Thursday, June 10, 2021 (All times are in the time zone of Athens.)
2:00-4:00 p.m. Session 1a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Laurtizen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Panagiotis Pavlos , University of Oslo, Platonism and Christian Thought: A System in Phase Transition; An Approach to the Contributions of Vassilios Tatakis and fr. John Romanides” Fernandez Marco Alviz , National University of Distance Learning, UNED, Madrid, “Χάρισμα and παιδεία in Late Antiquity: From Neoplatonic circles to Christian thought in the 3rd and 4th centuries” Chris Chris Barnard , Newman University, “The Good and Evil λόγοι Dialectic in Saint Maximus the Confessor” Evi Zacharia , Radboud University Nijmegen, “Commentary on Alcibiades I: towards an explanation of human perfection through love”
Session 1b: Plotinus and Proclus Marcin Podbielski Paolo Di Leo , Singapore University of Technology and Design, “Plotinus and Heidegger: A Dialogue Through Parmenides’ R. B3” Marcin Podbielski , Jesuit University Ignatianum, “Revisiting the Text, Grammar, and Translations of Plotinus’s On Contemplation” Martin Lee Mueller , University of Oslo, “Deep Ecology and Telling About Nature” Zdenek Lenner, , École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE Paris) & École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), "Providential Eros and reversive Eros in Proclus: to what extent are the means of ascent gifts which descend?"
Session 1c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars Christina-Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud Francesca Pentassuglio , Sapienza University of Rome and Universität zu Köln, “Homer in the Symposiaka: Xenophon and Plutarch compared” Michele Corradi , Université d’Aix-Marseille/Università di Pisa, Ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Aristotele e la critica di Platone ad Omero Marco Donato , Université d’Aix-Marseille, “Homer in the Platonic Dubia and Spuria” Carlotta Capuccino , Università di Bologna, “Poetic Enthusiasm: The (Mis)Fortune of a Platonic Image”
Session 1d: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli Cristian Furness , University of Tasmania, “Allegorising the Soul's Journey: Porphyry's Vita Plotini and De Antro Nympharum” Dirk Baltzly , University of Tasmania, “Unity and plurality in the human soul: the case of the Republic’s civic virtues” Lech Trzcionkowski , Jagiellonian University, “Embodied Soul and Philosophical Practice in “Parallel” Lives of Plotinus and Proclus” Camille Guigon , University Lyon 3 -Jean Moulin, “The dual role of the logos in the necessity of the soul’ incorporation in Plotinus’ treatises”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Break
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session 2a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Nikos Charalabopoulos , University of Patras, “The Gay Corcyrean (Aen. Gaz. Thphr. 18.14-22 Colonna) Or how both to refute metempsychosis and be faithful to Plato too” Maria Chriti (Μαρία Χρίτη) < [email protected]>, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, “John Philoponus on the Protoplast soul”
Session 2b: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or merely a continuum? Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos Richard Swinburne, , Oxford University, “Plato's soul and modern neuroscience” George Pavlos , Democritus University of Thrace, “Methodology, Continuity and Deadlocks in Greek philosophical thinking and tradition”
Session 2c: Nature and Soul in the Greek Neoplatonic Tradition Melina G. Mouzala and Elias Tempelis Giouli Korobili , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin- Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and Constantinos Stefou , Ionian University of Corfu and Democritus University of Thrace, “Nature, Soul and Individuality in Porphyry’s Embryology” Melina G. Mouzala , University of Patras, “Nature and Soul as principles of motion and change: Simplicius and Philoponus on Aristotle’s Physics II. 1-3”
