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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">***REMINDER***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are delighted to invite you to a special guest presentation on Thursday October 23rd by Professor Gerd Van Riel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">October 23rd (Thursday, 4.15pm UTC+11)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">V. Gordon Childe Boardroom (Level 2, Madsen Building)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Special Guest Seminar</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Gerd Van Riel (KU Leuven)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Plato on matter—or not?”</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Zoom Link: <a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84488279837">
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84488279837</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract: <i>The paper argues that attributing a theory of matter to Plato comes down to an anachronistic reading, under the influence of Aristotle. It will reconsider what Plato has to say about “matter”
in the Timaeus, in a de-Aristotelianizing approach to the text.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gerd Van Riel, professor and 2017-2024 dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at KU Leuven (Belgium), studied Classics and Philosophy (PhD in Philosophy, Leuven, 1997). His research focuses on Plato and the Platonic
tradition, with monographs on Plato’s Gods (Ashgate, 2013), Pleasure and the Good Life (Brill, 2000), and critical text editions of Damascius’ In Philebum (Paris, 2008) and Proclus’ In Timaeum (Oxford, 2022). Gerd is presently working at USYD, as a Fellow
of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC). His fellowship, hosted by Julia Kindt and in collaboration with James Collins II and Emily Hulme, involves the encounters and entanglements between ancient historiography and
ancient philosophy, notably focusing on ‘Plato as a Historian’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best, Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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