The seminars will take place in the Seminar Room of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (and will not be streamed online). Papers will be followed by informal discussion over drinks.
Here is the schedule:
Week 1 (30 April)
Prof. Stephen Halliwell (St. Andrews) 'Plato and the Problem of Poetic Inspiration
Week 2 (7 May)
Dr Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge) 'Plato on Beauty in the Symposium and Phaedrus: some questions for discussion'
Week 3 (14 May)
Prof. Dominic Scott (Oxford) 'The Cathartic Effects of Art: Platonism in Leo Tolstoy and Iris Murdoch'
Week 5 (28 May)
Prof. Pierre Destrée (Louvain) 'Aristotle and the Invention of Aesthetics'
Week 6 (4 June)
Flora Nelson (DPhil student, Oxford) 'Plato on Beauty and Recollection'
Week 7 (11 June)
Prof. M.M. McCabe (King's College, London) 'Knowing Friends in Plato's Republic'
Week 8 (18 June)
Emily Daly (DPhil student, Oxford) 'Plato and Aristotle on Comedy'
All seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 5-6.30pm.
If you have any questions, please email flora.nelson@ccc.ox.ac.uk or emily.daly@ccc.ox.ac.uk.
