2021 CNY Corridor Fall Workshop 

Action (Animal, Human, and Divine) in Aristotle and the Stoics

Saturday, November 6, 2021 over Zoom

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

 

Session I: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.       

Jay Elliott (Bard): “Aristotle on the Voluntary in Other Animals”

Chair: Christopher Noble (Syracuse)

Session II: 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.          

Jozef Muller (UC Riverside): “Voluntariness, Action, and Decision in the Magna Moralia”

Chair: Justin Clark (Hamilton) 

 

Session III: 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.                    

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “Feelings of Necessity: Compulsion in Aristotle’s Ethics”

Chair: Christopher Raymond (Vassar) 

 

Session IV: 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.        

Nathan Powers (SUNY Albany): “I’ll stop the world and melt with you: Dio of Prusa on the Stoic Conflagration”

Chair: Krisanna Scheiter (Union)

Participants: Toni Alimi (Cornell), Justin Clark (Hamilton), Bobbi Cohn (Cornell), Sara De Leonardis (Cornell), Mateo Duque (SUNY Binghamton), Jay Elliott (Bard), Kat Furtado (Toronto), Mark Gatten (Toronto), Weiting Huang (Syracuse), Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell), Vikram Kumar (Cornell), Duane Long (SUNY Buffalo), Jozef Muller (UC Riverside), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Alessandro Peiris Pattiyage (Cornell), Nathan Powers (SUNY Albany), Christopher Raymond (Vassar), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Naly Thaler (Hebrew Univesity), Claudia Wang (Cornell), Zhiruo Wang (UT Austin)

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