thursday, june 10, 2021 (all times are in the time zone of
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2:00-4:00 p.m.
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, “Χρισμα and παιδεα 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 λγοι 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]>
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,
Οσιον προτιμν τν λθειαν. Aristotele e la critica di Platone ad Omero
Marco Donato <[email protected]>, Université d’Aix-Marseille, “Homer in the Platonic
Dubia and Spuria”
The (Mis)Fortune of a Platonic Image”
Session 1d: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
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
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 (Μαρα Χρτη) < [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]>
modern neuroscience”
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]>
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”
ukasz Pitak <[email protected]>, Adam Mickiewicz University, "Hurakhsh vs. Helios:
The image of sun as compared between the prayers of Al-Suhrawardi and the Proclus'
Hymns"
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”
“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]>
and the Hypotheses of Pato's Parmenides: Ronald Hathaway's Hypothesis Revisited”
Bogna Kosmulska <[email protected]>, University of Warsaw, “The Category
of καιντης 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”
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 φιλα as the cosmic force of unification in Iamblichus'
De Mysteriis.”
on the Oracle to Laius”
Elsa Simonetti <[email protected]>, KU Leuven, "Delphi and the Pythia in
Origen’s Contra Celsum”
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”
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”
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]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
<[email protected]>
the Teachings of the Illuminating Principle in Plato and Augustine”
Sergey Trostyanskiy <[email protected]>, Columbia University, “Iamblichus on
the Relationship between Time and Motion”
Juan José Fuentes <[email protected]>, Universidad de Chile, “Hellénisme et
christianisme: Pseudo-Denys et sa réception de la doctrine néoplatonicienne des
Intelligibles”
Dylan Burns <[email protected]>, Michael Griffin <[email protected]>,
and Danielle Layne <[email protected]>
and Diogenes Laertius”
Individuality and Inspiration: The Pythia and the Neoplatonic Self”
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Matthias Fritz <[email protected]>, Freie Universität Berlin, “David the Invincible
proving himself a Christian philosopher of Neoplatonism?”
Levan Gigineshvili <[email protected]>, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University,
Georgia, “Translation and interpretation of the term “αθυπστατον” by Ioane Petritsi”
Jonathan Greig <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>
1960) as a Forgotten Plato Researcher and Platonic Thinker"
Andrzej Serafin <[email protected]>, Pedagogical University of Cracow, "Heidegger
on Plato’s Originary Good: A Phenomenological Reconstruction"
Tomasz Mróz <[email protected]>, University of Zielona Góra, "World War II and Plato in
Stalinist Poland"
Jay Bregman <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
allegorical Readings of Homer in Proclus”
Christina-Panagiota Monolea <[email protected]>, Hellenic Army Academy,
“Craftmanship and Creation: “Homeric” Hephaestus in Syrianus and Proclus”
Mario Regali <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Universität zu Köln, “Plato μηρικτατος? A
Reconsideration of the Speech of the Muses (Resp. VIII, 545c-547a) in light of Proclus’
Commentary”
Jean-Marc Narbonne <[email protected]>
to the Plato-Homer Question”
Aristotle: the theoretical approach of the commentary on Meteorology, book 2”
José M. Zamora <[email protected]>, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Political virtues
and democratic question in early Neoplatonism”
Jean-Marc Narbonne <[email protected]>, Université Laval, “Plotinus reader
of Aristotle’s developments on democracy? Investigation in Ennead 28 (IV 4), 17 and related
passages”
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Venezia, “Plotinus the Antipalamite”
9th-century Byzantium”.
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 <[email protected]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
<[email protected]>
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides <[email protected]>, Macquarie University,
“Drunk On New Wine (Acts 2:13): Drinking Wine from Plato to the Eucharist Tradition of
Early Christian Thinkers”
Christian Motivations”
George Siskos <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Lisa Holdsworth <[email protected]>, Benedikt
Rottenecker <[email protected]>
Elizabeth Hill <[email protected]> , 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, <[email protected]>, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
"Eros and Creation: The Case for the Other"
Session 6d: Plotinus’ Metaphysics
Alberto Kobec <[email protected]>, KU Leuven, “'Neither Body nor Bodiless': A
Plotinian Argument Against the Existence of a Single Genus of Substances and its
Aristotelian Origin”
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
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Francesco Monticini <[email protected]>, Università Roma 3, “The Sound of God.
