'Plato: A Socrates Grown Young and Beautiful': Plato’s Memorabilia at Collegium |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/64-causation/'>causation</a>
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Friday, 24 June 2005 21:40 |
Trinity College’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Drew Hyland, has been selected to offer a course, “Plato: ‘ A Socrates Grown Young and Beautiful’: Plato’s Memorabilia” at the prestigious 30th Collegium Phenomenologicum in Citta di Castello, Italy, in July.
The Collegium Phenomenologicum offers a forum for established philosophers from around the world who might not ordinarily get the opportunity to interact with each other and address a given theme. Most of the philosophers come, as the organization’s name implies, from the broad tradition of philosophy widely known in the US as “continental philosophy.” During the Collegium, established faculty give “courses,” guest lectures, and conduct afternoon seminars on a selected topic (This year’s topic is “Memory and Responsibility.” In addition, well-known experts on the given topic are chosen to give the courses and the guest lectures.
The group also invites graduate students and junior faculty to benefit from this exchange. “The format gives senior faculty an opportunity to talk together, to meet and talk to junior faculty and to the younger graduate students who will soon be our peers, and vice-versa,” says Hyland. “The students attending will be those whose textbooks professors will be assigning in 10 to 15 years.” Hyland also points out that no one, from the seminar instructors to the guest lecturers, are paid for their participation. “Perhaps in part because of this, it has become an honor to be invited to participate,” he adds.
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