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Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Laws

MAY 24TH AND 25TH 2011; Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen; Sydneshaugen 12-13, room 210

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PROGRAM

Tuesday May 24th

09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and Opening

09.15 – 10.45 Julia Annas, “The Challenge to which Magnesia is the Answer”

Comments by Øyvind Rabbås

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 Knut Ågotnes, “Who is the Athenian? Epistemological Positions in theLaws”

Comments by Erik Christensen

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.00 Hallvard Fossheim, ”Plato's Rhetoric of Law”

Comments by Franco Trivigno

14.00 - 15.00 Hayden Ausland, "The Poetics of Freedom in Plato's Laws"

Comment by Erlend Breidal

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 16.15 Gro Rørstadbotten, The Laws and Recollection

Comments by Lars Petter Torjussen

19.00 Dinner

Wednesday May 25th

09.15 – 10.45Paul Woodruff,"Old Men Dancing: Plato's Inversion of the Tragic Chorus"

Comments by Lars Morten Gram

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 Kristin Sampson, "Music in theLaws"

Comments by Vigdis Songe-Møller

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.00 Jens Kristian Larsen, "Tragic Reasoning on the Nature of Man: the Athenian Stranger on the Politics of Souls"

Comments by Elena Irrera

14.00 – 15.00 Jason Taylor, “Cicero's Reception of Plato's Laws"

Comments by Amund Børdahl