Organizers
Malcolm Heath (The University of Leeds)
Dana Munteanu (OSU Classics)
Sponsored by Arts & Humanities
link to Symposium Abstracts
The Poetics in Its Aristotelian Context
Programme
Day 1, Sunday, April 7, 2013
Welcome
8.30-8.45 coffee, bagels.
Opening remarks 8.45-9.00 (Ben Acosta-Hughes)
Tragedy and Learning
9.00-11.00 (Moderator: Tom Hawkins)
Collins, J. Performer wisdom and theoretical philosophy
Nichols, D. The Tragedy that Exceeds Aesthetics: What Aristotle's Poetics Can Tell Us about Human Learning
11.00-12.00 (Moderator: Christine Schaefers)
Cirillo, T. Taxonomic Flexibility in the Poetics: metaphor, genos, and eidos
12.00-1.00 lunch
1.00-2.00
Gonzalez, J. Cognition, Recognition, and the Psychology of Aristotelian Mimêsis
2.00-2.15 Coffee break
Tragedy, Comedy, and Ethics
2.15-4.15 (Moderator: Rebecca Kennedy)
Munteanu, D. The Better, the Worse, and the Like: Types of Characters in Aristotle
Cinaglia, V. The Ethical context of Poetics 5: a possible interpretation of comic hamartēma
4.30-5.30 (Moderator: Craig Jendza)
Soklon, M. The Poetry of Aristotle’s Ethical Theory
Day 2, Monday, April 8, 2013
Tragedy and Polis
9.45-10.00 coffee, bagels.
10.00-11.00 (Moderator: Richard Fletcher)
Lockwood, T. Is there a Poetics in Aristotle’s Politics?
11.00-12.00 (Moderator: Sam Flores)
Scheiter, K. Why Anger is not a Tragic Emotion for Aristotle
12.00-1.00 lunch
1.00-2.00
Carli, S. Historia in Aristotle’s Philosophy
2.00-2.15 Coffee break
Mythos in Aristotle
2.15-4.15 (Moderator: Bruce Heiden)
Gabor, O. The Plot as the Psyche of Tragedy
Capra, A. Aristotle and the Anatomy of Myth
4.30-5.30 (Moderator: Dana Munteanu)
Key-Note Speech
Heath, M. Poetical Animals: Aristotle, Anthropology and Poetry