Teaching
Experience
I am currently responsible for teaching courses in logic, ancient philosophy, ethics, and in a core curriculum in the humanities at Providence College. I taught ancient philosophy, the theory of argumentation and science, epistemology and metaphysics, as well as ethics and political philosophy at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Humboldt-Universität for ten years (see below for a complete list of courses). I have taught Greek in an accelerated graduate reading program in the US (Latin/Greek Institute, City University of New York), and continue to teach Greek at the intermediate and advanced level (thus in a prose composition course in Fall 2017).
Interdisciplinary teaching projects
One of my tasks as coordinator of the August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum was to develop new forms of interdisciplinary courses in Classics. I co-taught a course on “The transformation of Classical antiquity in Rome” with colleagues from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, Renaissance studies, and the vice-director of the Vatican Museums in Rome; the course ended with a week-long excursion to Rome and the Vatican. Another project I have developed together with my students, and which combines teaching and research, is a week-long graduate conference on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. An international group of graduate students was able to read and discuss selected passages of Aristotle’s Posterior Analyticsand its reception in Latin and Arabic philosophy under the guidance of leading scholars.
In the summer of 2015, I directed an international summer school and conference entitled, Globalized Classics, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This is to be the first of a series of international events on Classics in the context of their global reception.
I am currently responsible for teaching courses in logic, ancient philosophy, ethics, and in a core curriculum in the humanities at Providence College. I taught ancient philosophy, the theory of argumentation and science, epistemology and metaphysics, as well as ethics and political philosophy at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Humboldt-Universität for ten years (see below for a complete list of courses). I have taught Greek in an accelerated graduate reading program in the US (Latin/Greek Institute, City University of New York), and continue to teach Greek at the intermediate and advanced level (thus in a prose composition course in Fall 2017).
Interdisciplinary teaching projects
One of my tasks as coordinator of the August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum was to develop new forms of interdisciplinary courses in Classics. I co-taught a course on “The transformation of Classical antiquity in Rome” with colleagues from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, Renaissance studies, and the vice-director of the Vatican Museums in Rome; the course ended with a week-long excursion to Rome and the Vatican. Another project I have developed together with my students, and which combines teaching and research, is a week-long graduate conference on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. An international group of graduate students was able to read and discuss selected passages of Aristotle’s Posterior Analyticsand its reception in Latin and Arabic philosophy under the guidance of leading scholars.
In the summer of 2015, I directed an international summer school and conference entitled, Globalized Classics, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This is to be the first of a series of international events on Classics in the context of their global reception.