Sympathetic Attractions in Some Late Antique and Byzantine Neoplatonic Works”
Irene Papadaki <[email protected]>, University of Cyprus, “Sulla scia di Platone: tracce
del pensiero platonico e neoplatonico nella cultura scritta a Creta durante il Quattrocento”
Silvia Petrosyan <[email protected]> , 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 <[email protected]>, Marilynn Lawrence <[email protected]>, and
Rob Berchman <[email protected]>
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”
Paris), “Theurgic Eros and Astral Divinization in Proclus’ In Timaeum”
Session 7c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars
Christina-Panagiota Manolea <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
Stormy Seas, from Ps-Plato to Numenius and Beyond”
Irini-Fotini Viltanioti <[email protected]>, University of Crete, “Porphyry Fr. 382 Smith:
Homericum or Platonicum?”
Emilie Kutash <[email protected]>, Salem State University, “War in the Iliad: Untruth
for Plato, Allegory for Neoplatonists, Truth for Our times (?)”
Session 7d: Plotinus and the Gnostics
<[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>, 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.
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Bruce J. MacLennan <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Marilynn Lawrence <[email protected]>, and
Rob Berchman <[email protected]>
harmony of the soul in Plato”
Jonathan Young <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
(Iliad 10.224; Prot. 348D): Pointing Beyond the “Ancient Contest between Philosophy and
François Renaud <[email protected]>, 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, <[email protected]>, University of Michigan, “Porphyry’s literal and noetic
allegories”
Rasimus, Tuomas J <[email protected]> and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
<[email protected]>
John D. Turner”
John D. Turner, University of Nebraska (read by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin), “Platonizing Gnostic
Views on Soul and Body”
Tuomas Rasimus <[email protected]>, University of Helsinki, “Response and
Reflection on John Turner's career and the Sethian doctrine of Soul”
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Simona Puca <[email protected]>, Università di Napoli, “La chiusura
dell'Accademia di Atene e il nuovo Codex. Un discorso sulla parrhesia in età giustinianea”
Marialuigia Scotton <[email protected]>, 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, <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>
and Proclus on Choral Dancing”
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”
Tomás N. Castro <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
Platonic tradition: Πλτωνα ξ μρου σαφηνζειν?”
Georgia Tsouni <[email protected]>, University of Crete, “Platonic and Homeric
authority in Cicero’s philosophical works”
Dino De Sanctis <[email protected]>, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo,
“Exemplum Homeri: ricezione ed esegesi dell’epos nella riflessione politica di Plutarco”
Oiva Kuisma <[email protected]>, University of Helsinki, “Proclus, Homer, and
Aesthetics”
Session 9d: Blurring the boundaries: Ficino’s Philosophy after Ficino?
