Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2026-2027

VSC-2026-2027 Program

The colloquia will be held on Thursdays, at 18 Rome time. Zoom Link HERE.

Sep 24, Mauro Bonazzi, Università di Bologna, Italy
“A Plato gone mad: Diogenes and his intellectual context”

Oct 29, Alex Lee, The University of Arizona, US
“Xenophon’s Socrates on Madness and Knowledge”

Nov 26, Michel Narcy, CNRS, France
“L’akrasia dans les Mémorables de Xénophon”

Dec 10, Maria Michela Sassi, Università di Pisa, Italy
“In What Sense Can We Speak of Authenticity in Socrates? Self-Knowledge and the Ancient Self”

Jan 28, Trinidad Silva, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
“Interiority in the Socratic philosophers”

Feb 25, Aldo Brancacci, Università di Tor Vergata, Italy
“Diogene e Antistene”

Mar 25, Benjamin McCloskey, The Ohio State University, US
“Induction, Anthropology, and Virtue in Xenophon’s Memorabilia ”

Apr 29, Ivana Costa, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Socrates and the birth of philosophy, according to Aristotle”

May 20, Milena Lozano Nembrot, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Argentina
“Pleasure and desire in Xenophon”

Jun 24, Pierre Destrée & Monte R.Johnson Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; University of California – San Diego, US
“Diogenes – a Socratic philosopher?”