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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 TimaeumJulio 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 ParmenidesSaskia 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 AristotleTomasz 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]>

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  • 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 , Marilynn Lawrence , and

    Rob Berchman

    Jonathan Young , 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 , Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Consistency

    Amidst Controversy: Exploring the Nature of Plato's Animals through the Lens of the

    Tripartite Soul”

    Claudia Zatta , American College of Greece, “From Animals’ Intelligence to

    God’s Innocence: Porphyry in de Abstinentia 3”

    Jenny Messenger , University of St Andrews, “New Narratives:

    Plotinian Landscapes in the Poetry of Kathleen Raine”

    Marilynn Lawrence , Independent Researcher, “Attuning to Hestia and

    Demeter: Practicing Neoplatonism in the Face of Ecological Disaster”

    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”

    Julio Cesar Moreira , 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

    Francois Lortie , Independent Scholar, Translation Bureau of Canada,

    "The Encosmic Intellect. The Nature of Dionysus in Proclus' Theology."

    Andrew Mayo , University of Michigan, “The TMA in Proclus'

    Commentary on the Parmenides”

    Saskia Aerts , 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 , University of Warsaw, “Boethius and the Neoplatonic

    conception of universals”

    Pablo Rodriguez , 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 and Claudia D’Amico

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  • Clelia Attanasio , 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 , Università de Salento, “Neoplatonic

    sources of Meister Eckhart”

    Oscar Federico Bauchwitz , Federal University of Rio Grande do

    Norte, “The topology of Abgeschiedenheit: the neoplatonism of Meister Eckhart”

    Christian Jung, , Universität Wien, “Meister Eckhart’s Henology of

    Spirit”

    Claudia D’Amico , Universidad de Buenos Aires, “Proclus and

    Cusanus’ Metaphysics of Possibility”

    Neoplatonic Procession and the East: Towards a Comparative Analytics

    Khashayar Beigi

    Khashayar Beigi , Loyola Marymount University, "Mani and Procession

    as Religion"

    Dmitry Biriukov , 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 , 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 and Danielle Layne

    Dylan Burns , “Origen of Alexandria on the Oracle to Laius”

    Duarte João Venâncio Dos Anjos , Visions in Proclus and its

    relation to the threefold division of poetry”

    Andreea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez , “Into the cloven meads of

    Aphrodite. Empedocles' reception of φιλία as the cosmic force of unification in

    Iamblichus' De Mysteriis.”

    Andrei Man , “Sextus Empiricus and Proclus on the divinatory

    sign”

    Christopher Sauder , “Stoic notions of λόγος in Plotinus’ treatises on

    Providence”

    Pablo Rodríguez Valdés , “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 and Nicola Spanu

    Helmut Seng , Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main,

    “Δύναμις in den Chaldaeischen Orakeln und der neuplatonischen Exegese”

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  • Nicola Spanu , Lucian Blaga University, “The divine Father of the

    Chaldean Oracles in light of Proclus’ and Damascius’ oracular exegesis”

    Dimka Gicheva-Gocheva , University of Sofia, “Philosophical

    concepts and pseudo-revelations – stirred or shaken in the Stobaei Hermetica?”

    Gabriel Andrés , University of Gothenburg, “Are the

    gnostic beliefs for being non-Christian?”

    Robert Heller , King's College London, “Hekate in Proclus and the

    Chaldean Oracles”

    Florin George Calian , Lucian Blaga University,

    “Divine Revelation and Neoplatonism”

    Ida Soldini, , Scuola dottorale in Scienze Religiose, Lugano, Svizzera,

    “Platone fu prima autore comico e poi filosofo?”

    Plotinus’ Metaphysics

    Damian Caluori and D.M.Hutchinson

    Damian Caluori, , University of Edinburgh, “Plotinus on qualia and

    qualities in Enn. VI.1.10-12”

    D. M. Hutchinson , St. Olaf College, “Plotinus on the Composition of

    Sensibles”

    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”

    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”

    László Bene , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, “Plotinus’ account of time

    in the treatise On the Genera of Being VI.1–3 [42–44]”

    Malena Tonelli , UBA-UNLP, “Unity and multiplicity of the second

    hypostasis of Plotinus. The genres of being asconstitutive of Noûs.”

