The Eleventh Keeling Colloquium on ‘Plato on Learning to be Good 1: Early Dialogues & the Republic’ will take place across four days in September from Monday 7th – Thursday 10th.
Location: Room 106, Gordon House, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP
The Colloquium is free and open to all, but we kindly ask you to register by following the instructions on our website where you can also find further information about the colloquium.
Programme
Monday 7th September
10.30 coffee
11-11.45 Opening remarks
11.45-1.15 Marta Jimenez (Complutense University of Madrid), ‘Active Ignorance, Epistemic Humility, and the Transformational Value of Socratic Refutation in Plato’s Apology‘
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University), ‘Alcibiades I on What I Need to Know to be Just’
4.30-6 Patricia Marechal (UNC Chapel Hill), ‘Self and Others in Alcibiades I’
Tuesday 8th September
9.30 coffee
10-11.30 Alex Long (St. Andrews), ‘Philosophical Conversation as Moral Test in the Laches & other aporetic dialogues’
11.45-1.15 James Wilberding (Humboldt University), ‘Odyssean Endurance and Platonic Courage’
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Ellisif Wasmuth (University of Essex), ‘echeis moi eipein: Telling, Talking, and Moral Education in the Meno‘
4.30-6 Joachim Aufderheide (King’s College London), ‘Moral Education in Plato’s Gorgias: An Analysis of Absence’
Wednesday 9th September
9.30 coffee
10-11.30 Wenjin Liu (Duke University), ‘Moral (Mis)Education in Plato’s Protagoras‘
11.45-1.15 MM McCabe (King’s College London), ‘Imperfect Learning’
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Emily Fletcher (University of Wisconsin Madison), ‘Two Forms of Education in Plato’s Republic‘
4.30-6 Merrick Anderson (University of Southern California), ‘Rethinking Akrasia, Education, and More, Or: The Importance of Republic 412e-414b’
Thursday 10th September
9.30 coffee
10-11.30 Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland), ‘The Role of the Communal Family in Inculcating Virtue’
11.45-1.15 Raphael Woolf (King’s College London, University College London), ‘Corrupting the Young and its Causes in Plato’s Republic‘
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago), ‘Turning to See the Forms: Education for Wisdom in Plato’s Republic‘
4-4.30 Closing remarks
Attendance is free & open to all, but please register by emailing india.griffiths.18@ucl.ac.uk
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.
