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Sixth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece
with special emphasis on ἀρετή
ONLINE PROGRAM UPDATED June 16, 2021
The in-person program for July 25-28 appears here
Speakers are allotted 20 minutes to present, brief discussion to follow
Links to Zoom Sessions will be sent to all Registered Participants
Monday, June 14, 16.30-18.30: First Online Session (Afternoon)
Welcome
Heather L. Reid, Morningside College & Fonte Aretusa
Susi Kimbell, Exedra Mediterranean Center
Opening Keynote
Christopher Moore, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Debates about the Virtue sōphrosunē in the Fifth Century
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William Wians, Merrimack College and Boston College, USA
The Virtue of a Fallibilist: Aretê, Sophiê, and the Limits of Knowledge in Xenophanes
Jurgen Gatt, University of Malta
The Ethics of Litigation in Gorgias’ Palamedes
Tuesday, June 15, 9.30-11.00 Second Online Session (Morning)
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University, Australia
Sensing the Heat: Definitions of Virtue in Heraclitus and Pythagoras
Patrick O’Sullivan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Arete, Sophia and Pindar’s Athletic Ideal
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Lee Coulson, University of Sydney, Australia
Άρετή Today: the 21st c. virtue of anodyne amorality
Tuesday, June 15, 16.30-18.30: Third Online Session (Afternoon)
Jacques Bromberg, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Aretē in Greek Tragedy
Lucio Privitello, Stockton University, USA
The W/rest of Virtue
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Branislav Kotoc, King’s College London, UK
Courage and Conversation in Plato’s Laches
Mark Ralkowski, George Washington University, USA
Plato and the Navy: Thalassocracy, Aretē, and the Corruption of Desire
Wednesday, June 16, 16.30-18.30: Fourth Online Session (Afternoon)
Lidia Palumbo, University of Napoli & Loredana Cardullo, University of Catania, Italy
Arete and the Doctrine of Virtues in Plato’s Dialogues and the Platonic Tradition
Esther Kariuki, Strathmore University, Kenya
Exploring the nature of virtue and the possibility of transmitting virtue in Plato’s Meno
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Guilherme Motta, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
Tekhne Politke: the art of promoting civic aretai in Plato’s Republic.
Jay Elliot, Bard College, USA
The Virtues of Cities
Thursday, June 17, 9.30-11.30 Fifth Online Session (Morning)
Wim Nijs, KU Leuven, Belgium
Teaching Epicurean ἀρετή in Western Greece: Philodemus on ὑπερηφανεία and μεγαλοψυχία
Giulia Bonasio, Durham University, UK
Phronêsis in the Eudemian Ethics
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Niels Aslak Christensen, University College London, UK
The Kosmos of the Virtues: Megalopsychia in Aristotle’s Ethics
Thursday, June 17, 16.30-18.30: Sixth Online Session (Afternoon)
Paula Gottlieb, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Virtue of Character in Aristotle’s Nicomachean versus Eudemian Ethics
Thomas Schmid, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
Why Crown Magnanimity?
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Gary Beck, University of Ottawa, Canada
Morally Virtuous Actions as Energeiai in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Charles R. Duke, Yale Divinity School, USA
What is the Good Life?: Reconciliatory Readings of Books I & X in the Nicomachean Ethics
Friday, June 18, 16.30-18.30: Seventh Online Session (Afternoon)
Allison Murphy, Carleton College, USA
Communal Aretē
(Fixed) Heidi Northwood, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
The Arete of Artisans & Laborers in Aristotle’s Politics
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(payment sent) Michal Bizon, Jagiellonian University, Poland
The Politics of Virtue in Demosthenes and Aristotle
Audrey Anton, Western Kentucky University, USA
Virtuous Knowledge: Aristotle’s Graduated Motivational Internalism
Saturday, June 19, 16.30-18.30: Eighth Online Session (Afternoon)
Carlo delle Donne, La Sapienza-Università di Roma, Italy
Ulysses and the Sirens. On two Stoic symbols of arete and vice
Makoto Sekimura, Hiroshima University, Japan
Notions of Impression and Trace in Plotinus’ Treatise On Virtues
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Tim Sorg, Stanford University, USA
Human and Ecological Aretē in Archaic Sicily: Why Syracusans valued Skilled Labor over Land
Aura Piccioni, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt & A.M. Genova, Harvard CHS
Archaeological Aretē and Political Engagement: Excavating Sicily and Magna Graecia in the 19th and 20th century
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