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin , Florida State University, “Plotinus on Soul

    and Number”

    Alberto Kobec , 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 , St Joseph’s University, “Abstract for “Elements of Intellect:

    Plotinus’ Use of ‘Stoicheion’ in Ennead VI.2”

    Michael Lessman , Yale University, "The Role of Extension in

    Plotinus’ anti-Peripatetic Account of Eternity and Time"

    Riccardo Chiaradonna , Roma Tre, “Plotinus and Aristotle’s

    Categories: the distinction of primary and secondary substances.”

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  • Neoplatonic Aesthetics

    Jean-Michel Charrue

    Anne Sheppard , Royal Holloway, University of London, “Neoplatonic views on Choral dancing”

    Lela Alexidze , University of Tbilisi, “Actors, author, spectators as a play on the Stage in Plotinus”

    Achilleas A. Stamatiadis , 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 , retraité , (ex) académie de Versailles, “Saint-Augustin: l'amour du beau, à propos des Confessions, l'amour des beautés de l'âme”

    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” Sylvana Chrysakopoulou , University of Ioannina, “How to achieve

    beauty: the spiritual exercise suggested by Plotinus in I, 6” Tomas N. Castro , University of Lisbon, “The aesthetics

    experience in the metaphysics of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite”

    Marsilio Ficino as a Commentator

    Anna Corrias and Stephen Gersh

    Anna Corrias, [email protected], University of Cambridge and University of Toronto,

    “Marsilio Ficino as an Interpreter of the Doctrine of Transmigration”

    Stephen Gersh, [email protected], University of Notre Dame, “Ficino's Citations of

    Pletho”

    Ilya Guryanov, [email protected], National Research University “’Higher School of Economics’

    and Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the

    Humanities, Naturalizing moral concepts: Ficino’s magnanimitas”

    Denis J.-J. Robichaud, [email protected], University of Notre Dame, “Marsilio Ficino as

    Reader of Emperor Julian’s Hymn to King Helios”

    Rocco Di Dio, [email protected], University of Munich and the University of Innsbruck,

    “Dr., Ficino, the Amicus Lucis: A Set of Preparatory Notes for the De amore”

    Iskander Israel Rocha Parker, [email protected], Central European University,

    “Marsilio Ficino’s Prefaces more than Presentation Cards or Summaries”

    Valery Rees, valery. [email protected], School of Philosophy and Economic Science, “Ficino’s

    commentaries for a wider public: De sole”

    Jacopo Roveratto, [email protected], Università degli Studi di Padova, “Divination

    as non-textual search instrument in Ficino”

    Valerio Sanzotta, [email protected], The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin

    Studies, “Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Augustine”

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  • Matteo Stefani, [email protected], Università degli Studi di Torino, “Marsilio Ficino

    lettore di Aristotele e Tommaso d’Aquino: il commento all’Etica nel codice Riccardiano

    135”

    A Text Worthy of Plotinus

    Kevin Corrigan and Suzanne Stern-Gillet

    José C. Baracat Jr.< [email protected]>, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    "Jesús Igal on a locus desperatus of the Enneads (VI. 5 [23] 8. 22-33)"

    Kevin Corrigan ,, Emory University, “Paul Henry: God as personal in the

    Enneads.”

    Gary Gurtler S.J. Boston College, “Jesús Igal, SJ: Editor and

    Translator Extraordinaire”

    Marcin Podbielski , Jesuit University Ignatianum,

    “Revisiting the Text, Grammar, and Translations of Plotinus’s On Contemplation”

    Suzanne Stern-Gillet , University of Manchester and

    University of Bolton, “Paul Henry SJ as codicologist and interpreter of the Enneads”

    Emanuel Zingg , Sorbonne, Paris, “A Methodological Look

    at Henry–Schwyzer’s Editions of Plotinus: the missing stemma”

    Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or

    merely a continuum?

    Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos

    George Anagnostopoulos , Democritus University of Thrace, “Monas and

    Trias: Dialectics and Paradox”

    Eva Anagnostou – Laoutides , Macquarie University,

    “Drunk On New Wine (Acts 2:13): Drinking Wine from Plato to the Eucharist Tradition of

    Early Christian Thinkers”

    Emma Brown Dewhurst , Ludwig Maximilian University,

    “How Can We Be Free?: The Jeopardy of Free Will When Being is Tied to Goodness in

    Byzantine Philosophy”

    Vassilios Constantoudis , and Stathis Komnenos

    , NCSR Demokritos, “Apophaticism, Hierachy, Icon: Platonic

    and Christian Insights in Dialogue with Modern Science””

    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”

    Alexandar Djakovac, , University of Belgrade, “Ontology of Fall

    and Paradise: ἅμα τω γενέσθαι in the teaching of St. Maximus of the Confessor”

    John Dillon, , Trinity College Dublin, “The Neoplatonic Noetic Triad

    and the Origins of the Christian Trinity”

    Nevena Dimitrova , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,

    “Maximus the Confessor and the Understanding of Logoi”

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  • Juan José Fuentes , Universidad de Chile, “Hellénisme et

    christianisme: Pseudo-Denys et sa réception de la doctrine néoplatonicienne des

    Intelligibles “

    Demetrios Harper , Holy Trinity Seminary, “Mapping Subjectivity and Self-

    perception in Late Antiquity: The Epistemology of the Self in Maximos the Confessor and

    Plotinus”

    Douglas Hedley , Cambridge University, “The Philosophical Idealism of

    the Cambridge Platonists”

    Ivanovic, Filip , University of Donja Gorica and Center of

    Hellenic Studies,”Body and Soul in Dionysius the Areopagite”

    Andrej Jeftic , University of Belgrade, “’The Truth That Speaks

    Through Them:’ Authority of the Holy Fathers in St Maximus’ Ambigua”

    Isidoros Katsos , Cambridge University and Hebrew University, “Origen

    Against Plato Re-visited: How Antiplatonist Was Really Origen’s ‘Antiplatonism’?”

    Gabriela Joanna Legutko, , Jagiellonian University,

    “Christianisation of Platonism in the thought of Desiderius Erasmus”

    Nikolaos Loudovikos , University Ecclesiastical Academy of

    Thessaloniki, “Nemesius of Emesa, Niketas Stethatos, and Leontius of Byzantium: Biblical

    or Aristotelian overcoming of Platonism?”

    Sebastian Mateiescu , Leiden University, “The Metaphysics

    of the Differentia. Neoplatonic and Byzantine Approaches”

    Vukasin Milisevic , University of Belgrade, “Plotinus,

    Neoplatonists and Maximus the Confessor’s Concept of ἀεικίνητος στάσις”

    Sotiris Mitralexis , University of Athens, and University of

    Winchester, “Revisiting Terminological Challenges in Maximos the Confessor’s Q.Thal.

    59”

    George Pavlos , Democritus University of Thrace, “Methodology,

    Continuity and Deadlocks in Greek philosophical thinking and tradition”

    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”

    István Perczel , CEU, “The Letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the

    Areopagite and the Hypotheses of Pato's Parmenides: Ronald Hathaway's Hypothesis

    Revisited”

    Tamara Plecas , University of Belgrade, “On what is up to us (ἐφ᾽

    ἡμῖν) from the perspective of Epictetus, Proclus, Simplicius and Saint Maximus the

    Confessor”

    Alexander Carson Shaw , Boston University, “St. Maximus’ Christological

    transformation of Platonic cosmic analogy “

    George Siskos , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, “Plato’s natural

    necessity as philosophical basis in Christian heresies from 4th to 7th century A. D.”

    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)”

    Thomas Slabon, , Stanford University, “Plato’s Divine Authority and its

    Christian Motivations”

  • Brenton Smith , Fordham University, “Receptivity and Conversion to

    the Teachings of the Illuminating Principle in Plato and Augustine”

    Anastasia Theologou , CEU, “Plotinus and the

    Cappadocian Fathers on the Unity of Human Nature”

    Daniel Tolan , Cambridge University, “The Mirror of the Soul, Origen on

    Νοῦς”

    Torstein Theodor Tollefsen , University of Oslo, “St. Gregory

    of Nyssa on Matter”

    Sergey Trostyanskiy , Columbia University, “Iamblichus on

    the Relationship between Time and Motion”

    Dimitrios Vasilakis, , Ludwig Maximilian University,

    “Dionysius’ Christ versus Proclus’ Socrates: how to provide (or polemicize) in an unmixed

    way”

