Saturday, 6th July – Durham Masonic Hall

• 10:50-11:00: Welcome
• 11:00-12:00: Session 1 – Prof. Kathryn Morgan (UCLA – Keynote). TBC
• 12:00-12:45: Session 2 – Dr. Anthony Hooper (Durham), Reconstructing Plato’s Conception of the ‘Comic Worldview’
• 12:45-13:45: Lunch
• 13:45-14:30: Session 3 – Dr. Birte Loschenkohl (Essex), Comedy and Political Transformation: Utopian Wishes and the Human Condition in Plato and Aristophanes
• 14:30-15:15: Session 4 – Prof. Nikos Charalabopoulos (Patras), Door-(not)knocking Scenes in Plato
• 15:15-16:00: Tea Break
• 16:00-16:45: Session 5 – Prof. Gabriele Cornelli (Brasilia), Having the Last Laugh: Plato and the Comedy of Death
• 16:45-17:30: Session 6 – Dr. Rebecca Laemmle (Cambridge), An Apology to Homer: Plato and the Dialogues of the Dead
• 17:30-19:00: Drinks Reception – Department of Classics and Ancient History Library
• 19:00: Conference Dinner – Thai River, Durham

Sunday, 7th July – Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham

• 09:00-09:45: Session 7 – Dr. Jonathan Fine (Yale), Plato and the Importance of Not Being Too Earnest
• 09:45-10:30: Session 8 – Assoc. Prof. Sonja Tanner (Colorado), The Masks of ‘Socrates’: Imaginary Ridicule, Metatheatricality, and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Hippias Major
• 10:30-11:00: Tea Break
• 11:00-11:45: Session 9 – Dr. Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Swansea), The Poetics of Tragedy and Comedy in Aristophanes’ Themophoriazusae and Plato’s Republic
• 11:45-12:45: Lunch
• 12:45-13:30: Session 10 – Mr. Christian Keime (Cambridge), Why Should an Expert Tragedian Also Know How to Write Comedies? – Symposium 223d
• 13:30-14:15: Session 11 – Assoc. Prof. Andrea Capra (Durham), The Intrinsically Comic Nature of Socratic Elenchus
• 14:15-14:45: Tea Break
• 14:45-15:30: Session 12 – Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Plato and Ancient Theories of Humour
• 15:30-15:40: Conclusion