Conferences

    These conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures, and other events were either fully or partially sponsored by Hyele, or otherwise attended by Hyele representatives. For details about speakers, papers, and a selection of photos, please click on the respective links below.

    Date
    Event Place

    22—26 Jul 2024 IQSA 2024 – The Sixteenth Biennial IQSA Conference Quantum Structure 2024
    VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

    13—14 May 2024 A Symposium on The Future of Humanitarian Design
    Geneva, Switzerland

    21—24 Mar 2024
    ESAP - European Society for Ancient Philosophy, 29th Annual Meeting:
    Aristotle, De Generatione et Corruptione I.3

    European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece

    20—23 Nov 2023 Fonte Aretusa:
    Empedocles in Sicily
    Empedocles Abstracts
    Syracuse, Sicily

    16 Oct 2023 Center Leo Apostel for Transdisciplinary Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel —
    Artificial Intuition: Exploring the Nexus of University of Brussels, Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
    University of Brussels,
    Belgium

    14—17 Jun 2023 20th Annual Conference of the ISNS International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
    Catania, Sicily

    3—4 Nov 2022 Royal Holloway University of London: Parmenides and the Sophists
    Online

    18 Jul—
    22 Jul 2022
    XIII Symposium of the IPS (International Plato Society)
    On the Sophist
    Program
    Athens, Georgia

    27 Jun—
    1 Jul 2022
    7th Biennial Conference of the International Association
    for Pre-Socratic Studies
    Article
    Delphi, Greece

    14 Mar 2022 Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism:
    Dorothea Frede – “What Plato Taught: A Riddle of His Academy”
    Online

    26 Feb 2022 Talk Series re Philosophy & Technology:
    Carlo Rovelli - The Role of Anaximander in the birth of Science
    Online

    11 Feb 2022

    Ancient Philosophy Society:
    Active and Passive Dunamis

    Online

    14—15 Jun 2021 Colloquium: New Perspectives on the Enneads in the Light of the Debate between Plotinus and the Gnostics
    Online

    13—16 April 2021
    22—23 April 2021
    VII International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information:
    Quantum Ontology and Metaphysics

    Event link

    Video Presentations

    Florianópolis
    Santa Catarina, Brazil

    17—19 Mar 2021

    "The Invention of Religion"

    Event link

    Details

    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ US 

    29—30 Sep 2017
    Worlds of Entanglement International Symposium
    Brussels Free University Brussels, Belgium

    23—24 Jul 2015 Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: Physical, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives
    Brussels Free University
    Brussels, Belgium

    03 Feb 2014 World Religions (PHIL 210-H01)
    Spring 2014: Shamanism
    Nevada State College
    Las Vegas, NV US

    04—10 Aug 2013 23rd World Congress of Philosophy University of Athens
    Athens, Greece

    05—06 Oct 2012 Interpreting Plato:
    A Conference in Honor of Charles Kahn
    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    15—18 April 2012 ELEATICA 2012: Melissus of Samos Ascea, Italy

    09—13 Jan 2012 IAPS International Association for Presocratic Studies: Third Biennial Conference

    University of Mexico,
    Mérida, State of Yucatán, Mexico


    12—13 June 2011 Conference on Leadership and
    Management in a Changing World
    :
    Lessons from Ancient East and West Philosophy
    The Divani Caravel Hotel
    Athens, Greece

    02—05 June 2011 Plotinus Colloquium Trinity College Dublin
    Dublin, Ireland

    26 May 2011 Annual Lecture Series
    History of Philosophy
    In Memory of MICHAEL FREDE
    University of Athens
    Athens, Greece

    05—07 May 2011 ELEATICA 2011:
    Da Parmenide di Elea al Parmenide di Platone
    Fondazione Alario
    Marina di Ascea, Italy

    14—16 April 2011 ESAP European Society for Ancient Philosophy Conference:
    Physics, Book II, Chapter 5
    Old University in
    Athens (Plaka), Greece

    26 Jan 2011
    13 Feb 2011
    23 Feb 2011
    Plato's Gorgias British School of Athens
    Athens (Plaka), Greece

    29 Sep
    —01 Oct 2010
    Parmenide: ontologia scienza mito Ca'Foscari University, Venice, Italy

    28—31 July 2010
    The Second Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    03—07 June 2009
    Presocratics and Plato
    Festschrift Symposium in Honor of
    Prof. Dr. Charles H. Kahn
    Delphi, Greece

    26—31 May 2009 Symposium on Plato's Sophist Benasque, Spain

    01—05 April 2009 ESAP Conference:
    On Aristotle, Metaphysics A 7
    Delphi, Greece

    15—18 Jan 2009 ELEATICA 2008–09:
    Zeno and the Infinity
    Fondazione Alario
    Marina di Ascea, Italy

    23—27 June 2008 IAPS International Association for
    Presocratic Studies Conference:
    Ionian Philosophy and Science
    Brigham Young University
    Provo, Utah

    16—17 May 2008
    D Society — Easter Term 2008
    Ways to the Divine: The Eleatics, Plato, and Philosophy's Quest for the Right Method
    University of Cambridge
    Cambridge, England

    07 April 2008
    "Some Thoughts of Basil the Great
    on the Subject of the Holy Trinity"
    University of Athens
    Athens, Greece


    27—29 Mar 2008
    ESAP Aristotle Conference:
    Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, Chapter 13
    University of Athens
    Athens, Greece

