8th Biennial Conference of the
International Association for Presocratic Studies
Belo Horizonte, July 1st to 5th, 2024
Program
(updated June 30, 19h38)
Monday, July 1st
Opening session: 10h00 - 10h45
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Eduardo Soares Neves Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies
Richard McKirahan, Pomona College
President of the International Association for Presocratic Studies
Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Chair IAPS 8
Session 1: 10h50 - 12h00
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Richard McKirahan
Pherecydes' winged oak and the vegetal cosmology of the Ancient Greeks.
Arnaud Macé, Université de Franche-Comté (France)
Meteorology and basic substances in Anaximander.
Ricardo Salles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Lunch: 12 - 14h00
Session 2: 14h30 - 15h40
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Gustavo Gomes
Thought Experiments and Counterintuitive Thinking Patterns in Western Greece.
Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Circular Motions and Cosmogonic Vortices.
Étienne Ménard, Université de Franche-Comté (France)
Session 3: 14h30 - 15h40
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Celso Vieira
Beholding the Beauty of the New Philosophical Horizon: An Overview of the Acheloios-Thales Connection and its Significance for a 21st - Century Philosophical Hermeneutic.
Nicholas J. Molinari, Salve Regina University (USA)
The word and the world: language and reality in Heraclitus of Ephesus.
Martim Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Pause : 15h40 - 16h30
Session 4: 16h30 - 18h15
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Omar Alvarez Sallas
Was Pythagoras Italic? Phytagoreanism and the ethnic superiority of "Italic Philosophy".
Gabriele Cornelli, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)
The contribution of Philolaus' concept of substance to Aristotle's theory of substance.
Ilan Moradi, Beijing Normal University (China)
Pythagorean Vestiges in Plato's Timaeus.
Erick D'Luca, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil)
Session 5: 16h30 - 18h15
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Alexandre Costa
"Immortal Mortals - Mortals Immortals ...".
A Short History and Some New Testimonies of Heraclitus’ Fragment B62 DK.
Max Bergamo, University of Padua / Yale University (Italy/USA)
Two different propositions by Heraclitus about death: fragment 21 D and fragment 27 D.
Teodoro Rennó Assunção, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
The persistence of human-scale items in Heraclitus.
Celso Vieira, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
Tuesday, July 2
Session 6: 9h30 - 11h15
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Martim Reyes Silva
Phusis and Logos in Heraclitus.
Luke Parker, Norwich University (USA)
Heraclitus' [Anti]logos and the Limits of Human Speech.
Sarah Feldman, University of Ottawa (Canada)
“Everything flows like a river”: a Heraclitean or Platonic creation?
André L. Braga da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil)
Session 7: 9h30 - 11h15
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Bruno Loureiro Conte
On the interdependence between contents and literary forms in Parmenides’ Poem.
Alexandre Costa, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Parmenidean Interfaces.
The interaction between meter, rhythm and textual criticism in Parmenides’ Poem.
Bernardo Berruecos Frank, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
διάκοσμος ἐοικώς πάντα? A new interpretation of Parm. 28 B 1, 7, 8 DK.
Marco Guerrieri, Università di Napoli "Federico II" (Italy)
Presentation new books: 11h15 - 12h
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Arnaud Macé
Les Éléates. Fragments des œuvres de Parménide, Zénon et Mélissos.
Traduits et présentés par Luc Brisson, Arnaud Macé et Jean-François Pradeau.
Coll. "Fragments. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022.
Arnaud Macé
Philosophy of Science Information System: a participatory platform developed by the CDBP
(Centre de Documentation et de Bibliographie Philosophiques of the University of Franche-Comté)
Bruno L. Conte
A doxa no poema de Pârmênides.
Uma investigação a partir dos testemunhos antigos.
São Paulo: Loyola, 2023.
Richard McKirahan, Forthcoming:
The Sophists.
Serie "Ancient Philosophies". Routledge, 2024.
Lunch: 12h00 - 14h00
Session 8: 14 - 15h45
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Bernardo Berruecos Frank
Necessity and the Two Ways of Inquiry in Parmenides’ Cosmological Thinking.
Bruno Loureiro Conte, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil)
On the issue of reorganize Parmenides Poem:
some remarks about the necessity of not separate δόξαι from cosmology.
Bruno Fernandes Santos, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Session 9: 14 - 15h10
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Rogério Gimenes de Campos
Binary Oppositions in Greek Philosophy: Female and Male in Parmenides.
Matilde Berti, Durham University (UK)
The incorporeality of what-is in Melissus of Samos.
