2019 CNY Corridor Fall Workshop

Plato and the Stoics on Thought and Action

Colgate University

Benton Hall, Room 203

Saturday, September 14, 2019

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

 

11:00 a.m.        Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “Plato on Intelligent Agents”

1:30 p.m.          Rachel Singpurwalla (U of Maryland): “Law in Plato’s Political Thought”

3:30 p.m.          Whitney Schwab (U of Maryland, Baltimore County): “Non-Perceptual Kataleptic Impressions in Stoicism”

 

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

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.

2017 CNY Ancient Philosophy Fall Workshop

Plato and Platonism

Colgate University

Classics Center, 112-114 Lawrence Hall

September 23, 2017

11:00-12:30: Session I

Vanessa de Harven (UMass Amherst): “The Distinctness of the Three Distinct Goods in Republic II”

1:30-3:00: Session II

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “No More Excuses”

3:30-5:00: Session III

Christopher Noble (Syracuse): “Leaving Nothing to Chance: An Argument for Principle Monism in Plotinus”

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

2017 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop

Philosophy of Nature: From Aristotle to the Stoics

Syracuse University

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

May 6, 2017

11:00-12:30: Session I

Jessica Gelber (University of Pittsburgh): “Two Ways of Being an End”

2:00-3:30: Session II

Krisanna Scheiter (Union College): “The Straight and the Sphere: A Point about Nous in DA 3.4”

4:00-5:30: Session III

Ian Hensley (Cornell University): “The Function and Composition of Pneuma in Stoic Physics”

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

Workshop on Virtue and Emotion in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics IV.5-9

Union College

October 16-17, 2015

Participants:

Adam Beresford (UMass-Boston), Tad Brennan (Cornell), Tommaso Gazzarri (Union), Paula Gottlieb (UW-Madison), Jakub Jirsa (Charles U-Prague), Monte Johnson (UC-San Diego), Jacob Klein (Colgate), Stephen Leighton (Queen’s), Thornton Lockwood, (Quinnipiac), Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton), Susan Sauvé Meyer (UPenn), Deborah Modrak (Rochester), Jessica Moss (NYU), Christiana Olfert (Tufts), Michael Pakaluk (Ave Maria), Nathan Powers (UAlbany), Christof Rapp (Munich), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Matt Walker (Yale-NUS)

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.