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 <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear <[email protected]> Panagiotis Pavlos <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Newman University, “The Good and Evil λόγοι Dialectic in Saint Maximus the Confessor” Evi Zacharia <[email protected]>, Radboud University Nijmegen, “Commentary on Alcibiades I: towards an explanation of human perfection through love” Session 1b: Plotinus and Proclus Marcin Podbielski <[email protected]> Paolo Di Leo <[email protected]>, Singapore University of Technology and Design, “Plotinus and Heidegger: A Dialogue Through Parmenides’ R. B3” Marcin Podbielski <[email protected]>, Jesuit University Ignatianum, “Revisiting the Text, Grammar, and Translations of Plotinus’s On Contemplation” Martin Lee Mueller <[email protected]>, University of Oslo, “Deep Ecology and Telling About Nature” Zdenek Lenner, <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud <[email protected]> Francesca Pentassuglio <[email protected]>, Sapienza University of Rome and Universität zu Köln, “Homer in the Symposiaka: Xenophon and Plutarch compared” Michele Corradi <[email protected]>, Université d’Aix-Marseille/Università di Pisa, Ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Aristotele e la critica di Platone ad Omero Marco Donato <[email protected]>, Université d’Aix-Marseille, “Homer in the Platonic Dubia and Spuria” Carlotta Capuccino <[email protected]>, Università di Bologna, “Poetic Enthusiasm: The (Mis)Fortune of a Platonic Image” Session 1d: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli <[email protected]> Cristian Furness <[email protected]>, University of Tasmania, “Allegorising the Soul's Journey: Porphyry's Vita Plotini and De Antro Nympharum” Dirk Baltzly <[email protected]>, University of Tasmania, “Unity and plurality in the human soul: the case of the Republic’s civic virtues” Lech Trzcionkowski <[email protected]>, Jagiellonian University, “Embodied Soul and Philosophical Practice in “Parallel” Lives of Plotinus and Proclus” Camille Guigon <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear <[email protected]> Nikos Charalabopoulos <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos <[email protected]> Richard Swinburne, <[email protected]>, Oxford University, “Plato's soul and modern neuroscience” George Pavlos <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Elias Tempelis <[email protected]> Giouli Korobili <[email protected]>, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin- Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and Constantinos Stefou <[email protected]>, Ionian University of Corfu and Democritus University of Thrace, “Nature, Soul and Individuality in Porphyry’s Embryology” Melina G. Mouzala <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Nicola Spanu <[email protected]> Ida Soldini, <[email protected]>, Scuola dottorale in Scienze Religiose, Lugano, Svizzera, “Platone fu prima autore comico e poi filosofo?” Mikhail Vedeshkin <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Nicola Spanu <[email protected]> Nicola Spanu <[email protected]>, Independent Researcher, “The divine Father of the Chaldean Oracles in light of Proclus’ and Damascius’ oracular exegesis” Robert Heller <[email protected]>, King's College London, “Hekate in Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles” Florin George Calian <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos <[email protected]> István Perczel <[email protected]>, CEU, “The Letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Hypotheses of Pato's Parmenides: Ronald Hathaway's Hypothesis Revisited” Bogna Kosmulska <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Elias Tempelis <[email protected]> Celina Bebenek <[email protected]>, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “The Apparent Contradiction in Plato’s Descent of the Soul: Discussion and Resolution in Plotinus’ Ennead IV” Ricardo Salles <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Michael Griffin <[email protected]>, and Danielle Layne <[email protected]> Andreea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez <[email protected]>, “Into the cloven meads of Aphrodite. Empedocles' reception of φιλία as the cosmic force of unification in Iamblichus' De Mysteriis.” Dylan Burns <[email protected]>, Universiteit van Amsterdam, “Origen of Alexandria on the Oracle to Laius” Elsa Simonetti <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> Joseph Forte <[email protected]>, Rivier University, “The Phaedo’s Hopes in Relation to a Figurative Reading of the ‘True Earth’ Myth” Guy Schuh <[email protected]>, Boston College, “Virtue and Rewards in the Nicomachean Ethics” Aron Reppmann <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear <[email protected]> Donna Altimari Adler <[email protected]>, Independent Scholar, “Divine Names, Divine Images, Apophatic Theology and the Neoplatonic Tradition in the thought of John of Damascus” Elena Draghici-Vasilescu <[email protected]>, Wolfson College, Oxford, “Pseudo- Dionysius, a Statue, and Byzantium” David Jenkins <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>