Events

Faculty Lab, 16:00 - 21/01/ 2025

Faculty Lab, 16:00 - 29/10/ 2024

Faculty Lab

10th of June 2024

9.20-9.30: Welcome by Arnaud Macé and Barbara Sattler

9.30-11.00:  Etienne Ménard (Besançon): Notes for a History of the Use of Vortices in pre-Platonic Cosmogonies
Chair: Celso Vieira
11-11.30 coffee break

11.30 – 13.00: Léo Boiteux (Besançon): Slaves in Plato's Symposium
Chair:  Anna Schriefl
13.00 – 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 -16.00: Aimen Remida (Marburg): The Confrontation between Philosophy and Theology in Plato´s Euthyphro
Chair: Manlio Fossati
16.00-16.30 coffee break

16.30-18.00: Haitham Abukhadra (Bochum): Toward the “union” of the god and Necessity in the Timaeus through the questions of power and limitation
Chair: Dieg o García Rincón

11th of June 2024

9.30-11.00: Estelle Santune (Besançon): The apeiron in Plato's Philebus
Chair: Haith am Abukhadra
11-11.30 coffee break

11.30 – 13.00: Anna Pavani (Cologne): The Logic of Dialectic in Plato's Sophist and Statesman
Chair: Aimen Remida

13.00 – 14.30: Lunch break
14.30 -16.00:  Diego García Rincón (Munich): Resemblance and Timaeus’ Argument for the Existence of Forms
Chair: Anna Pavani
16.00-16.30 coffee break

16.30-18.00: Mi Zhu (Besançon): Aristotle on δύναμις: from “δύναμις κατὰ κίνησιν” to “τὸ δυνάμει ὄν”
Chair:  Jeong-joo Lee

Faculty Lab, 16:00 - 16/01/ 2024

Faculty Lab, 16:00 - 12/12/ 2023

We are delighted to inform that our own Anna Pavani won the first prize for best dissertation of the German Society for Ancient Philosophy (GANHP). The title of the work is "The Language of Dialectic in Plato's Sophist and Statesman".

Faculty Lab, 17:30 - 29/11/ 2023

A reflection on the minor modes of thought in Ancient philosophy.

November, 16-17 2023 - Ruhr-universität Bocum & Technische Universität Dortmund

For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/toolkitrub

Faculty Lab, 17:30 - 31/10/ 2023

26th-27th Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Organized by Anna Pavani (RUB) and Diego García Rincón (LMU).

26th

- 18:00 Keynote Lecture: Barbara Sattler (RUB)

The difficulties in talking about space and place - lessons from Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus.

- 19:30 Roundtalbe Language and perceptible items in Plato's Timaeus

27th

Reading sessions

- 9:00-10:30 Anna Pavani (BOCHUM) Timaeus 49c7-50c5

- 11:00-12:30 Luca Dondoni (LONDON) Timaeus 51e6-52d1

Talks

14:00-15:30 Federico Petrucci (TORINO) Toiauta, generation, and the Demiurgue, the consequences of a strict reading of the 'much misread passage'.

Response by Alesia Preita (HEIDELBERG)

Chair: Celso Vieira (RUB)

16:00-17:30 Samuel Meister (TÜBINGEN) Plato's account of the sensible world in the 'misread passage'.

Response by Lorenzo Giovannetti (ROME)

Chair: Fabian Ruge (RUB)

Monday, 10 July 2023

09:45-10:00

Welcome by Barbara Sattler (RUB) and Arnaud Macé (LdA, UFC)

10:00-12:00

Lora Mariat & Etienne Ménard (LdA, UFC)

Περιέχον: the nature and function of air in ionian cosmogonies

Chair: Celso Viera (RUB)

14:00-15:30

Celso Viera (RUB)

A process reading of the relation between war (polemos) and

strife (eris) in Heraclitus

16:00-17:30

Wolfgang Sattler (CFUL, University of Lisbon)

Are Aristotle’s secondary substances separate?

Chair: Arnaud Macé (LdA, UFC)

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

09:00-10:30

Anna Pavani (RUB)

The (tensed) language of time in Plato’s Timaeus and Parmenides

11:00-12:30

Diego Garcia Rincon (RUB)

Flux and forms in Plato’s Timaeus

Chair: Lora Mariat (LdA, UFC)

14:30-16:00

Léo Boiteux (LdA, UFC)

Slaves in Plato’s cities “of words”

16:30-18:00

Chloé Santoro (LdA, UFC)

Prendre Athènes au sérieux: un parti pris épistémologique

Chair: Barbara Sattler (RUB)

