B. A. C. A. P.
BOSTON AREA COLLOQUIUM IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
31st ANNUAL PROGRAM
2008-2009
Patricia Curd zeno@purdue.edu at Dartmouth College
“Thought, Corporeality, and the Divine in Early Greek Philosophy”
Commentator: Keith McPartland (Williams College) Keith.E.Mcpartland@williams.edu
Lecture: 10/09, 7:30 p.m., Rockefeller Center Rm. 1
Seminar: 10/10, 10 a.m. (Thornton Hall Room 103)
Eugene Garver EGARVER@CSBSJU.EDU at BU
“Living Well and Living Together: the Argument of Politics VII: 1-3 and the Discovery of the Common Life”
Commentator: Thorton Lockwood (Boston University) tlock@bu.edu
Lecture: 10/30, 7:30 p.m., Department of Philosophy (745 Commonwealth Avenue) Room 525
Seminar: “Back to Basics: Happiness and the Best State in Politics VII”
10/31, 4 p.m. Department of Philosophy (745 Commonwealth Avenue) Room 525
Marije Martijn m.martijn@ph.vu.nl at BC
“Why Beauty is Truth in All We Know: Aesthetics and Mimesis in Neoplatonic Science”
Commentator: Dmitri Nikulin (The New School) nikulind@newschool.edu
Lecture: 11/20, 7:30 p.m., McGuinn Hall, 3rd Floor Lounge
Seminar: 11/20, 3-5 p.m., McGuinn Hall, 3rd Floor Lounge
Dimitri El Murr elmurr@canoe.ens.fr at Brown
“Politics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman”
Commentator: Christie J. Thomas (Dartmouth College) Christine.J.Thomas@Dartmouth.EDU
Lecture: 12/04, 7:30 p.m., Room 119 Philosophy, Brown University
Seminar: “Statesman’s Myth (268d – 274e).” December 4th, 2:30-3:50 (Smith Buonanno Hall G12, Pembroke Campus)
Joerg Hardy jhardy@zedat.fu-berlin.de at Holy Cross
“Plato on virtue and knowledge in the Laches”
Commentator: David Roochnik (Boston University) roochnik@bu.edu
Lecture: 3/19, 7:30 p.m., Dinand Library Faculty Room
Seminar: 3/19, 4 p.m., Smith 201
Bernard Collette becollet@ulb.ac.be at BC
“On the Chrysippean Thesis That the Virtues are ποιά”
Commentator: Brian E. Johnson (Fordham) brjohnson@fordham.edu
Lecture: 4/02, 7:30 p.m., The Boston Room, Corcoran Commons
Seminar: 4/02, 3-5 p.m.,The Boston Room, Corcoran Commons
Pierre Destrée Destree@sofi.ucl.ac.be at Clark
“Plato on How to Reconcile Justice and Happiness”
Commentator: Michael Pakaluk (Institute of the Psychological Sciences) mpakaluk@gmail.com
Lecture: 4/23, 7:30 p.m., Lasry Center for Bioscience, Room 237
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All lectures begin at 7:30 pm.
For more information on the seminars, please contact:
May Sim, Interim Director, BACAP, Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, msim@holycross.edu
Justin Broackes, Philosophy, Brown University, Justin_Broackes@brown.edu
John Cleary, Philosophy, Boston College, cleary@bc.edu
Mary Louise Gill, Classics and Philosophy, Brown University, Mary_Louise_Gill@brown.edu
Margaret Graver, Classics, Dartmouth College, Margaret.R.Graver@dartmouth.edu
Gary Gurtler, Philosophy, Boston College, gurtlerg@bc.edu
Luke Jerzykiewicz, Philosophy, Clark University, ljerzykiewicz@gmail.com
David Roochnik, Philosophy, Boston University, roochnik@bu.edu
Christine Thomas, Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Christine.J.Thomas@dartmouth.edu
Events in this series are fully supported by grants from the participating institutions: Boston College, Boston University (the Humanities Foundation), Brown University, Clark University, Dartmouth College and The College of the Holy Cross.
The Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy are now published by Brill.
Back issues may be obtained by contacting John Cleary, Editor, cleary@bc.edu.
Recent Lecturers in BACAP Have Included:
Malcolm Schofield, John Cooper, Monique Dixsaut, Roy Polansky, Frank Lewis
Verity Harte, Richard Bett, Dominic Scott, Sarah Broadie, Stephen Menn, Catherine Osborne
Anthony Price, Rachel Barney, David Reeve, Victor Caston, Raphael Woolf
Pierre-Marie Morel, Henry Teloh, Francisco Gonzales, Matt Evans, Katja Vogt, Günther Figal
May Sim, Interim Director
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of the Holy Cross
One College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
