Programme

Welcome

09:00 – 09:10

Vilius Bartninkas (Vilnius University)

Luca Gili (Vilnius University)

The Cosmos as Embryo: Epistemological Strategies and Embryological Imagery in Philolaus’ Cosmology

09:10 – 10:20

Caterina Pello (University of Geneva)

Break

10:20 – 10:35

ΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΕΠΕΩΝ: World as a Text in Presocratic Philosophy

10:35 – 11:45

Mantas Adomėnas (Vilnius University / Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology)

Break

11:45 – 12:00

From the Derveni Papyrus to Plato: The Cosmological Context of Parmenides’ Mounogenes Being

12:00 – 13:10

Chiara Ferella (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Lunch

13:10 – 14:40

Unpacking the Meaning of ‘Being’: A Dialectical Approach in Plato’s 'Timaeus' and 'Sophist'

14:40 – 15:50

Luca Gili (Vilnius University)

Break

15:50 – 16:05

Participation and Practical Reasoning in Plato’s 'Timaeus'

16:05 – 17:15

Klaus Corcilius (University of Tübingen)

Break

17:15 – 17:30

Proportion and Friendship in Plato’s 'Timaeus'

17:30 – 18:40

Barbara Michaela Sattler (University of St. Andrews)

Dinner

19:15 – 21:00

Imitating God in Plato’s 'Timaeus': The Way of the Body

9:00 – 10:10

Thomas Kjeller Johansen (University of Oslo)

Break

10:10 – 10:25

Bodies and the Receptacle in the 'Timaeus'

10:25 – 11:35

Gábor Betegh (University of Cambridge)

Break

11:35 – 11:50

Cosmological Theology and Its Limits in Plato's Dialogues

11:50 – 13:00

Vilius Bartninkas (Vilnius University)

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30

Tour: Vilnius University Library and Tower

14:30 – 16:00

Diodorus Cronus, Dialectic, Cosmology and the Game of Five Lines

16:00 – 17:10

Matthew Duncombe (University of Nottingham)

Break

17:10 – 17:25

Cosmological Arguments in the School of Hypatia

17:25 – 18:35

Aistė Čelkytė (Leiden University)

Dinner

19:15 – 21:00