Vorträge

(in Englisch)

2023 “Konzeptuelle Metapherntheorie und griechische Vorstellungen von Wiedergeburt vor Platon”, Mittelrheinisches Symposion, Trier (7–8 Juli)
2023 “Metapher als Forschungsmethode in den antiken Naturwissenschaften, Metaphern in Wissenschaft und Kommunikation, WissKom Academy, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (9 Maerz)
2022 “Change of Form: Personal Survival and Continuity of Self in Empedocles’ Concept of Rebirth”, International Association for Presocratic Studies, 7th Biennial Conference (IAPS 7), European Cultural Centre, Delphi (27 Juni–1 Juli)
2022 Chair of the Podium Discussion Eine Frage des Geschlechtes? Chancengleichheit in der Akademie, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (29 April)
2021 “Rebirth and Transformation: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and early beliefs in Metempsychosis”, International Conference in Classics & Ancient History, Coimbra (22–25 Juni)
2021 “Neue Perspektiven auf den Straßburger Empedokles”, University of Jena (2 Juli)
07.2020 "Empedocles' fr. 133 and 134, Digitaler Workshop "Titubanti Testi. Binomio di Lettura./ Wavering Texts: Paired Readings", Universiteit Gent.
01.2020 "The notion of Sophia beyond Philosophy, Interdisciplinary and international conference "Beyond Modern Science I: Basic Terms of Ancient Scholary Knowledge and Practices", JGU Mainz.
06.2019 "Moral Implications in Empedocles’ Metaphor of the Cosmic Conflict", Fifth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece (Fonte Aretusa Organization), Exedra Mediterranean Center in Siracusa/June 12-15, 2019.
06.2019 "Tba". Journée d’études “La métaphore dans les écrits techniques de l’Antiquité”.
Centre Jean Pépin, Paris/14 June 2019.
02.2019 "The Material Dimension of Psychological Agents: Empedocles’ Bodily Mind and Transmigrating Soul", 13th London Ancient Science Conference 2019, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, University of London/11-15 February 2019.
06.2018 "The Byzantine Scholia to Aristotle and Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle", International Association for Presocratic Studies/Sixth Biennial Conference (IAPS 6), European Cultural Centre of Delphi in Greece/25-29 June 2018.
06.2018 "The Metaphor Domain of War in the Philosophy of Heraclitus and Empedocles",
Poetry and Early Greek Philosophy, University College London/21-22 June 2018.
06.2018 "The Chronography of Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle", Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives, University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter/7-9 June 2018.
06.2018 "Metaphors for the Mind in Early Greek Philosophy", Figuration as a Line of Interpretation—International Conference/Berlin/1-2 June 2018.
01.2018 "The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy", 2018 SCS Annual Meeting, Boston, Ma/4-7 January 2018.
12.2017 "The Pythagorean symbola and early Greek Philosophy", Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium/8 December 2017.
09.2017 "Empedocles’ symmetry revisited", University of Pennsylvania/Colloquia in Classical Studies/28 September 2017.
06.2017 "Metaphor and Scientific Discourse: a Mode of Argumentation in Early Greek Philosophy"
GAnPh/Humboldt University of Berlin/9-10 June 2017.
03.2017 "Deliberate Metaphor Use in Parmenides’ Two Ways of Enquiry", University of Amsterdam/Metaphor Lab/28 March 2017.
01.2017 "Body, Mind and Transmigrating Soul in Empedocles’ Theory of Knowledge Acquisition"
Philosophical Colloquium: Philosophy, Science and the Sciences in Greek, Roman and Arabic Thought /Humboldt University of Berlin/23 January 2017.
12.2016 "'A path for understanding'. Journey-Metaphors in pre-Socratic Theories of Knowledge"
Berlin International Conference ‘Paths of Knowledge in Antiquity’/Excellence Cluster Topoi/Humboldt University of Berlin/1-2 December 2016.
11.2016 "Daimones and Souls in Empedocles’ philosophy: between Pythagoras and Plato/Daimones und Seelen in der Philosophie des Empedokles: zwischen Pythagoras und Platon", Forschungskolloquium der Gräzistik/Free University of Berlin/22 November 2016.
07.2016 "Die Katabasis von Empedokles und seine Naturphilosophie", Forschungskolloquium der Klassischen Gräzistik zum Aristotelesjahr, Free University of Berlin/13 July 2016.
07.2016 "Ancient Greek Medical Metaphors", International Conference ‘The premeditated Path: Deliberate Metaphor in Ancient and Modern Texts’/Excellence Cluster Topoi/7-8 July 2016.
07.2016 "The Pythagorean symbola", Forschungskolloquiums der Gräzistik, Humboldt University Berlin/4 July 2016.
11.2015 "Paths of Wisdom: Some Pre-Socratic Metaphors to Choose the Truth and a Better Life"
‘Metaphors we choose by’: A Workshop in the Study of Metaphors in Ancient and Medieval Texts/Excellence Cluster Topoi/Berlin Humboldt University/6-7 Nov. 2015.
09.2014 "The new Empedocles in the Strasbourg Papyrus: a world of Strife?", VI Jornadas de Papirología/Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC)/Fundación Pastor De Estudios Clásicos/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid/11-12 Sept. 2014.
04.2014 "Oberseminar “Eleatismus: Parmenides und seine Nachfolgen”/Fakultät für Philosophie/Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/23 April 2014.
06.2013 "Aristotle on Empedocles (with P. Adamson): Forschungsseminar “On Aristotle’s Metaphysics B”/Munich School of Ancient Philosophy/Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/4 June 2013.
07.2012 "Notes on Vojtech Hladky’s analysis of De Mundo, ch. 7, Workshop on Ps.-Aristotle’s De Mundo, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/3-4 July 2012.
05.2012 "Il papiro di Strasburgo e la doppia zoogonia", 4th Conference of Papyrology-50 Years since the Discovery of the Derveni Papyrus (1962-2012)/Universidad de Salamanca/17-19 May 2012.
04.2011 "The proem of Empedocles’ Physika: towards a new reconstruction", Graduate Conference ‘Myth and Literature in Ancient Philosophy’/University of Cambridge/15-16 April 2011.
03.2011 "Esperienza e Conoscenza nel proemio dei Physika di Empedocle", Paris/Pisa Graduate Exchange in Ancient Greek, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa/24-25 March 2011.
03.2010 "Empedocle: stato della Ricerca", Advanced Research Seminar on Greek Literature/Archives Louis Gernet et Jean-Pierre Vernant/University of Pisa/11 March 2010.
11.2008 "Sanchuniathon e l’orfismo: elementi orientali nel pensiero cosmogonico Greco", Recherches doctorales en littérature grecque, University of Pisa/Faculty of Classics/20-21 Nov. 2008.