2019 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop

Plato and Aristotle on Happy Lives and Deaths

Syracuse University

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

Saturday, April 27, 2019

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

10:00 – 11:45 Session I

Christopher Raymond (Vassar), “The Digression in the Theaetetus and Pindar’s Nemean 10”

Chair: Krisanna Scheiter (Union)

1:00 – 2:45: Session II

Emily Austin (Wake Forest),  “Aristotle on the Benefits of Death”

Chair: Jay Elliott (Bard)

3:15 – 5:00: Session III

Mark Brennan (UAlbany), “Justice and the Preservation of Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics VIII.13-IX.3”

Chair: Corinne Gartner (Wellesley)

Participants: 

Emily Austin (Wake Forest), Mark Brennan (UAlbany), Tad Brennan (Cornell), Charles Brittain (Cornell), Barbara Cohn (Cornell), Jay Elliott (Bard), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley), Weiting Huang (Syracuse), Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell), Jacob Klein (Colgate), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Nathan Powers (UAlbany), John Proios (Cornell), Christopher Raymond (Vassar), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Eric Solis (Cornell), Brianna Zgurich (Cornell), Peggy Zhu (Cornell)

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Workshop on Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics VIII.1-7

Union College

October 19-20, 2018

Participants:

Adam Beresford (UMass-Boston), Pierre Destrée (ULouvain), Panos Dimas (Oslo), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley), Paula Gottlieb (UW-Madison), Alberto Ross Hernández (UP, Mexico City), Jakub Jirsa (CharlesU, Prague), Brad Kim (Oxford), Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton), Patricia Marechal (Northwestern), Brennan McDavid (Chapman), Susan Sauvé Meyer (UPenn), Allison Murphy (Carleton), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Michael Pakaluk (CUA), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Franco Trivigno (Oslo)

Presented by Union College Dean of Academic Departments and Programs and the Department of Philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2018 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop

Emotions, Virtues, and Action

Cornell University

Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 236

May 5, 2018

10:00-11:30: Session I

Jay Elliott (Bard College): “Aristotle on the Archai of Practical Thought”

12:00-1:30: Session II

Christopher Raymond (Vassar) and Christopher Moore (Penn State): “Translating Plato's Charmides”

2:30-4:00: Session III

Tad Brennan (Cornell): “Stoic Emotions in Cicero’s Tusculans III”

4:30-6:00: Session IV

Krisanna Scheiter (Union College): “Honor, Worth, and Justified Revenge in Aristotle”

This event is sponsored by the Cornell University Department of Philosophy.