Fields of interest

• Greek language and literature
• the history of ideas, especially value terminology
• ancient history
• economic anthropology
• ancient philosophy, especially ethical texts, dialectics, relativism, skepticism
• modern philosophy; the philosophy of economics

Other research projects

Digital Humanities: Sources and Echoes of Protagoras

In addition to working on my dissertation I have presented a paper in an international conference on Protagoras of Abdera (2007) that has resulted in an article on the Man/Measure-statement. I am currently part of a team with Dr. Marlein van Raalte, Dr. Adriaan Rademaker and Prof. dr. Noburu Notomi (Keio University) that prepares a new critical edition of the fragments of Protagoras (“Sources for Protagoras”). In collaboration with other fragment edition projects we are exploring new digital ways of publishing fragmentary material.

Critical Edition: Eudemus of Rhodes

In collaboration with Dr. Peter Stork, Prof. dr. Johannes van Ophuijsen en Dr. Mariska Leunissen we are working on an annotated edition of the mathematical fragments of Eudemus of Rhodes that will result in a monograph in the Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities-series.

Moral Accounting

In collaboration with Prof. dr. Arjo Klamer I am working on a publication on the principles of Moral Accounting, i.e. “bookkeeping” in contexts that are distinct from purely economic relations.

Art Project: A Community of Weak Ties

In a collaborative art project with artists (Ronald Boer, Jonmar van Vlijmen) and anthropologists (Dr. Erik Baehre, Nikkie Buskermolen) we are working on new ways of conceptualizing and tackling debt problems among youngsters in Amsterdam New West. Our aim is to establish a Community of Weak Ties and to stage encounters between people from different social environments. E.g. Youssef from a vmbo High School in Amsterdam New West and a banker from the Zuidas. For more information: Pamflet: A Community of Weak Ties (Dutch) and Facebook.com/Schuldencoop.

Group Project: Mass Communication in Classical Antiquity

In the spring term of 2012 I was a research fellow at the NIAS in Wassenaar in the group “Mass communication in Classical Antiquity” that worked on communication strategies in contexts of mass communication and decision making in Greco-Roman Antiquity.

TEDxTalk

Trust and Active Partnership in Ancient Philosophy

Curriculum vitae

Tazuko Angela van Berkel
Born: 28 December 1979

1998-2004

BA/MA Classics, Leiden University (with distinction)

2003

coördinator of OIKOS (National Research School for Classics)

2004

MA thesis "Waarheden en Weerwoorden: een Interpretatie van Dio Chrysostomus' Elfde Oratie"

2005-2006

Project Manager at Brill Academic Publishers

2007

BA Philosophy (with distinction)

2006-2011

PhD Student (Classics; part-time), Leiden University; thesis defended on 27/11/2012 (with distinction)

2009-2010

coordinator of OIKOS (National Research School for Classics)

2011-2012

Researcher and Lecturer, Leiden University

2013-present

Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Leiden Unviersity

Teaching activities

2013/2014

BA-seminar "Normen en Waarden" (BA 3)
Tutoring (BA 1)
Greek Language Acquisition 2 (BA 1) Plato's Crito and Apology (BA 1)
BA-privatissimum "Sources and Echoes of Protagoras: Protagoras and Plato" (BA 3, Digital Humanities)
MA-privatissimum "Sources and Echoes of Protagoras: Protagoras and Diogenes Laertius" (MA & ResMA, Digital Humanities)

2012/2013

Greek linguistics (BA 2)
Thesis seminar (BA 3)
Greek language acquisition 2 (BA1)
BA-seminar 'Normen en Waarden' (BA3)
Tutoring (BA1)

2011/2012

Greek language acquisition 2 (BA1)
Tutoring (BA1)

2010/2011

Plato’s Symposium (BA1)
SCHOLAE-course ('zij-instromers') on Plato
Homer (BA2)
Greek language acquisition 1 (BA1)

2009/2010

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (BA1)
Greek Language Acquisition 2 (BA1)

2008/2009

LAPP-top programme 'Thucydides in Irak' (secondary school)
Plato's Gorgias (BA1)
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (BA1)

Scholarships

2012

research fellowship at NIAS
 

Key publications

• “Made to Measure: Protagoras’ metron”, in: J.M. van Ophuijsen, M. van Raalte & A.M. Rademaker (eds.), Protagoras of Abdera. The man, his measure, Leiden 2013
• “Pricing the Invaluable. Socrates’ Economics of Friendship”, in: R. Rosen & I. Sluiter (eds.), Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity, Leiden 2010, 249-77. 

Publications