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'Explorations in the Public Reception of Aristotle', international conference

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26 March 2025 - 27 March 2025

10:00AM - 5:00PM

CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online

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Hosted as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy'.

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You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming conference, “Explorations in the Public Reception of Aristotle” at Durham University on Wednesday March 26 and Thursday March 27, 2025. The conference will take place in the Ritson Room of Durham’s Classics & Ancient History Department and online via Teams (link below).
The two-day event is part of the Durham University and Leverhulme funded research project, Aristotle Beyond the Academy (https://aristotlebeyond.co.uk/). Our aim is to explore how, where and why Aristotle has made cultural appearances in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales since the Restoration. While the project focuses primarily on the key themes of ethics, law and politics, rhetoric, and natural science, the conference takes a broader look at the reception of Aristotle in culture, literature and the arts to the modern day.
Come join us on our public peripatetic journey! If you cannot join us in person, please use the following link for Microsoft Teams where all the talks will be available at the times advertised below:
Wednesday March 26th
Morning
 
10:00-11:15 
Hatice Nur Erkizan, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi: 
“The Reception of Aristotle without Politics in the Islamic World in the Middle Ages and Its Implications”
John Dudley, Leuven: 
"John Henry Newman's appreciation and criticism of Aristotle”
11:45-13:00 
Natalie Earl (UEL) & Rhiannon Easterbrook (Royal Holloway):
“Aristotle, Shakespeare, and English Literature in the Contemporary English School System”
Ashley Lance, Cambridge: 
“From Barbarian to Savage Education: The Reception of Ancient Thought in the Development of US Residential Schools.”
Afternoon
Session 3 14:00-15:45 
Patrice Rankine, University of Chicago:
“Sing of Anger: Revisiting August Wilson’s Reading of Aristotle’s Poetics.”
Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Durham:
“The Reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric in UK Educational Contexts: 2020-2025.”
16:30 
S. Sara Monoson, Northwestern (keynote speaker).
“Summoning Aristotle.”
Thursday March 27th
Morning
10:00-11:15 
Henry Stead, St Andrews:
“Red Aristotle: British communist receptions of Aristotle for the reading public (1938-1956).”
Christopher Anaforian, St Andrews:
“Moderate to Excess: Will Durant, the Working Class, and The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy.”
11:45-13:00 
Richard Toye, Exeter:
“Boristotle: Boris Johnson and Aristotle.”
Rory McInnes-Gibbons, Durham:
“AIristotle: Aristotle and the Future of Mankind.”
Afternoon
14:00-15:15 
Fran O’Rourke, UCD:
“Aristotle in Irish Literature and Folklore.”
Alessandro Vatri, Durham:
“Aristotle and the Orators in Margaret Doody’s Fourth-Century Athens.”
15:30 Tea
16:00-18:30
Alex Lyras, Company of Angels (LA) in Conversation with Edith Hall, Durham: 
A Screening and Discussion of Aristotle/Alexander: A New Play.

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