The Politics of Self-Recognition - Plato’s "Charmides" and "Alcibiades I"

Thursday 3 June

1225-1400 (time zone Norway: GMT+2)

«Self-Recognition and the Importance of the Other in Alcibiades I» 
Kristin Sampson (University of Bergen)

«Epistemic Authoritarianism in Alcibiades I»
Olof Pettersson (Uppsala University)

«Love and Friendship in Alcibiades I»
Andreas Enggrav (University of Bergen)

     Chair: Kristian Larsen

1500-1630

«Temperance Is Knowing Oneself: Critias’ Interpretation of the Delphic Oracle (Charm. 164D4-165B5) »
Voula Tsouna (University of California Santa Barbara) 

«The Character of Moderation in Plato’s Charmides»
Laura Rabinowitz (St Thomas University) 

«The Political Turn in the Charmides»
Hallvard Fossheim (University of Bergen)

     Chair: Oda Tvedt

1730-1830

«The Beauty in the Eye of the Other: Self- Knowledge and Political Power in Plato's Alcibiades I»
Kristian Larsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

«How to Read Plato: The Roles of Rule and Office»
Melissa Lane (Princeton University)

     Chair: Vivil Valvik Haraldsen

Friday 4 June

1230-1400

«The Familiar and the Strange: Sophrosyne in the Charmides»
Pål Rykkja Gilbert (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

«Critias, Charmides and Knowledge of the Past, Present and Future in Plato’s Charmides»
Atle Solheim Ytrehus (University of Bergen)

«On Knowing Oneself vs Knowing Virtues: Same “Method”, Same Dialogic Procedure?»
Knut Ågotnes (University of Bergen)

     Chair: Andreas Staurheim Enggrav

1500-1630

«Plato on Self-Knowledge and Statesmanship»
Ellisif Wasmuth (University of Essex)

«Charmides: Beauty on Stage»
Gro Rørstadbotten (University of Bergen)

«Plato’s Alcibiades and Xenophon’s Euthydemus»
Hayden Ausland (University of Montana)

     Chair: Ryan Balot

1730-1830

«Aristotle’s Debt to Plato’s Charmides»
Marilù Papandreou (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) 

«Illusory Conversion in Plato’s Alcibiades Major»
Ryan Balot (University of Toronto)

     Chair: Hayden Ausland