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2007 Conference

 

 

Ancient Friends in Contemporary Thinking
Saturday February 23rd, 2008
9:30am - 7:00pm
Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne University

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8:30

Registration

Coffee

Power Center Ballroom
Panel 1 , Power Center Ballroom
9:30 Jim Bahoh Duquesne Conference Welcome
9:40 Joshua Pineda New School "Possession and Seduction in Plato's Symposium"
10:25 Fanny Söderbäck New School "Being Other To Oneself: Plato and Kristeva on Community and
Otherness"
11:10 Marco Altamirano Purdue University "An Original Ventriloquy: Echoes of Socrates"
12:00

Break for Lunch

Panel 2 , Power Center Ballroom
1:30 Mark Sentesy Boston College "Aristotle's Reply to Modern Physics"
2:15 Theresa Morris New School "The Concept Telos in the Work of Hans Jonas: The Desire for Life and the Process of Existence"
3:00

Break

Panel 3 , Power Center Ballroom
3:15 Travis Holloway Stony Brook University "Empedocles and the Songs of Orpheus (with Sallis and Nancy)"
4:00 Phillip Braunstein Boston College "Retrieving the Future from the Past"
4:45

Break

  Keynote, Power Center Ballroom
5:00 Dr. John Sallis Boston College "Exorbitant Logic"
 
6:30 Reception , Silverman Center (1st Flr of Library)