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Archai UNESCO Chair of Universidade de Brasilia and the Sociedade Brasileira de Platonistas are glad to announce theFirst Latin American Area Conference of the International Plato Society eX Internacional Archai  Seminar:Plato´s styles and characters: between literature and philosophyThe venue will be held at:Universidade de Brasília, BrazilAugust, 20th to 24th 2012This meeting will gather scholars in platonic studies to make contributions and show ways for further research on Plato's literary art of writing philosophy in its cultural and historical context, aiming to take platonic studies one step beyond in the examination of Plato's literary craft.CONFIRMED SPEAKERSMarcelo Boeri (Universidad  Alberto Hurtado,  Santiago del Chile)Francisco Bravo (Universidad Central de Venezuela)Bruno Centrone (Università degli Studi di Pisa)Dimitri El Murr (Université Paris  1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)Michael Erler  (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg)Christopher Gill  (University of Exeter)Mary Louise Gill (Brown University, Providence)Raúl Gutierrez (Universidad Católica del Peru)Verity Harte  (Yale University)Mary Margaret McCabe (King's College, London)Debra  Nails (Michigan State University)Graciela Marcos de Pinotti (Univesidad de Buenos Aires)Samuel Scolnicov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Alonso Tordesillas (Université de Provence)Mauro Tulli (Università degli Studi di Pisa)Álvaro Vallejo Campos  (Universidad de Granada)---Clara Acker (Universidade de Brasília)Anastácio Borges de Araújo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)Hector Benoit (Universidade de Campinas)Gabriele Cornelli  (Universidade de Brasília)Gilmário Guerreiro da Costa (UnB/Universidade Católica de Brasilia)Marcelo Pimenta Marques (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)Marcus Mota (Universidade de Brasília)Fernando Muniz (Universidade Federal Fluminense)Loraine Oliveira (Universidade de Brasília)Fernando Santoro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)José Gabriel Trindade Santos (Universidade Federal da Paraíba)Dennys Garcia Xavier (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia) ---More Informations and Registration at http://2012.platao.org