BERLIN
JULY 7–8, 2022
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
& ANCIENT
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
5th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
&
ANCIENT SCIENCE
for Women*, Non-Binary, and LGBTQIA+ Graduate Students
& Early Career Researchers
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN
ORGANIZED BY
and
This is a pre-read workshop. There are no registration fees.
If you would like to attend (in person or online via Zoom),
please send a message to
women.ancient.philosophy@gmail.com in advance.
Thank you.
WHEN /
JULY 7-8, 2022
WHERE /
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thursday, July 7th:
Schönhauser Allee 10-11, Room 316
10119 Berlin
Friday, July 8th:
Unter den Linden 6, Room 1066e
10117 Berlin
ABOUT THE EVENT /
This workshop is organized by the initiative Women* in Ancient Philosophy, and sponsored by the Research Training Group Philosophy, Science and the Sciences at
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for young scholars
to present and discuss their research in a safe and supportive environment, to share experience and advice, and to make new contacts in their field. Additionally, this event features two plenary talks by distinguished keynote speakers:
Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University) and
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University).
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2022
(Schönhauser Allee 10-11, Room 316)
PART I: ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
13:30 - 13:45
ELENA BELLINI (Humboldt-Universität), SİNEM KILIÇ (Freie Universität),
BENJAMIN WILCK (Humboldt-Universität):
Welcome Address & Introduction
13:45 - 14:55
Chair: David Ebrey (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
MATILDE BERTI (Durham University):
Love and Procreative Causality in Empedocles’ Cosmos
Response: ZHIXI WANG (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
— Coffee Break —
15:20 - 16:30
Chair: Joseph Bjelde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
MELISSA JONES (University of Cambridge):
Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!:
Disgust as a Method of Social and Political Control
in Plato’s Republic and Laws
Response: MARIBEL RAMÍREZ LÓPEZ (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
16:30 - 17:40
Chair: Giulia Clabassi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
CHIARA MARTINI (University of Oxford):
Making Space for Intelligible Matter
(Can the Expression ὕλη νοητή
in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z and H
Be Read as Extension?)
Response: RONJA HILDEBRANDT (Technische Universität Dortmund)
— Break —
18:00 - 19:15
Chair: Benjamin Wilck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
KEYNOTE I
RACHANA KAMTEKAR (Cornell University):
Practical Reasoning
and the Currency Metaphor
19:30
Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, 8 JULY 2022
(Unter den Linden 6, Room 1066e)
PART II: ANCIENT SCIENCE
12:30 - 13:40
Chair: Sinem Kılıç (Freie Universität Berlin)
MARION BONNEAU (Sorbonne Université):
Anatomy and Physiology of the Woman
in Hippocratic ‘General Medicine’:
Shared Thought Models
Response: ELIZAVETA SHCHERBAKOVA (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
13:40 - 14:50
Chair: Sinem Kılıç (Freie Universität Berlin)
MALINA BUTUROVIĆ (Princeton University):
Galen on Heredity:
Matter and Providentialism in
On the Usefulness of the Parts
Response: PATRICIA MARECHAL (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
— Coffee Break —
15:20 - 16:30
Chair: Sinem Kılıç (Freie Universität Berlin)
NORAH WOODCOCK (Princeton University):
Of Mules and Monsters:
Hybridity and Heredity
in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
Response: RUIZHI MA (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
16:30 - 17:40
Chair: Sinem Kılıç (Freie Universität Berlin)
VIVIAN FELDBLYUM (University of Pittsburgh):
Aristotle on Indefinite Phantasia
Response: CJ AMOUR (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
— Break —
18:00 - 19:15
Chair: Elena Bellini (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
KEYNOTE II
LAURENCE TOTELIN (Cardiff University):
‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Pharmacological Consumers
in the Graeco-Roman World
19:15 - 19:45
Final Discussion / Final Remarks
20:00
Conference Dinner