Valery Rees <[email protected]>
“Reading Marsilio Ficino through Francesco Cattani da Diacceto: Yehudah Abarbanel’s
Neoplatonic Concepts of Love and Beauty in Jewish Garb”
of love and the immortality of the soul”
Laura Follesa <[email protected]>, 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”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Break
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
<[email protected]>
Thibaut Lejeune <[email protected]>, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient,
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, “Living the Good Life: Assimilation to God in Late
Neoplatonism – Theory and Practice”
Socrates' Grave”
Benedetto Neola <[email protected]>, 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
<[email protected]>
Lab: The Strategy of Στοιχεωσις 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’
Natalia Strok <[email protected]> and Valentina Zaffino <[email protected]>
Teresa Rodríguez <[email protected]>, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM,
“Philosophy, Music, and Harmony in Ficino’s Thought: A Theory of Divine Inspiration”
Paula Pico Estrada <[email protected]>, 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, <[email protected]>, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano, “Emotions and
Happiness in the Protestant Reformation: between Neoplatonic Roots and Luther’s
Influence on Modern Philosophical Thought”
Damian Caluori, <[email protected]>, University of Edinburgh, “Plotinus on qualia and
qualities in Enn. VI.1.10-12”
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”
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
<[email protected]>
conceptualizing the soul and its movements in late antique thought”
Joanna Papiernik <[email protected]>, Uniwersytet ódzki, “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
<[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Valentina Zaffino <[email protected]>
Valentina Zaffino <[email protected] >, Pontifical Lateran University, “Henry More on Religious
Enthusiasm. Fanaticism, Tolerance, and Atheism in Cambridge Platonists’ Debate”
Matthew Leisinger <[email protected]>, York University (Canada), “Ralph Cudworth’s
Sentimentalism”
World”
Universität Bonn, “Plotinus on the Intellect as dúnamis in VI.2.20”
Constituents of the Intelligible Realm”
Ina Schall <[email protected]>, University of Cologne, “Ideas of Individuals or
Individual Ideas? Resolving Confusions”
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
<[email protected]>
Hannah Daru <[email protected]>, Fordham University, “Plotinus on the Emotions and
Being Affected”
John F. Finamore <[email protected]>, University of Iowa, “Proclus on the Tripartite
Soul”
D. Gregory MacIsaac <[email protected]>
Theofilos Kyriakidis <[email protected]>, 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”
“Assimilation to the World Soul in Plato and Plotinus”
Timothy Riggs <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
<[email protected]>
Dimitrios Vasilakis, <[email protected]>, National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens, “Dionysius’ Christ versus Proclus’ Socrates: how to provide (or polemicize) in
an unmixed way”
of the Differentia. Neoplatonic and Byzantine Approaches”
Vladimir Cvetkovic <[email protected]>, 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
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]”
Sensibles”
Andrew Payne <[email protected]>, St Joseph’s University, “Abstract for “Elements of Intellect:
Plotinus’ Use of ‘Stoicheion’ in Ennead VI.2”
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, “Χρισμα and παιδεα 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 λγοι 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]>
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,
Οσιον προτιμν τν λθειαν. Aristotele e la critica di Platone ad Omero
Marco Donato <[email protected]>, Université d’Aix-Marseille, “Homer in the Platonic
Dubia and Spuria”
The (Mis)Fortune of a Platonic Image”
Session 1d: Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
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
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 (Μαρα Χρτη) < [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]>
modern neuroscience”
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]>
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”
ukasz Pitak <[email protected]>, Adam Mickiewicz University, "Hurakhsh vs. Helios:
The image of sun as compared between the prayers of Al-Suhrawardi and the Proclus'
Hymns"
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”
“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]>
and the Hypotheses of Pato's Parmenides: Ronald Hathaway's Hypothesis Revisited”
Bogna Kosmulska <[email protected]>, University of Warsaw, “The Category
of καιντης 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”
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 φιλα as the cosmic force of unification in Iamblichus'
De Mysteriis.”
on the Oracle to Laius”
Elsa Simonetti <[email protected]>, KU Leuven, "Delphi and the Pythia in
Origen’s Contra Celsum”
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”
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”
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]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
<[email protected]>
the Teachings of the Illuminating Principle in Plato and Augustine”
Sergey Trostyanskiy <[email protected]>, Columbia University, “Iamblichus on
the Relationship between Time and Motion”
Juan José Fuentes <[email protected]>, Universidad de Chile, “Hellénisme et
christianisme: Pseudo-Denys et sa réception de la doctrine néoplatonicienne des
Intelligibles”
Dylan Burns <[email protected]>, Michael Griffin <[email protected]>,
and Danielle Layne <[email protected]>
and Diogenes Laertius”
Individuality and Inspiration: The Pythia and the Neoplatonic Self”
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Matthias Fritz <[email protected]>, Freie Universität Berlin, “David the Invincible
proving himself a Christian philosopher of Neoplatonism?”
