International Association for Presocratic Studies

Ninth Biennial Conference: 22-26 June 2026

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Provisional Schedule

 

Monday 22 June

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9.00-10.00: Reception of the Participants (Central Hall, Ground floor)

 

10.00-11.00: Opening Ceremony (Paraninfo, Ground floor)

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Dean of the Faculty of Philology Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy

Prof. Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui (Chair of the Department of Classical Philology)

Prof. Richard McKirahan (President of the IAPS)

Prof. Marco A. Santamaría (Organizer)

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11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

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11.30-13.30: Parallel Sessions

 

Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Bernabé, Alberto. “Truth, Opinions and the Path of What Is. Conceptual Clarifications in Parmenides”.

Cordero, Néstor-Luis. “Une faute tragique: de la δόξα chez Parménide à la δόξα de Parménide” / “A tragic mistake: from δόξα in Parmenides to Parmenides' δόξα”.

Malaspina, Iulia. “La verità secondo Parmenide”.

Berruecos Frank, Bernardo. “Eleatism outside the “Eleatic school”. The Reception of Parmenides' Poem in Archaic Choral Poetry”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Santaniello, Carlo. “Presocratic Echoes: Looking for One’s Words in Others’ Works”. Saudelli, Lucia. “A concept of freedom in Presocratic philosophy?”.

Saumell, Jordi Crespo. “What Did You Watch: Everything Is Illuminated or The Man with the Ray Eyes?”.

Sperzagni,    Nicholas.    “Connecting    cosmos    and    reproduction    according    to    the Presocratics”.

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13.30-15.00: Lunch

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15.00-16.30: Parallel Sessions

 

Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Valentinová, Lucie. “Minoan Visual Culture and the Image of Okeanos”.

Feldman, Sarah. “Semonides Fragment 1 and the “Negative” Solution to Epistemic Limits”.

Degutis, Mykolas. “Bridging the Gap Between Gods and Humans: Pherecydes’ Nuptial Myth and Epimenides’ Divine Origins of Society”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Aleknienė, Tatjana. “Plato, Phaedo 95e–101e: A Turning Point from Presocratic Physics to Socratic Ethics”.

d’Ippolito, Armando Francesco. “Perì Puròs kaì Phōtós: Evidence for the Presence and Evolution of a Physics of Light from the Presocratics to Plato”.

Fortes, Fabio. “Ancient thinkers to describe the art of logos in Plato’s Phaedrus”.

 

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

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17.00-18.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Németh, Attila. “Rhythmic Reconfiguration and Compatibilist Agency in Democritus”.

Kidd, Stephen. “Democritus and the Origin of “Self-Evidence” (to enarges) in Philosophy”.

Aguirre De la Luz, Nazyheli. “The Peripatetic outlook on Democritus’ theory of perception”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Alevizos, Konstantinos. “Necessità contro predeterminismo nel libro XXV sulla natura

di Epicuro”.

Iuliano, Lorenzo. “The Presocratic Philosophers and Ennius: The Emergence of The Latin Air”.

 

Tuesday 23 June

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9.30-11.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Heinemann, Gottfried. “Phusis in Early Greek Philosophy”.

Ménard, Étienne. “The Cosmology of Exhalations in Ionian Philosophy”.

Díez-Platas, Fátima. “Descifrar la belleza: sobre pensamiento estético en los filósofos presocráticos”.

Marín Garzón, Alba. “La sabiduría práctica de los presocráticos: el concepto de sophia en los siglos VI y V a.C.”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Bergamo, Max. “Heraclitus, Homer, and the Lice: A Reassessment of Fragment 22 B56 DK (with Additional Greek and Syriac Evidence)”.

Scharle, Margaret. “Hesiodic Roots of Heraclitus’s Fire and Logos”.

Pajón Leyra, Ignacio. “Parménides y Gorgias en las raíces del escepticismo”. Pulpito, Massimo. “A New Fragment of Zeno of Elea”.

 

11.30-12.00: Coffe Break

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12.00-13.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Ferella, Chiara. “What—or Who—is Anaximander’s Apeiron? Rethinking the Infinite as a Primordial Deity”.

Albano, Nicolò. “The false Musaeus. An interpretation of Onomacritus' Orakelfälschung (Hdt VII 6, 2-5)”.

Valentino, Giulia. “The transmigration of the soul from Presocratic doctrines to the

Orphic Rhapsodies”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Matera, Rosa. “On Democritus and the principle of plenitude”.

Bevacqua, Flavio. “A Prattler of Stupidities”: A First Assessment of Democritus(?) on Cosmic Sympathy (68 B300 DK)”.

Nieva, José María. “Demócrito o el arte de vivir bien”.

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13.30-15.00: Lunch

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15.00-16.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Cornelli, Gabriele. “Who can be considered Pythagorean among the early Greek philosophers?”.

Sattler, Barbara. “Void in early Pythagoreanism”.

Gimenes de Campos, Rogério. “The inclination of the Heavens: Revisiting Oenopides of Chios”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Navarro González, Ángela-Bares Partal, Juan de Dios. “Heráclito y la tradición del enigma”.

