Faculty of Education AND Arts
School of Humanities and Social Science
University of Newcastle’s Research Group on Religious and Intellectual
Traditions (GRIT)
4–6 December: 2008 Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Divine Lover & Educator
A Research Conference revolving round the Platonic Alcibiades I
Sponsors: GRIT and The School of Humanities and Social Science
Under the auspices of the Australasian Society for Ancient Philosophy
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday 4th December
Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle): ‘Improving persons through
love
alone? Aeschines the Socratic, Alcibiades I, Theages, and their
Hellenistic
Legacy’
Dougal Blyth (University of Auckland): ‘Socrates and Platonic Models of
Philosophical Love’ Tea Dimitri Kepreotes (Macquarie University), ‘From
Gadfly to Divine Educator: a literary approach to the Socratic
Alcibiades’
Rev. Fergus King (University of Newcastle), ‘"What has Athens to do with
Jerusalem?": On the Absence of the erotic in the pupil-teacher
relationship
in the adoption of Platonism in Judaism and Early Christianity’
Friday 5th December
Yuji Kurihara (Tokyo Gakugei University): ‘The Place of the Alcibiades
I in
Plato's Early Work’
Informal Round Table A: ‘The Alcibiades I, its date, and Fourth Century
Politics’ (Speakers include Elizabeth Baynham and Neil Morpeth
(University
of Newcastle)
Brian Bosworth (Macquarie University): ‘Alcibiades and Aristocratic
Values:
the Speech at Sparta’
Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto): ‘The Eye of the Beloved: opsis
and
eros in Socratic Pedagogy’ Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle):
‘Sappho and Love’s Role in Improving the Pupil’
Rick Benitez (University of Sydney): ‘Philosophic Parallels between
Alcibiades and Laws’
Neil Morpeth (University of Newcastle): ‘"War as Initiation":
Philosophical
and historical explorations in times of war, ancient and modern:
Thucydides,
Alcibiades and Marc Bloch on "campaign"’ Conference Dinner: Bacchus
Restaurant
Saturday 6th December
Anthony Hooper (University of Sydney): ‘The Dual Role of the
Philosophers: a
mutual relationship of becoming-towards-being’
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