This workshop brings together students based in the Central European region and working on innovative and groundbreaking doctoral projects in Ancient Philosophy. After presenting their work, each student will receive comments from a respondent working in their field followed by an open discussion of the issues and questions arising from their work.
There is no registration fee, but please RSVP to the organisers.
PROGRAM
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Day 1: Saturday, 25 March 2017 |
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14:00-14:30 |
Introduction: Georgina White, László Bene |
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Session 1. Chair: Emese Mogyoródi (Szeged / Budapest) |
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| 14:30-15:40 |
Melina Vogiatzi (Munich): The Byzantine commentaries on the topoi of the Rhetoric |
| 16:00-17:10 |
Ota Gál (Prague / Fribourg): Unity and multiplicity of the Intellect. Why is the Intellect beautiful? |
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Session 2. Chair: István Bodnár (Budapest) |
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| 18:00-19:30 |
Keynote: Barbara Sattler (St Andrews): The thinking of the World Soul – intellection and astronomy in Plato’s Timaeus |
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Day 2: Sunday, 26 March 2017 |
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| 09:30-11:00 |
Session 3. Chair: László Bene (Budapest) |
| 09:30-11:00 |
Keynote: John Dillon (Dublin): The origins of Platonist orthodoxy |
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Session 4. Chair: Robert Roreitner (Berlin) |
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| 11:20-12:30 |
Domagoj Polanščak (Zagreb): The plurality of the unmovable movers |
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Session 5. Chair: Ákos Brunner (Budapest) |
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| 15:00-16:10 |
Ondřej Krása (Prague): The relationship of Becoming to the Third Kind (Timaeus 48-53b) |
| 16:10-17:20 |
Johanna Schmitt (Berlin): Seneca on why a specific kind of Dialectic cannot change beliefs |
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Session 6. Chair: Máté Veres (Hamburg) |
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| 17:30-19:00 |
Keynote: Gábor Betegh (Cambridge / Budapest): Plato on illness |
For organizational issues please turn to: Gina White at the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies.