    Sara Yeager , University of Michigan, “Descent and Fall of the Human

    Soul in Origen and Plotinus”

    Ruta Zukiene , Vytautas Magnus University, “The reception of

    Neoplatonic notions of time and eternity in the Old English Boethius”

    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’

    Michael Lessman, [email protected], Yale University, ‘The Method of

    Proclus’ Elements in the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement’

    Guillermo Ruz Troncoso, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘The

    Methodological Characteristics of the elementationes According to Proclus’

    Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife

    John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli

    Salman Elamir Amir , University of Michigan, “Nous and Intelligible

    Matter or Inchoate Intellect in the Druze Religion”

    Dirk Baltzly , University of Tasmania, “Unity and plurality in the human

    soul: the case of the Republic’s civic virtues”

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  • John F. Finamore , University of Iowa, “Proclus on the Tripartite

    Soul”

    Cristian Furness , University of Tasmania, “Allegorising the

    Soul's Journey: Porphyry's Vita Plotini and De Antro Nympharum”

    Camille Guigon , University Lyon 3 -Jean Moulin, “The dual role

    of the logos in the necessity of the soul’ incorporation in Plotinus’ treatises”

    L. A. Joosse, , University of Groningen, “The soul and the individual in

    Olympiodorus of Alexandria”

    Anna-Christine Lalande-Corbeil , Université de

    Montréal, “Taking Plato's Myths Seriously: Plotinian Account of Timaeus's Demiurge”

    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),

    Centre Léon Robin, “Iamblichus and the Salvation of Soul: Actualization of the “One” and

    the “Intellect” of Human Soul”

    Joanna Papiernik , Uniwersytet Łódzki, “Works on the

    Immortal Soul in the 15th Century – the Complicated Relations to Platonism”

    Ilaria Ramelli , Durham University and Catholic University of the

    Sacred Heart, Milan, “Evagrius Ponticus on the Soul, the Intellect, and the Restoration in

    the Afterlife”

    Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro , Universidad de Cartagena,

    “The Aristotelian Tradition of the Commentary on the De Anima: Anaxagoras’ Case”

    Lech Trzcionkowski , “Embodied Soul and Philosophical

    Practice in “Parallel” Lives of Plotinus and Proclus”

    Delphic Philosophy

    Michael Griffin

    Elsa Simonetti , KU Leuven, "Delphi and the Pythia in

    Origen’s Contra Celsum”

    Geoff Bowe , Istanbul Technical University, "The Oracles at

    Delphi and Didyma – Socrates, Plato and the Denial of Wisdom in the Sage Tradition”

    Gary Gabor , Independent Scholar / University of Minnesota, Affiliate,

    “The Delphic Oracle in Herodotus and Diogenes Laertius”

    Alan Cardew , University of Essex, "Apollo the God of the

    Philosophers"

    Michael Griffin , University of British Columbia, “Divine

    Individuality and Inspiration: The Pythia and the Neoplatonic Self”

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll: Means of Ascent in the Platonic Tradition

    Elizabeth Hill , Lisa Holdsworth , Benedikt

    Rottenecker

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  • Elizabeth Hill , Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Dangerous, Divine,

    or Dangerously Divine: Exploring the Role of Art in the Soul's Ascent."

    Esther Hudson, , The Catholic University of America, "Internal and

    External Eros: Understanding Plotinian Eros"

    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?"

    Benedict Rottenecker, , Memorial University of Newfoundland,

    "Eros and Creation: The Case for the Other"

    Neoplatonic thought in a contemporary perspective: metaphysics, morals and the

    environmental crisis

    Francis Lacroix and Louis-Étienne Pigeon

    Beatriz Cecilia Bossi Lopez , Universidad Complutense de Madrid,

    “Which paideia is required to ‘cure’ the world? Notes on Plato’s views”

    Francis Lacroix , Université Laval, “Plotinus's contemplation and

    biocentrism”

    Eugene Afonasin , Novosibirsk State University, “Neoplatonic thought

    in a contemporary perspective: metaphysics, morals and the environmental crisis”

    Louis-Étienne Pigeon , Université Laval, “Arne Naëss'

    Deep Ecology: Phusis, Ethical Knowledge and Responsibility in the Face of the

    Environmental Crisis.”

