnes Scott College | U.S.A. | Vice and the Soul's Unity | Eng. |
| Patterson, R | Emory University | U.S.A. | Unity and Goodness in the Republic | Eng. |
| Payne, A. | Saint Joseph's University | U.S.A. | Goodness and the Division of Goods in Republic II | Eng. |
| Pereira, R.H.de S. | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo | Brazil | THE RULER'S ESSENTIAL QUALITIES IN AVERROES' COMMENTARY ON PLATO'S "REPUBLIC" | Eng. |
| Podbielski, M. | CNRS | France | Quasi-Individual Natures in the Republic or the 'Logic of Dogs'" | Eng. |
| Rabbås, O. | University of Oslo | Norway | The 'Parts' of the Soul and Deliberation | Eng. |
| Regali, M. | Università di Pisa | Italy | Il palazzo di Odisseo e la città di Socrate: la sezione sull'aletheia nel III libro della Repubblica (389b2-d6) | Ita. |
| Regnier, D. | St. Thomas More College | Canada | The Republic's Divided Imagination : from eikasia and dianoia to phantasia | Eng. |
| Renaud, F. | Université de Moncton | Canada | Justice, antilogie et analogie: le De re publica (livre III) de Cicéron et la République | Fr. |
| Robinson, T.M. | University of Toronto | Canada | Plato’s First and Second Revolutions | Eng. |
| Rossetti, L. | Univ. Perugia | Italy | Ancient (and contemporary) accounts of the Republic | Eng. |
| Runia, D.T. | Queen' s College, University of Melbourne | Australia | The theme of 'becoming like god' in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Sano, Y. | International Christian University | Japan | An Aspect of the Originality of Plato's Concept of Justice in the Republic: the Critical Use of Poetical Ideas in the Tripartite Theory | Eng. |
| Santa Cruz, M.I. | Universidad de Buenos Aires et CONICET | Argentina | QUALITÉ ET RELATION DANS RÉPUBLIQUE IV | Fr.+ Spn. |
| Sattler, B. | Yale University | U.S.A. | Ontological and educational mimêsis in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Schmitt, A. | Seminar für Klassische Philologie Marburg | Germany | Mathematics as Epistemology. The Justification of the Doctrine of Ideas at the Outset of the 7th Book of the Republic and its Relation to the 'communis mathematica scientia' | Eng. |
| Scolnicov, S. | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | Small and large letters -and beyond | Eng. |
| Sekimura, M. | Hiroshima City University | Japan | La mesure et l'image dans la République | Fr. |
| Smith, N.D. | Lewis & Clark College | U.S.A. | Thrasymachus: Diagnosis and Treatment | Eng. |
| Soares, L. | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | Stásis del alma y psicologización de la política en República IV | Eng.+ Spn. |
| Stavru, A. | Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" | Italy | Phainesthai and Aletheia in the Republic | Eng. |
| Szaif, J. | University of California | U.S.A. | The Role of dynamis in Two Central Arguments of the Republic | Eng. |
| Taki, A. | Josai International University | Japan | The Origin of Interrogation Marks in the Medieval Manuscripts of Plato's Republic and Its Significance in the Tradition of Plato's Dialogues | Eng. |
| Tarrant, H. | University of Newcastle | Australia | Narrative and Dramatic Presentation in Republic III: Theory and Practice | Eng. |
| Tordesillas, A. | Université de Provence | France | Définition de la justice et art de dialoguer (République I, 338c–341a) | Fr. |
| Tsuchihashi, S. | Chuo University | Japan | Construction of a City in Speech and Purification of the City | Eng. |
| Tulli, M. | Università degli Studi di Pisa | Italy | La mimesis nel III libro della Repubblica: il rapporto di Platone con la tradizione | Ita. +Eng. |
| Vallejo Campos, A. | University of Granada | Spain | Plato's Theory of Conflict in the Soul | Eng. |
| Weiss, R. | Lehigh University | U.S.A. | Are the Rulers of Rep. 7 Philosophers? | Eng. |
| Wersinger, A. G. | UFR Philosophie | France | «Comme si c'etait evident…»: Le mathematicien dans la «Ligne» (Republique VI 510a-) | Fr. |
| Wu, T. | Peking University | China | Rethinking Bernard Williams' Criticism of the City-Soul Analogy in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Yamamoto, T. | Akita University | Japan | A New Perspective to the Form of the Good | Eng. |
| Yang. M. H. | Dongguk University | Korea | How Arithmetic is useful for understanding the Good as the Principle of Forms in Plato's Republic | Eng. |
| Younesie, M. | Tarbiat Modares University | Iran | Initiation into the Constitution of Polis through Religion? Politeia 327A-328B | Eng. |
| Yu, H. | Seoul National University | Korea | Doing what belongs to oneself: Justice and the principle of functional differentiation | Eng. |
| Zolotukhina, A. | Moscow State University Lomonosov | Russia | Σωφροσύνη in the Republic and the Charmides: a dogmatic and aporetic points of view. | Eng. |
| Zuolo, F. | Università di Pavia | Italy | Republic's Political Idealism: between Utopia and Ideal Theory | Eng. |