2001-2002 Lecture Series of the
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient PhilosophyOctober 4, 2001
Christian Wildberg
Classics, Princeton University
"The Rise and Fall of the Socratic Notion of Piety"
Commentator: David Konstan, Classics, Brown University
Location: Gerard House 119, Brown University
Time: 7:30 pm
Seminar Topic: Piety Across Different Genres
November 1, 2001
Christine Thomas
Philosophy, Dartmouth College
"Plato on the Nature of Life"
Commentator: Justin Broackes, Philosophy, Brown University
Location: Lurie Conference Room, Higgins Univ. Ctr, Clark University
Time: 7:30 pm
Seminar Topic: Life and Energeia in Aristotle
November 29, 2001
Susanne Foster
Philosophy, Marquette University
"Aristotle on Moral Considerability"
Commentator: Lorraine Smith Pangle
Political Science, University of Toronto
Location: Gasson 305, Boston College
Time: 7:30pm
Seminar Topic: On the Possibility of an Environmental Ethic
May 2, 2002
Charles Brittain
Classics, Cornell University
"Attention Deficit: Augustine's Appropriation of the Platonist Grades of Virtue"
Commentator: Carlos Steel, Philosophy
Catholic University of Louvain
Location: Emerson 305, Harvard University
Note: This lecture begins @ 4 p.m.
Seminar Topic: Plotinus on Multiple Levels of Operation of the Soul
February 21, 2002
Hugh Benson
Philosophy, University of Oklahoma
"After the Elenchos in Plato's Meno"
Commentator: David Wolfsdorf, Philosophy
Fairfield University
Location: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm. 525, Boston University
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Seminar Topic: Socratic Philosophy After Vlastos
April 25, 2002
Dmitri Nikulin
Philosophy, New School University
"Physica More Geometrico Demonstrata:
Proclus and Aristotle on Motion"
Commentator: Emily Kutash, New York City
Location: Gasson 305, Boston College
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Seminar Topic: Proclus' Elements of Physics in Relation to Aristotle's Physics
April 4, 2002
Vasilis Politis
Philosophy, Trinity College (Dublin)
"Aristotle's Aporematic Conception of Inquiry"
Commentator: Arthur Madigan, Philosophy, Boston College
Location: Browsing Room, Dinand Library, Holy Cross College
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Seminar Topic: Aporia in Plato's Early Dialogues
May 16, 2002
David Sedley
Classics, Cambridge University
"A Socratic Interpretation of the Theaetetus"
Commentator: Raphael Woolf, Philosophy, Harvard University
Location: Rockefeller Center, Room 1, Dartmouth College
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Seminar Topic: Theaetetus 201-208