Event organiserSchool of Classics

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The start of this century has seen a greater interest in the contemporary application of ancient philosophical ethics, although the widespread emphasis on Stoicism and the possibility of understanding Stoic ethics in isolation from the rest of Stoic philosophy remain controversial. Our century has also seen increasing anxiety about, and a conscious desire to strive for, standards in politics and public discourse, particularly in areas where the ethical and the cognitive intersect (integrity, honesty, fairness, grounds for belief). Our workshop will bring together experts on ancient philosophy, from a range of areas, to discuss how ancient ethics can inform our responses to 21st-century challenges.

Programme

09.00 to 10.00 BST / 10.00 to 11.00 France.
Angelo Giavatto
‘Achilles and Odysseus. Two ways of Rethinking Mortality in Ancient Ethics’

10.00 to 11.00 BST / 11.00 to 12.00 France.
Lucia Saudelli
‘ Knowledge, Virtue and Health in Plato’s Charmides: Ancient ethics and Contemporary issues’

Lunch break

13.30 to 14.30 BST / 14.30 to 15.30 France.
Jason Carter
‘No One is Deceived Willingly: Plato on the Ethics of Moral Disagreement’

Short break

15.00 to 16.00 BST / 16.00 to 17.00 France.
Carol Atack
‘The anachronistic gentleman: the persistence of inequalities in the ancient moral exemplar of the kaloskagathos’

16.00 BST / 17.00 France.
Concluding reflections, led by M.M.McCabe

All welcome. If you wish to participate, please email the organisers (Dr Jordi Pia Comella and Dr Alex Long) at agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk by Thursday 30 September.

Dr Alex Long
School of Classics
University of St Andrews
Swallowgate, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL

Visualising War is an interdisciplinary research project based at the University of St Andrews. It looks at how war gets represented in art, text, drama, music and many other kinds of storytelling.

Join us for two interactive, online conversations exploring how historic war stories influence our understanding of conflict in the modern world.

Conversation 1 (for military personnel/veterans/the wider military community): Wednesday 6 October, 12 noon to 2pm.

Conversation 2 (for civillians): Thursday 7 October, 12 noon to 2pm.

To register for either workshop please visit the project website.

Hosted by the University of St Andrews with short panels and discussion sessions held online over the weekend of Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October 2021.
Associated institutions:
* Classical Reception Studies Network
* University of St Andrews
* University of Ljubljana
* Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw

Programme
Saturday 23rd October
10.00 to 10.15 BST
Welcome
Henry Stead, Elzbieta Olechowska and David Movrin

10.15 to 11.30 BST
The Ancient Proletarian Hero
Scott Lyall, Miryana Dimitrova, Oleksii Rudenko and Caitie Bugler (Chair)

14.00 to 15.15 BST
Classicists and Communism in and beyond the Soviet bloc
Elzbieta Olechowska, David Movrin, Emilo Zucchetti and Michael Carroll (Chair)

15.30 to 17.00 BST
Greek Tragedy and the Left
Natasha Remoundou, Claudio Sansone, Gloria Larini and Giovanna Di Martino (Chair)

Sunday 24th October
10.15 to 11.30 BST
Leftist Ancient History
Eivind Seland, Vittorio Saldutti, Anton Baryshnikov and Jon Hesk (Chair)

14.00 to 15.00 BST
Animating the past, classicising the future
Barbara Goff, Hanna Paulouskaya and Rhiannon Easterbrook (Chair)

15.30 to 16.30 BST
Round table – Future Directions
Edith Hall, Gregory Lee, Neville Morley with David Movrin and Henry Stead (Chairs)

This workshop will take place virtually via Microsoft Teams. To register, please email classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk by Wednesday 20th October 2021.