Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Klassische Philologie, HU Berlin

Philosophisches Kolloquium - Archiv

Leitung und Organisation: PD Dr. Roberto Lo Presti

Wintersemester 2025/26

Sitzungsplan als PDF

20.10.2025                
Roberto Lo Presti
A Cock for Asclepius: Healing of the Soul, Detachment from the Body and Creation of an ‘Inner Place’ in Plato’s Phaedo

27.10.2025
Valeria Beggiato (PhD candidate Philosophy/HU)
The Role of Intentio in Augustine’s Theory of Perception

03.11.2025
Viola Cambi (PhD candidate Classical Philology/HU)
An Introduction to an Initiatory Oresteia: Clytemnestra’s Dream

10.11.2025
Mehdi Ahmadi (MA student Philosophy/HU)
On the Ontological and Epistemic Explanation of Evil in Platonic Thought

17.11.2025
Eleonora Mercati (PhD candidate Philosophy/HU)
Good, Pleasure, and Desire: Reconsidering the Nicomachean Ethics as a Starting Point for the Study of Action

24.11.2025
Giulia Clabassi (Bard College)
Aristotle Between Heaven and Earth: The ‘Physical Laws’ in the Universe of the De Caelo

01.12.2025
Rosa Matera (Technische Universität Nürnberg)
Democritus and Lucretius on the Infinite Number of Worlds

08.12.2025
Elena Bellini (PhD candidate History of Ancient Philosophy/HU)
The Sly Invention of a Poreless Lung: Erasistratus and the Limits of Visualization

15.12.2025
Leah Juliana Muff (MA Student Philosophy/HU)
Zur Frage der Ästhetik für das Politische — anhand Fallstudien zu Walter Benjamin und Hannah Arendt

05.01.2026
Matilde Berti (Durham University)
How Can We Know What Lies Beyond Mortal Experience? A Physiological Approach to Parmenides' ‘What-Is'

19.01.2026
Sofía Carreño (PhD Candidate Philosophy/HU)
Pregnancy and Birth in Plato’s Symposium

26.01.2026
Stev Talarman (MA Student Classical Philology/HU)
The Figure of Socrates and (Platonic) Ambivalence in Cicero's De oratore

02.02.2026
Michel Rallo (PhD candidate Philosophy/HU)
Aristotle’s Material Substratum: The Homonymy of the Body, Generation simpliciter, and Alteration

09.02.2026
Lisa Martingano (PhD candidate Classical Philology/HU)
From Mistra to Italy. Scholarly and Cultural Transfer in Light of Signs and Texts

 

Sommersemester 2025

Sitzungsprogramm als PDF

14.04.2025
Organisatorisches

28.04.2025 
Moritz Scheller
The nomos-physis distinction in Plato’s Gorgias and Philebus

05.05.2025
Roberto Lo Presti
Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Inner Citadel’: Autonomy, The Practice Of Love, And Openness To The World

19.05.2025
Maria Stäcker
Aristotle on common sense

26.05.2025 
Diana Pugachova
It takes two to reason the „right way“ - Case studies on epistemic authority attribution in Aristotles Physics I

02.06.2025 
Bernd Hahn
Der Gottesbegriff nach Auschwitz (Hans Jonas)

16.06.2025 
Elena Bellini
In corpore vili: Galen's experiments on the thorax

23.06.2025
Eleonara Mercati/Michel Rallo
Is Sleep Merely Privation? Rethinking Aristotle’s Model

30.06.2025
Viola Cambi
τὰ δ' ἄλλα σιγῶ· an orphic-initiatory Oresteia?

07.07.2025
Sofía Carreno
Plato on the flaws of Athenian women

14.07.2025
Michel Rallo
Form, Matter, and Individuation: Comparing Aristotle, Analytic Readings, and Simondon