Session 2d: Neo-Platonic and Gnostic exegeses of late-antique divine revelations: Corpus Hermeticum, Chaldean Oracles, Gnostic revealed texts George-Florin Calian and Nicola Spanu Ida Soldini, , Scuola dottorale in Scienze Religiose, Lugano, Svizzera, “Platone fu prima autore comico e poi filosofo?” Mikhail Vedeshkin , Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Social Sciences of RANEPA, “The Problem of Mystical Practices in Neoplatonic School of Pergamon” Łukasz Piątak , Adam Mickiewicz University, "Hurakhsh vs. Helios: The image of sun as compared between the prayers of Al-Suhrawardi and the Proclus' Hymns"
6:00-6:30 p.m. Break
6:30-8:00 p.m. Session 3a: Neo-Platonic and Gnostic exegeses of late-antique divine revelations: Corpus Hermeticum, Chaldean Oracles, Gnostic revealed texts George-Florin Calian and Nicola Spanu Nicola Spanu , Independent Researcher, “The divine Father of the Chaldean Oracles in light of Proclus’ and Damascius’ oracular exegesis” Robert Heller , King's College London, “Hekate in Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles” Florin George Calian , Lucian Blaga University, “Divine Revelation and Neoplatonism”
Session 3b: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or merely a continuum? Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos István Perczel , CEU, “The Letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Hypotheses of Pato's Parmenides: Ronald Hathaway's Hypothesis Revisited” Bogna Kosmulska , University of Warsaw, “The Category of καινότης in (Neo)Platonic and Christian Discussion – A Lesson from Pseudo-Dionysian Letter IV and Its Reception in Maximus the Confessor” Dionysios Skliris , National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “The notion of the ‘parhypostasis’: A comparison between Proclus (412-485) and Saint Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662)”
Session 3c: Nature and Soul in the Greek Neoplatonic Tradition Melina G. Mouzala and Elias Tempelis Celina Bebenek , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “The Apparent Contradiction in Plato’s Descent of the Soul: Discussion and Resolution in Plotinus’ Ennead IV” Ricardo Salles , Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “The Stoic cosmic soul and the theory of seminal principles in late Platonist sources”
Session 3d: Delphic Philosophy: Goddesses of Prophecy, Providence, and Foreknowledge Dylan Burns , Michael Griffin , and Danielle Layne Andreea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez , “Into the cloven meads of Aphrodite. Empedocles' reception of φιλία as the cosmic force of unification in Iamblichus' De Mysteriis.” Dylan Burns , Universiteit van Amsterdam, “Origen of Alexandria on the Oracle to Laius” Elsa Simonetti , KU Leuven, "Delphi and the Pythia in Origen’s Contra Celsum”
8:00-8:30 p.m. Break
8:30-10:00 p.m. Session 4a: Plato, Aristotle, and Origen Aron Reppmann Joseph Forte , Rivier University, “The Phaedo’s Hopes in Relation to a Figurative Reading of the ‘True Earth’ Myth” Guy Schuh , Boston College, “Virtue and Rewards in the Nicomachean Ethics” Aron Reppmann , Trinity Christian College, “‘The true account:’ Origen’s retrieval of the Seventh Letter in Against Celsus”
Session 4b: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Donna Altimari Adler , Independent Scholar, “Divine Names, Divine Images, Apophatic Theology and the Neoplatonic Tradition in the thought of John of Damascus” Elena Draghici-Vasilescu , Wolfson College, Oxford, “Pseudo- Dionysius, a Statue, and Byzantium” David Jenkins , Princeton University, “Lines that do lie anywhere: Italikos- Psellos-Xiphilinos”
Session 4c: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or merely a continuum? Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos Brenton Smith , Fordham University, “Receptivity and Conversion to the Teachings of the Illuminating Principle in Plato and Augustine” Sergey Trostyanskiy , Columbia University, “Iamblichus on the Relationship between Time and Motion” Juan José Fuentes , Universidad de Chile, “Hellénisme et christianisme: Pseudo-Denys et sa réception de la doctrine néoplatonicienne des Intelligibles”
Session 4d: Delphic Philosophy: Goddesses of Prophecy, Providence, and Foreknowledge Dylan Burns , Michael Griffin , and Danielle Layne Gary Gabor , Independent Scholar, “The Delphic Oracle in Herodotus and Diogenes Laertius” Danielle Layne , Gonzaga University, "Divination in Plato” Michael Griffin , University of British Columbia, “Divine Individuality and Inspiration: The Pythia and the Neoplatonic Self”
Friday, June 11, 2021 (All times are in the time zone of Athens.)
