Workshop meetings are generally in Classics 21, 4:30-6:00 pm every Wednesday while classes are in session (the Classics building is located at 1010 E 59th St).  Any exceptions will be noted in the calendar below.  Please also see the calendar for links to papers and faculty websites.

2011-2012 Schedule

Fall 2011

9/28/11 - On Generation and Corruption - we’ll translate 314a1 – 314b1.  An electronic version of the text is available here.

9/29/11 - Bart Van Wassenhove (Classics) – ”Ecquid erubescitis? Admonition and Emotion in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales” - 3:30 pm, Classics 21

10/5/11 - On Generation and Corruption - 314b2 – 315a24

10/12/11 - On Generation and Corruption - 315a25 – 316a14

10/19/11 - Jennifer Whiting of the University of Toronto - “Fools’ Pleasures in Plato’s Philebus”

10/26/11 - On Generation and Corruption - 316a5 – 316b34

11/2/11 - On Generation and Corruption - 316b10 – 317a31

11/9/11 - On Generation and Corruption - 317a32 – 318a23

11/16/11 - On Generation and Corruption - 318a13 – 318b33

11/30/11 - Arnold Brooks (Philosophy) - The Dilemma of Physics I.8

12/7/11 - Extended translation session, 4-6 pm:  On Generation and Corruption - 318b18 – 319b5

Winter 2012

1/11/12 - James Redfield (faculty, Classics and Social Thought) - Philosophical Egkrateia

1/18/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 319b6 – 320a7

2/1/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 320a8 – 320b12

2/3/12 - Jacob Rosen (Humboldt University) - Essence and End in Aristotle - 11:30 am, Wieboldt 102

2/8/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 320b12 – 321a29

2/15/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 321a29 – 322a4

2/22/12 - Alex Lee (Classics) – The response to dialectical deficiency in the Republic

2/29/12 - Mariska Leunissen of UNC Chapel Hill – Natural Scientific Method in Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption? (handout)

3/7/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 321b25 – 322a33

Spring 2012

3/28/12 - Arnold Brooks (Philosophy) – Metaphysics and the Law of Non-Contradiction

3/30/12 – 3/31/12 - Workshop on Technē - workshop schedule

Sean Kelsey – Truth and technē  (workshop paper)

4/4/12 - Katja Vogt of Columbia University – What is Ignorance?  Plato on Presumed Knowledge, Wishful Thinking, and Not Understanding Your Own Thoughts

4/11/12 - Rana Saadi Liebert (Classics) – Pity and Disgust in Plato’s Republic:  The Case of Leontius

4/18/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 322b1 – 322b26

4/25/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 322b26 – 323a34

5/2/12 - Noah Chafets (Social Thought) – Auditors and Other Lovers:  Rhetoric, Love and Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus

5/9/12 - Dhananjay Jagannathan (Philosophy) – Aristotle on Practical Knowledge and the Starting Points of Ethical Inquiry

5/16/12 - On Generation and Corruption – 323b1 – 324a9

5/23/12 - On Generation and Corruption - 324a9 – 324b4

5/30/12 - Michael Crema (Philosophy) – title TBA