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The conference will take place in two parts over four days.
The first part on 24-25th March will have a hybrid format.
The second part on 27-28th March will be held online only.
The presentations of the first two days will take place at the RUB, room GA 3/143
The presentations on the third and fourth days will be online only.
You can join all the presentations online including the first two days via Zoom: tiny.cc/zoom-now
For any inquiries, please send an email to celso.deoliveiravieira@rub.de
24th March 2022 (hybrid, room GA 3/143) Menu
9.15: Welcome
09:30 – 11:30 First Session: on the Presocratics, chaired by Fabian Ruge
Talk 1: Gottfried Heinemann (Kassel), “Still Another Note on Zeno's Arrow”
Talk 2: Barbara Sattler (RUB): “The Present as Locus of Experience in Pre-socratic and Pre-philosophical Thinking?”
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00 Second Session: on the Presocratics
Talk 3: Celso Vieira (RUB): “Inconsistency and change in Heraclitus”
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Third Session: mainly on Plato, chaired by Thomas Seissl
Talk 4: Ondřej Krása (Pardubice): “Time of Being and Becoming in Plato and Aristotle”
Talk 5: Anna Pavani (RUB): “The Platonic notion of nun”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30 Fourth Session: on Aristotle, chaired by Philipp Steinkrüger
Talk 6: Walter Mesch (Münster): “In search of present time. Which role can it play for Aristotle?”
Talk 7: Ursula Coope (Oxford): "Aristotle on movement and the now"
19:00 Conference Dinner
25th March 2022 (hybrid, room GA 3/143) Menu
09:30 – 11:30 Fifth Session: on Psychological Time, chaired by Anna Pavani
Talk 8: Friedemann Drews (Münster): „Zersplitterte und gesammelte Gegenwart bei Augustinus: Das Verhältnis von physikalischer und psychologischer Zeit oder die Bewahrung des Vergänglichen im kontinuierlichen Jetzt der Seele“
Talk 9: Georgia Mouroutsou (Western): “The Plasticity of the present moment in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations”
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13: 00 Sixth Session: on Aristotle
Talk 10: Niko Strobach (Münster): “Aristotle’s Now as a model for Western Music notation”
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Seventh Session: Aristotle and Aristotelian Tradition, chaired by Celso Vieira
Talk 11: Matan Schapiro (Austin): “The ‘Now’ Between Two Approaches to Time in Aristotle’s Physics”
Talk 12: Thomas Seissl (Vienna/RUB): “Why does the ‘now’ not figure into Aristotle’s definition of time? Simplicius’ reading of Physics IV.10 and its metaphysical implications”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30 Eighth Session: on Damascius, chaired by Jonathan Greig
Talk 13: Spyridon Rangos (Patras): “Damascius’ Interpretation of Exaiphnês in Plato”
Talk 14: Pantelis Golitsis (Thessaloniki): “Damascius’ conception of the present time (ὁ ἐνεστὼς χρόνος) and its relation to the non-flowing now (τὸ ἄρρευστον νῦν)”
28th March 2022 (online only) Menu
First Session: On Plato, chaired by Alex Pleshkov
15:00-16:00 Denis Walter (Bonn): “To exaiphnês and to nun in Plato’s Parmenides”
brief break
16.10-17.10 Ross Gilmore (Kansas): “On the So-Called Appendix (155e4-157b5) and Its Place in the Parmenides”
Second Session: On Aristotle, chaired by Barbara Sattler
17.20-18.20 Lianghua Glenn Zhou (Michigan): “Aristotle on the Stopping and Starting Problem”
brief break
18.30-19.30 Mark Sentesy (Penn State): “Motion, Continuity, and Time”
29th March 2022 (online only) Menu
Third Session: Hellenistic Philosophers, chaired by Celso Vieira
15:00-16:00 Walter Cavini (Bologna): "Socrates Doesn't Die: Diodorus Cronus on the Moment of Change"
brief break
16.10-17.10 Sosseh Assaturian (Austin): “Stoic Indexicals and the Semantics of ‘Now’”
brief break
17.20-18.20: David Roochnik (Boston University): "The Pleasure of Presence: Aristippus' Ironic Hedonism"
Fourth Session: Platonic Tradition, chaired by Thomas Seissl
18.30-19.30 Salvatore Lavecchia (Udine): “Exaiphnês as Creative Discontinuity in Plato and Plotinus”
Organisers
Anna Pavani (RUB)
Barbara Michaela Sattler (RUB)
Thomas Seissl (University of Vienna/ RUB)
Celso Vieira (RUB)
The conference is dedicated to the memory of Sarah Broadie (1941-2021) whose work will keep inspiring the discussions in the field untimely:
- Broadie [Waterlow], S. (2005) A Contemporary Look at Aristotle’s Changing Now.
- Waterlow [Broadie], S. (1982) Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle’s Physics.
- Waterlow [Broadie], S. (1984) Aristotle’s Now