Thursday, 19.2.2026
14.00-14.30 Opening remarks and introduction
Panel 1: Aristotle’s authority and the Lives of Aristotle in Syria. Chair: Matthieu Réal (University of Padua)
14.30-15-00 Giovanni Mandolino (University of Padua), ‘Aristotle’s authority in Syriac philosophy’
15.00-15.30 Jacob A. Lollar (Durham University), ‘The Syriac Lives of Aristotle: A Comparison’
15.30-15.45 Discussion
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
Panel 2: Pseudoaristotelica in Armenian. Chair: Valeria Bacigalupo (University of Padua)
16.15-16.4 Paolo Lucca (University of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’), ‘Conspectus and prospectus of Aristotle’s translations and reception in medieval Armenia’
16.45-17.15 Irene Tinti (University of Florence, SAGAS, ERC project ArmEn), ‘The Armenian Version of De Mundo: a Status Quaestionis‘
17.15-17.30 Discussion
Syriac Keynote. Chair: Mara Nicosia (University of Padua)
17.30-18.30 Emiliano Fiori (University of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’), ‘Difference, Quality, and Quantity in Late 6th-century Syria: The Religious Stakes of Aristotelian Philosophy’
20.00 Dinner
Friday, 20.2.2026
Panel 3: Lost and apocryphal Aristotelian treatises in Arabic. Chair: Gertjan Verhasselt (University of Padua)
9.30-10.00 Flavio Bevacqua (University of Padua), ‘Possible Evidence for Aristotle’s Lost Scientific Works in Arabic Sources: Some Case Studies’
10.00-10.30 Peter Adamson (LMU Munich), ‘To Eternity and Beyond: A Disagreement Within the Kindī Circle?’
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
Arabic Keynote. Chair: Carmela Baffioni (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’)
11.15-12.15 Cecilia Martini Bonadeo (University of Padua), ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī’s Book on the Science of Metaphysics. Chapter III. A Lexicon for the Virtual Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Post-Avicennian Tradition?’
12.15-14.00 Lunch break
Panel 4: Syro-Arabic pseudoaristotelica. Chair: Vittorio Berti (University of Padua)
14.00-14.30 Giorgia Nicosia (Ghent University) & Mara Nicosia (University of Padua), ‘Syriac and Arabic sayings attributed to Aristotle’
14.30-15.00 Salam Rassi (University of Edinburgh), ‘Syriac Culture, Arabic Thought? Pseudo-Aristotle’s Epistle on Alchemy ‘
15.00-15.15 Discussion
Panel 5: Influences of Arabic pseudoaristotelica. Chair: Edoardo Benati (University of Padua)
15.15-15.45 Carmela Baffioni (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’), ‘Influences of the pseudo-Aristotelian Theologia in the Risala al-Jami‛a‘
15.45-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15 Roundtable general discussion. Chair: Marco Lauri (Università Telematica eCampus)
17.15-17.30 Closing remarks
Organisers
Mara Nicosia (University of Padua)
Gertjan Verhasselt (University of Padua)
Scientific Committee & Technical Support
Valeria Bacigalupo (University of Padua)
Edoardo Benati (University of Padua)
Flavio Bevacqua (University of Padua)
Boerije Byden (University of Padua)
Matthieu Réal (University of Padua)
Cristina Tava (University of Padua)
Ursula Scherm-Adamson (LMU Munich)
Pseudoaristotelica et fragmenta 