    Martin Lee Mueller , University of Oslo, “Deep Ecology and Telling

    About Nature”

    Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism

    Frederick Laurtizen and Sarah Klitenic Wear

    Donna Altimari Adler , Saint Xavier University, “Divine Names,

    Divine Images, Apostolic Theology and the Neoplatonic Tradition in the thought of John of

    Damascus”

    Aygun Alizade , Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, “The

    issue of Unity, Mind and Spirit in the philosophy of Plato and Getha”

    Maria Consiglia Alvino , Università di Napoli, “L’ideologia

    politica nel De regno di Sinesio tra neoplatonismo e cristianesimo”

    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”

    Irini Artemi , Hellenic Open University, “The Neo-Platonism in the

    Mystical Theology of Dionysius Areopagite and in paraphrases of this text in Georges

    Pachymeres”

    Berenice Cavarra , Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio

    Emilia, “Teorie della regalità e tradizione filosofica tardo antica”

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  • Enrico Cerroni , Università la Sapienza Roma, “Controversie su

    Platone in età Paleologa”

    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]>, University of Thessaloniki, “John

    Philoponus on the Protoplast soul”

    de Feo Francesco , Monastero di Grottaferrata, “platonismo e filioque”

    Eudoxia Delli , Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of

    Athens, “Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Michael Psellos: From erudition to

    (Neo)Platonic–Christian synthesis.”

    Elena Draghici-Vasilescu , Wolfson College, Oxford, “Pseudo-

    Dionysius, a Statue, and Byzantium”

    Panagiotis Foukas < [email protected]>, University of Athens, Platonism and the

    Cappadocian Church Fathers’ philosophers.

    Matthias Fritz , Freie Universität Berlin, “David the Invincible

    proving himself a Christian philosopher of Neoplatonism?”

    Levan Gigineishvili , Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University,

    Georgia, “Translation and interpretation of the term “αὐθυπόστατον” by Ioane Petritsi”

    Jonathan Greig , Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Proclus’

    metaphysics from Nicholas of Methone to Gregory Palamas and his interlocutors”

    David Hernandez de la Fuente , Universidad Complutense de

    Madrid, “The awakening of the soul: Platonic views on Dionysus and Ariadne in a Christian

    environment”

    David Jenkins , Princeton University, “Lines that do lie anywhere: Italikos-

    Psellos-Xiphilinos”

    Andras Kraft , Princeton University, “The doctrine of apokatastasis in

    eleventh-/twelfth-century Byzantium”

    Delphine Lauritzen, , Sorbonne University Paris,

    “Proclus’ Hymns in John of Gaza’s Ekphrasis”

    Frederick Lauritzen , Scuola Grande di San Marco,

    Venezia, Plotinus the Antipalamite

    Gabriela Legutko , Jagiellonian University Cracow,

    Poland, “Christianisation of platonism on the example of Erasm’s of Rotterdam thought”

    Bruce J. MacLennan , University of Tennessee Knoxville, “A 21st

    century appraisal of Plethon’s Rational Theology”.

    Smilen Markov , Oxford University, “The Dionysian Traditions in

    9th-century Byzantium”.

    Francesco Monticini , Università Roma 3, “The Sound of God.

    Sympathetic Attractions in Some Late Antique and Byzantine Neoplatonic Works”

    Kostas Mpozinis , Thessaloniki University, “Echoes of platonic justice

    in the preaching of John Chrysostom”

    Tiziano Ottobrini , Università di Bergamo, “Intorno alle origini

    neoplatoniche dell'ineffabile di Dionigi ps.-Areopagita: continuità speculativa rispetto al

    principio indicibile di Damascio”

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  • Eirini Papadak , 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”

    Simona Puca , Università di Napoli, “Crito, I owe a cock to

    Asclepius!”. Telling the Death of Socrates in the middle of the Vith century”

    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 »

    Terezis Christos – Petridou Lydia , University of Patras, “The use of

    the Platonic dialogue Parmenides by George Pachymeres in his Paraphrasis of De divinis

    nominibus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite”

    Denis Walter, , University of Bonn, “Psellos and the Platonic ideas”

    Non-Anachronistic Neoplatonic Readings of Plato”

    D. Gregory MacIsaac

    Chad Jorgenson , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg,

    “Assimilation to the World Soul in Plato and Plotinus”

