8:45 am – 9:00 am Introductory remarks Karen Margrethe Nielsen (The University
of Western Ontario) 9:00 am – 10:15 am Øyvind Rabbås (Oslo) Title: What are Friends For? Reading
Plato's Lysis Chair: Henrik Lagerlund (The University
of Western Ontario) 10:15 am – 11:30 am Russell Jones (Harvard) Title: Friends of the Gods in the Republic Chair: Devin Henry (The University of
Western Ontario) Coffee
11:45 pm – 1:00 pm Corinne Gartner (Wellesley) Title: Why We Need Friends: Aristotle
on the Value of Friendship in Eudemian Ethics VII 12 Chair: Zoli Filotas (PhD candidate,
McGill University) Lunch 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Giles Pearson (Bristol) Title: Forms of Friendship and Times of
Life Chair: Ron Baumiller (PhD candidate, The
University of Western Ontario) Coffee 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Richard Kraut (Northwestern) Title: Types of Friends and the Value
of Friendship Location: Stevenson Hall (StH) 1145 (Talk Open to the Public, included in
Department of Philosophy Speakers Series) Dinner: Auberge du Petit Prince 7:00 pm 9:30am – 10:45am Kristina Biniek (The University of
Western Ontario) Title: What Does it Mean to Love a
Friend for His Own Sake? Chair: Jason DeRoche (PhD candidate,
University of Toronto) Coffee 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Thornton Lockwood (Boston
University) Title: The Values of Friendship and
Contemplation Chair: Sean Coughlin (The University of
Western Ontario) Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm John Wynne (Northwestern) Title: Fat Minerva: Cicero’s Laelius on
Friendship. Chair: Kendall Sharp (Department of
Classics, The University of Western Ontario) 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma
(emeritus) / George Mason University PPE program) Title: Love is a Many-Faceted Thing Chair: Katy Fulfer-Smith (PhD candidate,
The University of Western Ontario) Dinner: TBA 5:00 pm “Friendship in the Aristotelian Tradition” is
organized by Karen Margrethe Nielsen (knielse4@uwo.ca) and
Kristina Biniek (kbiniek@uwo.ca) in the
Department of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. Inquiries should be directed to the organizers.
If you wish to take part, or if you wish to participate in Friday or Saturday’s
dinners, please send an email to Karen Margrethe Nielsen (knielse4@uwo.ca). The
organizers wish to acknowledge generous financial support from The Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We also wish to thank The
Department of Philosophy, The Department of Classical Studies and The Office of
the Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Ontario for their
generous financial support and help with planning the conference. Friendship in the Aristotelian Tradition
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON
October 21-22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Location: Stevenson Hall 1145
Saturday October 22, 2011
Location: Stevenson Hall (StH) 3101
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