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