Join us for the Spring 2025 IPS Colloquium on Plato and Aristotle!

Panel One: Plato, 1:00-2:15pm

Sr. John Thomas Armour: "Cultivating a Right Taste for Argument"

Joseph Boyle: "Socrates the Scofflaw? Imitative Poetry and the Education of Glaucon"

Robert Lueck: "Socrates for and against Homer: Conflicting Readings of The Odyssey in The Republic"

Panel Two: Plato and Aristotle, 2:30-3:45pm

Giovanni Katzaroff: "Just Wholes and Just Souls: The Dependence of the Kallipolis on Just Souls in the Republic" 

Cana (Teague) Beverage: "Dangers of Distractedness"

Darcy Stubbs: "Aristotle, Achilles, and Battlefield Friendship"

Panel Three: Aristotle, 4:00-5:15pm

Patrick Spence: "Smoke, Honey, and Spiritedness: The Nicomachean Ethics on Achilles' Anger"

John Burnham: "On Magnanimity and Honor in the Nicomachean Ethics: What is Honor to the Megalopsychos?" 

Theresa Ramsay: "Bashful Boys to Virtuous Men: Aristotle and Praiseworthy Shame"

Followed by a reception for IPS faculty and students. Please RSVP at braniff@udallas.edu by Thursday, February 20, 2025.