Offers are invited of papers to be delivered at a conference entitled 'Milestones in Aristotle’s Public Reception'. It will be convened by the Leverhulme-funded project Aristotle beyond the Academy, based in the Centre for Classical Reception and the Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Durham, on March 25th-26th 2025.

The project asks how, where and why…

First annual project hybrid workshop, attended by Advisory Board and Project Research Team. Presentation of research results and plans for future research trajectories. Feedback and discussion.

Project research time visit libraries and archives in Dublin to trace influence of Aristotle in the public sphere in Ireland.

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson will be giving three talks during the British Academy’s Summer Showcase 2023: How to win arguments (for press and parliamentarians at Showcase Launch 15^th June), How to win arguments (workshop for schools, 16^th June) and What next? The big decision and why it’s not so big (workshop for schools, 16^th June). Find…

Prof Edith Hall and Dr Peter Swallow will be speaking at a conference organised by the Aristotelica team.

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson chairs panel and gives paper ‘Teaching rhetoric in UK high schools: when Aristotle found media fame’, at the Rhetoric Society of Europe (8^th international conference), Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. http://ris8.org/

Mid-Year Team Planning Meeting, Research Team

With Dr Peter Swallow joining the team on April 1, the official launch celebration, online at 1700 UK time. Register here to participate for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-launch-aristotle-beyond-the-academy-tickets-576255986167

Edith Hall presents the project at Northwestern University Classics Department Seminar.

Edith Hall presents Aristotelian ideas on mental flourishing on a panel at the New York Academy of Sciences.