2023
From Plato to Plotinus
A Conference in Honour of Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
November 24th-25th 2023 - Georg Morgenstjernes hus 452
Program
Friday 24 November
- Miira Tuominen: "Socrates and Alcibiades in Love: Self-Knowledge, Desire (Eros) and God in the Symposium and the Alcibiades 1"
- Katerina lerodiakonou: "Mixed Colours in the De Coloribus
- Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: "Against the Sceptics: The Tranquillity Charge"
- Dominic O'Meara: "The Ontology of Mathematical Objects in Late Antique Platonism"
- Paul Kalligas: "Plotinus on Bringing Order to the Universe"
Saturday 25 November
- Pauliina Remes: "Plotinus on phronesis"
- Domien Contenief "The intellect, the Living Body and that which makes in Ennead VI.2.22"
- László Béné "Between psychology and cosmology: Plotinus' theory of time (Ennead III.7)"
- Riccardo Chiaradonna: "Plotinus and Galen on Time: Ennead III.VII"
- Ursula Coope: "Is happiness cumulative over time? An argument from Plotinus"
- Sara Magrin: TBA
2019
Sixth Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference: Virtue and Happiness
Time and place: Nov. 8, 2019 – Nov. 9, 2019, Georg Morgenstiernes hus 452
Confirmed speakers
- Paul Woodruff (UTexas)
- Karen Magrethe Nielsen (Oxford)
- Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia)
- Miira Tuominen (Jyväskylä)
- Alessandra Fussi (Pisa)
- René Brouwer (Utrecht)
- Øyvind Rabbås (Oslo)
- Oda Tvedt (Uppsala)
2018
THE SIXTH ANNUAL OSLO ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE 2018
PLATO AND THE ANCIENT PLATONIC TRADITION
9.-10. November 2018, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, Room 452
Program
Friday 9th November
- Klaus Corcilius – Universität Tübingen, ‘Practical Reasoning and Participation in the Timaeus’
- Pauliina Remes – Uppsala Universitet, ‘From Conversational Virtues to Dialogical Epistemology: Plato and his Commentators’
- Riccardo Chiaradonna – Università degli studi Roma Tre, ‘‘Existence’ in Neoplatonist Metaphysics’
Saturday 10th November
- Alexandra Michalewski – Centre Léon Robin, ‘Perception, Recollection and Self-knowledge in Plotinus and other Platonists’
- Jan Opsomer – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Argumentative structures and strategies in Proclus’ Elements of Theology’
- Jonathan Beere – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘Plato on Why Cities are Ruled’
- Rusty Jones – Harvard University, ‘The Real Challenge of Plato’s Republic’
- Panos Dimas – Universitetet i Oslo, ‘False Pleasures in the Philebus’
- David Ebrey – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘The Philosopher’s Courage and the Right Exchange’
The Conference is funded by the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, and The Research Council of Norway, and is hosted by the Society for Ancient Philosophy at UiO.
2016
Fourth Annual Oslo Ancient Philosophy Conference
Time and place: Nov. 4, 2016 1:00 PM – Nov. 5, 2016 6:30 PM, Georg Morgenstiernes hus 452
Program
Friday 4th November: Georg Morgenstiernes hus, Room 452
Afternoon
- Agnes Callard: “Being Good at Being Bad: Rule Following in the Hippias Minor”
- Leo Catana: “Plato’s Timaeus as an Ethical Work: Its Relation to His Gorgias”
- David Ebrey: “The Cloak Maker Objection and the Final Immortality Argument”
- Ellisif Wasmuth: “Knowing oneself through others: How Magna Moralia 1213a8–26 mirrors Alcibiades I”
Saturday 5th November: Georg Morgenstiernes hus, Room 452
Morning
- Joseph Bjelde: “What Episteme Does”
- Dorothea Frede: “Aristotle and the Master-Science of Life”
Afternoon
- Hallvard Fossheim: “Aristotle on doing well outside eudaimonia”
- Georgia Tsouni: “Aristotelian phronēsis as the cardinal political virtue”
- Suzanne Stern-Gillet: “Plotinus’ interpretation of the theme of god-likeness in the Theaetetus”
- Marije Martijn: “Filling two holes with space”
2015
Annual Oslo Ancient Philosophy Conference 2015
Time and place: Oct. 30, 2015 1:00 PM – Oct. 31, 2015 6:00 PM, Georg Morgenstjernes hus 452
Program
Friday October 30
- Vasilis Politis: Definition-by-example in the Hippias Major Plato’s anticipation of, and response to, Geach
- Vivil Haraldsen: Reason, doxa and the divided soul in Plato’s Republic
- Pauliina Remes: Plotinus on human action and divine power
- Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: The truth will set you free: the sceptical pursuit of truth and happiness
- Ellisif Wasmuth: Plato on soul and action: a revisit with the First Alcibiades
Saturday October 31
- Anna Schriefl: Why does Aristotle ascribe a concept of matter to his predecessors?
- David Ebrey: Plato’s unfolding account of Forms in the Phaedo
- Panos Dimas: Divisibility of Magnitude in De Generatione et Corruptione I.2
- Sotiris Mitralexis: motion and time in Aristotle and St Maximus the Confessor
- Pål Gilbert Rykkja: The nature and function of τὸ καλόν in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Hallvard Fossheim: The presence of Socrates in Plato’s Apology
- Georgia Tsouni: Appropriate and right actions in Stoic ethical theory
- Joseph Bjelde: Xenophon’s Socrates on wisdom and action
2014
Ancient Philosophy Conference
University of Oslo, October 24 and 25, 2014
Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 452
Time: Oct. 24, 2014 – Oct. 25, 2014
Program
Friday, October 24
- Simon Noriega-Olmos: Ontological Atomism and the Argument against the Dualists in Sophist 243D8-244A2
- Franco Trivigno: Was Phthonos a Comedic Emotion for Aristotle?
- Ambra Serangeli: The Galenian Account on the Epicurean Theory of Magnetism
- Filip Radovic, Aristotle on Prevision through Dreams
- Filosofisk seminar: Andrew Louth, Virtue Ethics and St Maximus the Confessor. A reception follows.
Saturday, October 25
- Miira Tuominen, Justice in Porphyry's On abstinence 3: Concern for Oneself and for Others
- Jakob Fink, Êthos and Argument Receptivity
- Anna Schriefl, Matter and Substantial Change in Aristotle
- Hallvard J. Fossheim, Aristotle on the Education of Reason
- Leo Catana, What is the Significance of 'Protection' in Plato's Gorgias?