TUESDAY, JUNE 15
9:50 a.m. (time of Greece) Welcome address
Session 1
10:00 a.m. (GR. Time)-Tasmania, Australia (+7) 17: 00 p.m.
Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Proclus on Plato’s dialectic
10:30 a.m. (GR. Time)-Adelaide, Australia (+ 6.30) 17:00 p.m.
Han Baltussen (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
Simplicius’ Approach to Aristotle’s Dialectic and his Place in the Aristotelian Tradition
11:00 a.m. (GR. Time)-Tasmania, Australia (+7), 18:00 p.m.
Graeme Miles (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Psellos on Allegory and Dialectic
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (GR. Time) Welcome address and intermission
Session 2
12:00 p.m. (GR. Time)-Spain (-1) 11:00 a.m.
Beatriz Bossi (Complutense de Madrid University, Spain)
The Dialectician, the Sophist and the In-between: Watching the Philosopher’s Dramatic
Strategies in Socrates’ First Speech of the Phaedrus
12:30 p.m. (GR. Time)- Switzerland (-1) 11:30 a.m.
Rafael Ferber (University of Lucerne-University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Socrates’ flight into the Logoi: On Plato’s Phaedo, 99e4-100a3
13:00 p.m. (GR. Time)-UK (-2) 11.00 a.m.
Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria
13:30 p.m (GR. Time) Intermission and Lunch Break
Session 3
17:30 p.m. (GR. Time)-Moncton, Canada (-6) 11:30 a.m.
François Renaud (Université de Moncton, Canada)
Dialectic as true rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias
18: 00 p.m. (GR. Time)-USA (-7) 11:00 a.m.
Sarah Klitenic Wear (Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA)
Syrianus on Dialectic
18:30 p.m. (GR. Time)-USA, Michigan (-7) 11:30 a.m.
Sara Ahbel-Rappe (University of Michigan, USA)
Dialectic and Commentary: What is at stake in Damascius’ criticisms of Proclus’
metaphysics
Intermission 19:00-19:30 (GR Time)
Session 4
19:30 p.m. (GR. Time)-Italy/Rome (-1) 18:30 p.m.
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli (Durham University-Cambridge University, UK)
Ancient Greek Dialectic and its Reception in Origen of Alexandria:
From Plato to Christ-Truth
20:00 p.m. (GR. Time)-USA/Iowa (-8) 12:00 p.m.
John F. Finamore (University of Iowa, USA)
Dialectic and Allegorical Interpretation in Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic
20:30 p.m. (GR. Time)-Canada/Vancouver (-10) 10:30 a.m.
Michael Griffin (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Exegesis as Philosophy: Aristotelian Dialectical Methods in Later Neoplatonism
21:00 p.m. (GR. Time): End of the 1st day
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
Session 1
10:30 a.m. (GR. Time)- Italy (-1) 9.30 a.m.
Claudia Marsico (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles Between Plato and the Megarians
11:00 a.m. (GR. Time)
Melina G. Mouzala (University of Patras, Greece)
Pursuing Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Sophist: The communion of the Sophistic and
Socratic Dialectic in the sixth definition of the sophist. A reading based on Proclus’
interpretation of Dialectic in the Sophist
11:30 a.m. (GR. Time)- Russia (same time) 11:30 a.m.
Irina Protopopova (Russian State University of the Humanities-Moscow)
Plato’s Socrates as an Implement of Testing the Limits
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. (GR. Time) Intermission
Session 2
12:30 p.m. (GR. Time)-Norway (-1) 11:30 a.m.
Kristian Larsen (NTNU/Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Common Forms as a Prerequisite for Dialectic in Plato’s Parmenides and Theaetetus
13:00 p.m. (GR. Time)- Italy (-1) 12:00 p.m.
Anna Pavani (University of Cologne/ Köln, Germany)
Dialectical Method(s) in Plato’s late dialogues
13:30 p.m. (GR. Time)- Russia (same time) 13:30 p.m.
Roman Svetlov (Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Dialectic and Skepticism in the Academy
14: 00 p.m. (GR. Time)-UK (-2) 12:00 p.m.
Inna Kupreeva (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alexander of Aphrodisias on the principle of non-contradiction
14:30 p.m (GR. Time) Intermission and Lunch Break
Session 3
17:00 p.m. (GR. Time)-Brazil (-6) 11:00 a.m.
Lucas Angioni (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Dialectic, Peirastic and Scientific Expertise in Aristotle
17:30 p.m. (GR. Time)-Berlin, Germany (-1) 16:30 p.m.
Patricia Marechal (Northwestern University, USA)
Dialectical Arguments, Rhetoric, and the Study of Character: Aristotle on Thumos
18:00 p.m. (GR. Time)-Italy (-1) 17:00 p.m.
Silvia Fazzo (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy)
Aporiai with multiple solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias
18:30 -19:00 p.m. (GR. Time)
Intermission
Session 4
19:00 p.m. (GR.Time)-Austria (-1) 18:00 p.m.
Christophe Erismann (University of Vienna, Austria)
Dialectical Methods in Ninth-Century Byzantium
19:30 p.m. (GR.Time)-Italy (-1) 18:30 p.m.
Frederick Lauritzen (Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venezia)
Dialectics, in eleventh century Constantinople
20:00 p.m. (GR.Time)
Elias Tempelis (Hellenic Naval Academy-Sector of Humanities and Political Sciences,
Greece)
The role of dialectic in Evgenios Voulgaris’ logical treatise
20: 30 p.m. (GR. Time) Farewell address
End of the 2nd day- End of the Conference
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