Chicago Area Consortium
in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Northwestern University,
the University of Chicago, and
the University of Illinois at Chicagowill host their Fifth Conference in Ancient Philosophy
Aristotle's Practical Philosophy: A Conference on Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, and Poetics
April 16-17, 2004
Friday April 16, 2004, Afternoon session on Aristotle's ethics
Northwestern University, Harris Hall, Room 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston
2:00-3:45 Rosalind Hursthouse (University of Auckland, New Zealand), 'What does the Aristotelian phronimos know?'
Comments: Steven Skultety (Northwestern)
4:00-5:45 Gisela Striker (Harvard University), 'Aristotle's ethics as a political science'
Comments: Paula Gottlieb (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
6:30 Dinner in EvanstonSaturday April 17, 2004:
Morning Session on Aristotle's politics
University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall
8:30-9 Coffee and Rolls
9:00-10:45: Josiah Ober (Princeton University)
Comments: Sara Monoson (Northwestern)
11:00-12:45: Bernard Yack (Brandeis University), 'Rhetoric and Public Reason in Aristotle's Political Philosophy'
Comments: Danielle Allen (University of Chicago)
12:45-2:00: Van transportation from UIC to the University of Chicago; lunch at the Univ. of Chicago
Afternoon Session on Aristotle's poetics
University of Chicago, Franke Humanities Institute, Joseph Regenstein Library, Room S102, 1100 East 57th Street (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS)2:00-3:45: Stephen Halliwell (University of St. Andrews), 'Aristotle's Poetics and the Theatre of the Mind'
Comments: Anne Eaton (Bucknell University)
4:00- 5:45: Paul Woodruff (University of Texas, Austin), 'Who is Creon? Character and Mimesis in Aristotle's Poetics'
Comments: Gabriel Richardson Lear (Univ. of Chicago)
7:30 Dinner for Participants
The conference is sponsored by the Northwestern University Classical Traditions Initiative, the Northwestern University Ancient Philosophy Fund, the University of Chicago Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Departments of Classics and of Philosophy, the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, Professor Martha Nussbaum, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the UIC Graduate College, UIC Humanities Institute, and UIC Department of Philosophy.
The conference itself is free.
To reserve a place at one of the dinners, contact Richard Kraut. Dinner on Friday evening will be $15 per person, and dinner on Saturday evening will be $35 per person. Dinner on Friday evening will be free for graduate students in the Chicago Area program, and $15 for dinner on Saturday evening.
Please mail checks made out to 'Northwestern University' to Richard Kraut, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Kresge Hall Room-2-335, 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208-2214.To reserve a place in the van on Saturday (to go from UIC to the University of Chicago), please contact Richard Kraut.
The speakers and commentators will be staying at the Omni Chicago Hotel, 676 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611. If you would like to stay at the hotel at University of Chicago rates (approx. $145 per night), please contact Ms. Lorrie Ragland <lorrie_ragland@law.uchicago.edu> by April 1st to have your name added to the hotel list. To make a reservation you will need to give your credit card number to Ms. Ragland.
Suggested parking:
• for Northwestern: there is a public parking structure, with entrances on either Church St. or Clark St. Both entrances are a half block east of Chicago Av., a half block west of Hinman. Av. This is two blocks south of Harris Hall.• for UIC: there is a parking lot open to visitors (for a fee), Lot 9 at 501 S. Morgan Street, on Harrison St., just north of University Hall and Stevenson Hall.
• for UChicago: there is usually plenty of street parking available during the weekends on East 59th Street near the Classics Bldg (at S. Ellis), from which one can walk north to Regenstein.
For any other information about the conference, contact Richard Kraut.
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