Conference Program

3-4:30pm: Drinks and Refreshments
At Eureka! - 5140 College Ave Suite 111, San Diego, 92115

5-6:30pm: Keynote Public Lecture - Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
In Templo Mayor (.pdf map), Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union
"Protagoras and Socrates—More Alike Than Different?"

Commentator: Eric Morelli (Point Loma Nazarene College)

7-9pm: Dinner for Speakers, Commentators, and Chairs
At Sala Thai - 6161 El Cajon Blvd #A, San Diego, 92115

In Arts & Letters, Room 600 (Finch Conference Room)

9-9:30am: Coffee and Refreshments

9:30-10:45: Invited Speaker - Adam Beresford (University of Massachusetts at Boston)
"Piety in the Protagoras: Plato’s Thoughts on the Great Speech"

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: Keitel Del Rosario (San Diego State University)

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

In Arts & Letters, Room 600 (Finch Conference Room)

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