Daniel Mazza Matos, Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil)
Pause : 15:45 - 16h30
Session 10: 16h30 - 17h40
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Mathilde Brémond
Intentional and epistemic arguments in Gorgias’ On non being.
Marina Volf, Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (Russia)
Is the trustworthiness of logos sufficient to lead the way to knowledge?
Daniela Brinati Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Session 11: 16h30 - 17h40
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Simon Trépanier
Zeno's anti-Eleaticism.
Luís Márcio Nogueira Fontes, Instituto Federal do Alagoas (Brasil)
Mechanisms of Sense Perception and Knowledge in Empedocles.
Nazyheli Aguirre de la Luz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Wednesday, July 3 : Day off
Thursday, July 4
Session 12: 9h30 - 11h15
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Étienne Ménard
Anaxagoras and the Autonomy of Ethics.
Carey Seal, University of California (USA)
Diógenes de Apolonia: ἀνὴρ φυσικός / Diogenes of Apollonia: ἀνὴρ φυσικός.
Deyvis Deniz Machín, Universidad Central de Venezuela / Universidad de Barcelona (Venezuela/Spain)
Archelaus' philosophy.
Rogério Gimenes de Campos, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Brasil)
Session 13: 9h30 - 11h15
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Silvio Marino
"I went to Athens and no one knew me'.
Gustavo Laet Gomes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Why is Democritus the "laughing philosopher"?
Felipe Gall, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The plurivocity and centrality of the notion of measure
in the framework of Democritus' ethical reflection.
Miriam Peixoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Presentation new books: 11h15 - 12h
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Livio Rossetti
Ripensare i Presocratici. Da Talete (anzi da Omero) à Zenone.
Coll. "Filosofie". Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2023.
Nicholas Molinari
Acheloios, Thales, and the Origin of Philosophy:
A response to the Neo Marxians.
Archaeopress, 2022.
Celso Vieira (org.). Forthcoming:
Dossier: "Style Matters in Presocratic Philosophy",
Revista Archai, 2024.
Alexandre Costa; Miriam Peixoto; Bruno Conte, Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro (orgs.)
Estudos pré-socráticos na América Latina.
São Paulo: Odysseus, 2024
Lunch: 12h00 - 14h00
Session 14: 14h00 - 15h10
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Teodoro Rennó Assunção
Dionysus, Demeter and the Homeric Heroes in Metrodorus’ Allegoresis.
Marco Antonio Santamaría, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
From Cosmos to Chaos: Unravelling Aeschylus' Oresteia and Prometheus Bound
through the Presocratic Lenses.
Fernanda M. Borges da Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Session 15: 14h00 - 15h45
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Michel Menezes da Costa
The Presocratics’ Reception in Xenophon’s Memorabilia: Socrates’ Views on Cosmology.
Vitor Milione, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Notes on the Reception of Democritus in the Art of eloquence of Cicero and Thomas Hobbes.
Patricia Nakayama, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Brazil)
How politically engaged were the pre-Socratic philosophers?
The cases of Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Zeno.
Rafael Moreno González, Universidad Católica del Perú / Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)
Pause : 15:45 - 16h30
Session 16: 16h30 - 18h15
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Marco Antonio Santamaria
Dionysus in the Derveni Papyrus.
Alberto Bernabé, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Heraclitus in Column IV of the Derveni papyrus: Three new suggestions.
Simon Trépanier, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Enigma and interpretation in Derveni Papyrus.
Michel Menezes da Costa, Instituto Federal da Bahia / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil)
Friday, July 5
Session 17: 10h00 - 11h10
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Luís Márcio Nogueira Fontes
Defending Gorgias, the Comedian.
Cara Rei Cummings, Morgan State University (USA)
Does Gorgias have a coherent theory of language?
Mathilde Brémond, Université Clermont-Auvergne (França)
Session 18: 10h00 - 11h10
Auditorium 102 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Silvio Marino
The reception of Empedocles in the Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola.
Teresa Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Revisiting Bianchi.
Rafael César Pitt, Universidade Federal do Amapá (Brazil)
Lunch: 11h30 - 14h00
Session 19: 14h - 15h45
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
Chair: Arnaud Macé
Humoral and atomistic theory on embryology in De genitura /De natura pueri and Democritus.
Silvio Marino, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” / Universidade de Brasília (Italy/Brazil)
Certainly, a physician: a discussion about the authorship of De Arte.
Henrique Buldrini Barreto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
The Presocratic roots of the Hippocratic concept of balanced mixtures.
Hynek Bartoš, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Closing Session: 16h00 - 17h00
Auditorium 104 - Centro de Atividades Didáticas 2 (CAD2)
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