
Tazuko van Berkel
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. T.A. van Berkel
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2674
- t.a.van.berkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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.
University Lecturer
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Griekse T&C
- Docent en moderator MacIntyre-module