The Greeks and the Irrational, Revisited
University College London
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9:00 – 10:00 Coffee + Registration |
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9:45 –
10:15 Organizer Welcome |
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10:15 – 11:00 |
Nick Lowe |
Dodds and the
Irrational |
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11:00 – 11:45 |
Martin Devecka |
Brute Beasts: The Animal
Other and the End of Classical Thought |
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11:45 – 12:30 |
Giulia Maria Chesi |
The Pythia
and oracular rationality |
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12:30 –
13:30 Lunch Break |
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13:30 – 14:15 |
Ella Haselwerdt |
Tragic
(Ir)rationality and Tragi-comedi-orgiastic Anthropophagy:
Towards a Deterritorialized Dionysian |
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14:15 – 15:00 |
Maria Gerolemou |
Comic Madness |
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15:00 –
15:30 Coffee Break |
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15:30 – 16:15 |
Francesca Spiegel |
New-age
Religion, Inherited Conglomerates, and the Fictions of Western Culture |
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16:15 – 17:00 |
Katherine Fleming |
We have never been
rational |
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17:00 – 17:45 |
Closing Discussion |
Unpacking the term
'irrational' and its power dynamics |
Organized
by : Francesca Spiegel, Giulia Maria Chesi, Tom MacKenzie
Supported
by :
A.
G. Leventis Foundation
The
Institute of Classical Studies
Humboldt
University of Berlin
University
College London, Department of Greek & Latin