12-13 APRIL 2021 START: 1:00 PM CET AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL RESEARCH WWW.OEAW.AC.AT HISTORICAL IDENTITY RESEARCH NICHOLAS OF METHONE BETWEEN NEOPLATONISM AND THE BYZANTINE TRADITION | ONLINE CONFERENCE Image credit: "Gennadius Library, MS 39, folio 167v”, Detail. PROGRAM 4:30 PM 1:45 PM Carlos Steel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Alessandra Bucossi (Università Ca' Foscari APRIL 12 Nicholas' Critical Comments Venezia) & Carmelo Benvenuto (Università ON PROCLUS: CRITICS AND della Basilicata) COMPARISON on the Propositions on the Soul 12th-century Philosophers (CET) (prop. 184-198) 1:00 PM and the Filioque: the Case of Lela Alexidze (Tbilisi State University) 5:15 PM Nicholas of Methone's Corpus on Nicholas of Methone and Ioane Christos Terezis (University of Patras) & the Procession of the Holy Spirit Petritsi on Intellect Lydia Petridou (Hellenic Open University) Ontological Foundations and 2:30pm: break 1:45 PM Methodological Applications of 2:45 PM Levan Gigineishvili (Tbilisi State University) Analogy in Nicholas of Methone: Jonathan Greig (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Different Understandings of An Example of Realism Nicholas of Methone on the Proclus’ First Principle(s) in Divine Ideas: Between Proclus, Nicholas of Methone and Ioane APRIL 13 Ps.-Dionysius, and the Early Petritsi NICHOLAS OF METHONE IN LIGHT OF THE BYZANTINES Byzantines 2:30 pm: break 1:00 PM (CET) 3:30 PM 2:45 PM Christophe Erismann (University of Vienna) Joshua Robinson (Dumbarton Oaks) István Perczel (Central European University, Vienna) Nicholas of Methone and The Motion of the Fertile One in Nicholas of Methone and Earlier The Place of Ioanne Petritsi’s the Byzantine Debate on the Sources Putative Greek Manuscript Predestined Terms of Life in the Text Tradition of the 4:15 PM Elements of Theology Conclusions / Q+A 3:30 PM ORGANIZED BY: Jan Opsomer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) JOSHUA ROBINSON JONATHAN GREIG DRAGOS CALMA Standards of Argument in [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Nicholas of Methone and Proclus: Comparing the Neoplatonism and the Abrahamic Traditions: NeoplAT (ERC CoG_771640) www.neoplat.eu Elementatio theologica with Nicholas’ Attempts to Disarm It 4:15 pm: break MITTELALTERFORSCHUNG FÜR INSTITUT – IMAFO.