King’s College London, April 8th, 2025

Programme:

10:00-11:30am: Giuseppe Cumella (Oxford), “Aristotle on Sharing in the Works:
Politics VIII.6”

11:30-11:45am: Coffee Break

11:45am-1:15pm: Daniel Ferguson (KCL), “Some Remarks on the Prooimion of the
Eudemian Ethics”

1:15-2:30pm: Lunch

2:30-3:45pm: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL), “Aristotle on Self-Improvement and
Immortal Thoughts”

3:45-4:00pm: Coffee Break

4:00-5:30pm: Joachim Aufderheide (KCL), “Law and the Divine in Aristotle”

The workshop will be held on KCL’s Strand Campus in the Macadam Building (MB) 2.1.

For catering purposes, those who wish to attend should write to Joachim Aufderheide (joachim.aufderheide@kcl.ac.uk) by March 31st if you haven’t already done so. Lunch, tea and coffee, and light snacks will be provided.

Those unaffiliated with KCL will need to check in at the Strand Security desk to gain access to the building. Thus, if you’re not a KCL affiliate, when writing to Joachim please also indicate this fact so that we can forward your name to security.

This conference is sponsored by the British Academy. We thank them for their generous
support!

Man-Devil Book Launch

John’s Book Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe is out now. A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century.

Come along to the book launch!

Date: Thursday 27^th March

Time: 18:30 -20:30

Location: Moot Court, 1.18

The Dickson Poon School of Law

King’s College London

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Review In History Today

We have a recurring graduate & faculty workshop conference with UNC-Chapel Hill that has been running for many years now.

We are hosting the conference this year on Thursday 15^th May-Friday 16^th May . Please make an effort to attend some or all of the conference, as you do for our start-of-year PGR conference. It supports your fellow students, but also encourages the continuation of the event, which allows King’s students to travel to the U.S. for invaluable experience every other year.

The theme of the conference is set by the visitors, and this year it is a mix between (a) Ancient Philosophy and (b) applied topics in ethical and political philosophy. We will have talks on the role of Glaucon in the Republic and platonic knowledge, but also on stalking, the ethics of the silent treatment, and analyses of media bias.