    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”

    D. Gregory MacIsaac , Carleton University, “Plato’s Account

    of Eleaticism: A New Reading of the Parmenides”

    Timothy Riggs , University of Jyväskylä, “Education and Integrity: Plato on

    self-knowledge, self-expression and self-revelation”

    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”

    Francesca Pentassuglio , Sapienza University of

    Rome, “Xenophon and Plato: the Homeric heritage as Socratic problem: The Homeric

    heritage as a Socratic problem”

    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”

    George Gazi , Durham University, “[Homeric scholia

    (Aristarchean/Zenodotean tradition), cf. Porphyry]”

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  • 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”

    Georgia Tsouni , University of Crete, “Platonic and Homeric

    authority in Cicero’s philosophical works”

    Dino De Sanctis , Università di Pisa, “Exemplum Homeri:

    ricezione ed esegesi dell’epos nella riflessione politica di Plutarco”

    Harold Tarrant < [email protected]>, University of Newcastle, NSW, “Odysseus'

    Stormy Seas, from Ps-Plato to Numenius and Beyond”

    Matteo Milesi, , University of Michigan, “Porphyry’s literal and noetic

    allegories”

    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 (?)”

    Marc-Antoine Gavray , Université de Liège, “’No good

    thing is a multitude of lords’ (Iliad II, 204): Aristotle’s theology according to the ancient

    commentators”

    Anna Motta , Freie Universität Berlin, “Philosophy and Inspiration in

    Late-Antique Isagogics: (or, On the Platonic Methods of Teaching the Divine)”

    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”

    Graeme Miles , University of Tasmania, “Allegorical and Non-

    allegorical Readings of Homer in Proclus”

    Laura Morangiu , Universität zu Köln, “Plato Ὁμηρικώτατος? A

    Reconsideration of the Speech of the Muses (Resp. VIII, 545c-547a) in light of Proclus’

    Commentary”

    Oiva Kuisma , University of Helsinki, “Proclus, Homer, and

    Aesthetics”

    Nature and Soul in the Greek Neoplatonic Tradition

    Melina G. Mouzala and Elias Tempelis

    Melina G. Mouzala , University of Patras, “Nature and Soul as

    principles of motion: ”

    Elias Tempelis, Hellenic Naval Academy, “The School of Ammonius on

    the acquisition of knowledge of the intelligible world by the human soul”

    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”

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  • 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”

    Celina Bebenek , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “The

    Apparent Contradiction in Plato’s Descent of the Soul: Discussion and Resolution in

    Plotinus’ Ennead IV”

    Camille Guigon , University Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin, “Le rôle

    paradoxal de la nature dans la remontée de l’âme individuelle chez Plotin”

    Meg Giordano , Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Institute for

    Christian Studies, Toronto, “Nature and the morality of self-motion: an account of

    personal violence via a Proclean enriching of Aristotle’s logic of activity”

    Jacqueline Tusi , University of Fribourg, “The Unity and

    Plurality of Soul: Plotinus’ Interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides”

    José M. Zamora < [email protected]>, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Reconsidering the

    Neoplatonic Reading of Plato’s Timaeus (27d6-28a1)”

    Plato’s Reception in Modern (Historiography of) Philosophy (from the 18th century until

    now)

    Tomasz Mróz

    Leo Catana , University of Copenhagen, "The Socratic School in

    Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae"

    Adrian Habura , University of Zielona Góra, "Stanisław Lisiecki (1872–

    1960) as a Forgotten Plato Researcher and Platonic Thinker"

    Jay Bregman , University of Maine, "Reception of the Pythagorean Plato

    in North America"

    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"

    Marcos G. Breuer , University of West Attica, "Platonism and

    Neoplatonism in Jorge Luis Borges’ Work"

    Natalia Danilkina , Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University,

    "From Plato to Dostoevsky: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ethics and Arts"

    Plotinus and the Gnostics

    Rasimus, Tuomas J and Svetoslava 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”

    Václav Němec , Charles University in Prague, “Negative Theology

    in Zostrianos, Marius Victorinus and Plotinus”

    Tuomas Rasimus , University of Helsinki, Response and

    Reflection

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  • Blurring the boundaries: Ficino’s Philosophy after Ficino?

