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Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway Workshop in Stoicism
Every other year we run an informal workshop devoted to a particular aspect of ancient Stoicism. We issue a call for papers and welcome submissions from researchers at any stage of their career.
Our most recent workshop, Seneca and Stoicism, took place in April 2025. The next will be in 2027.
Seneca and Stoicism
The Fourth Royal Holloway Stoicism Workshop
30 April 2025
Room 2/3 Stewart House, in Senate House, University of London
We are pleased to announce the programme for the fourth Royal Holloway Stoicism Workshop, this time devoted to Seneca.
Seneca is the earliest Stoic for whom we have extensive literary remains and his works constitute the largest single body of ancient Stoic writing. His application and exploration of the practical side of Stoicism is evident in his extensive literary output, which crosses a wide and ambitious range of genres. The richness of his writing has generated a similarly rich range of approaches to his work, producing literary, philosophical and reception scholarship exploring the Senecan corpus.
This event is free and open to all, with no registration necessary. It takes place in Room 2/3 of the Stewart House wing of Senate House, which can be accessed via the main Senate House entrance, up the grand staircase, and turn left.
Schedule
9.45-10.00 – Arrival and Welcome
10.00-10.45 – Lizzie Davis (Yale), ‘Personal Problems: “Personae” and practical deliberation in Seneca’s De Beneficiis'
10.45-11.30 – Kai Fang (Chicago), ‘Usus and Materia: Seneca’s Roman Interpretation of Friendship as Indifferents’
11.30-12.00 Tea/Coffee
12.00-12.45 – Steven Kennedy (Harrow), ‘Seneca’s Fussy Philosophers: The Ethics of Stoic Otium’
12.45-2.00 – Lunch
2.00-2.45 – Fani Goutsiou (Durham), ‘The Educative Role of Dramatic Visualisation of Passions in Seneca’s Tragedies’
2.45-3.30 – Maximillian Biezenski (Queen’s), ‘Under the Guide of Harm: Seneca’s Theory of Aggression’
3.30-4.00 – Tea/Coffee
4.00-4.45 – Sarah Byers (Boston), ‘Seneca and Stoic “Freedom from Social Vanity”’
4.45-5.30 – Christelle Veillard (Paris), ‘Seneca and the Bonds of Humanity: Cross-readings of De beneficiis and Medea’
[Philevents: Seneca and Stoicism Workshop]
Past Workshops
2023: Stoic Physics
Our third workshop, focused on Stoic physics, took place on Friday 5 May 2023 at the University of London's Senate House in Bloomsbury. The speakers were Arianna Piazzalunga (Torino/Geneva), Cris Zarzar (Cambridge) with Carlo Rossi (Santiago), Anastasiia Starovoitova (California), and Gabriele Flamigni (Sorbonne). We were very fortunate to have Ricardo Salles (Mexico) as a keynote speaker. [Philevents: Stoic Physics Workshop]
2021: Ethics in the Early Stoa
Our second workshop was of necessity held online on 30 April 2021. The speakers were Max Bergamo, Gabriele Flamigni, Robert Heller, William Stephens, and Daniel Vazquez. [Philevents: Ethics in the Early Stoa]
2019: Musonius Rufus
Our first workshop, devoted to Musonius Rufus, took place on 12 April 2019 at Royal Holloway's Bedford Square building in Bloomsbury. The speakers were Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris), Georgia Tsouni (Basel), René Brouwer (Utrecht), Kurt Lampe (Bristol), and William Stephens (Creighton). [Philevents: Musonius Rufus workshop]
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