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Friday September 19th
Penelope Allison (University of Leicester)
will give a talk entitled: "Investigating household practices: Pompeian case studies"
in the 5th Floor Conference Room of the Italian Academy.
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Friday October 17th at 11 am
Richard Sorabji (NYU) will give a talk on
'Gandhi's ethics: a model for the ancient Stoic sage?'
in the 5th Floor Conference Room of the Italian Academy.
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Upcoming Conference:
24-25 October 2008, Department of Classics, Columbia University
"Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica"
See the conference website below for more information:
www.leeds.ac.uk/classics
/Manilius%20website%20info/
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Upcoming Conference:
3-4 April 2009
"Wisdom in Ancient Thought"
Philosophia promises, by its very name, to be a love of wisdom. But what is this wisdom philosophers love? The question turns out to be far from simple, both because various ancient philosophers disagree among themselves as to what wisdom is, and because philosophy, right from the start, seeks to situate itself vis-à-vis other conceptions of wisdom, including what one might think of as the ‘traditional’ one (or ones), as well as various ‘new-fangled’ notions of wisdom that come on the scene in the fifth century B.C.E.
The conference will be devoted to investigating the notion of wisdom—more precisely, it will be focused on the cluster of concepts: sophia, phronêsis, and theôria, as they occur in ancient philosophy, in the earlier Greek tradition, and in later antiquity, as part of the long Nachleben of ancient Greek philosophy.
Please contact Professor Katja Vogt (kv2101@columbia.edu) or Professor Wolfgang Mann (wrm4@columbia.edu) for further details.
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last modified on May 5th 2008