2:00-4:00 p.m. Session 5a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Panagiotis Foukas < [email protected]>, University of Athens, “(Neo)platonism and the Cappadocian Church Fathers’ philosophy: V.N. Tatakes’ approach” Matthias Fritz , Freie Universität Berlin, “David the Invincible proving himself a Christian philosopher of Neoplatonism?” Levan Gigineshvili , Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, “Translation and interpretation of the term “αὐθυπόστατον” by Ioane Petritsi” Jonathan Greig , Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus, Ps.-Dionysius, and the Early Byzantines”
Session 5b: Plato’s Reception in Modern (Historiography of) Philosophy (from the 18th century until now) Tomasz Mróz Adrian Habura , University of Zielona Góra, "Stanisław Lisiecki (1872– 1960) as a Forgotten Plato Researcher and Platonic Thinker" Andrzej Serafin , Pedagogical University of Cracow, "Heidegger on Plato’s Originary Good: A Phenomenological Reconstruction" Tomasz Mróz , University of Zielona Góra, "World War II and Plato in Stalinist Poland" Jay Bregman , University of Maine, "Reception of the Pythagorean Plato in North America"
Session 5c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars Christina-Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud Graeme Miles , University of Tasmania, “Allegorical and Non- allegorical Readings of Homer in Proclus” Christina-Panagiota Monolea , Hellenic Army Academy, “Craftmanship and Creation: “Homeric” Hephaestus in Syrianus and Proclus” Mario Regali , Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, “Omero nell'esegesi antica al racconto su Atlantide: la testimonianza di Proclo nel Commento al Timeo di Platone” Laura Marongiu , Universität zu Köln, “Plato Ὁμηρικώτατος? A Reconsideration of the Speech of the Muses (Resp. VIII, 545c-547a) in light of Proclus’ Commentary”
Session 5d: Plato and Neoplatonism Jean-Marc Narbonne Marta Antola, , Durham University, “Plato’s Odyssean response to the Plato-Homer Question” Chiara Militello , Università di Catania, “Olympiodorus comments on Aristotle: the theoretical approach of the commentary on Meteorology, book 2” José M. Zamora , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Political virtues and democratic question in early Neoplatonism” Jean-Marc Narbonne , Université Laval, “Plotinus reader of Aristotle’s developments on democracy? Investigation in Ennead 28 (IV 4), 17 and related passages”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Break
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session 6a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Frederick Lauritzen , Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venezia, “Plotinus the Antipalamite” Smilen Markov , Oxford University, “The Dionysian Traditions in 9th-century Byzantium”. Kostas Bozinis , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Stulianos Tellis , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, “Echoes of Platonic justice in the preaching of John Chrysostom”
Session 6b: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or merely a continuum? Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides , Macquarie University, “Drunk On New Wine (Acts 2:13): Drinking Wine from Plato to the Eucharist Tradition of Early Christian Thinkers” Thomas Slabon, , Stanford University, “Plato’s Divine Authority and its Christian Motivations” George Siskos , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, “Plato’s natural necessity as philosophical basis in Christian heresies from 4th to 7th century A. D.”
