Lectures will be held in Holland Hall 501
The lectures are connected but can be understood independently
Booksigning will take place after each lecture
Books by Julia Annas are available in the St. Olaf Bookstore

Parking is available for visitors, faculty, and staff in the Holland Hall parking lot, the overflow Pump House parking lot (across the street), and the Buntrock Commons parking lot.
Map and directions to campus


About the Belgum Lecturer

Julia Annas
(Ph.D., Harvard), is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona where she has taught since 1995. Prior to that she was at St. Hugh's College, Oxford for fifteen years. She specializes in almost every facet of ancient Greek philosophy, including ethics, psychology and epistemology. Her current research interests are in Platonic ethics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the founder and former editor of the annual journal, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

She is the author of several books, including Aristotle's Metaphysics M and N, translated with introductory essay and philosophical commentary, (Oxford, 1976), An Introduction to Plato's Republic, (OUP, 1981 and 1984), Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, (University of California Press, 1992), The Morality of Happiness (OUP, 1993), Platonic Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 1999), Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2000), and  Plato: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003).  Her books, or portions thereof, have been translated into French, Italian, Norwegian, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian. In addition Annas edited Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader (OUP, 2000) and is co-editor of Plato’s Statesman (Cambridge, 1995), Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism  (Cambridge, 2000), and New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient (Harvard, 2003.  Her recent articles on topics related to these lectures include “Virtue Ethics,” “Should Virtue Make You Happy?” “The Structure of Virtue,” “Wickedness As Psychological Breakdown,” “Ancient Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century,” “Seneca: Stoic Philosophy as a Guide to Living,” “Marcus Aurelius: Ethics and Its Background,” “Democritus and Eudaimonism,” “My Station and Its Duties: Ideals and the Social Embeddedness of Virtue,” and “Ethics in Stoic Philosophy. President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2004-05, her Presidential Address 'Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing', was published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association.

Professor Annas has presented the Agnes Cumins Lecture Series at University College, Dublin, the Townsend Lectures at Cornell and the Jellema Lectures on philosophy and religion at Calvin College. She also served as the Cowling Visiting Professor at Carleton College, the Hagerstrom Lecturer, University of Uppsala, Sweden and Astor Visiting Lecturer at University of Oxford.

 

About the Belgum Lectures

The Belgum Lectures, now in their 29th year, honor the memory of Eunice Belgum, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1967. The lecture series was established in the hope that Eunice's tragic death in 1977 would not end her impact on the profession, teaching, and scholarship she loved so much. While the lectures may be on any topic, the philosophy department makes a special effort to choose topics in areas of special interest to Eunice, namely ethics, philosophy of mind, and feminism.

Eunice received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University. Her dissertation, "Knowing Better: An Account of Akrasia," was published posthumously by Garland Publishers. Upon leaving Harvard, Eunice began an exceptionally promising career in philosophy, teaching at Trinity College and the College of William and Mary. She was one of the original members of the Society for Women in Philosophy.

The lectures are supported by a fund established by Eunice's family and friends.


Eunice Belgum with her disertation director, Hilary Putnam, and colleague Georges Rey