List of papers for the 2020 conference in Athens by panel The Divine and the Natural World: Animals, Place, Time, and the Environment in the Platonic Tradition Crystal Addey <[email protected]>, Marilynn Lawrence <[email protected]>, and Rob Berchman <[email protected]> Jonathan Young <[email protected]>, University of Iowa, “Empedocles in the Company of Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Plato: the Births, Lives, and Destinies of Divine, Human, Animal, and Plant Souls.” Brittny Del Bel <[email protected]>, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Consistency Amidst Controversy: Exploring the Nature of Plato's Animals through the Lens of the Tripartite Soul” Claudia Zatta <[email protected]>, American College of Greece, “From Animals’ Intelligence to God’s Innocence: Porphyry in de Abstinentia 3” Jenny Messenger <[email protected]>, University of St Andrews, “New Narratives: Plotinian Landscapes in the Poetry of Kathleen Raine” Marilynn Lawrence <[email protected]>, Independent Researcher, “Attuning to Hestia and Demeter: Practicing Neoplatonism in the Face of Ecological Disaster” Crystal Addey <[email protected]>, University College Cork, “On the Ecocentric nature of Theurgy and Divination in the Platonic Tradition: Relational Philosophy and the Environmental Crisis” Akindynos Kaniamos <[email protected]>, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris), “Theurgic Eros and Astral Divinization in Proclus’ In Timaeum” Julio Cesar Moreira <[email protected]>, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, “The daemonic role in the Information of Matter” Proclus and Causes: problems in epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics Sara Ahbel-Rappe <[email protected]> Francois Lortie <[email protected]>, Independent Scholar, Translation Bureau of Canada, "The Encosmic Intellect. The Nature of Dionysus in Proclus' Theology." Andrew Mayo <[email protected]>, University of Michigan, “The TMA in Proclus' Commentary on the Parmenides” Saskia Aerts <[email protected]>, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy, “Proclus on the Cognitive Self-motion of the Soul: A Reply to Aristotle” Tomasz Tiuryn <[email protected]>, University of Warsaw, “Boethius and the Neoplatonic conception of universals” Pablo Rodriguez <[email protected]>, Complutense University of Madrid, “Proclus' VI Hymn: a review of the hypostases of Hecate” Neoplatonism in the late Middle Ages: from Eckhart to Cusanus Oscar Federico Bauchwitz <[email protected]> and Claudia D’Amico <[email protected]> Clelia Attanasio <[email protected]>, University of Cambridge. “The Dionysian Role of Joseph and Benjamin in Richard’s Benjamin Major: Super-Theology and Negative Theology as Human Apex of God’s Understanding” Alessandra Beccarisi <[email protected]>, Università de Salento, “Neoplatonic sources of Meister Eckhart” Oscar Federico Bauchwitz <[email protected]>, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, “The topology of Abgeschiedenheit: the neoplatonism of Meister Eckhart” Christian Jung, <[email protected]>, Universität Wien, “Meister Eckhart’s Henology of Spirit” Claudia D’Amico <[email protected]>, Universidad de Buenos Aires, “Proclus and Cusanus’ Metaphysics of Possibility” Neoplatonic Procession and the East: Towards a Comparative Analytics Khashayar Beigi <[email protected]> Khashayar Beigi <[email protected]>, Loyola Marymount University, "Mani and Procession as Religion" Dmitry Biriukov <[email protected]>, National Research University Higher School of Economics, "Hierarchies of divine energies and created beings in the Palamite literature: Gregory Palamas and David Disypatos" 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" Prophecy, Divination, and Foreknowledge in Neoplatonism: the God(esse)s of Providence Dylan Burns <[email protected]> and Danielle Layne <[email protected]> Dylan Burns <[email protected]>, “Origen of Alexandria on the Oracle to Laius” Duarte João Venâncio Dos Anjos <[email protected]>, Visions in Proclus and its relation to the threefold division of poetry” 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.” Andrei Man <[email protected]>, “Sextus Empiricus and Proclus on the divinatory sign” Christopher Sauder <[email protected]>, “Stoic notions of λόγος in Plotinus’ treatises on Providence” Pablo Rodríguez Valdés <[email protected]>, “Proclus’ Sixth Hymn: a review of