Levan Gigineshvili <[email protected]>, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University,
Georgia, “Translation and interpretation of the term “αθυπστατον” by Ioane Petritsi”
Jonathan Greig <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>
1960) as a Forgotten Plato Researcher and Platonic Thinker"
Andrzej Serafin <[email protected]>, Pedagogical University of Cracow, "Heidegger
on Plato’s Originary Good: A Phenomenological Reconstruction"
Tomasz Mróz <[email protected]>, University of Zielona Góra, "World War II and Plato in
Stalinist Poland"
Jay Bregman <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
allegorical Readings of Homer in Proclus”
Christina-Panagiota Monolea <[email protected]>, Hellenic Army Academy,
“Craftmanship and Creation: “Homeric” Hephaestus in Syrianus and Proclus”
Mario Regali <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Universität zu Köln, “Plato μηρικτατος? A
Reconsideration of the Speech of the Muses (Resp. VIII, 545c-547a) in light of Proclus’
Commentary”
Jean-Marc Narbonne <[email protected]>
to the Plato-Homer Question”
Aristotle: the theoretical approach of the commentary on Meteorology, book 2”
José M. Zamora <[email protected]>, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Political virtues
and democratic question in early Neoplatonism”
Jean-Marc Narbonne <[email protected]>, Université Laval, “Plotinus reader
of Aristotle’s developments on democracy? Investigation in Ennead 28 (IV 4), 17 and related
passages”
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Venezia, “Plotinus the Antipalamite”
9th-century Byzantium”.
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 <[email protected]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
<[email protected]>
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides <[email protected]>, Macquarie University,
“Drunk On New Wine (Acts 2:13): Drinking Wine from Plato to the Eucharist Tradition of
Early Christian Thinkers”
Christian Motivations”
George Siskos <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Lisa Holdsworth <[email protected]>, Benedikt
Rottenecker <[email protected]>
Elizabeth Hill <[email protected]> , 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, <[email protected]>, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
"Eros and Creation: The Case for the Other"
Session 6d: Plotinus’ Metaphysics
Alberto Kobec <[email protected]>, KU Leuven, “'Neither Body nor Bodiless': A
Plotinian Argument Against the Existence of a Single Genus of Substances and its
Aristotelian Origin”
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
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Francesco Monticini <[email protected]>, Università Roma 3, “The Sound of God.
Sympathetic Attractions in Some Late Antique and Byzantine Neoplatonic Works”
Irene Papadaki <[email protected]>, University of Cyprus, “Sulla scia di Platone: tracce
del pensiero platonico e neoplatonico nella cultura scritta a Creta durante il Quattrocento”
Silvia Petrosyan <[email protected]> , 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 <[email protected]>, Marilynn Lawrence <[email protected]>, and
Rob Berchman <[email protected]>
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”
Paris), “Theurgic Eros and Astral Divinization in Proclus’ In Timaeum”
Session 7c: The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars
Christina-Panagiota Manolea <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
Stormy Seas, from Ps-Plato to Numenius and Beyond”
Irini-Fotini Viltanioti <[email protected]>, University of Crete, “Porphyry Fr. 382 Smith:
Homericum or Platonicum?”
Emilie Kutash <[email protected]>, Salem State University, “War in the Iliad: Untruth
for Plato, Allegory for Neoplatonists, Truth for Our times (?)”
Session 7d: Plotinus and the Gnostics
<[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>, 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.
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Bruce J. MacLennan <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, Marilynn Lawrence <[email protected]>, and
Rob Berchman <[email protected]>
harmony of the soul in Plato”
Jonathan Young <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
(Iliad 10.224; Prot. 348D): Pointing Beyond the “Ancient Contest between Philosophy and
François Renaud <[email protected]>, 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, <[email protected]>, University of Michigan, “Porphyry’s literal and noetic
allegories”
Rasimus, Tuomas J <[email protected]> and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
<[email protected]>
John D. Turner”
John D. Turner, University of Nebraska (read by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin), “Platonizing Gnostic
Views on Soul and Body”
Tuomas Rasimus <[email protected]>, University of Helsinki, “Response and
Reflection on John Turner's career and the Sethian doctrine of Soul”
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Frederick Lauritzen <[email protected]> and Sarah Klitenic Wear
<[email protected]>
Simona Puca <[email protected]>, Università di Napoli, “La chiusura
dell'Accademia di Atene e il nuovo Codex. Un discorso sulla parrhesia in età giustinianea”
Marialuigia Scotton <[email protected]>, 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, <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>
and Proclus on Choral Dancing”
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”
Tomás N. Castro <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and François Renaud
<[email protected]>
Platonic tradition: Πλτωνα ξ μρου σαφηνζειν?”
