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Events


Carlos Levy (Sorbonne/ Institut de France) - What about ethical doxography in Hellenistic and Roman period?

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

Santiago Chame (Università degli Studi di Verona) The Non-kinetic Origins of Aristotle’s Concept of Ἐνέργεια

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

PRIZE - Best Dissertation GANPH - Anna Pavani

Anna Pavani

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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".

Gabriela Rossi (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso) - Puzzles in Aristotle

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

The Ancient Philosopher's Toolkit

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

Christoph Poetsch (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): Conceptual Patterns in Plato's Parmenides

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

A Language for spatio-temporal entities in Plato's Timaeus

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)

 

 

 

2. Besançon Bochum Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

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)

Justin Broackes (Brown University) - Theaetetus 184-186 - What is the Being that Perception Cannot Reach?

June 21th 2023

Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

Lucas Angioni (UNICAMP) - Aristotle and the Object of Posterior Analytics’s project

April 26th 2023

Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

Henry Mendell - Aristotle's Little Dialogue on Mathematics

November 15th 2022

Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

First Besançon-Bochum Kolloquium in Ancient Philosophy

July 11th and 12th 2022

An in-person and online conference

Organized by Barbara Sattler and Arnaud Macé

Website


New Trends in the Study of Eleatism

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


Now, Exaiphnês, and the Present Moment in Ancient Philosophy

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”  

21. Kolloquium zur antiken Philosophie der GANPH

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” 

 


Conference in Memory of Sarah Broadie

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)”

Monism: Ancient and Modern

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).