Programme

Session 1. October 13

Sala Crociera Alta di Studi Umanistici

Chair: Franco Trabattoni (Milano)

14:30

Registration

14:45

Opening

15:00

Keynote speaker 1:

Gábor Betegh (Cambridge)

Being, Same and Difference: What are they and what are they for?

16:00

Pauline Sabrier (Trinity College Dublin)

Forms and ‘Great Kinds’ in Plato’s Sophist

16:45

Coffee break

17:00

Pieter D’Hoine (KU Leuven)

Plato, Proclus, and the Third Man

Session 2. October 14

Sala di Rappresentanza del Rettorato

Chair: Mauro Bonazzi (Milano)

9:30

Keynote speaker 2:

Victor Caston (Michigan)

Receiving Form without the Matter: Aristotle on the Transmission of Information

10:30

Coffee break

10:45

Christian Pfeiffer (LMU München)

Forms as Causes. Hylomorphism in Z.17

11:30

Giulia De Cesaris (Durham)

Why should One Dismiss the Forms? Speusippus’ Re-Thinking of Plato’s Theory of Forms

12:30

Lunch

Session 3. Sala di Rappresentanza del Rettorato

Chair: Federico Petrucci (Durham)

14:30

Sosseh Assaturian (Texas at Austin)

Aristotle and the Stoics on Signification

15:15

Ada Bronowski (Oxford)

Five Senses, One Mortal Soul, Zero Forms

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Gweltaz Guyomarc’h (Lyon)

Forms, Structures and Powers in Alexander of Aphrodisias