    Valery Rees

    Maria Vittoria Comacchi , Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-

    Latin Studies, Innsbruck, “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”

    Daniel Kaczyński , University of Warsaw, “Theurgy and Witchcraft

    in Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Prospero as a male witch”

    Laura Follesa , Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, “The Aether as the

    Vehicle, the Sun as the Source of Life: Ficinian Tradition in Schelling’s and Herder’s

    Theories of Light”

    The Neoplatonists on method, style and epistemic advancement

    Pauliina Remes

    Pauliina Remes , Uppsala University, "Plotinus on Dialectic: Its

    Scope and Operations".

    Marije Martijn , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, “Syllogizing Plato”

    Federico Maria Petrucci , Università degli Studi di Torino,

    "Why Should We Care about Atlantis? A Test-Case of Neoplatonist Methodological

    Innovations"

    Emotions in Early Modern Platonic Philosophy

    Natalia Strok and Valentina Zaffino

    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”

    Matthew Leisinger , Cambridge University, “Ralph Cudworth’s

    Sentimentalism”

    Natalia Strok , UBA-CONICET-UNLP, “Pain in Conway’s Lovely

    World”

    Patricia Marechal , Northwestern University, “Platonic

    influences in the philosophy of Anne Conway: Pain in the Philebus and the Principles of

    the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy”

    Paula Pico Estrada , Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,

    “The Epistemic Role of Emotions in Courtly Mystique”

    Teresa Rodríguez , Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM,

    “Philosophy, Music, and Harmony in Ficino’s Thought: A Theory of Divine Inspiration”

    Valentina Zaffino , Pontifical Lateran University - Rome Global Gateway of

    the University of Notre Dame, “Henry More on Religious Enthusiasm. Fanaticism,

    Tolerance, and Atheism in Cambridge Platonists’ Debate”

    Neşe Aksoy , Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, “Freedom, Joy and

    the Highest Good in Spinoza’s Ethics”

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  • Miscellaneous Abstracts

    Marta Antola, , Durham University, “Plato’s Odyssean response

    to the Plato-Homer Question”

    Hannah Breece , Fordham University, “Plotinus on the Emotions and

    Being Affected”

    Xenia Daskalopoulou , University of Patras, “Proclus’ Divine

    Providence and Divine Knowledge: a research on Timaeus 30b6-9”

    Paolo Di Leo , Singapore University of Technology and Design,

    “Plotinus and Heidegger: A Dialogue Through Parmenides’ R. B3”

    Joseph Forte , Rivier University, “The Phaedo’s Hopes in Relation to a

    Figurative Reading of the ‘True Earth’ Myth”

    Thomas Giourgas , American College of Greece, “Synchronic and

    Diachronic Akrasia in Plato’s Protagoras”

    Ebru Kızılkaya , KADOC-KU Leuven, “Plotinus’ Metaphysics:

    Plotinus on The Metaphysical Evil”

    Dániel Attila Kovács , ELTE-BTK, “The sage’s ascent to intellect

    in Ennead I.4”

    Maria Manuela Brito Martins , Universidade Católica Portuguesa-

    Porto, “A critical Reading of Plotinus’ Treaty VI, 1 [42] on the categories of being”

    Chiara Militello , Università di Catania, “Olympiodorus comments on

    Aristotle: the theoretical approach of the commentary on Meteorology, book 2”

    Ioanna Patsioti and Giannis Stamatellos , American

    College of Greece, “Virtue and Privacy in Plotinus and Aristotle”

    Jean-Philippe Ranger , St. Thomas University, “What Can We Learn from

    Poets? Conflicting Lessons in the Meno (99b–100d; 81a–e)”

    Aron Reppmann , Trinity Christian College, “‘The true account:’

    Origen’s retrieval of the Seventh Letter in Against Celsus”

    Rebecca Sinos , Amherst College, “To Fly with the Wind: An Image in

    Plato's Phaedrus”

    Mikhail Vedeshkin , The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of

    Sciences, “The Problem of Mystical Practices in Neoplatonic School of Pergamon”

    William Wians , Merrimack College, “Imitating Socrates in the

    Cleitophon”

    Evi Zacharia , Radboud University Nijmegen, “Commentary on

    Alcibiades I: towards an explanation of human perfection through love”

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