International Xenophon Society – International Society for Socratic Studies
Xenophon’s Oeconomicus Conference
Universidad San Sebastián (Campus Los Leones)
Departamento de Formación Integral, Instituto de Filosofía & Doctorado de Filosofía
26-28 March 2026
Day 1. Thursday 26: (Room S201, Building S)
8:30 – 9:00 hrs. Opening words. Klaus Drostre (Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Humanities), Guillermo Tobar (National Head of the Department of Integral Formation), Eduardo Fuentes (Chair of the Institute of Philosophy)
9:00 – 10:00 hrs. Session 1: Ischomachus. Chair: Rodrigo Illarraga (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile).
Dorion, Louis-André (Université de Montréal, Canada): “Les raisons du choix d’Ischomaque en Économique 6.12-17”.
Benjamin McCloskey (University of Kansas, USA): “Ischomachus: a Man Resistant to Dialectic”.
10:00 – 10:30 hrs: Coffee break
10:30 – 13:00 hrs. Session 2: Genre and humour. Chair: Kyle Cornman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA).
Andreas Prasinos (University of Glasgow, UK): “Manual or Mockery? Genre Trouble in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus”.
David Johnson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA): “Socratic Jokes in the Oeconomicus”.
Andre Braga (Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná, Brazil) “Xenophon’s Polyphony: the Narrator(s) of the Oeconomicus”.
13:00 – 14:30 hrs: Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 hrs. Session 3: Women. Chair: Macarena Solari (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile).
Victoria Macura (Potsdam University, Germany): “Make-up as an Indicator of Sexual-Moral Corruption? Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and Lysias 1 on Normative and Deviant Sexual Behaviour of the Athenian wife”. Rene Luengo (Independent scholar, Chile): “El rol de la mujer en el Económico de Jenofonte”.
Milena Bonifacio (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Giovanna de Paoli (University of Buenos Aires – CONICET, Argentina): “Shared Ambiguities: Intersections between Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and Aristippus of Cyrene on the Conflict of Female Otherness”.
16:00 hrs. Recitation of Oeconomicus XXI, by William Altman.
(Free dinner)
Day 2. Friday 27 (Room S202, Building S)
9:00 – 11:00 hrs. Session 4: Order and religion. Chair: Malena Battista (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile) Vladimir Gildin Zuckerman (Leiden University, Netherlands): “The Chorus in the Household: the Role of Aesthetics in Xenophon’s Oikonomikos” (Hybrid).
Etienne Helmer (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Chile): “Putting the House, the Army and the Phoenician Boat in Order. Xenophon on Space as a Place of Practical Power and Knowledge in the Economics”. Rodrigo Illarraga (Universidad San Sebastián) and Florencia Castro Possi (San Sebastián): “Natural Teleology in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus”.
Emily Baragwanath and Kyle Cornman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA): “Xenophon Oeconomicus on the Prestige and Piety of the Home”
11:00 – 11:30 hrs. Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 hrs. Session 5: Profit and techniques. Chair: Sofia Lombardi (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Fiorenza Bevilacqua (Independent scholar, Italy): “The Oeconomicus and the Banausikai Technai: a Condemnation without Appeal?” (Hybrid)
Vitor Milione (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): “Defending Ischomachus’ Father: Philoponia, Philogeorgia, the Proper Use of Land (Oec. 20.22-29)”
Günther, Sven (Northeast Normal University, China): “Xenophon’s Creative Destruction of the Oikos”.
13:00 – 14:30 hrs. Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 hrs. Session 6: Xenophon’s Contemporaries. Chair: Jorge Mittelman (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Thorton Lockwood (Quinnipiac University): “Oeconomicus and Oeconomica: Xenophon & [Arist.] on Virtue and Expertise”
William Altman (Independient scholar, USA): “Between Symposium and Meno: Plato and Xenophon’s Oeconomicus”
Egidia Occhipinti (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy): “P. Oxy. 2 127 and Xenophon’s Oeconomicus 8.17-9.2: a Comparison”
16:00 – 16:30 hrs. Coffee break
16:30 -17:30 hrs. Session 6: Emotions and virtues. Chair: Trinidad Silva (Pontifical Catholic of Chile)
Thomas William Moody (UC Santa Bárbara, USA): “The Affective Foundations of Moral Excellence in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus”
Benjamin Keim (Pomona College, USA): “The Political Economies of Honor in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus”
18:00 hrs. Conference cocktail.
Day 3. Saturday 28 (Room S001, Building S)
9:30 – 11:00 hrs. Session 8: Reception I. Chair: Javier Echeñique (Universidad San Sebastián)
Flavia Palmieri (Università degli Studi «La Sapienza» di Roma, Italy): “Between τέχνη and Ethics: A Comparative Reading of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and Philodemus’ Περὶ οἰκονομίας”
Bee Candelaria (Cornell University, USA): Eis to koinon: Comparing the Domestic Economy in Plutarch’s Coniugalia Praecepta and Xenophon’s Oeconomicus
David Lévystone and Casandra Freire (Universidad Panamericana, México): Cicero’s Oeconomicus: Origins, Fragments, and Afterlife of a Lost Translation.
11:00 – 11:30 hrs: Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 hrs: Session 9. Reception II. Chair: Roberto Marconi (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile)
Bob van Velthoven (Leiden University, Netherlands): “Oikonomia reinvented? Richard Bradley’s Reception of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus in 18th-century England”
Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen) (Hybrid): “On the Historiographical Oblivion of Character Traits Cultivated in the Oikos according to the Ancient Greek tradition of oikonomia”.
(Free afternoon)
Organizing Institutions:
Departamento de Formación Integral, Instituto de Filosofía y Doctorado de Filosofía – Universidad San Sebastián (Chile) | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) | Universidad Panamericana (México) | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (España)
Organizing Committee:
Emily Baragwanath (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Etienne Helmer (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Rodrigo Illarraga (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile), David Lévystone (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico).
Local Organizing Committee:
Rodrigo Illarraga (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile), Florencia Castro Possi (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile)
