12th Annnual West Coast Plato Workshop
San Diego State University, 24-26 May
Friday (May 24)
3-4:30pm: Drinks and Refreshments
5-6:30pm: Keynote Public Lecture: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
7-9pm: Dinner for Speakers, Commentators, and Chairs
Saturday (May 25)
9-9:30am: Coffee and Refreshments
9:30-10:45: Invited Speaker: Adam Beresford (University of Massachusetts at Boston)
Commentator: Jan Szaif (University of California at Davis)
11-12:10pm: Oksana Maksymchuk (University of Arkansas): An Anthropological Defense of the Measure Doctrine in the Protagoras
Commentator: Grant Dowling (Stanford University)
12:15-1:30pm: Lunch and Business Meeting
1:45-2:55: Marta Jimenez (Emory University): Protagoras and Socrates on Courage and Knowledge
Commentator: Ryan Drake (Fairfield University)
3:05-4:15: Aliza Ashraf (Queens College, City University of New York): Equality in Love: The Education of Lover and Beloved in Plato’s Protagoras
Commentator: Eric Morelli (Point Loma Nazarene College)
4:15-5:30pm: Invited Speaker: Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee at Knoxville): Motivational Conflict and the Moral Paradox in Plato's Protagoras
Commentator: Blythe Greene (University of California at San Diego)
6pm: Dinner for speakers, commentators, and chairs
Sunday (May 26)
9-9:30am: Coffee and Refreshments
9:30-10:45: Carissa Phillips-Garrett (Loyola Marymount University): Socratic Intellectualism in the Protagoras
Commentator: David Hoinski (West Virginia University)
10:55-12:05pm: Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis): Protagoreanism in the Protagoras
Commentator: Brooks Sommerville (University of British Columbia)
12:15-1:30pm: Lunch
1:40-2:50: Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College): Evaluative Illusion in the Protagoras
Commentator: Thomas Slabon (Stanford University)
3-4:10: Reid Comstock (University of Notre Dame): What Kind of Ignorance Makes One Akratic? (Protagoras 356c-357e)
Commentator: Roy Lee (Stanford University)
5:30pm: Dinner for speakers, commentators, and chairs
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Conferences: (Photo: "Empty Boardroom" by Reynermedia, licensed under CC BY 2.0)