    23 Nov 2007
    The Question of What is Not:
    Parmenides' Achilles Heel?
    Trinity College Dublin
    Dublin, Ireland

    29 Oct
    —02 Nov 2007
    International Parmenides Symposium:
    "Parmenides, venerable and awesome"
    (Plato, Theaetetus 183e)
    Centro Cultural Borges
    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    13—16 Sep 2007
    Life, the Universe, Everything
    — and More: Plato's Timaeus Today
    University of Illinois
    at Urbana-Champaign
    Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

    22—28 July 2007
    VIII Symposium of the
    International Plato Society
    on Plato's Philebus
    Trinity College Dublin
    Department of Philosophy
    Dublin, Ireland

    25—26 May 2007
    Self and Personality in
    Ancient Philosophy
    University of Crete
    Rethymno, Crete

    19—23 May 2007
    Colloquium on Plato's
    Parmenides and its heritage:
    Workshop and Papers
    with Cambridge doctorate Students
    Hyele Institute
    Athens, Greece

    11—13 May 2007
    Parmenides' Poem & Plato's Parmenides:
    Slow Reading Seminar, Part 2
    University of Crete
    Rethymno, Crete

    05—06 May 2007
    Parmenides' Poem & Plato's Parmenides:
    Slow Reading Seminar, Part 1
    Hyele Institute
    Athens, Greece

    12—15 Apr 2007
    ESAP-HYELE Aristotle Conference:
    Aristotle's Physics 7,3
    Parkhotel Vitznau
    Vitznau, Switzerland

    30 Dec 2006
    —15 Jan 2007
    Plato's Parmenides Seminar Emirates Palace
    Abu Dhabi
    One&Only Royal Mirage
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    24—26 Nov 2006
    ELEATICA 2006: “Parmenide Scienziato?” Fondazione Alario
    Marina di Ascea, Italy

    20 October 2006
    ΤΥΧΗ, ΑΝΑΓΚΗ ΚΑΙΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ
    ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ

    Chance, Necessity, and Freedom in
    Ancient Greek Philosophy
    Academy of Athens
    Athens, Greece

    05—07 Oct 2006
    Presocratic Studies in Europe
    from the Early Middle Ages to
    Hermann Diels
    (Europaeische Vorsokratiker-Rezeption
    vom Frühen Mittelalter bis Hermann Diels)
    Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaften Muenchen e.V. (IBZ)
    Munich, Germany

    25—26 Sep 2006
    Footprints in the Mind:
    Theories of Memory from Plato to the Moderns

    (Tracce nella mente:
    Teorie della memoria da Platone e i moderni)
    Scuola Normale Superiore
    Aula Dini
    Pisa, Italy

    26—29 June 2006
    Symposium Heracliteum Secondum:
    The Philosophy of Heraclitus.
    New approaches to the Obscure of Ephesus, Textual and interpretive problems;
    25 years of Heraclitean studies.
    UNAM, Faculdad de Filosofia y Letras
    Aula Magna y Salon de Actos
    Mexico City, Mexico

    15—17 June 2006
    The Greek Philosopher and the Society
    of his Time
    (El filosofo griego frente a la sociedad
    de su tiempo)
    Centro Franco-Argentino, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    08 April 2006
    ESAP Aristotle Conference University of Athens
    Athens, Greece

    16 Mar
    —15 Apr 2006
    ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ
    ΙΕ' ΚΥΚΛΟΣ ó Α. Λ. ΠΙΕΡΡΗΣ
    University of Athens
    Athens, Greece

    07 Feb 2006
    Abschiedsrede Prof. Dr. Gerhard Seel University of Bern
    Bern, Switzerland

    01—04 Feb 2006
    Inner Life and Soul: Plato and the Soul Como, Italy

    Oct—Dec 2005
    Plato's Parmenides
    Seminar Series by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Seel
    University of Bern
    Bern, Switzerland

    20—27 Aug 2005
    Symposium Megarense:
    The Megarians — Eleatism and the History
    of Greek Rationalism in the Classical and
    Early Hellenistic Periods
    Club Hotel Loutraki
    Loutraki, Greece

    16—28 July 2005
    Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Quintum:
    Polarity and Tension of Being —
    Pythagoras and Heraclitus
    Pythagorion, Samos, Greece
    Kusadasi (near Ephesus), Turkey

    01 July 2005
    Symposium: Der Name Gottes
    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Walter Burkert
    Götternamen in Griechenland:
    Eigennamen, Beinamen, Identifikationen.

    University of Zurich
    Faculty of Theology
    Zurich, Switzerland

    18—20 Feb 2005
    10th Annual Arizona Colloquium in
    Ancient Philosophy: The Socratic Legacy
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, Arizona

    8 Mar 2004
    "Parmenides: The Need for Reliability
    in Thought and Speech"
    Lecture by Arnold Hermann
    Pomona College
    Claremont, CA

    20—22 Feb 2004
    9th Annual Arizona Colloquium in
    Ancient Philosophy: Plato on Method
    and Plato's Methods
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, Arizona

    21—23 Feb 2003
    8th Annual Arizona Colloquium in
    Ancient Philosophy: Desire, Pleasure,
    and Love in Plato's Ethics
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, Arizona

    15—17 Feb 2002
    7th Annual Arizona Colloquium in
    Ancient Philosophy: Plato, Myth,
    and Religion
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, Arizona

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