http://www.atrium-media.com/rcconferences Conferences in Classics and Ancient Historyy en-us http://www.atrium-media.com/rcconferences/posts/00004468.html Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:35:00 GMT Plato's Timaeus: The Conference. Sept. 13-16, 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Departments of the Classics and Philosophy, UIUC, are mounting an international, interdisciplinary conference, "Life, the Universe, Everything -- and More: Plato's Timaeus Today." Prompted by the explosion of critical interest in the dialogue since the turn of the millennium, the conference will address all of its aspects -- its theology, metaphysics, cosmology, science, psychology, ethics, literary aspects, and reception in the history of ideas. Keynote speakers: Prof. Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton) Sir Anthony Leggett (2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics) Prof. Anthony Vidler (Dean of the School of Architecture, the Cooper Union) Additional speakers: Gabor Betegh (Philosophy, CEU, Budapest) Ann Bergren (Classics, UCLA) Justin Broackes (Philosophy, Brown) Sarah Broadie (Philosophy, St. Andrews) Myles Burnyeat (Philosophy, Oxford) Sean Carroll (Physics, Cal Tech) Gabriela Roxana Carone (Philosophy, U. Colorado) John Dillon (Classics, Trinity, Dublin) Zina Giannopoulou (Classics, U. Cal-Irvine) Verity Harte (Philosophy, Yale) Katerina Ierodiakonou (Philosophy, U. Athens) Thomas Kjeller Johansen (Philosophy, Oxford) Charles Kahn (Philosophy, U. Penn) Anthony Long (Classics, U. Cal-Berkeley) Stephen Menn (Philosophy, McGill) Mitchell Miller (Philosophy, Vassar) Kathryn Morgan (Classics, UCLA) Alexander Mourelatos (Philosophy, U. Texas-Austin) Ian Mueller (Philosophy, U. Chicago) Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Liberal Studies, Notre Dame) Thomas M. Robinson (Philosophy and Classics, U. Toronto) Allan Silverman (Philosophy, Ohio State) Matthias Vorwerk (Philosophy, CUA) Donald Zeyl (Philosophy, U. Rhode Island) For the program, registration, transportation, and housing information, conference organizers Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler invite you to visit our website <a href="http://www.timaeus.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">www.timaeus.uiuc.edu</a>. [seen on the Classics list] http://www.atrium-media.com/rcconferences/posts/00004468.html