Protreptic Rhetoric in Aristotle
and the Peripatos
Friday, March 16, 2018
UCSD Philosophy Department Seminar Room (HSS 7077—floor 7)
11am: Welcome: Monte Johnson (UCSD)
11:15-1pm: “Modes
of Argument in Aristotle: Prolegomenon to the Study of his Protreptic”
Robert Bolton (Rutgers)
Moderator: Samuel Rickless (UCSD)
1-2pm: Boxed
lunch in the Philosophy Department Lounge
2-3:45pm: “Protreptic
and Dialectic”
Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva /
Athens)
Moderator: Clinton Tolley (UCSD)
3:45-4pm: Refreshments
in the Philosophy Department lounge
4-5:45pm: “Toward a Model of Protreptic Speech:
Aristotle’s Account in Rhetoric
I.3-8”
Cristina Pepe (Campania)
Moderator: Ashley Attwood (Stanford)
6-7pm: Peripatetic
stroll around UCSD Campus
7pm: Dinner,
UCSD Faculty Club
Saturday, March 17, 2018
UCSD Philosophy Department Seminar Room
8am: Coffee and
breakfast pastries in the Philosophy Department lounge
9-10:45am: “Protreptics and
Celestial Theory”
István Bodnár (Central European University)
Moderator: Georgios Anagnostopoulos (UCSD)
10:45-11:15am: Refreshments in the Philosophy
Department lounge
11:15am-1pm: “Aristotle's Protreptic Strategy in Protrepticus VI”
Ronja Hildebrandt (Humboldt)
Moderator: Blythe Greene (UCSD)
1-2pm: Boxed
lunch in the Philosophy Department lounge
2-3:45pm: “The
Value of the Theoretical Life in Politics VII and VIII”
Donald Morrison (Rice)
Moderator: Denise Demetriou (UCSD)
3:45-4pm: Refreshments
in the Philosophy Department lounge
4-5:45pm: “The
Good of a Protreptic”
Chris Bobonich (Stanford)
Moderator: Donald Rutherford (UCSD)
6-7pm: Peripatetic
stroll to the Cliffs
7:30pm: Dinner
at Estancia
Sunday, March 18, 2018
UCSD Philosophy Department seminar room
8am: Coffee
and breakfast pastries in the Philosophy Department lounge
9-10:45am: “Laughter
as a Protreptic Tool”
Pierre Destrée (Louvain la Nueve)
Moderator: Jamie Marvin (UCSD)
10:45-11am: Refreshments
in the Philosophy Department lounge
11-12:45pm:
“Theoretical and Practical lives: protreptic as a context for the debate”
Brad Inwood (Yale University)
Moderator: Edward Watts (UCSD)
12:45-1pm: Farewell
remarks: Monte Johnson (UCSD).
This conference has been made possible with
support from: The UCSD Philosophy Department, The UCSD Program in Classical
Studies, The UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities, and the UCSD Center for
Hellenic Studies.
