International Society for Socratic Studies Where Literature and Philosophy Meet: The Virtues in Xenophon’s Writings International Conference | November 17-21, 2019 | Tzuba Hotel | Kibbutz Tzuba, Israel
Sunday Nov. 17 Arrival and Dinner Lunch 1:10–2:00 Walking tour 2:00–3:30 Monday Nov. 18 Breakfast 7:30–8:45 chairperson: THIRD SESSION 4:00–5:40 All papers are 25 minutes with 25 minute discussion Luuk Huitink Tazuko Angela van Berkel: Relational chairperson: FIRST SESSION 8:50–10:40 virtues and moral emotions: Xenophon’s Tazuko Angela Greetings phenomenology of χάρις van Berkel Christopher Tuplin: Virtue (and vice) in Respondent: David Konstan Xenophon’s Anabasis. Claudia Mársico: Xenophon and Aristotle on the Respondent: Noreen Humble intellectual virtues. Sarah Ferrario: Virtue and vice in the cities of Respondent: Ron Polansky Xenophon’s Hellenica. Special Lecture 6:00-7:00 Respondent: Ellen Millender David Konstan: “Making Friends with chairperson: SECOND SESSION 11:00 –12:40 Foreigners: Xenoi in the Homeric Epics.” Francesca Melina Tamiolaki: Eleutheria (freedom) in Dinner 7:00–9:00 Pentassuglio Xenophon and Aristotle. Respondent: Claudia Mársico Wednesday Nov. 20 Breakfast 7:30–8:50 Ellen Millender: Xenophon on Spartan chairperson: FIRST SESSION 9:00–10:40 Obedience: Virtue or Vice? Christopher Dave Johnson: Xenophon’s account of courage. Respondent: Christopher Tuplin Moore Respondent: Don Morrison Lunch 1:10–3:00 Noreen Humble: Xenophon on eudaimonia. chairperson: THIRD SESSION 3:00–4:40 Respondent: Christopher Tuplin Kirk Sanders Carolin Hahnemann: Xenophon’s depiction of chairperson: SECOND SESSION 11:00 –12:40 the ability to bear ridicule as a form of enkrateia. Christopher Olga Chernyakhovskaya: Friendship in Plato, Respondent: Noreen Humble Moore Xenophon and Aristotle Gabriel Danzig: Was Xenophon’s Socrates an Respondent: Dave Johnson Aristotelian eutrapelos? Louis-André Dorion: The conditions for the Respondent: David Konstan acquisition of virtue in Xenophon and Aristotle. chairperson: FOURTH SESSION 5:00–6:40 Respondent: Ed Halper Pierre Pontier Luuk Huitink: Askēsis, mathēsis, epimeleia, Lunch 1:10–3:00 paideia, sunetheia (terms for acquiring virtues). chairperson: THIRD SESSION 3:00–4:40 Respondent: Fiorenza Bevilaqua Alessandro Rodrigo Illarraga: Xenophon on Ambition, Kirk Sanders: Socratic pieties: eusebeia in Stavru a Socratics’ Crossroads. Xenophon’s Socratica and the early Platonic Respondent: Dave Johnson dialogues. Christopher Moore: Self-knowledge and Respondent: Don Morrison virtue in Xenophon and his contemporaries. Dinner 7:00–9:00 Respondent: Ron Polansky chairperson: FOURTH SESSION 5:00–6:40 Tuesday Nov. 19 Breakfast 7:30–8:50 Rodrigo Milena Lozano Nembrot: The problem of Tuesday Nov. 19 chairperson: FIRST SESSION 9:00–10:40 Illarraga akolasia in Xenophon in light of Aristotle’s Melina Norman Sandridge: Dikaiosunē in Xenophon. Nicomachean Ethics. Tamiolaki Respondent: Sarah Ferrario Respondent: Sarah Ferrario Ed Halper: Xenophon’s virtue Pierre Pontier: Generosity, magnanimity Respondent: Louis-Andre Dorion and magnificence in Xenophon and Aristotle. Respondent: David Konstan chairperson: SECOND SESSION 11:00 –12:40 Carolin Fiorenza Bevilacqua: Kalokagathia in Concluding thoughts 6:40–7:00 Hahnemann Xenophon: is it a virtue? Dinner 7:00–9:00 Respondent: Ellen Millender Alessandro Stavru: Akrasia in Xenophon, in Thursday Nov 21 Tour in Jerusalem light of the contemporary evidence on Socrates. Respondent: Louis-André Dorion
For more information, contact: [email protected] Academic committee: We acknowledge the generous support of the Israel Science Foundation, The Lechter Institute for Literary David Konstan | Glenn Most | Dave Johnson | Gabriel Danzig Research, The Lewis Family Foundation for International Conferences in the Humanities, and Bar Ilan University.