4th Ancient Philosophy Workshop for Female Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers, Berlin, Dec 6-7, 2018

4th Ancient Philosophy Workshop for Female Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers

December 6th – 7th 2018 . Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
TOPOI-Building, East Wing, R 1.03, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10115 Berlin

This is a pre-read workshop. If you would like to participate, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
Guests of all genders are welcome.


Thursday, December 6th
16.30 – 16.45        

Conference Welcome
16.45 – 18.00       
SUSAN SAUVÉ MEYER (University of Pennsylvania)
‘Social Virtue and Natural Virtue in Aristotle’ – Keynote Speech
18.30           
Conference Dinner

Friday, December 7th
9.00 – 9.15       
Opening Remarks (Juliane Küppers, Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität)
9.15 – 10.30       
ELIZABETH HILL (Memorial University of Newfoundland)           
Harmony and Discord: A Platonic Account of Moral Evil in Art
Chair: Ronja Hildebrandt
10.30 – 10.45       
Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.00       
CECILIA WEZEL (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Stoic gaudium: The Joy of the Sage and the Joy of the proficientes
Chair: Johanna Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität)
12.00 – 13.15       
BEATRICE MICHETTI (FINO Consortium, University of Pavia)
Defining Human Being: Metaphysics Z11 and Socrates the Younger Passage
Chair: Rosa Matera (Humboldt-Universität)
13.15 – 14.15       
Lunch
14.15 – 15.30        
MAEVE LENTRICCHIA (University of Cambridge)
Lucretius on the Complete Life
Chair: Juliane Küppers (Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt-Universität)
15.30 – 15.45        
Coffee Break
15.45 – 17.00       
ADITI CHATURVEDI (Ashoka University)
Empedoclean Harmony
Chair: Argyro Lithari (Humboldt-Universität)
17.00 – 17.15       
Coffee Break
17.15 – 18.30       
NATALIE HEJDUK (Columbia University)
Knowledge and Voluntary Injustice in the Hippias Minor
Chair: Caterina Pellò
18.30 – 19.30       
Final Discussion
20.00           
Conference Dinner

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