the hypostases of Hecate” 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]> Helmut Seng <[email protected]>, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, “Δύναμις in den Chaldaeischen Orakeln und der neuplatonischen Exegese” Nicola Spanu <[email protected]>, Lucian Blaga University, “The divine Father of the Chaldean Oracles in light of Proclus’ and Damascius’ oracular exegesis” Dimka Gicheva-Gocheva <[email protected]>, University of Sofia, “Philosophical concepts and pseudo-revelations – stirred or shaken in the Stobaei Hermetica?” Gabriel Andrés <[email protected]>, University of Gothenburg, “Are the gnostic beliefs for being non-Christian?” 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” Ida Soldini, <[email protected]>, Scuola dottorale in Scienze Religiose, Lugano, Svizzera, “Platone fu prima autore comico e poi filosofo?” Plotinus’ Metaphysics Damian Caluori <[email protected]> and D.M.Hutchinson <[email protected]> Damian Caluori, <[email protected]>, University of Edinburgh, “Plotinus on qualia and qualities in Enn. VI.1.10-12” D. M. Hutchinson <[email protected]>, St. Olaf College, “Plotinus on the Composition of Sensibles” Anna Zhyrkova <[email protected]>, Jesuit University in Krakow, “The Nature of Relation between Genera of Being and Genera of Becoming” Thomas Vidart,<[email protected]>, “The Stoic Genera and the Principles of the Intelligible according to Plotinus” Michèle Anik Stanbury <[email protected]>, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn, “Plotinus on the Intellect as dúnamis in VI.2.20” Pauline Sabrier <[email protected]>, “Plotinus' Enn. VI.2 [43]: The Search for the Ultimate Constituents of the Intelligible Realm” Ina Schall <[email protected]>, University of Cologne, “Ideas of Individuals or Individual Ideas? Resolving Confusions” László Bene <[email protected]>, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, “Plotinus’ account of time in the treatise On the Genera of Being VI.1–3 [42–44]” Malena Tonelli <[email protected]>, UBA-UNLP, “Unity and multiplicity of the second hypostasis of Plotinus. The genres of being asconstitutive of Noûs.” Svetla Slaveva-Griffin <[email protected]>, Florida State University, “Plotinus on Soul and Number” Alberto Kobec <[email protected]>, De Wulf Mansion Center, Leuven, “'Neither Body nor Bodiless': A Plotinian Argument Against the Existence of a Single Genus of Substances and its Aristotelian Origin” Andrew Payne <[email protected]>, St Joseph’s University, “Abstract for “Elements of Intellect: Plotinus’ Use of ‘Stoicheion’ in Ennead VI.2” Michael Lessman <[email protected]>, Yale University, "The Role of Extension in Plotinus’ anti-Peripatetic Account of Eternity and Time" Riccardo Chiaradonna <[email protected]>, Roma Tre, “Plotinus and Aristotle’s Categories: the distinction of primary and secondary substances.” Neoplatonic Aesthetics Jean-Michel Charrue <[email protected]> Anne Sheppard <[email protected]>, Royal Holloway, University of London, “Neoplatonic views on Choral dancing” Lela Alexidze <[email protected]>, University of Tbilisi, “Actors, author, spectators as a play on the Stage in Plotinus” Achilleas A. Stamatiadis <[email protected]>, Villanova University, “Allegorical and aesthetic appraisals of an ancient goddess: the case in point of Lucretius’ ‘invocation to Venus’ in De Rerum Natura’s proem” Jean-Michel Charrue <[email protected]>, retraité , (ex) académie de Versailles, “Saint- Augustin: l'amour du beau, à propos des Confessions, l'amour des beautés de l'âme” Michele Abbate <[email protected]>, University of Salerne, “The very nature of neoplatonic thought about beauty as a ‘meta-aesthetics’” Panos Eliopoulos <[email protected]>, University of Ioannina, “Plotinus and the Stoïcs: the Aesthetics as a precondition for moral decision making” Sylvana Chrysakopoulou <[email protected]>, University of Ioannina, “How to achieve beauty: the spiritual exercise suggested by Plotinus in I, 6” Tomas N. Castro <[email protected]>, University of Lisbon, “The aesthetics experience in the metaphysics of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite” Marsilio Ficino as a Commentator Anna Corrias <[email protected]> and Stephen Gersh <[email protected]> Anna Corrias, [email protected], University of Cambridge and University of Toronto, “Marsilio Ficino as an Interpreter of the Doctrine of Transmigration” Stephen Gersh,