Session 6c: Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll: Means of Ascent in the Platonic Tradition Elizabeth Hill , Lisa Holdsworth , Benedikt Rottenecker Elizabeth Hill , Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Dangerous, Divine, or Dangerously Divine: Exploring the Role of Art in the Soul's Ascent." Esther Hudson, <[email protected]>, The Catholic University of America, "Internal and External Eros: Understanding Plotinian Eros" Benedikt Rottenecker, , Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Eros and Creation: The Case for the Other"
Session 6d: Plotinus’ Metaphysics Damian Caluori and D.M.Hutchinson Alberto Kobec , KU Leuven, “'Neither Body nor Bodiless': A Plotinian Argument Against the Existence of a Single Genus of Substances and its Aristotelian Origin” Riccardo Chiaradonna , Roma Tre, “Plotinus and Aristotle’s Categories: the distinction of primary and secondary substances.” Dániel Attila Kovács <[email protected]>, ELTE-BTK, “Grades of autonomous agency in Plotinus (Enn. VI.8.1-6)”
6:00-6:30 p.m. Break
6:30-8:00 p.m. Session 7a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Francesco Monticini , Università Roma 3, “The Sound of God. Sympathetic Attractions in Some Late Antique and Byzantine Neoplatonic Works” Irene Papadaki , University of Cyprus, “Sulla scia di Platone: tracce del pensiero platonico e neoplatonico nella cultura scritta a Creta durante il Quattrocento” Silvia Petrosyan , Yerevan State University Armenia, “Armenian Neoplatonic Philosophy and Christological Debates”
Session 7b: The Divine and the Natural World: Animals, Place, Time, and the Environment in the Platonic Tradition Crystal Addey , Marilynn Lawrence , and Rob Berchman Jenny Messenger , University of St Andrews, “New Narratives: Plotinian Landscapes in the Poetry of Kathleen Raine” Crystal Addey , University College Cork, “On the Ecocentric nature of Theurgy and Divination in the Platonic Tradition: Relational Philosophy and the Environmental Crisis” Akindynos Kaniamos , École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris), “Theurgic Eros and Astral Divinization in Proclus’ In Timaeum”
Session 7c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars Christina-Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud Harold Tarrant < [email protected]>, University of Newcastle, NSW, “Odysseus' Stormy Seas, from Ps-Plato to Numenius and Beyond” Irini-Fotini Viltanioti , University of Crete, “Porphyry Fr. 382 Smith: Homericum or Platonicum?” Emilie Kutash , Salem State University, “War in the Iliad: Untruth for Plato, Allegory for Neoplatonists, Truth for Our times (?)”
Session 7d: Plotinus and the Gnostics Rasimus, Tuomas J and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin Václav Němec , Charles University in Prague, “Negative Theology in Zostrianos, Marius Victorinus and Plotinus” Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete < [email protected]>, CNRS, “Plotinus and the Gnostics: a Debate in the Treatise 33, in the Tetralogy or in the whole Enneads? The History of the studies on this Debate from Richard Harder to the Present” Clelia Attanasio , University of Cambridge, “The Dionysian Role of ‘Joseph’ and ‘Benjamin’ in Richard’s works: via Positiva and via Negativa as Human Apex of God’s Understanding”
8:00-8:30 p.m. Break: A musical performance by Nancy Ogle and Jay Bregman, “Hellenistic Hymn to Delphic Apollo: An Interpretation”
8:30-10:00 p.m. Session 8a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Bruce J. MacLennan , University of Tennessee Knoxville, “A 21st century appraisal of Plethon’s Rational Theology”. Sarah Klitenic Wear, [email protected], Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Dionysian language of noesis in the Akathist Hymn” David Hernandez de la Fuente , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “The awakening of the soul: Platonic views on Dionysus and Ariadne in a Christian environment”
Session 8b: The Divine and the Natural World: Animals, Place, Time, and the Environment in the Platonic Tradition Crystal Addey , Marilynn Lawrence , and Rob Berchman Krzysztof Łapiński , University of Warsaw, “Nature, kosmos, and the harmony of the soul in Plato” Jonathan Young , University of Oxford, “Empedocles in the Company of Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Plato: The Births, Lives, and Destinies of Divine, Human, Animal, and Plant Souls.” Brittny Del Bel , Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Consistency Amidst Controversy: Exploring the Nature of Plato's Animals through the Lens of the Tripartite Soul”
Session 8c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars Christina-Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud Clyde Miller , Stony Brook University, “If two go together” (Iliad 10.224; Prot. 348D): Pointing Beyond the “Ancient Contest between Philosophy and Poetry” François Renaud , Université de Moncton, NB, “La voix d’Homère et celle de ses personnages : la critique de la mimêsis (Rép. 393d-394e) et sa réception contrastée” Matteo Milesi, , University of Michigan, “Porphyry’s literal and noetic allegories”
Session 8d: Plotinus and the Gnostics Rasimus, Tuomas J and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin Kevin Corrigan , Emory University, “Reflection on the scholarly life of John D. Turner” John D. Turner, University of Nebraska (read by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin), “Platonizing Gnostic Views on Soul and Body” Tuomas Rasimus , University of Helsinki, “Response and Reflection on John Turner's career and the Sethian doctrine of Soul”
Saturday, June 12, 2021 (All times are in the time zone of Athens.)
