[Antiquitas] Työpaja Aristoteleen eläintutkimuksesta Suomen Ateenan-instituutissa ja Zoomissa 23.–24.3.2026

[Perälä, Mika M]

Hyvä antiikintutkija

Järjestän tutkimusryhmäni kanssa 23.–24.3.2026 Suomen Ateenan-instituutissa työpajan “Questions Arising from the Aristotelian Zoology", johon voi osallistua myös etänä Zoomin välityksellä.

Tiedote kokouksesta ja rekisteröitymislinkki Zoom-kokoukseen löytyvät instituutin verkkosivuilta:

https://finninstitute.gr/kalenteri/questions-arising-from-the-aristotelian-zoology/

Liitän lisäksi alle tiedotteen keskeisen sisällön.

Tervetuloa työpajaan kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan!

Parhain terveisin

Mika Perälä
Yliopistotutkija, Helsingin yliopiston tutkijakollegium
Teoreettisen filosofian dosentti, Helsingin yliopisto
Kreikkalaisen filologian dosentti, Turun yliopisto



Questions Arising from the Aristotelian Zoology
Workshop at the Finnish Institute at Athens

23–24 March 2026

Aristotle’s biology has become a flourishing field of scholarship in recent decades, and its relevance has only increased amid growing concerns over biodiversity loss and reconsideration on the relationship between human beings and other animals. Responding to the growing need for historically and philosophically informed engagement with these issues, the Kone Foundation has awarded a major grant for the translation of Aristotle’s zoological treatises—Historia animalium (Tōn peri ta zōia historiōn), De partibus animalium (Peri zōōn moriōn), De generatione animalium (Peri zōōn geneseōs), and De incessu animalium (Peri poreias zōiōn)—into Finnish, accompanied by scholarly commentaries.

This workshop brings together an international group of philosophers and classical philologists. In addition to advancing research on various dimensions of Aristotle’s zoological thought, the event supports the ongoing translation and commentary work on these four foundational treatises.

The workshop is organised by the research project ‘History and Diversity in Aristotelian Zoology’, University of Helsinki, in collaboration with the Finnish Institute at Athens. It is generously funded by the Kone Foundation.

For further details, please contact the leader of the project Dr Mika Perälä, mika.perala at helsinki.fi.


To join the workshop via Zoom please register in advance:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nkPGEqygSi-NqyBwkebQBw

Program

Day 1 – Monday 23 March 2026

13.30–13.45 Petra Pakkanen and Mika Perälä: Opening of the workshop

13.45–15.00 Sophia M. Connell: Aristotle on Differences in the Perceptual Organs of Different Animals

15.00–15.15 Coffee

15.15–16.30 Stasinos Stavrianeas: The transmission of souls in the Generation of Animals

16.30–16.45 Break

16.45–18.00 Erja Salmenkivi and Mika Perälä: Textual issues in the Parts of Animals

Day 2 – Tuesday 24 March 2026

10.00–11.15 Stavros Kouloumentas and Stasinos Stavrianeas: Aristotle and Anaxagoras on why human beings have hands

11.15–11.30 Coffee

11.30–12.45 Pantelis Golitsis: Life, Soul, and Heat in the Generation of Animals and Other Treatises

12.45–14.15 Lunch

14.15–15.30 Spyros Rangos: Natural teleology and hypothetical necessity

15.30–15.45 Coffee

15.45–17.00 Harry Alanen: Aristotle on natural teleology: The dialectical strategy of Physics II.8-9 reconsidered

17.00–17.15 Mika Perälä: Closing of the workshop


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