KCL-UCL READING GROUP
During term time, Thursdays 2-4pm, staff and students of the Keeling Centre attend an Ancient Greek Philosophy Reading Group, co-convened with ancient philosophy staff and students from King's College London. A text (an entire dialogue or book of a treatise) is the focus of one or more terms. Participants take it in turns to translate and comment on a set section of the text, with discussion following. Holders of the Keeling Scholarship are required to attend, translate, and present once a term. MPhil.Stud students can take this course for credit, and are required to submit an essay or commentary on an aspect of the text, in addition to attending and presenting throughout the year. In the Summer Term, staff and students present work in progress, or translate an 'Old Chestnut' - a famous passage of an ancient text - offering new insights into the passage.
AUTUMN TERM, 2024-2025
Aristotle, De Anima III
Week 1 (26th Sep): 424b22– 425b11
Glenda Hall, Yaqub Eneborg
Week 2 (3rd Oct): 425b12– 426b29
Joe Sibley, India Griffiths
Week 3 (10th Oct): 426b29– 428a5
India Griffiths, Glenda Hall
Week 4 (17th Oct): 428a5– 429a9
Sean Williams, Hugo Whitmee
Week 5 (24th Oct): 429a10– 430a9
Lawrence Evans, Antonio Lai
Week 6 (7th Nov): 430a10– 431a14
Yaqub Eneborg, Konrad v. Boyneburgk
Week 7 (14th Nov): 431a14– 432a14
Joe Sibley, Jelena Milosavljevic
Week 8 (21st Nov): 432a15– 433a21
Lawrence Evans, Antonio Lai
Week 9 (28th Nov): 433a21– 434b8
Sean Williams, Jelena Milosavljevic
Week 10 (5th Dec): 434b9– 435b25
Vikram Kumar, Hugo Whitmee
SUMMER TERM, 2023-2024
Plato, Crito (contd.) and Work in Progress
2nd May: Crito 52d9-54e2
India Griffiths, Joe Sibley
9th May: Dan Ferguson, ‘Plato’s Civic Tripartition and its Psychological Implications’
16th May: Merrick Anderson, ‘Three Platonic Responses to the Appeal of Injustice’
23rd May: Joachim Aufderheide, ‘Personal Identity in Plato’s Protagoras and Vasubandhu’
30th May: NO MEETING (MM Fest)
6th June: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi, ‘Stoics and Cyrenaics on Future Evils’
13th June: Shaul Tor, Buying off the Gods in Plato’s Laws’
SPRING TERM, 2023-2024
Plato, Euthyphro and Crito
Week 1 (January 11th): Euthyphro 2a1-4e3
Lawrence Evans, Jelena Milosavljevic
Week 2 (January 18th): Euthyphro 4e4-6e10
Jelena Milosavljevic, Lawrence Evans
Week 3 (January 25th): Euthyphro 6e11-9b11
Yaqub Eneborg, Alice Harberd
Week 4 (February 1st): Euthyphro 9c1-11b8
Yaqub Eneborg, Joe Sibley
Week 5 (February 8th): Euthyphro 11b9-13e14
Joe Sibley, Hugo Whitmee
Week 6 (February 22nd): Euthyphro 14a1-16a4
India Griffiths, Sean Williams
Week 7 (February 29th): Crito 43a1-45a5
India Griffiths, Hugo Whitmee
Week 8 (March 7th): Crito 45a6-47c6
Daniel Ferguson, Sean Williams
Week 9 (March 14th): Crito 47c7-50c4
Lawrence Evans, Alice Harberd
Week 10 (March 21st): Crito 50c4-52d8
Joshua Cook, Andrea Romani
AUTUMN TERM, 2023-2024
Aristotle, De Anima II
Week 1 (September 28th): 412a3-413a10
Joshua Cook, Hugo Whitmee
Week 2 (October 5th): 413a11-414a28
Hugo Whitmee, Lawrence Evans
Week 3 (October 12th): 414a29-415b21
Sean Williams, Yaqub Eneborg
Week 4 (October 19th): 415b21-417a9
India Griffiths, Alba Miriello
Week 5 (October 26th): 417a9-418a25
Konrad v. Boyneburgk, Steve Townsend
Week 6 (November 9th): 418a26-419b9
India Griffiths, Yaqub Eneborg
Week 7 (November 16th): 419b9-420b23
Konrad v. Boyneburgk, Luca Dondoni
Week 8 (November 23rd): 420b23-422a7
Sean Williams, Steve Townsend
Week 9 (November 30th): 422a8-423a21
Jelena Milosavljevic, Joe Sibley
Week 10 (December 7th): 423a22-424b18
Joe Sibley, Jelena Milosavljevic
SUMMER TERM, 2022-2023
Plato, Laws I (contd.) and Works in Progress
April 27th: 642b2-643a8
Konrad v. Boyneburgk
May 11th: 646d8-647d7
Konrad v. Boyneburgk
May 18th
Ilaria Andolfi
June 1st
Angelo Giavatto
June 7th
Allison Murphy, 'Aristotle's More Natural Account of Friendship'
SPRING TERM, 2022-2023
Plato, Laws I
January 12th: 624a1-626e5
Lawrence Evans
January 19th: 626e6-628e1
Lawrence Evans
January 26th: 628e2-630d8
Steve Townsend, Hugo Whitmee
February 2nd: 630d9-633a3
Jelena Milosavljevic, Luca Dondoni
March 9th: 633a4-635b3
Luca Dondoni, Glenda Hall
