Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Ancient Philosophy Society: First Post


Keynote Address: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi's "Dance, Aesthetics and the Polis"


One of the highlights of this year's meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society for me was the keynote presented by Dr. Peponi of Stanford University. Peponi is an accomplished Classicist and expressed some trepidation about addressing an audience primarily made up of philosophers. Her work, however, deals extensively with philosophy and often focuses on Ancient Greek aesthetic experience. Ultimately her trepidation was misplaced as her paper was very well received and was also very philosophically productive. In particular the question period following her paper was exceptionally rich.