Chaturvedi, Aditi. “Resituating Heraclitean Harmoniē”.

Begley, Keith – Wash, Leon. “Rhyme and its conceptual motivations in Heraclitus and Empedocles”.

 

16.30-17.00: coffee break

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17.00-18.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Mesquita, António Pedro. “On What There is Not. Protagoras on the Impossibility of Falsehood and Contradiction.”.

Keoseyan, Benjamin. “Eunomia and the Decline into Tyranny in Anonymous Iamblichi: A Socratic Precursor to Plato”.

Guerrieri, Marco. “Investigating the MXG (On Melissus Xenophanes Gorgias)”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Torrente, Luca. “The invention of the history of philosophy: Theophrastus, the forgotten founder”.

Taglialatela, Giovanni. “Timonischer Philosophenspott als Linse auf die Vorsokratiker”. Loureiro Conte, Bruno. “Plutarch and Parmenides”.

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Wednesday 24 June

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9.30-11.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Sider, David. “Parmenides’ Proem: Sources, Language, and Purpose”.

Clay, Jenny Strauss. “Parmenides’ Proem: Ex oriente lux”.

Ferro, Francesco. “DK 28B1.2: the ὁδὸς πολύφημος as the Path of the Announcement”.

Montagnino, Marco. “The numerological vision of Athena in the proem of Parmenides’

poem”.

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Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Brémond, Mathilde. “Catalogues of opinions: the Sophistic heritage”.

Di Maio, Chiara. “Anchoring Sophistic thought in the Greek tradition: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus and their Athenian followers”.

Buldrini Barreto, Henrique. “The νόμος-φύσις debate and the reduction of medical art to chance in De arte”.

Lea, Luke. “What Would Grow from a Buried Bed? Antiphon on Nomos and Phusis”.

 

11.30-12.00: Coffe Break

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12.00-13.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Wrotkowski, Wojciech. “On the Value of Reading Heraclitus in the Primary Sources Preserving His Fragments (B98, B67, B53)”.

Thanassas, Panagiotis. “Heraclitus B 114: A Re-examination”.

Llorente Pescador, Manuel. “The Lyrical Tradition of pre-Socratic Ethics: Theognis, Heraclitus, and Parmenides”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Álvarez-Maldonado, Lucas. “The First Greek Plant Physiologist: Empedocles’ Botanical Theory”.

Audié, Prudence. “Plutarch’s Dionysian Empedocles”.

Höchsmann, Hyun. “Empedocles, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche – The Metamorphosis of Empedocles from a ‘Philosophical Centaur’ to a Philosophical Phoenix”.

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13.30-15.00: Lunch

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Free afternoon

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Thursday 25 June

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9.30-11.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Gregory, Andrew. “Parmenides, Sufficient Reason and the Identity of Indiscernibles”.

Costa, Alexandre. “Parmenides, theory of names”.

Castelli, Arianna. “Light, Night, and Memory: Understanding Parmenidean Cognition”.

Nogueira Fontes, Luis Marcio. “[Melissus], DK30B9”.

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Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Kraus, Manfred. “Gorgias, Logos and Hippocratic Medicine”.

Rehbinde, André. “The Influence of Logos on the Soul: Gorgias, Empedocles and the Hippocratic Collection”.

Reus Engler, Maicon. “Gorgias and the Alteration of Consciousness: On the Effect of Lógos”.

Brinati, Daniela. “Playing Gorgias’ laborious game”.

 

11.30-12.00: Coffe Break

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12.00-13.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Macris, Constantinos. “Pythagoras in Byzantium: Exploring the Anonymous Life of Pythagoras preserved in Patriarch Photius’ Myriobiblos”.

Provenza, Antonietta. “Paths of perception. Alcmaeon, Philolaus and Aristoxenus on

aisthēsis and hearing”.

Lebedev, Andrei. “Neglected epigraphical evidence on the so-called "Orphic" graffiti from Olbia, and the problem of relation between Orphism and Pythagoreanism”.

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Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Kočandrle, Radim. “The Influence of Parmenides on Aristotle’s conception of spherical Earth”.

Lugani, Giorgia. “Catching Protagoras: Plato’s Pursuit of a Moving Target”.

Molina Alonso, Pablo. “Between Affection and Relativism: The Cyrenaic School and the Doctrine of the Secret Students of Protagoras in Plato’s Theaetetus”.

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13.30-15.00: Lunch

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15.00-16.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Esquivel Esquivel, Juan Carlos. “Aenesidemus on Heraclitus”.

Herrero de Jáuregui, Miguel. “Tatian as neos (anti-)Heraclitus”.

Sánchez Castro, Liliana Carolina. “Heraclitus in dialogue with contemporary environmental philosophy”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Macé, Arnaud. “Potential and actual infinity in the division of bodies from Zeno to the Atomists”.

Mazzanti, Leonardo. “Zeno’s Argument Against Plurality and the Case for Existence Monism”.

Isidoro Giráldez, Emilio. “La interpretación aristotélica de los argumentos de Zenón como paralogismos”.

 

16.30-17.00: coffee break

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17.00-18.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Machín, Deyvis Deniz. “La atribución de la doctrina aire-dios a Diógenes de Apolonia”.

