FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
MORNING SESSION
8:20-9:30 Daniel Burns (University of Dallas), “The City as Religious Community in Plato, Xenophon, and Cicero”
Commentator: Brian Walters (University of Illinois)
9:35-10:45 Avshalom Schwartz (Southern Methodist University), “Divine Epiphany and Political Authority in Plato’s Republic”
Commentator: Kirk Sanders (University of Illinois)
10:50-12:00 Florencia Castro Possi (Alberto Hurtado University), “Back to the Future: The Socratic Diodorus Cronus and the Possibility of Divination”
Commentator: Rodrigo Illarraga (San Sebastian University, University of Buenos Aires, and CONICET)
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:20-3:30 Christopher Moore (Penn State University), “Socrates’ Theological Speeches (Xen. Mem. 1.4 and 4.3) and the Problem of Divination”
Commentator: Juan Bautista Bardi (University of California, Berkeley)
3:35-4:45 Tyler Paytas (Australian Catholic University), “If It Pleases the Gods: The Socratic Piety of Epictetus”
Commentator: Dan Leon (University of Illinois)
4:50-6:00 David Bradshaw (University of Kentucky), “Socratic Faith”
Commentator: Zach Biondi (University of Illinois)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
MORNING SESSION
8:30-9:40 David Johnson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), “Socratic corruption and Socratic impiety”
Commentator: Melle Van Duijn (University of Oklahoma)
9:45-10:55 Nicholas Smith (Lewis & Clark College), “Defending Socrates’ Innocence (Against His Modern Accusers)”
Commentator: Nicholas Baima (Florida Atlantic University)
11:00-12:10 Trinidad Silva (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), “Between the Voice and the Sign: The Daimonion in Plato’s and Xenophon’s Apology”
Commentator: Octavian Gabor (Methodist College)
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30-2:40 Benjamin McCloskey (Kansas State University), “‘I Know Myself Now’: Xenophon, Self-Knowledge, and Scillus”
Commentator: Eleonora Mylli (University of Illinois)
2:45-3:55 Thomas Slabon (University of South Florida), “Holiness and Socrates’ View from Above”
Commentator: Yidi Wu (Boston University)
4:00-5:10 Vitor Milione (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), “Luck, Success, and Piety: Xenophon’s Perspective on the Interplay between Divine Favor and Human Affairs”
Commentator: Jackson Gregory (University of Illinois)
5:20-6:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Claudia Mársico (University of Buenos Aires and CONICET), “The Socratics and the Problem of Pagan Monotheism”