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INTERNATIONAL  CONGRESS

The Book of  Political Science:

Structure, Hierarchy and Recipient, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

22nd Annual Meeting of the  “Collegium Politicum”

Madrid, May 25th and 26th 2023 - University Carlos III of Madrid

C/ Madrid 133, Getafe (Madrid), Room 17.2.75

 

Thursday 25 May 2023 (morning)

9:00 AM, Inauguration of the Congress

Andrew Richards, Vice Dean of the Degree Course in “History and Politics”

Consuelo Carrasco García, Director of the “Séneca” Institute for Classical Studies

Jesús Bermejo Tirado, Director of the Humanities Department: Hist., Geogr. and Art

 

9:30 AM, Session 1 - Greek Political Thought: A Methodological and Historical Frame

Chairman: Francisco L. Lisi (Carlos III University of Madrid)

 

Jakub Jinek (Charles University of Prague)

Political Form vs. Political Substance. Some Remarks on the Birth of Political Science

 

Arianna Fermani (University of Macerata)

«Locri, in Italy, [is] Governed by Excellent Laws» (Plat., Tim., 20a). The Juridical and Political Contribution of Zaleucus of Locri Epizefiri through the Examination of Some Greek and Latin Testimonies

 

11:30 AM, Session 2 - Original Elements of the Aristotelian Model (1)

Chairman: Bernat Torres Morales (International University of Catalunya)

 

Silvia Gastaldi (University of Pavia)

Aristotle’s Rhetoric as an “Offshoot” of Political Science

 

Salvador Rus Rufino (University of León)

The Idea of Oligarchy as Political Constitution in Aristotle

 

Kazutaka Inamura (Waseda University)

Aristotle’s Non-ideal Political Theory in Politics 4-6

 

Thursday 25 May 2023 (afternoon)

3:30 PM, Session 3 - Original Elements of the Aristotelian Model (2)

Chairman: Michele Curnis (Carlos III University of Madrid)

 

Elena Irrera (University of Bologna)

Aristotle’s τὰ πολιτικά as a πολιτική τις μέθοδος. An Exploration of Some of its Normative and Metaethical Components

 

Antony Hatzistavrou (University of Hull),

Political Analysis and Dialectic in Aristotle’s Politics

 

5:30 PM, Session 4 - Political Thought in the (New) Roman World

Chairman: Ermanno Malaspina (University of Turin)

 

Elisa Della Calce (University of Turin)

«Peritissimus rerum civilium». Polybius’s Political Lessons

 

Federica Lazzerini (University of Turin)

Conceptualizing Collective Identities in Cicero and Varro

 

Friday 26 May 2023 (morning)

9:30 AM, Session 5 - Aristotelian Reception during the Late Antiquity

Chairwoman: Veronika Konrádová (J. E. Purkyně University of Ústi nad Labem)

 

José María Zamora (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Cross-readings: Fragments of Aristotelian Ethics and Neoplatonic Politics in the Summa Alexan-drinorum

 

Philip Schmitz (University of Leipzig)

The Family as a Mixed Constitution: Remarks on the Account of Peripatetic Politics and Economics in the Anthology of Stobaeus

 

11:30 AM, Session 6 - Aristotelian Political Thought in the Middle Ages

Chairwoman: Lidia Lanza (University of Lisboa)

 

Marco Toste (University of Coimbra)

The Birth of Political Science: The Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Politics

 

Michele Curnis (Carlos III Univ. of Madrid)

The Second Part of the Siete Partidas: An Example of “Aristotelian Book” on Monarchy

 

José Luis Egío (Complutense University of Madrid)

The Erosion of the Aristotelian Criteria of Tyranny in the Hispanic World, 15th-16th Centuries

 

Friday 26 May 2023 (afternoon)

3:30 PM, Session 7 - Machiavelli and the Aristotelian Heritage

Chairwoman: Elena Irrera (University of Bologna)

 

Manuel Knoll (Turkish-German University of Istanbul)

The Indebtedness of Machiavelli’s Method and Conception of Political Science to Aristotle’s Politics

 

Francisco L. Lisi (Carlos III University of Madrid)

The Reception of the Aristotelian Politics in Machiavelli: τ ντιπεπονθς δίκαιον and Gratefulness

 

5:30 PM, General Assembly of the “Collegium Politicum”

 

 

CONGRESS  ORGANIZATION

Director:

Michele Curnis

(mcurnis@inst.uc3m.es)

 

Academic Secretary:

Juan Manuel Tabío

(jtabio@hum.uc3m.es)

 

INSTITUTIONAL  SUPPORT

Spanish Government (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: PID2019-110568GB-l00)

UC3M Project 2020/00380/001 - PI: Michele Curnis

 

“Lucio Anneo Séneca” Institute for Classical Studies

(www.uc3m.es/institutoseneca)

 

Humanities Department: History, Geography and Art (Carlos III University of Madrid)