Matusova, Ekaterina. “Sophistic theories of language in the Derveni Papyrus”.

da Costa, Menezes. “O Papiro de Derveni e o início da tradição de interpretação alegórica”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Peixoto, Miriam. “Between hubris and pleonexia: the faces of excess in Democritus' ethics”.

Jacob, Dawn. “Was Democritus A Eudaimonist?”.

Moretti, Matteo. “How Epicurean is Democritus? Telos, Eudaimonia, Hedonism, and Imperturbability in Democritus’ Ethics”.

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Friday 26 June

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9.30-11.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Sisko, John E. “A Non-Teleological Interpretation of Anaxagoras’ Theory of Nous”.

Shaw, Michael M. “Infinite Problems in Anaxagoras”.

Torrijos-Castrillejo, David. “Mythology and Anaxagoras’ σπέρματα”.

Ramón Cámara, Begoña. “On the Role Played by the Book of Anaxagoras in Plato’s

Phaedo and Timaeus”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Álvarez Salas, Omar D. “A cognitive approach to the “mind” in Xenophanes and related thinkers”.

Figueira, Ana Rita. “Two Negatives Equals Positive: A Contribute of Attic vase painting for the Problem of (Non)Being in Parmenides”.

Duque, Mateo. “Still Is Still Moving to Me”: Parmenidean Being, the Block universe, and McTaggart’s B-Series”.

Stamatiou, Filippos – Rajcic, Nina - Elizabeth Scott, Ava. “Aletheia and Algorithms: Parmenides’ Lessons for Understanding Generative AI”.

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11.30-12.00: Coffe Break

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12.00-13.30: Parallel Sessions:

 

Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Piangerelli, Federica. “Parmenides, Zeno, and the Eleatic Stranger. A “Philosophical Lineage” in Plato’s Sophist?”.

Theodoroudi, Lia. “Don’t think of me as a patricide: Plato’s Sophist as a reinterpretation of Parmenides’ On Nature”.

Vergouli, Vasia. “How and why Plato and Aristotle see teleology where the Presocratics might not?”.

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Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Zamora Calvo, José María. “Ἀυγὴ ξηρά / Lux sicca. Porfirio, intérprete de Heráclito”.

Franchi, Leonardo. “Reassessing Mortals’ Error in Parmenides 28 B 6. 8–9 DK through

Porphyry”.

Pompei, Diletta. “The Role of the Seven Sages in Stobaeus’ Anthologion: A Connection between Archaic Philosophy and Neoplatonic Ethics”.

 

13.30-15.00: Lunch

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15.00-16.30: Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Pavani, Anna. “Nous ex machina? Plato’s Socrates and Aristotle on Anaxagoras alleged “unintelligent intellect” ”.

Calmon, Félix. “Aristote et la noétique d’Anaxagore. Présence d’Anaxagore dans le DA

III.4”.

Trovato, Luigi. “Two forgotten testimonies on the Anaxagorean Noûs: Damascius (In Prm. I, 15.1-6 [Combès-Westerink]) and Proclus (In Prm. VII, 1214.8-9 [Cousin])”.

 

Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Hladký, Vojtěch. “Francesco Patrizi on Early Greek Philosophy”.

Martínez Cordone, Alberto. “Readressing Lucas Holstenius’ edition of Democrates’

Gnomai (1638)”.

Ustiantsev, Román. “Parmenides in Spanish: García Bacca, Pérez de Tudela, and Padilla Gálvez on the Poem on Nature”.

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16.30-17.00: coffee break

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17.00-18.30 Parallel Sessions:

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Salón de Grados (Ground floor)

Pitteloud, Luca. “La Nature aime à se cacher : Rilke, Ramuz et l’écho moderne d’un fragment d’Héraclite”.

Nakayama, Patricia. “The power of convention: Democritus, Thomas Hobbes, and the birth of experimental science”.

Nicolaides, Demetris. “Crystallized Space and Frozen Time: The Universes of Physicist Parmenides and Philosopher Einstein”.

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Aula Ortega y Gasset (217, second floor)

Šćepanović, Sandra. “Negative Temporal Clauses in Presocratic Fragments”.

Wang, Yu. “Archelaus on Two Stages of Human Origin and Moral Conventionalism”.

Taglialatela, Giovanni. “Timonischer Philosophenspott als Linse auf die Vorsokratiker”.

Russo Gómez, Alessandro. “La «inocencia del devenir»: Anaxágoras y Heráclito interpretados por Nietzsche”.

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Online session

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Mogyoródi, Emese. “ ‘Disclosure’, Poetry and Philosophy in Parmenides: The Journey, the Chasm and ‘Erotic Mysticism’ in the Proem”.

Padilla, Teresa. “La φύσις de Anaxágoras como modelo inteligente, ordenado, evolutivo y expansivo del Universo” / “Anaxagoras’ φύσις as an intelligent, ordered, evolutionary and expansive of the Universe”.

Perricone, Fabio. “Death and Ethics in Democritus’ Thanatology: A Possible Reconstruction”.

 

19.00 Closing Session (Paraninfo, Ground floor)