Courses, Talks, Activities

Teaching

BA Course: “Ancient Philosophy. An Introduction”, Block 3-4, 2024

Tutorial “Poetry & Philosophy”, (Homer The Iliad, M. Heidegger, F. Hölderlin, Sophocles’ Antigone and Philoctetes, M. Vasalis, P. Paaltjens , G. Gezelle, Simone Weil ‘Venice Saved’), Block 2-3, 2024/2025 

Tutorial “Tragedy and Philosophy: Sophocles’ Antigone in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Feminist Thinkers”(G.W.F. Hegel, M. Heidegger, R. Bultmann, P. Ricœur, M. Nussbaum, L. Irigaray, A. Cavarero, J. Butler, B. Honig, M.C. Rawlinson, S. Weil),  Block 1, 2023/2024

Conferences and Workshops

International Workshop ‘PoEthics’ 2: Poetry & Philosophy

International Workshop: ‘PoEthics’, Poetry & Philosophy – Homer, Sophocles and Affections

Seminario di studio ‘PoEthics’: Omero: poesia emozioni filosofia

Workshop online meeting with Bonnie Honig on Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge Press, 2013), with students from the Tutorial “Tragedy and Philosophy: Sophocles’ Antigone in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Feminist Thinkers”, 1 Dec 2023

Talks

2025

“Sophocles Homericus”, Amsterdam Hellenistenclub (convenors Irene de Jong, Gerard Boter), University of Amsterdam, 17 February 2025.

2024

“Simone Weil: attention to suffering and action through the passions of poetry”, Lunch Lecture – Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Speaker), 10 Dec 2024

“Sophocles’ and Homer’s PoEthics”, paper delivered at the International Workshop ‘PoEthics’, Poetry & Philosophy: Homer, Sophocles and Affections, Utrecht University 11-13 September 2024 (Speaker), 12 Sept 2024

2023

“Sophocles’ weak philosophy. Oedipus’ ‘knowledge’: altruism trough attention” (Speaker), Colloquium History of Philosophy, Utrecht 31 Oct 2023

“Ismene’s ‘Antigonism’: Attention, Listening, Dialogue and Affection”, paper delivered at the seminar “The Feminine Turn – A Two-Days Research Seminar on Sophocles’ Antigone”, Freie Universität Berlin, 29-30 June 2023 (Invited speaker)

“The contemplation of Helen: passion, responsibility and forgiveness in the Iliad”, paper delivered at the conference “Elena: Fascino, Persuasione Responsabilità”, University of Verona, 14-15 June 2023 (Invited speaker)

2022

“Formules sonores dans Homère” (Invited speaker) 4 Nov 2022 , DAMON XXXVII (4-5 novembre 2022) «presque libre »: son et côlon, Université de Fribourg, Les Diablerets

“Paul Ricœur on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus: a tragic ‘ethics'” (Invited speaker), 15 Sept 2022, VII Congresso iberoamericano sobre o pensamento de Paul Ricœur: “Ricœur e os clássicos”, University of Coimbra.

“The ‘pensiero debole’ of Archic Greece: Achilles’, Ajax’ and minor characters’ ethics in Homer and Sophocles” (Invited speaker), 6 Jul 2022, Forschungskolloquium Gräzistik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 6th July 2022

“Meditazioni ‘omeriche’ nell’Aiace di Sofocle: guerra, violenza e persuasione“ (Invited speaker) 14 Jun 2022, International Workshop METra 2: Mapping Epic in Tragedy, University of Verona