Georgia Tsouni <[email protected]>, University of Crete, “Platonic and Homeric
authority in Cicero’s philosophical works”
Dino De Sanctis <[email protected]>, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo,
“Exemplum Homeri: ricezione ed esegesi dell’epos nella riflessione politica di Plutarco”
Oiva Kuisma <[email protected]>, University of Helsinki, “Proclus, Homer, and
Aesthetics”
Session 9d: Blurring the boundaries: Ficino’s Philosophy after Ficino?
Valery Rees <[email protected]>
“Reading Marsilio Ficino through Francesco Cattani da Diacceto: Yehudah Abarbanel’s
Neoplatonic Concepts of Love and Beauty in Jewish Garb”
of love and the immortality of the soul”
Laura Follesa <[email protected]>, 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”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Break
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
<[email protected]>
Thibaut Lejeune <[email protected]>, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient,
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, “Living the Good Life: Assimilation to God in Late
Neoplatonism – Theory and Practice”
Socrates' Grave”
Benedetto Neola <[email protected]>, 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
<[email protected]>
Lab: The Strategy of Στοιχεωσις 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’
Natalia Strok <[email protected]> and Valentina Zaffino <[email protected]>
Teresa Rodríguez <[email protected]>, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM,
“Philosophy, Music, and Harmony in Ficino’s Thought: A Theory of Divine Inspiration”
Paula Pico Estrada <[email protected]>, 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, <[email protected]>, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano, “Emotions and
Happiness in the Protestant Reformation: between Neoplatonic Roots and Luther’s
Influence on Modern Philosophical Thought”
Damian Caluori, <[email protected]>, University of Edinburgh, “Plotinus on qualia and
qualities in Enn. VI.1.10-12”
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”
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
<[email protected]>
conceptualizing the soul and its movements in late antique thought”
Joanna Papiernik <[email protected]>, Uniwersytet ódzki, “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
<[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Valentina Zaffino <[email protected]>
Valentina Zaffino <[email protected] >, Pontifical Lateran University, “Henry More on Religious
Enthusiasm. Fanaticism, Tolerance, and Atheism in Cambridge Platonists’ Debate”
Matthew Leisinger <[email protected]>, York University (Canada), “Ralph Cudworth’s
Sentimentalism”
World”
Universität Bonn, “Plotinus on the Intellect as dúnamis in VI.2.20”
Constituents of the Intelligible Realm”
Ina Schall <[email protected]>, University of Cologne, “Ideas of Individuals or
Individual Ideas? Resolving Confusions”
John F. Finamore <[email protected]> and Ilaria Ramelli
<[email protected]>
Hannah Daru <[email protected]>, Fordham University, “Plotinus on the Emotions and
Being Affected”
John F. Finamore <[email protected]>, University of Iowa, “Proclus on the Tripartite
Soul”
D. Gregory MacIsaac <[email protected]>
Theofilos Kyriakidis <[email protected]>, 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”
“Assimilation to the World Soul in Plato and Plotinus”
Timothy Riggs <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]> and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
<[email protected]>
Dimitrios Vasilakis, <[email protected]>, National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens, “Dionysius’ Christ versus Proclus’ Socrates: how to provide (or polemicize) in
an unmixed way”
of the Differentia. Neoplatonic and Byzantine Approaches”
Vladimir Cvetkovic <[email protected]>, 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
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]”
Sensibles”
Andrew Payne <[email protected]>, St Joseph’s University, “Abstract for “Elements of Intellect:
Plotinus’ Use of ‘Stoicheion’ in Ennead VI.2”