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| 2008
Calendar – Lectures and Colloquia |
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| Date | Host/Venue | Speaker/Program | Event/Topic |
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July 2, 2008 |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617b Hamilton Hall |
Alberto Bernabé Universidad Complutense Madrid |
Colloquium: The Gods in Orphism
Abstract: The paper deals with the specific characteristics of the Orphics' gods in late times, i. e., especially in the Theogonies of the Rhapsodies, and the evolution of Orphic ideas about gods in relation with the development of new philosophical ideas (mainly Stoicism). |
| Sept. 12, 2008 5 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room TBA Reception to follow |
Egbert Bakker Yale University |
Lecture: Topic TBA |
| Sept.
19, 2008 |
Penelope Allison Leicester University |
Lecture: Investigating Household Practices: Pompeian Case Studies | |
| Oct. 17,
2008 11 a.m. |
Richard Sorabji N.Y.U. |
Lecture: Gandhi’s ethics: a model for the ancient Stoic sage? | |
| Oct. 17,
2008 5 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room TBA Reception to follow |
Chris Faraone University of Chicago |
Lecture: Topic TBA |
| Oct. 23-25, 2007 |
SAGP/SSIPS Venue: Fordham University Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th St. |
Program TBA | 2008 Joint Meeting of the Society
for Ancient Greek Philosophy and the Society for the Study of Islamic
Philosophy and Science Call for papers deadline: June 17 |
| Oct.
24-25, 2008 |
Program (link to .html) |
Conference:
Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica “A major international conference on Manilius’ Astronomica, the first of its kind in the Anglophone world, will take place at Columbia University on 24-25 October 2008.” (...more) |
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| Nov. 6-7, 2008 | Center
for Ancient Studies N.Y.U. Classics Dept. Venue TBA |
Program TBA | Conference: Discourses of
Republicanism “One of the most important ways classical antiquity shaped later thinking in Europe and the Americas about the nature of the state, citizenship and collective identity is through the rich tradition of texts that define and explore ‘republicanism.’ This conference seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in the dynamic influence of Roman republicanism on literature, political theory, history, and philosophy from the Roman empire to the current day. We will be attempting to define what is distinctive about the republic as a form over against other systems to which it is often compared or contrasted, such as democracy and empire. A recurring concern is the extent to which later revolutions and foundations look back to Rome and at what point in both history and political thought Rome is left behind as a model and the idea of the republic develops its own momentum.” |
| Dec. 5,
2008 5 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center Co-sponsored by the Onassis University Seminars Program 365 Fifth Ave., Room TBA Reception to follow |
Michael Paschalis University of Crete |
Lecture: Topic TBA |
| Feb. 6,
2009 5 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room TBA Reception to follow |
Natalie Kampen Barnard College |
Lecture: Topic TBA |
| Mar. 13,
2009 5 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room TBA Reception to follow |
Kathryn Gutzwiller Univ. of Cincinnati |
Lecture: Topic TBA |
| Apr. 3-4, 2009 | Columbia
Philosophy Dept. Venue TBA |
Program TBA |
Lecture: Wisdom in Ancient
Thought Abstract: Philosophia promises, by its very name, to be a love of wisdom. But what is this wisdom philosophers love? The question turns out to be far from simple, both because various ancient philosophers disagree among themselves as to what wisdom is, and because philosophy, right from the start, seeks to situate itself vis-à-vis other conceptions of wisdom, including what one might think of as the ‘traditional’ one (or ones), as well as various ‘new-fangled’ notions of wisdom that come on the scene in the fifth century B.C.E. The conference will be devoted to investigating the notion of wisdom—more precisely, it will be focused on the cluster of concepts: sophia, phronêsis, and theôria, as they occur in ancient philosophy, in the earlier Greek tradition, and in later antiquity, as part of the long Nachleben of ancient Greek philosophy. |
| Apr. 23-24, 2009 | Center
for Ancient Studies Venue TBA |
Program | The Lewent Conference in Ancient
Studies: Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in
Ancient Greece “The conference will approach the texts of ancient Greek science from a new angle; it will focus on practices of authorship, especially in medicine and mathematics. What is a scientific author, then and now? How does he present himself in his texts? Since modern science studies have investigated this topic to some extent, some of the invited speakers will be dealing with authorship in modern science.” |
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