March 23rd: 635b4-637b6
Joe Sibley, India Griffiths
AUTUMN TERM, 2022-2023
Aristotle, De Anima I
Week 1 (September 29th): 402a1-403a2
Week 2 (October 6th): 403a3-403b19
Week 3 (October 13th): 403b20-404b6
Week 4 (October 20th): 404b7-405b10
Week 5 (October 27th): 405b11-406b5
Week 6 (November 10th): 406b5-407b11
Week 7 (November 17th): 407b12-408a34
Week 8 (November 24th): 408a34-409a30
Week 9 (December 1st): 409a31-410b15
Week 10 (December 8th): 410b16-411b30
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SUMMER TERM, 2021-2022
Old Chestnuts and Works in Progress
April 28th
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL)
May 5th
NO SEMINAR (Keeling lecture)
May 12th
Joachim Aufderheide (KCL)
May 19th
Mike Coxhead (KCL)
May 26th
Jonnie Griffiths (UCL) & Branislav Kotoc (KCL)
June 2nd
NO SEMINAR (Public holiday)
June 9th
Fiona Leigh (UCL) - NB TIME: 12-2
SPRING TERM, 2021-2022
Plato, Laws X
Week 1 (January 13th): 884a1-887c4
Week 2 (January 20th): 887c5-890b2
Week 3 (January 27th): 890b3-892d1
Week 4 (February 3rd): 892d2-895a4
Week 5 (February 10th): 895a5-897b6
Week 6 (February 24th): 897b7-899d3
Week 7 (March 3rd): 899d4-902e3
Week 8 (March 10th): 902e4-905d7
Week 9 (March 17th): 905d8-908a7
Week 10 (March 24th): 908a7-910e4
AUTUMN TERM, 2021-2022
Aristotle, Metaphysics Lambda
Week 1 (September 30th): 1069a18-1069b24
Shaul Tor
Week 2 (October 7th): 1069b24-1070a30
Jonnie Griffiths, Lawrence Evans
Week 3 (October 14th): 1070a31-1070b35
Antonio Lai, Lawrence Evans
Week 4 (October 21st): 1070b36-1071b2
Hugo Whitmee, Luca Dondoni
Week 5 (October 28th): 1071b3-1072a18
Antonio Lai, Luca Dondoni
Week 6 (November 11th): 1072a19-1072b30
Jelena Milosavljevic, Michael Rhodes
Week 7 (November 18th): 1072b30-1073b17
Alba Miriello, Hugo Whitmee
Week 8 (November 25th): 1073b17-1074b14
Alba Miriello, Jelena Milosavljevic
Week 9 (December 2nd): 1074b15-1075a25
Chandler Clark, Jonnie Griffiths
Week 10 (December 9th): 1075a25-1076a4
Chandler Clark, Steve Townsend
SUMMER TERM, 2020-2021
Old Chestnuts and Works in Progress
May 6th
Lawrence Evans, Old Chestnut/WIP hybrid: 'EN I.7 1097a15-1098a20 - Perfection, self-sufficiency, and the function argument'
Jonnie Griffiths, WIP: ‘Socrates’ explanatory response to Cebes at Phaedo 95e-102b’
May 13th
Branislav Kotoc, WIP: ‘Courage and Conversation in the Laches’
Shaul Tor, Old Chestnut: Zeno B1-3
May 20th
Merrick Anderson, WIP: Book chapter on 5th century Friends of Justice
May 27th
Daniel Vázquez, WIP: tbc [suspension of belief]
Mike Coxhead, WIP: ‘Virtue, motivation, and contemplation in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: must the happy contemplator contemplate with virtuous motivations?’
June 3rd
Amanda Greene, Old Chestnut/WIP hybrid: Plato’s Laws
June 10th
Joachim Aufderheide, Old Chestnut: Theaetetus, 157-8?
Saloni de Souza, WIP: 'Past It? Old Age in the Republic'
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SPRING TERM, 2020-2021
Plato, Charmides
Week 1 (Jan 16th): 153a1-155b8
Raphael Woolf
Week 2 (Jan 23rd): 155b9-157c6
Branislav Kotoc
Week 3 (Jan 30th): 157c7-159d12
Niels Christensen
Week 4 (Feb 6th): 159e1-162b3
Dom, Alice Harberd
Week 5 (Feb 13th): 162b4-164c6
Glenda Hall, Lisa Cernilogar
Week 6 (Feb 27th): 164c7-166e3
Marco Collatuzzo, Antonio Lai
Week 7 (Mar 5th): 166e4-169a7 (phamen einai)
Chandler Clark, Alba Miriello
Week 8 (Mar 12th:169a7 (egō men ou)-171c10
Marco Collatuzzo and Alba Miriello
Week 9 (Mar 19th): 171d1-174a9
Lisa Cernilogar, Luca Dondoni
Week 10 (Mar 26th): 174a10-176d5
Chandler Clark, Dom
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AUTUMN TERM, 2020-2021
Plato, Charmides (Weeks 1-4)
Plato, Ion (Weeks 5-10)
Week 1 (Oct 1st): 166e4-169a7 (phamen einai)
Luca Dondoni
Week 2 (Oct 8th): 169a7 (egō men ou)-171c10
Alba Miriello
Week 3 (Oct 15th): 171d1-174a9
Alba Miriello, Chandler Clark
Week 4 (Oct 22nd): 174a10-176d5
Chandler Clark
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Week 5 (Oct 29th): 530a1-532b7
Raphael Woolf
Week 6 (Nov 12th): 532b8-533e5 (exartatai)
Week 7 (Nov 19th): 533e5 (pantes gar)-535e6
Week 8 (Nov 26th): 535e7-537e8
Week 9 (Dec 3rd): 538a1-540a7
Week 10 (Dec 10th): 540b1-542b4
