Announcement of Forthcoming Public Workshop at the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP), Durham University
25-26 January 2024
On Rowe’s Eudemian Ethics: A Workshop on Philosophical and Textual Creativity
Durham University
Joachim Room
College of St Hild & St Bede
Durham, DH1 1SZ
And Remotely on Zoom
Sponsored by the 5-year Research Project ‘Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Ancient Greek Prose’ (funded by United Kingdom Research and Innovation), Durham Centre for Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Durham University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Oxford University Press
In 2023, Christopher J. Rowe OBE (Prof. Emeritus, Durham) produced a new edition of one of the most perplexing and controversial texts of ancient philosophy, Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (Oxford Classical Texts series, Oxford University Press) – a text Rowe has worked on his entire professional career. This workshop aims to celebrate this monumental publication, along with Rowe’s companion book Aristotelica: Studies on the Text of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (Oxford University Press), through a critical engagement with Rowe’s new text and ideas. The workshop will feature an international group of specialists in Aristotle’s ethics who will assess the changed landscape of Aristotle studies in the wake of Rowe’s contributions.
This workshop also marks the public launch the UKRI-funded 5-year research project ‘Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Ancient Greek Prose’ (PI: Prof. Edith Hall FBA; Co-I: Prof. Phillip Horky), in association with the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP). At the workshop, Prof. Hall will introduce this major project, as well as the Durham Lyceum research group, and outline the future plans and goals of our collaborative research.
Workshop participants include: Giulio di Basilio, Giulia Bonasio, Friedemann Buddensiek, Sophia Connell, Daniel Ferguson, George Gazis, Edith Hall, Phillip Horky, Anna Marmodoro, Robert Mayhew, Karen Margrethe Nielsen, Christopher Rowe, Alessandro Vatri, Bjorn Wastvedt, Raphael Woolf, Rosie Wyles
This event is open to the public. It will be in person and accessible via Zoom. A provisional schedule of the workshop can be accessed here.
Anyone interested to attend (either in person or remotely) is asked to contact Prof. Phillip Horky (phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk) by 17 January 2024.