The 2017 Cambridge Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy - Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy

Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy 

The 7th Cambridge Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy

Thursday 23 - Saturday 25, March 2017, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

Keynote speakers

We are delighted to announce that Dr Kelli Rudolph (University of Kent) and Dr Christian Pfeiffer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) will deliver the keynote addresses.

Registration

To book a place please visit the following website: http://bodyandcorporeality.weebly.com/registration.html

The registration fee is 10£ and includes the cost of two-days lunch, reception and conference material. The deadline for registration is Sunday 19th March. 

The conference is free for all members of Cambridge Classics only who should instead register via conference email address, which is [email protected]

Conference programme

Thursday 23rd March 

17:00 Reception at the Cast Gallery, Museum of Classical Archaeology

Friday 24th March, Room G. 21 

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” 

11:00-11:15 Tea Break 

11:15-12:30 Luca Torrente (University of Turin): “The Body and the Unity of the Homeric Man” 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:45 Xavier Gheerbrant (University of Lille): “About the Corporeality of Gods and Daimones in Empedocles’ Katharmoi (Fr. 115 DK)” 

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” 

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” 

Saturday 25th March, Room G. 21 

09:30-11:00 Dr Christian Pfeiffer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): “The Theory of Body and the 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” 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:45 Tyler Eaves (University of Oklahoma): “Aristotelian Matter.”

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” 

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.”

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