2:00-4:00 p.m. Session 9a: Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Simona Puca , Università di Napoli, “La chiusura dell'Accademia di Atene e il nuovo Codex. Un discorso sulla parrhesia in età giustinianea” Marialuigia Scotton , Sorbonne University Paris, “L’emploi de la doctrine néoplatonicienne de l’union sans confusion dans le débat christologique. Némésius d’Émèse, Grégoire de Nysse et Grégoire de Nazianze contre Apollinaire de Laodicée » Denis Walter, , University of Bonn, “Psellos and the Platonic ideas” Delphine Lauritzen, < [email protected]>, Sorbonne University Paris, “Proclus’ Hymns in John of Gaza’s Ekphrasis”
Session 9b: Neoplatonic Aesthetics Tomás N. Castro Anne Sheppard , Royal Holloway, University of London, “Plotinus and Proclus on Choral Dancing” Michele Abbate , University of Salerne, “The very nature of neoplatonic thought about beauty as a ‘meta-aesthetics’” Panos Eliopoulos , University of Ioannina, “Plotinus and the Stoïcs: the Aesthetics as a precondition for moral decision making” Tomás N. Castro , University of Lisbon, “The aesthetic experience in the metaphysics of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite”
Session 9c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars Christina-Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud George Gazis , Durham University, “Homeric scholia and the Platonic tradition: Πλάτωνα ἐξ Ὁμήρου σαφηνίζειν?” Georgia Tsouni , University of Crete, “Platonic and Homeric authority in Cicero’s philosophical works” Dino De Sanctis , Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, “Exemplum Homeri: ricezione ed esegesi dell’epos nella riflessione politica di Plutarco” Oiva Kuisma , University of Helsinki, “Proclus, Homer, and Aesthetics”
Session 9d: Blurring the boundaries: Ficino’s Philosophy after Ficino? Valery Rees Maria Vittoria Comacchi , European University Institute, “Reading Marsilio Ficino through Francesco Cattani da Diacceto: Yehudah Abarbanel’s Neoplatonic Concepts of Love and Beauty in Jewish Garb” Jozef Matula , Palacky University, Olomouc, “Leone Ebreo´s the circle of love and the immortality of the soul” Laura Follesa , Autonomous University of Barcelona, “The Aether as the Vehicle, the Sun as the Source of Life: Ficinian Tradition in Schelling’s and Herder’s Theories of Light” Greg-Shaw , Stonehill College, “The Unsayable in Platonic Philosophy”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Break
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session 10a: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli Thibaut Lejeune , De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, “Living the Good Life: Assimilation to God in Late Neoplatonism – Theory and Practice” Menahem Luz , University of Haifa, “Ghostly Visitations over Socrates' Grave” Benedetto Neola , Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and University of Salerno, Centre Léon Robin, “Iamblichus and the Salvation of Soul: Actualization of the “One” and the “Intellect” of Human Soul”
Session 10b: The Argumentative Structure and Method of Presentation of Proclus’ Elements of Theology Pieter d’Hoine and Jan Opsomer Thanos Kiosoglou, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘Inside Proclus’ Lab: The Strategy of Στοιχείωσις Studied in Action’ Miriam Cutino, [email protected], EPHE (Paris)/Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi Scienze della Cultura (Modena), ‘Proclus et l’actualisation de la táxis ontologique dans le procédé de la raison discursive. Les théorèmes 50-52-63 des Éléments de Théologie et I 26- 27 des Éléments de Physique’ Arthur Oosthout, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘To be Composed of Parts or Not to Be Composed of Parts. On the Argumentative Structure of Proclus’ Elements of Theology, Proposition 180’
Session 10c: Emotions in Early Modern Platonic Philosophy Natalia Strok and Valentina Zaffino Teresa Rodríguez , Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM, “Philosophy, Music, and Harmony in Ficino’s Thought: A Theory of Divine Inspiration” Paula Pico Estrada , Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, “The role of emotions in the conversion of the soul. Augustinian themes in Martin Luther's Heidelberg Disputation” Markus Krienke, , Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano, “Emotions and Happiness in the Protestant Reformation: between Neoplatonic Roots and Luther’s Influence on Modern Philosophical Thought”
