Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2014 – University of Leeds

The Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy Annual Meeting 2014

Department of Classics, University of Leeds

Monday April 7th – Tuesday April 8th 2014

 

Venue: The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, Brotherton Library

Monday April 7th

1.00pm-2.00pm

Registration

Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds

2.00pm-3.15pm

Dr Brian D. Prince (Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford)

“The Forms as Powers in Plato’s Phaedo.”

 

3.15pm-4.30pm

Professor Mario-Jorge de Carvalho (Department of Philosophy, New University of Lisbon)

“A ‘Radiological’ Approach to Pausanias’ Speech (Plato’s Symposium).”

 

4.30pm-4.50pm: tea

 

4.50pm-5.50pm

Mr Nicolo Benzi (PhD candidate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham)

“The semantics of noos, noein and their derivatives in the poetry of Xenophanes and Parmenides.”

5.50pm-6.20pm  Business meeting

Evening: Conference Dinner — University House, University of Leeds

 

Tuesday April 8th

The Justice, Ethics and Conventions of War in Ancient Thought

with the centenary conference: ‘Classics and Classicists in WWI’, April 8th-10th 2014

 

10.00am-11.15am

Professor Neville Morley (Department of Classics and Ancient History, Bristol)

“Might and Right: Thucydides on the ethics of deterrence and pre-emption.”

 

11.15am-11.45am coffee

 

11.45am-1.00pm

Professor Malcolm Schofield (Faculty of Classics, Cambridge)

“Deciding ethically: Cicero on war and tyrannicide (and other problems).”

 

Lunch 

The ‘Classics and Classicists in World War I’ Centenary Exhibition opens Monday April 7th 1.00pm at Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building.

 

For information on NAAP 2014 and Classics and Classicists in WWI:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20047/classics/2197/legacies_of_war/2

 

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