Afterlives of Hellenistic Ethics Symposium – Registration Open

The UQ node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) presents:

Afterlives of Hellenistic Ethics Symposium

Date: Friday 8 April 2016
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Venue: Toowong Rowing Club, 37 Keith St, St Lucia
Cost: Free and fully catered
Registration: Please register by 5 April 2016 by emailing uqche@uq.edu.au

Speakers:

  • Professor Ada Palmer (University of Chicago)
  • Dr Patrick Gray (Durham University)
  • Dr Diana Barnes (University of Queensland)
  • Associate Professor Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University)

What accounts for the enduring influence of Hellenistic life-philosophies—Stoicism, Epicureanism, Scepticism, Neoplatonism, and other such movements? What is living or dead in ancient ethical philosophy today?

This cross-disciplinary symposium encourages reflections on the long-term impact of Hellenistic ethical philosophy from antiquity up to the present. Topics under discussion will include the reception of Lucretian and Epicurean ethical and scientific ideas in the Renaissance, early modern and Enlightenment engagements with Stoicism, and the critique of Senecan ethics by Erasmus and Montaigne.

The symposium will consist of a series of papers followed by general discussion. A full program will be available shortly.