#  "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**



 

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