The Philosophy Department of Central European University hosted the two-day international undergraduate conference “Ancient metaphysics and its modern appropriations”, on 27 and 28 August, organised by Gábor Betegh (Cambridge – CEU) and István Bodnár (ELTE – CEU). The eleven speakers of the conference came from universities in England, France, Iran, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey and the US, and delivered talks on a wide range of topics, spanning from the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle, always opening the discussion to the contrasts and parallels with our contemporary debates.