Annual Conference
ICHS 2024 Conference Agenda
Day 1: April 19th
1:00pm: Welcome & Check-In
1:30pm: Opening Remarks
Mor Segev, 91tvӰԺ
1:45pm: Session 1 (Chair: Jackson Garcia, 91tvӰԺ)
Babette Kamps, “The Otherness of a German Clytaemnestra”
Savannah Peters, “Comparing an Ancient and Modern Clytemnestra: Analyzing the Psychology of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus and Haynes”
3:15pm: Break
3:30pm: Session 2 (Chair: Jessica Williams, 91tvӰԺ)
Nadine Klöpping, “Mirroring Cassandra”
Anastasia Zabalueva, “Aphrodite Unveiled: Queer Reinterpretations and Compulsory Sexuality in Katherina Evangelatos' Production of Euripides' 'Hippolytus' (2023)”
5:00pm: Break
5:15pm: Keynote Speech
Eva Del Soldato, "The Many Faces of an Auctoritas: Aristotle in the Early Modern Period"
7:00pm: Reception
Day 2: April 20th
10:00am: Gathering & Coffee
10:30am: Session 3 (Chair: Stephen Lasse, 91tvӰԺ)
Giacomo Caspar Guida, “The Humanist Antonio Bonfini and his Latin Translation of Herodian’s History: Features, Difficulties and Challenges of an unedited Text”
Kevin Kambo, “Tragedy as Literary Genre and Historical Form in DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk”
12:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm: Session 4 (Chair: Madeline Martin-Seaver, 91tvӰԺ)
Zara Amdur, “Reacting to Diotima and Marcela: What Don Quixote Can Teach Us About Plato’s Symposium”
Tobias Joho, “Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt and the Longing of Modernity for the Ideal of Homer”
3:30pm: Break
3:45pm: Session 5 (Chair: Bridget Erickson, 91tvӰԺ)
Ronald Weed, “Friendly Vices in Aristotle, Machiavelli and Hobbes: Extremes that Oppose the Mean and the Transformation of the Mean”
Marian Gilton, “The Role of Aristotelian Metaphysics on Newton’s Metaphysics of Body and Space”
Katie Ebner-Landy, “David Hume and Theophrastus”
Day 3: April 21st
11:00am: Gathering & Coffee
11:30am: Session 6 (Chair: Blaze Marpet, 91tvӰԺ)
Tomasz Jativa, “History as The Movement of Energeia: Hegel on Aristotle”
Yidi Wu, “What is Wrong with Eros? A Comparative Study of Gerhard Krüger, Leo Strauss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer on Platonic Dialogues”
1:00pm: Break
1:15pm: Session 7 (Chair: Thomas Slabon, 91tvӰԺ)
Eric Solis, “Law and moral development: Aristotle and contemporary Aristotelianism”
Cara Cummings, “When to Bite Your Tongue: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach to Truthfulness”
2:45pm: General Discussion & Farewell