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Symposium

Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato´s Sophist

Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, 14-16 May, 2013

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Tuesday, May 14th

Room 208/209, Sydnesplassen 12/13

Chair: Elena Irrera

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 13.45 Welcome by Vigdis Songe-Møller

13.45 – 15.15 Keynote lecture by John Sallis, “Plato's Sophist: A Different Look”

15.30 – 16.45 Erlend Breidal: Title to be published later

Wednesday, May 15th

Room 904, Lauritz Meltzers Hus, Fosswinckels gate 6.

Chair: Hayden Ausland

09.15 - 10.30 Drew Hyland: "Strange Encounters: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus, and the Eleatic Stranger".

10.45 – 12.00 Jens Kristian Larsen, “The Virtue of Power”

12.00 – 13.00 Gro Rørstadbotten: “Hunt as Paradigmatic Example: Method or Metaphor?”

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Kristin Sampson: “A Third Option: Mixture and Musicality”

15.15 – 16.30 Hallvard Fossheim: “Mimesis and Not-Being”

19.00 Dinner

Thursday, May 16th

Room 904, Lauritz Meltzers Hus, Fosswinckels gate 6.

Chair: Øyvind Rabbås

09.15 – 10.30 Cynthia Freeland: “True and False Images in the Sophist”

10.45 – 12.00 Atle Ytrehus, “Socrates’ Silence and Ungrounded Thinking in the Sophist”

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch / Project meeting

14.00 – 15.15 Lars Holm-Hansen: “Logos as Making Manifest”

15.30 – 16.45 Vigdis Songe-Møller: “Socrates, the Stranger and Parmenides in Plato’s Sophist: Two Troubled Relationships”

Registration to Kirsten.Bang@fof.uib.no. Deadline 15 April 2013.