[Antiquitas] Animals & Environment -etäkonferenssi 8.–10.11.2023, maksuton; Fwd: Conference (on Zoom) on animals and the environment in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

[Korhonen, T Tua M]

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Terveisin,
Tua Korhonen


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Dear all,

We are delighted to announce that registration for our online international conference ‘Animals and the Environment in ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy’ is now open – the conference is free to attend, open to all and you are warmly invited to join us for this event.

The conference will take place online (on Zoom) from Wednesday 8 November – Friday 10 November 2023 and the time-zone for the conference is GMT.

Please register for the conference on Eventbrite here: https://tinyurl.com/4px4vhcr

Once you have registered, you will receive the Zoom meeting link for the Conference automatically prior to the conference.  Registration is for the whole three-day conference: please register via this link even if you can only attend some of the conference lectures and sessions.

The conference description and schedule are enclosed below this message for your information.

The full conference programme (including abstracts and information about speakers) can be accessed here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/eri/research/eco-humanities-research-group/eco-humanitiesresearchgroup-events/#d.en.1461227

With very best wishes,
Crystal and Sophia

Dr Crystal Addey (University College Cork) and Dr Sophia Connell (Birkbeck, University of London)
Organisers of the international conference ‘Animals and the Environment in ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy





Animals and the Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy:
An Online International Conference organised jointly by the Eco-Humanities Research Group, University College Cork, and Birkbeck, University of London, with the support of the University College Cork Environmental Research Institute
Wednesday 8 November – Friday 10 November 2023

Time zone: GMT

In ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, we see a diverse range of perspectives on, and great interest in, animals, nature and the natural world, and in related environmental issues, such as sustainability. Despite this, environmental ethicists and philosophers tend to dismiss the relevance of ancient philosophy to contemporary environmental debates and issues. Environmental philosophers have even claimed that ancient Greek and Roman philosophy – at least in its canonical forms – is part of the problem in environmental terms that has contributed significantly to the subsequent prevalence of anthropocentrism in western philosophy and culture. Plato, who has had a profound influence on the western philosophical tradition, is sometimes seen as epitomising this anthropocentrism because of his emphasis on dualism, championing of reason, and his apparent anti–female and anti–body stance Consequently, it is thought that he diminished the importance of the natural or ‘sensible’ world primarily because of his theory of Forms which postulates the existence of an ideal, immaterial world beyond the world of the senses and accords a greater value to the former (cf. Mahoney 1997: 45-54). Aristotle’s philosophy has also been characterised as anthropocentric, based on his statement that animals and plants are ‘for the sake of’ humans in the Politics. Some consider the way he separates human beings as rational from other living things as perceptive and nutritive to have been influential. Stoic philosophers are often seen as drawing on Aristotle in support of their own anthropocentric philosophical positions.

However, recent scholarship in Classics and Ancient Philosophy has begun to call into question and challenge this characterisation of ancient philosophy and its relevance to environmental concerns. The Greeks and the Environment, edited by Laura Westra and Thomas M. Robinson, suggested new ways of relating ancient Greek philosophy to ecology and environmentalism. More recently, Melissa Lane’s Eco-Republic: What the Ancients can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living has re-assessed Plato’s Republic as a useful and provocative work for thinking through environmental and related issues, including climate change, and seeks to refashion the political imagination toward a more environmentally sustainable way of living, while Mark Usher’s Plato’s Pigs and Other Ruminations: Ancient Guides to Living with Nature suggests that we can find in the lives and thought of ancient philosophers a close engagement with nature and an understanding of human knowledge and experience that is based on whole systems and, in relation to this, values and practices that are conducive to sustainable living. With regard to Aristotle, on-going research on his zoological writings continues to reveal his focus on the capacities of organisms, living in their natural environments, including much cognitive sophistication (most recently: The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology, edited by Sophia Connell; Aristotle On How Animals Move, edited by Andrea Falcon and Stasinos Stavrianeas). Aristotle’s focus in these works is on animals’ independent goods and values, quite apart from any service they provide to human beings.

This conference seeks to expand on these developments and re-assessments of the relevance of ancient philosophy to contemporary environmental debates.



Conference Schedule



Please note: the timezone for the conference is GMT.  Please check your own timings and timezone if you are in a different timezone.

Wednesday 8 November 2023

10.00-10.15     Introduction and Welcome

10.15-11.15     Keynote Lecture: Claudia Zatta (University of Milan, Italy): ‘“Οί ἄνθρωποι καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ζῷα”: Life and The Environment in Early Greek Philosophy’

11.15-11.30     BREAK

11.30-12.15     Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘The World as a Magical Organism: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses’

12.15-1.00       Stefano Mecci (Italian Institute for Historical Studies, Naples, Italy): ‘The Dog-like Philosophers and Nature: The Ancient Cynics, the first environmentalists?’

1.00-2.00         LUNCH

2.00-2.15         Melissa Lane (Princeton University, USA): Special Introduction and Reflections

2.15-3.00         Hallvard Fossheim (University of Bergen, Norway): ‘A Stoic Perspective on Worth in Nature’

3.00-3.45         Matt DuPree (Florida State University, USA): ‘Like Wasps and Flies: Deep Ecology and the Ten Modes of Aenesidemus’

3.45-4.00         BREAK

4.00-4.45         Michal Bizon (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland): ‘Na ton kyna! The dog in Greek thought from Heraclitus to Plotinus’



Thursday 9 November 2023

10.30-11.15     Leo Catana (University of Copenhagan, Denmark): ‘The Concept of Care (Gr. epimeleia) as a Nature-Orientated Virtue in Ancient Greek Thought’

11.15-12.00     Jorge Torres (University of Bern, Switzerland): ‘Aristotle on Friendship between Human and Non-Human Animals’

12.00-1.00       Keynote Lecture - Dimitri El Murr and Jean Trinquier (École Normale Supérieure, France): ‘Soul and the Beasts: A Platonic Reading of Two Newly Discovered Pompeian Polychrome Mosaics’

1.00-2.15         LUNCH

2.15-3.00         Douglas Campbell (Alma College, Michigan, USA): ‘Plato on Plants, Humans and Other Living Things’

3.00-3.45         Thornton Lockwood (Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA): ‘Politics I.8: Aristotle’s environmental philosophy?’

3.45-4.00         Break

4.00-4.45         Enrico Piergiacomi (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel): ‘Animal sacer et pius? Xenocrates, the animals’ notion of god, and the environment’



Friday 10 November 2023

10.00-10.45     Miira Tuominen (University of Stockholm, Sweden): ‘Just Life: Porphyry’s argument for abstinence’

10.45-11.30     Tonguc Seferoglu (Ardahan University, Turkey): ‘Porphyry’s On Abstinence and Its Modern-Day Ramifications for Moral Vegetarianism’

11.30-12.00     BREAK

12.00-1.00       Keynote Lecture: Coleen P. Zoller (Susquehanna University, USA): ‘The Nature of Pregnant Bodies in Plato’s Dialogues’

1.00-1.30         LUNCH

1.30-2.15         Eleanor Oser (Boston University, USA): ‘Justice as Virtue is Justice pros: The twofold concerns of justice in Porphyry’s On Abstinence from Killing Animals’

2.15-3.00         Wiebke-Marie Stock (University of Notre Dame, USA): ‘Physis: Plotinus on Nature and the Soul of the Earth’

3.00-3.45         Round-table discussion

3.45-4.00         BREAK

4.00-5.00         Keynote Lecture: M.D. Usher (University of Vermont, USA): ‘Aristotle and Umwelt’



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