Conferences and Events

Contemporary Aristotelian Studies 2nd Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 18th July 2012

Following its successful launch conference at London Met in June 2011, the second annual conference of the Contemporary Aristotelian Studies specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association will be on 18th June 2012 at the University of Nottingham. For further details, please contact Dr Tony Burns <Tony.Burns@nottingham.ac.uk>. For registration please download the form here. The conference will precede the 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry on the theme of ‘Well-being’, also to be held at Nottingham. Both conference webpages can be found here

Past Events:

Contemporary Aristotelian Studies Panels at the 62nd PSA Annual Conference, Europa Hotel, Belfast, 3-5 April 2012

Contemporary Aristotelian Studies

Session 2 (Tuesday 3 April 2012, 14:00-15:30)

Room: Berlin 1

Papers

Capabilities and Contemporary Issues: Nussbaum, Aristotelianism and the Politics of Well-Being – Tony Burns

Amartya Sen, ‘The Idea of Justice’ and the Capabilities Approach – James Connelly

The ethics of care and human flourishing: Aristotelian virtue ethics reconsidered – Kim Redgrave

Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Politics conference, London Metropolitan University, 3 June 2011

The inaugural conference of the Contemporary Aristotelian Studies specialist group of the PSA.

Friday 3rd June 2011

London Metropolitan University
GSB-01, 16 Goulston Street, London E1

Programme here
Abstracts here

Book Symposium on Tom Angier’s Technē in Aristotle’s Ethics, London Metropolitan University, April 14 2011

Contemporary Aristotelian Studies book symposium

16:00 – 16:40  Joseph Dunne (City University Dublin) response to Tom Angier’s new book Technē in Aristotle’s Ethics.

16:40 – 17:40  Tom Angier (University of Kent) response to Joseph Dunne.

17:40 – 19:00 Questions and Discussion

19:00   Ends

Contemporary Aristotelian Studies Panel at the 61st PSA Annual Conference, Novotel West, 20th April 2011

Papers

Virtue Ethics in the Thought of Aristotle, Strauss and MacIntyre Tony Burns

Functions, Purposes and Powers: Aristotelians on Structure and Agency Kelvin Knight

‘Schools of the Virtues’: Is the Family a ‘Practice’ in MacIntyre’s Sense? Kim Redgrave

Chair: James Connelly

Discussant: Tom Angier

Session: Session 8 (Wednesday 20th April, 15:00 – 16:30)

Room: Medoc

Nicomachean Ethics Reading Group, Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics, London Metropolitan University, from 5th October 2011

An 11-week reading group on the Nicomachean Ethics every Wednesday from 6-9pm  at London Met, 16 Goulston street, E1 7PT

The text will be read in English (Terence Irwin’s translation), with reference to the Greek original

Email Dr Tolis Malakos for further details <T.Malakos@londonmet.ac.uk>