Talks and Comments

Talks and Commentaries (not including job talks):

• “The philosophical significance of the Day-Unit”,
        invited talk at the workshop “The Day Unit in Antiquity and the Middle Ages”, at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, June 10th and June 11th, 2018.
• “Chaos and figures of primary bodies in the Timaeus”,
        invited talk at the conference “Plato’s Timaeus II”, Paris, June 1st-2nd, 2018.
• “The temporal dimension in Plato’s Parmenides”,
        invited talk at a workshop on "Cosmology in the Parmenides" of the Société d'Etudes Platoniciennes, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, May 29th and 30th, 2018.
• “The notion of continuity from the Presocratics to Aristotle”,
        workshop at the Hebrew Univer-sity, Jerusalem, May 8th-9th, 2018.
• “Cosmology and Ideal Society - the division of the day into hours in Plato’s Laws”,
        invited presentation at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, March 5th, 2018.
• “The Labours of Zeno – a Supertask?”,
        invited talk at the Undergraduate Society of St. An-drews, November 13th, 2017.
• “Thinking makes the World go round - Intellection and astronomy in Plato's Timaeus,
        invited talk at the Institute of Classical Studies ancient philosophy seminar, London, Nov. 6th, 2017.
• “Aristotle’s Theory of Semen in Generation of animals”,
        invited talk at the conference “Aris-totle’s Generation of Animals, Tübingen, May 3rd-5th, 2017.
• “The World Soul in Plato’s Timaeus”,
        invited talk at the conference “Plato’s Timaeus I” at Brown University and Providence College, April 7–9, 2017.
• “The thinking of the World Soul – intellection and astronomy in Plato’s Timaeus”,
        Keynote lecture at the Central European graduate workshop in ancient philosophy, Budapest, March 24th-26th, 2017.
• “Time and Agency in Early Greek thinking”,
        talk at the Central APA Panel “Ancient and Con-temporary notions of time, Kansas City, March 1st - 4th, 2017.
• “’Short time’ in Greek philosophy”,
        talk at the conference “Down to the Hour: Perspectives on Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean”, at the University of Chicago, February 24-25th, 2017.
• “Aristotle’s Account of Measurement”,
        invited talk at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham, February 20th, 2017.
• “What is doing the explaining? An atomistic idea”,
        Keynote lecture at the Oxford Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Oxford, November 12-13, 2016.
• “Aristotle’s Measurement Dilemma”,
        invited talk at the University of Oxford, October 27th, 2016.
• “Sufficient Reason in the Phaedo”,
        plenary talk (accepted by peer review) at the 11th Sympo-sium Platonicum in Brasilia, July 4th to 8th, 2016.
• “Aristotle’s Measurement Dilemma”,
        invited talk at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, July 1st-2nd, 2016.
• “The notion of continuity in Parmenides”,
        talk (accepted by peer review) at the 5th biennial Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies (IAPS) in Austin, Texas, June 13th-17th, 2016. (Could not attend)
• “Living beings in Plato’s Cosmos”,
        invited talk at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, May 26th -27th, 2016.
• “The troubles with motion: Aristotle’s reception of Plato’s Timaeus”,
        talk at the Conference “The reception of Plato’s Timaeus in Hellenistic Times” at Edinburgh University, April 1st–3rd, 2016.
• “Origins in Plato’s Timaeus”,
        invited Keynote lecture at the Cambridge Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy on ‘Archai and Geneseis: Theorising Origins in Ancient Philosophy’, Cambridge, March 18th-19th, 2016.
• “Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature”,
        invited talk at the Institute of Classical Studies ancient philosophy seminar, London, February 1st, 2016.
• “The knowability of physical processes in Plato”,
        invited paper at a Workshop on Stability in Plato, HU-Berlin, Nov 13th, 2015.
• “What is doing the explaining? An atomistic idea”,
        invited talk at the University of Stirling, November 5th, 2015.
• “The Unification of Time”,
        invited talk at the Undergraduate Society of St. Andrews, October 5th, 2015.
• “Ancient Notions of Time”,
        invited talk at Northwestern University, May 8th 2015.
• “Aristotle’s notion of measurement”,
        invited talk at the Center for the History of Science, Uni-versity of Gent, 29th of April 2015.
• “Ancient Notions of Time”,
        invited talk at the Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy meeting at Durham 14th-15th of April 2015.
• “Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time”,
        talk (accepted by peer review) at the Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy at York, 9th -11th of April, 2015.
• “Time and temporal things”,
        invited talk at the Classics Department of the University of St. Andrews in their Departmental Colloquium Series, February 20th 2015.
• “Ancient Notions of Space”,
        invited talk at the Undergraduate Society of Glasgow University, February 18th 2015.
• “Plato's account of the Forms in the Sophist and their relation to natural philosophy”,
        invited talk at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, January 30th 2015.
• “Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time”,
        talk (accepted by peer review) to be given at the American Philological Association Meeting in New Orleans, January 9th 2015.
• “Zeit im Wandel der Zeit, Antike Zeitbegriffe von Homer bis Platon”,
        Keynote lecture, at the Ancient Philosophy Workshop for Female Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers, HU-Berlin, Dec 1st, 2014.
• “What is doing the explaining? An atomistic idea”,
        invited talk at Glasgow University, No-vember 11th, 2014.
• “Space and Place in Zeno”,
        talk (accepted by peer review) at the 4th biennial Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies (IAPS) in Thessaloniki, June 30th to July 4th, 2014.
• “Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature”,
        talk at an Aesthetics Work in Progress Workshop at the Philosophy Department of St. Andrews, June 4th 2014.
