•the cambridge graduate conference in ancient philosophy
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•The Cambridge Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy 2017• ‘Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy’
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Programme
Thursday 23rd March Cast Gallery, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Classics
17:00-19:00 Welcome Reception
Friday 24th March Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
09:00-09:30 Registration, Tea and Coffee
09:30-11:00 Dr Kelli Rudolph (University of Kent): “Perception and the Body in Presocratic Philosophy.” Keynote address
11:00-11:15 Tea Break
11:15-12:30 Luca Torrente (University of Turin): “The Body and the Unity of the Homeric Man.” – Respondent: Chiara Blanco (University of Cambridge).
12:30-13:30 Lunch (provided)
13:30-14:45 Xavier Gheerbrant (University of Lille): “About the Corporeality of Gods and Daimones in Empedocles’ Katharmoi (Fr. 115 DK).” – Respondent: Caterina Pellò (University of Cambridge).
14:45-15:00 Tea Break
15:00-16:15 Laura Rosella Schluderer (University of Florence-Pisa): “Good Mixtures in this World: Cosmic Body and Animal Body in Plato’s Philebus.” – Respondent: Tommaso Longo (University of Milan / University of Cambridge).
16:15-17:30 Gaia Bagnati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): “Aristotle on the οὐσία τῆς συστάσεως of the Cosmic Body. Some Notes on De Caelo II 13, 293a17-293b15” – Respondent: Vilius Bartninkas (University of Cambridge).
Saturday 25th March Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
09:30-11:00 Dr Christian Pfeiffer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): “The Theory of Body and the Keynote address Principles of Aristotle’s Physics.”
11:00-11:15 Tea Break
11:15-12:30 Noam Cohen (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): “The Ethics of the Circular and the Rectilinear in Plato’s Timaeus.” – Respondent: Alesia Preite (University of Pavia / University of Cambridge).
12:30-13:30 Lunch (provided)
13:30-14:45 Tyler Eaves (University of Oklahoma): “Aristotelian Matter. – Respondent: Alessio Santoro (University of Cambridge).
14:45-15:00 Tea Break
15:00-16:15 Robert Vinkesteijn (University of Utrecht) “To Those Who Wish to Improve their Souls: A Reinterpretation of Galen’s QAM.” – Respondent: Cristóbal Zarzar (University of Cambridge).
16:15-17:30 Elisa Zocchi (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): “Imago et Splendor Dei Invisibilis: Sacramentality of the Body in Origen’s Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses.” – Respondent: Rev’d Isidoros Charalampos Katsos (University of Cambridge).