THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

C/ Madrid, 133

Getafe – Madrid

How to get to the UC3M

By train: departing from Atocha Train Station,

Renfe-Cercanías, line C4, getting off at Las

Margaritas-Universidad Station.

By bus: departing from Plaza Elíptica Interchange

Station, lines 441 or 442, getting off at Calle

Madrid-Universidad Bus-Stop.

Conference Director: Francisco Lisi Bereterbide (UC3M)

Instituto “Lucio Anneo Séneca”

Director: Francisco Lisi Bereterbide (UC3M) Secretary: Federica Pezzoli (UC3M)

Commitee:

Jorge Cano Cuenca (UAB) Cristina Basili (UC3M)

Juan Felipe González Calderón (UC3M) Diony González Rendón (UC3M)

Martin Eyrich (UC3M) Luna Mato Puerta (UC3M)

Organizers:

http://institutolucioanneoseneca.com

ANCIENT IDEAS

IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

The Reception of Ancient Political

Theory in the Contemporary

Political Philosophy

November 14th-15th 2013

14.11.2013

Plenary sessions

9:00-10:00

Barbara Zehnpfennig (Passau Universität): “Platon in der Gegenwart”

10:00-11:00

Emmanuelle Jouët-Pastré (Université de Toulouse): “La République de Platon lue par Alain Badiou: la critique des quatre régimes précommunistes”

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-11:50

Elena Irrera (Università degli Studi di Bologna): “Placing respect in the foreground Plato on different kinds of recognition”

11:50-12:10

Piotr Swiercz (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow): “Voegelin. Plato. Transcendence. Politics. A Few Remarks about Transcendent Reception of Non-Transcendent Concept as a Fundament of Political Project”

12:10-12:30

Ana Guerra Ribeiro de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Minas de Gerais) - Rodrigo Antonio Calixto de Pina Gomes Mello (Universidade Federal de Minas de Gerais): “The Democratic Rule of Law and the Recovery of the Liberty of the Ancients”

12:30-13:00 Discussion

13:00-13:20

Demetra Fannie Kasimis (California State University): “Classical Greek Theory and the Politics of Immigration”

13:20-13:50 Discussion

13.50-15.30 Lunch

15:30-16.15

Eduardo González Calleja (UC3M): “Sobre el concepto y variantes del totalitarismo”

16.15 –17:00

Franco Trabattoni (Università degli Studi di Milano): Le critiche 'liberali' al pensiero politico di Platone

17:00-17:15 Coffee break

17:15-17:35

George Duke (Deakin University, Australia): “Aristotle and the Authoritativeness of Political Science”

17:35-17:55

María José Martín Velasco (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): “La auctoritas del orador en el proceso de la persuasión”

17:55-18:15

Rosalía Rodríguez López (Universidad de Almería): “De la literatura política protobizantina a la legislación Justinianea”

18:15-18:35 Discussion

18:35-18.55

Daniel Mielgo Bregazzi (Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard): “The History of Representation. An Overview”

18:55-19:15

Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais): “O estoicismo imperial como momento da ideia de justiça”

19:15-19:35

Enrique Herreras (Universitat de València): “La actualidad de las tragedias áticas como mitos democráticos”

19:35-20:00 Discussion

15.11.2013

Plenary sessions

09:00-10:00

Salvador Mas (UNED): “La recepción de Roma en los fascismos Europeos”

10:00-11:00

Christoph Horn (Universität Bonn): “The Ancient Idea of Political Perfectionism and its Contemporary Counterpart”

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:35 Jun Su (Trinity College, Dublin): “Wisdom and Prudence: Aristotle’s Two Ways? An internal approach to Aristotle’s concept of happiness”

11:35-11:55

John R. Wallach (City University of New York): “Against Dichotomies and Synecdoches: Overcoming the Ancient/Modern Problematic for the Reception of Ancient Political Theory”

11:55-12:15

Katarzyna Kolakowska (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): “Voegelin. Rhetoric and Politics in Aristotle”

12:15-12:30 Discussion

12:30-12:50

Charles Bartlett (Harvard University) “A Comparison Between Just War Theory and Imperialism In Republican Rome and the United States”

12:50-13:10

Jay R. Elliott (Bard College, NY): “Rawlsian Congruence and the Legacy of Ancient Political Thought”

13:10-13:30

Robert R. Gallagher (American University of Beirut): “An Aristotelian direction to a problem in contemporary political economy”

13:30-13:50 Discussion

13.50-15.30 Lunch

Plenary session

15.30-16.30

Manuel Knoll (Bogaziçi University): “How Aristotelian is Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach?”

16.15-16.30 Coffee Break

16:30-16:50

Annie S. Hewitt (Luis Guido Carli University, NY): “The Eumenides and Psychological and Political Impasse”

16:50-17:10

Laura Candiotto (University Ca Foscari, Venice): “Leonard Nelson: il dialogo socratico come pratica di libertà contro il totalitarismo”

17:10-17:30

Carol Atack (University of Cambridge): “The philosopher and his equals: Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou in dialogue with Plato”

17:30-17:50

Ronald Weed (University of New Brunswick) “Aristotle and Rawls on Conflict and the Fragility of Consensus: Democratic Envy, Distributive Expectations and Perceptions of Injustice” 17:50-18:10 Penelope Frangakis (The University of Sidney) “The reception of Ancient Greek Political Theory in Contemporary Political Philosophy” 18:20-18:30 Discussion

18:30 End of the meeting