1:30-2:00 Registration
2:00-3:00 Cultural Event
Visiting Hwa-kang Museum (華岡博物館, located in the same building where we will have the conference. Its collection ranges from ceramics of ancient China to objects of Taiwan indigenous peoples including a tatala boat.)
3:10-4:10 Parallel session
1A. [metaphysics & epistemology] Chair: Fei-ting Chen
- Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro (University of São Paulo), The Aristotelian Criticism to the Conception of the Soul as a Self-Mover
- Teng He (Bonn University), Soul as a Harmony? -- A Reflex on Aristotle’s Comment on Timaeus 35a-37c
1B. [ethics & politics] Chair: Chun-Liong Ng
- Jong Hwan Lee (University of Seoul), Saving Callicles in the Gorgias
- Sungwoo Park (Seoul National University), Politics of Soul-Care in Plato’s Alcibiades
4:10-4:30 Break
4:30-5:20 Invited speech 1 Chair: Yuji Kurihara
- Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Forms and the Psyche
5:20-6:20 Report by Yuji Kurihara (Representative for Asia, Australia, and Africa of the IPS) & Welcome coffee-tea party
10:00-10:30 I. [art and emotions 1] Chair: Feng-wei Wu
- Mai Oki-Suga (University of Tübingen), Forming the Soul with Mousiké: How Can We Be Free from Stásis?
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-11:40 II. [art and emotions 2] Chair: Chih-Sheng Yang
- Makoto Sekimura (Hiroshima City University), Lexis and Formation of the Soul in Plato's Republic
- André Rehbinder (EDITTA, Paris-Sorbonne University), The Pain of the Enamoured Soul in the Palinode of Plato’s Phaedrus
11:40-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Parallel session
2A. [soul’s process of learning 1] Chair: C. Lynne Hong
- I-Kai Jeng (National Taiwan University), On the Unity of Courage and Modesty in the Theaetetus
- Ikko Tanaka (J. F. Oberlin University), On the Assimilation to the Forms in Plato’s Republic 6
2B. [the soul with the body 1] Chair: Satoshi Ogihara
- Akira Kawashima (Tohoku University), Tripartite Psychology in Plato’s Republic
- Yu-Jung Sun (University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne), The Myth of Incarnation in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Partitioned and Disincarnated Soul
2:00-2:10 Break
2:10-3:40 Parallel session
3A. [soul’s process of learning 2] Chair: Chia-Lin Hsu
- Sheng-Yu Peng (Taiwan Baptist Christian Seminary), Dialectic of Love and Beauty in the Ever-Moving Soul: An Epistemological and Ethical Survey in Plato’s Phaedrus
- Yoon Cheol Lee (Seoul National University), The Sophist for Soul in Plato
- Yip-Mei Loh (Chung Yuan Christian University), The Dialectical Development between Self-Knowledge and Self-Ignorance in Plato's Dialogues
3B. [the soul with the body 2] Chair: Zhi-hue Wang
- Lee M. J. Coulson (University of Sydney), The Dyadic Ontology for Platonic Souls: A Way to Transcend Space and Time
- Hoyoung Yang (Seoul National University), Bridging the Gap between the Intelligible and the Perceptible
3:40-4:00 Break
4:00-4:50 Invited speech 2 Chair: Yahei Kanayama
- Nickolas Pappas (City College and Graduate Center, CUNY)
What Becomes of a Soul: Hope for a Philosophical City in the Myth of Er
9:30-10:30 III. [soul and the forms] Chair: Hua-kuei Ho
- Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College), Knowledge as Assimilation in Plato's Phaedo
- Van Tu (University of Michigan), The Deathless, Imperishable, and Formless Soul: Phaedo 102a10-107b10
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-11:40 IV. [forming the philosopher’s soul] Chair: Hsei-Yung Hsu
- Satoshi Ogihara (Tohoku University), Education-related Compulsion in Plato’s Republic
- Heon Kim (Seoul National University), Psukhagōgia and Epimeleia tēs Psukhēs between Plato and Isocrates
11:40-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:50 Invited speech 3 Chair: Sung-Hoon Kang
- Noburu Notomi (Tokyo University; IPS ex-president)
Why Soul Matters: Reconsidering the Philosophical Contexts of Plato’s On Soul
1:50-2:20 Report by Sung-Hoon Kang (speaking for the next Asia Regional Meeting in Seoul) & Farewell