Melania CASSAN
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
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melania.cassan@unive.it
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/melania.cassan (personal record)
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Publication highlights
M. Cassan, B. Castellani, F. Masi Introduzione , Episteme e Ratio, Roma, Tab Edizioni, pp. 9-29 (ISBN 979-12-5669-193-7)
2025,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5099468
(a cura di) M. Cassan, B. Castellani, F. Masi EPISTEME E RATIO , Roma, Tab Edizioni, pp. 1-487 (ISBN 979-12-5669-193-7)
2025,
Curatorship - ARCA card: 10278/5099469
melania cassan; gabriele flamigni Risonanze platoniche nel pensiero stoico. Il caso delle emozioni estetiche , Poikilia delle emozioni. La complessità dei pathe in Platone, Pistoia, Petite Plaisance, pp. 217-231
2024,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5123808
melania cassan Animus. Studio sulla psicologia di Seneca , Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 1-195 (ISBN 978-88-6969-630-5) (ISSN 2784-9759)
DOI 2022,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5086297
Melania Cassan Perspectives sur la richesse dans la philosophie de Sénèque in REVUE DE PHILOSOPHIE ÉCONOMIQUE, vol. 23, pp. 151-170 (ISSN 1376-0971)
2022,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5123807
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Melania Cassan obtained her PhD in Philosophy in 2020 from Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in a joint program with Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Doctorat en philosophie), with a dissertation on Senecan psychology.
In 2021, she was a research fellow (assegno di ricerca) at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, as part of a project on Hellenistic and Roman philosophy.
From 2023 to 2025, she co-led the theater workshop associated with Prof. Stefano Maso’s course “Filosofia greca e romana a teatro” exploring with the students, from a theatrical perspective (both theoretical and practical): Euripides’ Hippolytus and Seneca’s Phaedra (2023), Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Seneca’s Oedipus (2024), and Aeschylus’ and Seneca’s Agamemnon (2025).
Speaker or discussant in national and international conferences and seminars
The Stoic Tradition, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), March 2017, title: Passion and reason: the reception of Stoicism in Seneca’s tragedies.
Discussant for the presentation by Prof. Morel, Epicureismo, stoicismo e naturalismo politico, workshop Le varietà del naturalismo. Incontri Ca’ Foscari-Paris 1, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, March 2018.
La naissance de la volonté, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, September 2018, title: La notion de voluntas chez Sénèque: entre la théorie psychologique et l’éthique.
Speaker at an inter-doctoral seminar on ancient philosophy (Paris 1, Paris IV, ENS), Maison de la Recherche (Paris), January 2019, title: Reflexions sur la psychologie de Sénèque.
Causes, Actions, Passion II, Centre Léon Robin, (CNRS, Paris IV, Sorbonne), June 2019, title: Passions etrêmes chez Sénèque.
Pasiones y ejemplaridad: perspectivas antiguas y modernas, UNED of Bilbao (Portugalete), July 2019, title: Pasión y ejemplaridad en Lucio Anneo Séneca: entre filosofía y tragedia.
Paradeigmata volutatis, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, November 2019, title: Lo spazio della uoluntas senecana tra filosofia e tragedia.
Paradeigmata voluntatis 3, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, June 2023, speech during the discussion “Volontà e destino”.
Roma y la Filosofìa. Aportaciones para una historia intelectual del mundo romano, UNED of Cordova, March 2024, title: Dalla cura alla virtù. Il cammino dell’anima verso la saggezza nella filosofia di Seneca.
Organization
Collaborated in organizing the doctoral student workshop Le varietà del naturalismo. Incontri Ca’ Foscari-Paris 1, March 2018, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
Co-organized the international seminar Aristotele e gli Stoici: prospettive sull’anima, June 2021, (online) Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
Collaboration on the organization of the conference Pensare all’antica. Proiezioni al futuro. Legge, potere, democrazia (2024); Pensare all’antica. Proiezioni al futuro. Passioni Politiche, Retorica e Democrazia (2025); Pensare all’antica. Proiezioni al futuro. Educazione, cittadinanza, democrazia (2026), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
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