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Oneirata:

Workshop on Sleep, Dreams, and Divination in Aristotle and his Predecessors

Durham University

Department of Classics and Ancient History

 

WELCOME LECTURE (Tuesday 21st May, 4:00-5:00PM)

‘Aristotle, Dialectic and Philosophy’

James Allen (University of Toronto)

Elvet Riverside ER142

 

Wednesday 22nd May

SESSION 1 11:30AM-1:45AM

Department of Classics CL108

1:30-12:00: Welcome (Coffee & Tea)

12:00-12:15: Introduction by Maria Cristina Mennuti (Durham University)

12:15-1:45: 'Predictive Dreams and Visions in Greek Tragedy, with Particular Attention to the Atridae'
Speaker: Edith Hall [online] (Durham University)
Chair: Roberto Di Tuccio (Durham University)
Respondent: George Gazis (Durham University)

1:45-3:00: Lunch Break

SESSION 2 3:00-6:15PM

Department of Classics CL108

3-4:30: 'Phantasia in Dreams'
Speaker: Klaus Corcilius (Universität Tübingen)
Chair: Lorenzo Zemolin (Università Roma Tre)
Respondent: Matilde Berti (Durham University)

4:30-4:45: Coffee & Tea

4:45-6.15: 'Sleep in Antiphon? Workshopping the New Papyrus Fragment of On Truth'
Speaker: Phillip S. Horky (Durham University)
Chair: Sara Uckelman (Durham University)
Respondent: Giovanni Trovato (Università di Pisa)

Thursday 23rd May

SESSION 3 (9:00-12:15AM)

Department of Classics CL108

9:00-10:30: 'Are Sleep and Wakefulness Opposites? How Recent Findings from Cognitive Neuroscience Challenge Aristotle’s View of Sleep and Dreaming'
Speaker: Jennifer Windt [online] (Monash University)
Chair: Giulia Bonasio (Durham University)
Respondent: Daphne Bernués (Pompeu Fabra University/Durham University)

10:30-11:00: Coffee & Tea

11:00-12.30: 'Imagination and Hallucination in the Enculturated Mind'
Speaker: Sam Wilkinson (Exeter University)
Chair: Nathan Gilbert (Durham University)
Respondent: Ariel Swyer (Durham University)

12:30-2:00: Lunch Break

SESSION 4 2:00-6:00PM

Department of Classics CL107 (Ritson Room)

2:00-3:30: 'Prognosis and the Psyche: the Medical Dream before Aristotle'
Speaker: Stephanie Holton (Open University)
Chair: Giulia Bernardini (Durham University)
Respondent: Marco Collatuzzo (Università di Pisa)

3:30-4:00: Coffee & Tea

4:00-5:30: 'Sleeping with Daemons. A Philosophical Relationship between Daemons and Dreams'
Speaker: Maria Cristina Mennuti (Durham University)
Chair: Pietro Cannatella (Durham University)
Respondent: Chiara Blanco (Newcastle University)

5:30-5:45: Closing Remarks by Marco Picciafuochi (Università Roma Tre)