Registration 17:00-19:00

Jonathan Greig and Bethany Somma

Bethany Somma, LMU Munich (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy), “Forms and [Natural] Participation in the Arabic Plotinus: A Reappraisal”

Hanif Amin Beidokhti, LMU Munich (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy), “A Neoplatonic Criticism of Aristotelian Categories: Plotinian Thought in Suhrawardī’s Criticism of Substance and Accidents”

Jonathan Greig, LMU Munich (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy), “Participated and Unparticipated Causes in Plotinus and Proclus”

Marcin Podbielski and Anna Zhyrkova

Anna Zhyrkova, University of Ignatianum, Krakow, Poland, “The Ontological Paradox of Christ”

Marcin Podbielski, University of Ignatianum, Krakow, Poland, “Evagrius of Pontus’ Christology, the Gnostic Principle of Mathetic Identity, and Its Possible Platonic Origins”

Sergey Trostyanskiy, Union Theological Seminary, “Cyril of Alexandria’s Theory of the Incarnate Union Re-examined”

Dmitry Biriukov, National Research University Higher School of Economics [HSE]), “Paradigms of physics and natural philosophy in the Christological controversies in Byzantium”

Gabriela Kurylewicz, Fundacja Forma and University of Warsaw, “Time in Music – for Plato and Plotinus”

Mark J. Lovas, The University of Pardubice, “Plato and Emotion:  Revelation, Frustration, Judgment”

Leo Catana, University of Copenhagen, “Plato on Ethical Requirements and Options in the Process of Political Recognition: Gorgias 513a7-513c2”

Gary Gurtler, Boston College, “Plotinus on Light and Vision”

Crystal Addey and Robert Berchman

Thomas Vidart, Lycée Champollion, Grenoble (France). „The identification with the intelligible according to Plotinus“

Bruce J. Maclennan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Psychological Effects of Henosis”

Panagiotis Pavlos, University of Oslo, “Dionysius the Areopagite: A Christian Theurgist?”

Oscar Federico Bauchwitz, Alessandra Beccarisi, Edrisi Fernandes

Edrisi Fernandes, UFRN/UNB- Brazil, “The fusion of platonic, alchemical, and shamanic views in the literature of Robert Marteau”

Alessandra Beccarisi, Unisalento (Italy), “Ulrich of Strasbourg on beauty”.

Ota Gál, Université de Fribourg and Charles University, “Beauty of Intellect and the notion of number in Plotinus”

José M. Zamora

Antoni Ładziński, Cardinal Stephan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, “The Meaning of Symbol and Allegory in Porphyry’s of Tyre De Antro Nympharum”

Tamar Khubulava, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, “Die Chaldäischen Orakel und Proklos”

José María Zamora Calvo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Reading the Statesman Myth from the Proclean Approach”

Crystal Addey and Robert Berchman

Crystal Addey, University of St Andrews, „Divine Power, Immanence and Transcendence in Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus“

Robert M. Berchman, Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa/Roma; Institute of Advanced Theology/Bard College, USA, „Origen of Alexandria. Exegesis, Contemplative Prayer, and the Limits of Language.“

Gary Gabor, Hamline University, „Boethius and Later Greek Neoplatonism on Forms, God, and the Consolations of Contemplation and Philosophy

Jenny Messenger, University of St Andrews, “Crests of a range that was obscured”: Suzanne Lilar on divine echoes in poetry and myth.“

Jozef Matula

Georgios Arabatzis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,  “Middle Platonism and Academic Skepticism in Late Byzantium”

Jozef Matula, Palacký University, Olomouc, “Theodoros Metochites´ reading of Plato“

Florin Leonte, Palacký University, Olomouc, “Plato, rhetoric, and political renewal in late Byzantium“

Georgios Steiris, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “A dispute among 15^th century Byzantine scholars over universals and particulars”

Anna Corrias, Douglas Hedley, and Valery Rees

Anna Corrias, University College, London, “Immortality of the Soul and Plato’s Phaedo in Marsilio Ficino’s Philosophy”

Hanna Gentili, The Warbug Institute, “Platonism and Religious Debates in Early Modern Italy. A Comparison between Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469-1533) on the Nature of Love and Prophecy.”

Angie Hobbs, University of Sheffield, “The Erotic Magus: Daimons and Magic in Ficino’s de Amore”

José C. Baracat Jr. and Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Benedikt Rottenecker, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Eternal Motion and the Nature of Time in Plotinus’ ‘On Eternity and Time’”.

Rachel MacKinnon, University of Toronto, “How Do Bodies Become Extended? An Investigation into Plotinus’ Sensible Realm”.

László Bene, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, “Plotinus’ Theory of Time (Enn. III.7)”

Dylan M. Burns, Freie Universität Berlin, “Does the Great Invisible Spirit Care? Foreknowledge and Providence in the Platonizing Sethian Treatises of Nag Hammadi.”

John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli

Svetlana Mesyats, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, “Unknown doctrine of Proclus or What kind of souls did Proclus discover?”