June 21th 2023

Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

April 26th 2023

Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

November 15th 2022

Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

July 11th and 12th 2022

An in-person and online conference

Organized by Barbara Sattler and Arnaud Macé

Website

Thursday 9th to Friday 10th of June 2022

An in-person and online conference

Organized by Alex Long and Barbara Sattler

Program: New Trends in the Study of Eleatism

24-25.03.2022/ 28-29.03.2022

For details see: tinyurl.com/rubnow

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01.02.2022, 16h:

John Pemberton (LSE, Oxford & Durham), “Aristotle's solution to Zeno's arrow paradox and its implications”  

15. Januar 2022 Ruhr-Universität Bochum, auf Zoom

Programm

9.00-9.15 Uhr: Sabine Föllinger (Marburg) und Barbara Sattler (Bochum): Begrüßung

9.15-10.15 Uhr: Celso de Vieira (Bochum), “Unlimited, one and determined: Treating Anaximenes’ Air as a mass term”

10.20-11.20 Uhr: Anna Pavani (Bochum), „Die Sprache der dialektischen Methoden in Platons Spätwerk“

Kaffeepause

11.40-12.40 Uhr: Philipp Brüllmann (LMU München): „Platons Nomoi über die Psychologie des Geset-zesgehorsams“

Mittagspause

14.30-15.30 Uhr: Michael Krewet (HU Berlin): „Platons und Aristoteles’ Lehre von der Semantik im Urteil byzantinischer Philosophen“

15.35-16.35 Uhr: Olga Alieva (HSE Moskau), “Xenocrates’ Doctrine of Indivisibles Revisited”

Kaffeepause

16.55-17.55 Uhr: Lenka Karfiková (Prag): „Mens in Augustins De Trinitate IX-X“

Sabine Föllinger: Schlusswort

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07.12.2021, 16h on Zoom - postponed

Alex Pleshkov (HSE Moscow), “The Origins of the Philosophy of Time: Plato and his Predecessors”   

09.11.2021, 16h in person:

Fabián Mié (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe), “Aristotle on divisional definition and demonstration in Posterior Analytics 2” 

on Zoom, November 4th and 5th, 2021

Thursday Nov 4th, 2021

2pm-3.15pm: Stephen Halliwell ‘Inspiration and Interpretation: Two Problems in Platonic Poetics’

3.20- 4.35pm: Simona Aimar 'Aristotle's Powers as Sources of Change'

Break

5pm-6.15pm: Gabriel Lear ‘Plato on Perceptible Beauty in the Philebus.’

6.20-7.35pm: Verity Harte ‘Pleasure as genesis and the arguments of Philebus 53-55’

Friday Nov 5th, 2021

2pm-3.15pm:  Alexander Nehamas ‘What Do We Learn about Philosophers and Philosophy in Republic V?’  

3.20- 4.35pm:  Rachel Barney ‘The Ethics and Politics of the Noble Lie’

Break

5pm-6.15pm: Wolfgang Sattler  “The Subject Independence Account of Separation – in Context”

6.20-7.35pm: Sean Kelsey ‘Aristotle on intelligibility’

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26.10.2021, 16h on Zoom:

Sara Magrin (Pittsburgh), " Plotinus on the epistemic role of memory (Ennead 4.6)”

Online Workshop on July 8th and 9th 2021

Thursday July 8, 2021

3pm: Sarah Broadie (St. Andrews), “Introduction and Welcome”

3:10pm: Barbara Sattler (Bochum): "The birth of Western philosophy as the birth of monism"

4:35: Michael Della Rocca (Yale): "Becoming One: Theology and Philosophy, Will and Intellect, Finite and Infinite in Spinoza"

6:00: Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center): "Transcending the Ultimate Duality"

Friday July 9, 2021

3:00pm: Jonardon Ganeri (Toronto) "The Cosmos and I: Grounding Monism in Heteronymy"

4:25: Maria Rosa Antognazza (King's College, London): "Being One and Purely Positive: Plurality, Negation, and Leibniz’s Opposition to Monism"

5:50: Elizabeth Miller (Brown): "Separability"

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22. 06. 2021, 16h on Zoom:

Mary Louise Gill, "Mind's Place in Aristotle's Science of Nature: the Evidence of Parts of Animals I.1"

01. 06. 2021, 16h on Zoom:

Tad Brennan, "Do not live an unexamined life"

02. 02. 2021, 16h on Zoom:

Christopher Rowe, A new Edition of Aristotle`s Eudemian Ethics

12.01. 2021, 16h on Zoom:

Dorothe Frede, Aristotle and the Discovery of Determinism

10. 12. 2020, 16h on Zoom:

Book launch of

The Parmenidean Ascent by Michael Della Rocca (Oxford University Press) and

The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought by Barbara M. Sattler (Cambridge University Press). 

Moderated by Eric Schliesser

(please contact us if you want to join any of the Zoom events).