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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
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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.
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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”
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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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