• “Ancient Notions of Space”,
        invited talk at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ostrava, May 6th 2014.
• “Ancient Notions of Space”,
        invited talk at the Undergraduate Society of St. Andrews, February 25th, 2014.
• “Making Motion intelligible – from the motions of the heavenly bodies in Plato to the motion of earthly objects in Aristotle”,
        talk at the 8th London Ancient Science Conference, The Institute of Classical Studies, February 18th, 2014.
• “What is doing the explaining? An atomistic idea”,
        talk at the Winter Reflectorium, University of St. Andrews, December 2013.
• “What is doing the explaining? An atomistic idea”,
        invited talk at Edinburgh University, November 8th, 2013
• “Die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Naturbewegung bei Platon und Aristoteles - von der Bewegung himmlischer zu der irdischer Körper”,
        invited talk to be given at the 4th Kongress der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie, Munich, October 2013.
• “Plato’s Forms in the language of the Eleusinian Mysteries”,
        talk at the X. Symposium Platonicum, Pisa, July 15th-20th 2013.
• “Atomism in Plato’s Timaeus”,
        invited talk to be given at the Conference “Philosophy in the Making: Early Receptions of and Reactions to Presocratic Thought”,
        Stanford June 7-8th 2013.
• “Investigating nature in Aristotle - from doxa to episteme”,
        invited paper to be given at a workshop on Doxa in Aristotle at Columbia University, April 27th, 2013.
• “Space in Ancient Times: From the Presocratics to Aristotle”,
        invited paper to be given at a workshop on space at the Duke University April 19-20th, 2013
• Invited Commentary as a critic for an author meets critic session on Sarah Broadie’s book “Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus”,
        at the Pacific APA in San Francisco, March 2013
• “Plato’s Forms in the language of the Eleusinian Mysteries”,
        invited talk to be given at an ancient philosophy workshop at Dartmouth, February 16th-17th 2013.
• “The Labours of Zeno – a Supertask?”,
        talk to be given at the HOPOS (History of Philosophy of Science) conference in Halifax, June 21-24th 2012.
• “The Conceptualisation of Time and Space in Ancient Times”,
        talk at the Classics Department at Yale in their Departmental Colloquium Series, 2011-2012:
        Lost in Time? Modern categories vs. Ancient “Realities”, January 20th 2012.
• Commentary on Marcus Folch’s “Immanent Poetics in Plato’s Laws: Politics and Performance in the Second-Best City”,
        at the MACTE conference at Yale University, Dec 10th 2011.
• “The intelligibility of processes in the realm of becoming”,
        talk at the Ancient Conference for Sarah Broadie, University of St. Andrews, 4th of November 2011.
• “The Ascent to Beauty: The Eleusinian Mysteries in Plato’s Symposium”
        paper presented at the MACTE conference at Boston University, May 7th 2011.
• “Ontological and educational mimêsis in Plato’s Republic”,
        talk at the IX. Symposium Platonicum in Tokyo, August 1st-7th 2010.
• “The Logical Origins of Parmenides’ Monism”,
        talk at the Oxford Ancient Philosophy Workshop, June 17th, 2010.
• “Zeno’s Moving Rows: Double the time is half the time”,
        presentation at King’s College London, May 20th 2010.
• “The conceptual basis for motion and change in Greek Atomism”,
        talk at the 5th London Ancient Science Conference, UCL, March 10th, 2010.
• “Geschichtsphilosophie und Kosmologie: Zeitstrukturen in Platons Timaios”,
        invited talk at the Universität Klagenfurt, January 18th, 2010.
• “Banning Nature from the Realm of Reason – Parmenides’ Challenge to Natural Philosophy”,
        presentation at the Pre-socratic Research Group of André Laks at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, November 25th, 2009.
• “Banning Nature from the Realm of Reason – Parmenides’ Challenge to Natural Philosophy”,
        invited talk at the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, and
        “Defending Parmenides – Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion”, accompanying seminar, College of the Holy Cross, October 29th, 2009.
• “Plato's receptacle - a notion of space?”,
        talk given at the Pacific APA in Vancouver, April 9, 2009.
• “Cosmology and Philosophy of History: Temporal Structures in Plato’s Timaeus”,
        fellows’ talk at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, February 11th, 2009.
• “Plato’s notion of Space”,
        talk given at the Symposium in Honor of Steven J. Wagner's Retirement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 15, 2008.
• “Planetary motions as a guide through history? Plato’s astronomy and philosophy of history in the Timaeus”,
        talk given at the conference “Plato’s Timaeus Today” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 13-16, 2007.
• “Being initiated into Beauty. Plato’s use of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Symposium 209e – 211c”,
        talk given at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) in Cincinnati, April 11-14, 2007.
• Invited commentary to Sarah Broadie’s “Descent and Reminiscence in the Timaeus-Critias” at the Chicago Ancient Philosophy Conference
        “Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Greece” organised by the University of Chicago,
        the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University in Chicago, November 3 - 4, 2006.
• “Time reduced to space. Zeno’s fourth paradox”,
        talk at the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy meeting in New York, October 20 – 22, 2006.
• “Das Ungenügen des metaphysischen Maßbegriffs für die Erfordernisse der Physik bei Aristoteles”,
        invited talk at the Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie meeting in Leipzig, January 8, 2005.
• “Zeno’s Moving Rows: No atomists at work”,
        talk at the Postgraduate session of the Joint session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Canterbury, July 9-12, 2004.
• “Making movement an object of science - time in Plato and Aristotle”,
        talk at the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy meeting in New York, October 31 - November 2, 2003.