Session 10d: Plotinus’ Metaphysics Damian Caluori and D.M.Hutchinson Damian Caluori, , University of Edinburgh, “Plotinus on qualia and qualities in Enn. VI.1.10-12” Anna Zhyrkova , Jesuit University in Krakow, “The Nature of Relation between Genera of Being and Genera of Becoming” Thomas Vidart,, “The Stoic Genera and the Principles of the Intelligible according to Plotinus”
6:00-6:30 p.m. Break
6:30-8:00 p.m. Session 11a: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli Youval Rotman , Tel Aviv University, “The relational psuchē: conceptualizing the soul and its movements in late antique thought” Joanna Papiernik , Uniwersytet Łódzki, “Works on the Immortal Soul in the 15th Century – the Complicated Relations to Platonism”
Session 11b: The Argumentative Structure and Method of Presentation of Proclus’ Elements of Theology Pieter d’Hoine and Jan Opsomer Guillermo Ruz Troncoso, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘The Methodological Characteristics of the elementationes According to Proclus’ Michael Lessman, [email protected], Yale University, ‘The Method of Proclus’ Elements in the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement’ Jeff Johns , Independent Scholar, “’Eternity, as if in a point': Johannes Philoponus, De aeternitate mundi contra Proclum V, 4”
Session 11c: Emotions in Early Modern Platonic Philosophy Natalia Strok and Valentina Zaffino Valentina Zaffino , Pontifical Lateran University, “Henry More on Religious Enthusiasm. Fanaticism, Tolerance, and Atheism in Cambridge Platonists’ Debate” Matthew Leisinger , York University (Canada), “Ralph Cudworth’s Sentimentalism” Natalia Strok , UBA-CONICET-UNLP, “Pain in Conway’s Lovely World”
Session 11d: Plotinus’ Metaphysics Damian Caluori and D.M.Hutchinson Michèle Anik Stanbury , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn, “Plotinus on the Intellect as dúnamis in VI.2.20” Pauline Sabrier , “Plotinus' Enn. VI.2 [43]: The Search for the Ultimate Constituents of the Intelligible Realm” Ina Schall , University of Cologne, “Ideas of Individuals or Individual Ideas? Resolving Confusions”
8:00-8:30 p.m. Break
8:30-10:00 p.m. Session 12a: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli Anna-Christine Lalande-Corbeil , Université de Montréal, “Taking Plato's Myths Seriously: Plotinian Account of Timaeus's Demiurge” Hannah Daru , Fordham University, “Plotinus on the Emotions and Being Affected” John F. Finamore , University of Iowa, “Proclus on the Tripartite Soul”
Session 12b: Non-Anachronistic Neoplatonic Readings of Plato D. Gregory MacIsaac Theofilos Kyriakidis , University of Texas at Austin, “Plotinus' Doctrine of the Undescended Soul: An Answer to the Riddle of the Philosopher's Descent in Plato's Republic” Chad Jorgenson , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, “Assimilation to the World Soul in Plato and Plotinus” Timothy Riggs , University of Jyväskylä, “Education and Integrity: Plato on self-knowledge, self-expression and self-revelation”
Session 12c: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or merely a continuum? Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos Dimitrios Vasilakis, , National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Dionysius’ Christ versus Proclus’ Socrates: how to provide (or polemicize) in an unmixed way” Sebastian Mateiescu , Leiden University, “The Metaphysics of the Differentia. Neoplatonic and Byzantine Approaches” Vladimir Cvetkovic , University of Belgrade, “Hierarchy as a Neoplatonic Cuckoo in the Nest of Christian Ecclesiology: The cases of Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor”
Session 12d: Plotinus’ Metaphysics Damian Caluori and D.M.Hutchinson László Bene , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, “Plotinus’ account of time in the treatise On the Genera of Being VI.1–3 [42–44]” D. M. Hutchinson , St. Olaf College, “Plotinus on the Composition of Sensibles” Andrew Payne , St Joseph’s University, “Abstract for “Elements of Intellect: Plotinus’ Use of ‘Stoicheion’ in Ennead VI.2”