The main activities of the Marie Curie individual fellowship have focused on three areas, that of research, academic and popularizing publications and the organization of academic and outreach events. The datailed informations can be found on the project's website
https://poethics.sites.uu.nl/(si apre in una nuova finestra)-Research
Homer and Sophocles are well-known ancient Greek poets, portraying moral dilemmas of evil, violence, and injustice. Through an interdisciplinary perspective, the project has explored some complex issues of the philosophical debate in the field of ethics and political philosophy. Special attention has been paid to the role of interpersonal relationships in addressing fundamental philosophical questions.
Through the teaching activity of academic seminars with university students, the organization of international workshops with distinguished academics and the presentation of the living presence of Greek tragedy in contemporary performing arts, particularly in theatre, the project has demonstrated the importance of multidisciplinarity for a conscious reflection in the humanities.
During the two years of the Fellowship I took part in several international conferences as an invited speaker (Berlin, Verona, Amsterdam, Utrecht), presenting the first results of my research. In most of these talks, the outcome will be a scientific publication in conference proceedings or in monographic issues of journals
-Publications
The publications in detail are listed in the results section.
Within two years from the end of the project I expect to publish also:
-one or two monographs on the philosophical reception of Sophocles and Homer
-three published volumes resulting from the three international conferences organized
-a volume co-authored with professionals of the theater arts on the presence of Sophocles in prose theater and in children's theater in Italy
-Activities
Academic Events:
December 2023, Workshop with Bonnie Honig on Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge Press, 2013), with RMA students from the Tutorial “Tragedy and Philosophy: Sophocles’ Antigone in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Feminist Thinkers”
September 2024, International Workshop ‘PoEthics’ Poetry & Philosophy: Homer, Sophocles and affections", Utrecht University
December 2024 Seminario di studio "PoEthics’Omero: poesia emozioni filosofia”, University of Verona
February 2025 International Workshop "PoEthics’ 2 Poetry & Philosophy”, Utrecht University
Outreach Events:
June-October 2023 Interviews with actors from the Theater Production ‘Parole e Sassi – Collettivo Progetto Antigone”, Udine and Milano
September “Laboratorio ‘PoEthics’: riscritture contemporanee dell'Antigone di Sofocle”, High School Liceo Classico “G. Berchet, Milan, (with the Italian contemporary poet Stefano Raimondi)
