Monday, November 20
14:00 Registration opens, coffee and pastries
15:00 Opening Session
Welcome
Heather L. Reid, Fonte Aretusa & Susi Kimbell, Exedra Mediterranean Center,
Keynote Address, Chair: Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia
Athanassios Vergados, Newcastle University/Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study
Empedocles and the Language of Didactic Poetry
16:30 Coffee Break
17.00 First Afternoon Session, Chair: Heather L. Reid, Fonte Aretusa
Michael Shaw, Utah Valley University, USA
Ὑπένερθε in Homer and Empedocles
Marco Picciafuochi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
The Conceptual Import of Empedocles’ Vocabulary of Mixture
18:20 Sessions End
19:00 Welcome Dinner
Tuesday, November 21
9:00 Coffee and Pastries
9.20 First Morning Session, Chair: Frank Madsen, University of Rome 2
Jonas Ciurlionis, Vilinus University, Lithuanaia
Empedocles as a Pythagorean: the conceptual analysis
Bruce King, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, USA
The Wandering Daimon and the Wandering Cause: Empedokles and Plato’s Timaios
10:40 Coffee Break
11.00 Second Morning Session, Chair: John Partridge, Wheaton College
Sandra Scepanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Empedocles in Plato’s Myths
Jan Berssenbruegge, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Apollo and Dionysos in Empedocles: A Nietzschean reinterpretation of neikos and eros
12:20 Lunch at Exedra Center
14:00 Meet in front of the Duomo for Walking Tour of Ortigia
17:00 Afternoon Session, Chair: Lucio Privitello, Stockton University, USA
Matilde Berti, Durham University, UK
Empedocles’ Biological Model of Causality Reconsidered
Ryan Miller, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prime Matter as Aristotle’s Response to Empedocles
Esther Kariuki, Strathmore University, Kenya
How Empedocles’ Love and Strife effect Beauty and Ugliness
19.00 Sessions End; open evening
Wednesday, November 22
9:00 Coffee and Pastries
9.20 First Morning Session, Chair: Michael Shaw, Utah Valley University, USA
Enrico Natullo, Università La Sapienza, Italy
The concept of Unity in Empedocles’ Philosophy of Φύσις
Colin Smith, Penn State University, USA
Empedocles on the Metaphysics of Phusis
10:40 Coffee Break
11.00 Second Morning Session, Chair: Bruce King, Brooklyn Institute
Lucio Privitello, Stockton University, USA
Empedocles: Within and Around the Mortal Fountain
Kamil Aftyka, University of Warsaw, Poland
Empedocles’s Sense and Sensibility. The Interconnections of Thought, Blood, and Perception
Frank Madsen, University of Rome 2
The Four Elements or Roots of Nature: A Diachronic Analysis
13:00 Sessions End
14:00 Depart Piazza Archimede for Excursion to Archaeological Site and Museum
Open Evening
Thursday, November 23
9:00 Coffee and Pastries
9.20 First Morning Session, Chair: Athanassios Vergados, Newcastle/Hamburg
Anastasiia Starovoitova, University of Southern California, USA
Strify Unity: Empedocles’ Cosmic Dynamics in Ovid and Seneca
Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, University of Miami, USA
Empedocles in Horace’s Ars Poetica
10:40 Coffee Break
11.00 Second Morning Session, Chair: Colin Smith, Penn State University, USA
Ermindo Buono, Università di Ferrara & Università “La Sapienza”
Between Orphic-Pythagoreanism and Plato: Empedocles and the analogy of the cave
Katie Terezakis & Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
E Pluribus Unum and Back Again: Empedocles on the Law of Natural and Political Association
12:20 Closing Remarks
15:00 Thanksgiving Dinner
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