Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Laws

Tuesday May 24^th

09.00 - 09.15              Welcome and Opening

09.15 – 10.45             Julia Annas, “The Challenge to which Magnesia is the Answer”

                                   Comments by Øyvind Rabbås

10.45 – 11.00             Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00             Knut Ågotnes, “Who is the Athenian? Epistemological Positions in the Laws”

                                  Comments by Erik Christensen

12.00 – 13.00             Lunch 

13.00 – 14.00             Hallvard Fossheim, ”Plato's Rhetoric of Law”

                                   Comments by Franco Trivigno

14.00  - 15.00             Hayden Ausland, "The Poetics of Freedom in Plato's Laws"

                                   Comment by Erlend Breidal

15.00 – 15.15             Coffee break

15.15 – 16.15             Gro Rørstadbotten, The Laws and Recollection

                                    Comments by Lars Petter Torjussen

19.00                          Dinner

Wednesday May 25^th          

09.15 – 10.45               Paul Woodruff, "Old Men Dancing: Plato's Inversion of the Tragic Chorus"

                                    Comments by Lars Morten Gram                            

10.45 – 11.00              Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00             Kristin Sampson, "Music in the Laws"                              

                                   Comments by Vigdis Songe-Møller

12.00 – 13.00             Lunch

13.00 – 14.00             Jens Kristian Larsen, "Tragic Reasoning on the Nature of Man: the Athenian Stranger on the Politics of Souls"

                                   Comments by Elena Irrera

14.00 – 15.00             Jason Taylor, “Cicero's Reception of Plato's Laws"

                                   Comments by Amund Børdahl