"Patterns of Evil in Greece and China"
Program
8-9 July, 2023
All sessions' times displayed in EET (Greece Time)
Saturday, July 8, 2023
9:30am - 1:30pm
Opening Greetings
Chair: P. Kontos
10 - 11am Michael Puett (Harvard University)
Demons and Demon Hordes: Ritual and Rejections of Ritual in Greece and China
Coffee Break
Chair: M. Puett
11:00am - 12:30pm Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University/Center for Hellenic Studies)
The Question of Evil in Eastern Christianity: Assessment of a 20th Century Controversy
12:30 - 1:30pm Richard King (University of Bern)
Ugliness or Evil? Notes on a Moral Wobble
5:00 - 8:30pm
Chair: R. King
5 - 6pm Jingyi Jenny Zhao (Cambridge University)
Paradoxes of Moral Evil in Early China
6 - 7pm Chan Chi-keung (Taiwan University)
Pure Emotion and Vulnerable Reasoning: An Exploration of Neo-Confucian Liu Jishan's Moral Psychology
Coffee Break
Chair: N. Prevelakis
7:30 - 8:30pm Lisa Raphals (Riverside University)
Alternatives to Evil: Chinese and Greek Accounts of Mobile Spirits
Sunday, July 9, 2023
9:30am - 2:00pm
Chair: E. Karakantza
9:30 - 10:30am Vayos Liapis (University of Cyprus)
Behind the Scene, behind the Seen: Offstage Action and the Mechanics of Evil in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes
10:30 - 11:30am Wei Liu (Renmin University)
Three Models of Evil in Plato
Coffee Break
Chair: V. Liapis
12 - 1pm Pavlos Kontos (University of Patras)
The Phalaris Case
1 - 2pm David Machek (University of Bern)
Stoics on Badness as Weakness