Harold Tarrant, The University of Newcastle, „Proclus on the Soul’s Difficulties when first in the Body“

Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University – Angelicum – Princeton, “Psychology and Soteriology in Origen and Porphyry”

Laura Follesa, University of Cagliari/Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, “Herder’s ‘Thinking in Images’ in Children and the Platonic Reminiscence”

Anna Corrias, Douglas Hedley, and Valery Rees

Salvatore Carannante, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, “Platonicos tres in Deo personas posuisse: Neoplatonic Interpretations of Trinity in Renaissance Philosophy”

Vojtěch Hladký, Charles University, Prague, “The use of Chaldaean Oracles in Patrizi’s Nova de Universis Philosophia”

David Leech, Bristol University and Cambridge Platonist Research Group, University of Cambridge, “Cudworth on ‚Superintellectual Instinct‘ as a Species of ‚Orphic – Pythagorean‘ Love”

Jacques Joseph, Charles University, Prague, “World and Soul Spirit of Nature in Henry More”

Oscar Federico Bauchwitz, Alessandra Beccarisi, Edrisi Fernandes

Amanda Viana de Sousa, Albert-Ludwigs – Universität Freiburg,  “A vida criativa em Mestre Eckhart”.

Mikhail Khorkov, IPh RAS, Moscow; MWK Erfurt, “A Platonic Notion of Beauty in the Interpretation of Nicholas of Cusa in the Light of His Margins to Plato’s Dialogues and Polemics with the Carthusians”.

Oscar Federico Bauchwitz, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte,  UFRN – Brazil ),  “Cuando construir también es pensar: arquitectura y anagogía en la iglesia de Saint Denys”.

John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli

Hyun Höchsmann, East China Normal University, Shanghai, “Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs”

John F. Finamore, University of Iowa, “Iamblichus, Simplicius, and Priscianus on the Divided Soul”

John D. Turner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. “New Light on Third Century Metaphysical Triads and the Legacy of A. J. ‘Zeke’ Mazur.”

Karolina Kochanczyk – Boninska, Marta Przyszychowska, and Tomasz Stepien

Tomasz Stepien, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, ”Eunomius and Gregory of Nyssa on the activity of God and Plotinus’ theory of double activity”

Marta Przyszychowska, University of Warsaw, ”Time of creation of human nature according to Gregory of Nyssa”

Karolina Kochanczyk-Boninska, War Studies University in Warsaw, ”Basil the Great’s understanding of substance in his teaching about God’s incomprehensibility”

Tomáš Nejeschleba

Joanna Papiernik, Institute of Philosophy, University of Lodz, Poland, “Platonic Aspects in some Humanistic Treatises of Quattrocento on the Immortality of the Soul“

Stephen Lahey, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, “The Doctrine of Divine Ideas of Wyclif and Stanislaus of Znojmo“

Steffen Huber, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, “Traces of Neoplatonism in Polish Renaissance thought: the case of Stanisław Orzechowski (1513-1566)”

Jana Schultz

Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Gender construction and social connections in Porphyry’s Ad Marcellam”

Krzysztof Łapiński, University of Warsaw, “Philosophical education of women in Musonius Rufus’ Diatribes and Porphyry’s Letter to Marcella.

Jana Schultz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum,  “Maternal Causes in Proclus Metaphysics”

Marilena Vlad

Andrei Timotin,  Institute for Philosophy “Al. Dragomir”, Bucharest, “The Causality of the First Principle and the Theory of Two Acts in Plotinus, Enn. V 4 (7)”

Daniela Elena Tarbǎ, Institute for Philosophy “Al. Dragomir”, Bucharest, “Self-constitution of the One in Plotinus’ view”

Gheorghe Pașcalău, Institute for Philosophy “Al. Dragomir”, Bucharest/Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, „Time as a Self-Constituted Intellect in the Philosophy of Proclus“

Lloyd P. Gerson, University of Toronto, “Why Intelligible are not External to the Intellect”

Maciej Szumowski, University of Warsaw / EHESS Paris, “Hexis, Habitus, State. Neoplatonic Background of an Averroist Answer to the Question of the Unity of a Human Being”

Eugene Afonasin, Novosibirsk State University, “Neoplatonic Asclepius between Science and Religion”

Douglas Hedley and Natalia Strok

Natalia Strok, UBA- CONICET-UNLP, “Arianism and Platonism: traces of Eusebius’ Praeparatio Evangelica in Cudworth’s The True Intellectual System”

Derek Michaud, University of Maine, “John Smith’s Plotinian Rational Theology”

Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge, “Ralph Cudworth and Ancient Theology”

J. M. Johns

Jeff Johns, University of Edinburgh, ”ἢ (εἰ, ᾗ) γέγονεν ἢ (εἰ, ᾗ) καὶ ἀειγενές ἐστιν”

Michèle Anik Stanbury, Mount Allison University, “Alexander of Aphrodisias and Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Plotinus‘ Ennead V, 9”

Matteo Milesi, University of Michigan, “Porphyry on Homeric exegesis: A reassessment of the so-called ‚Letter to Anatolius’“

José C. Baracat Jr. and Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Irini F. Viltanioti, KU Leuven and University of Oxford, “Time and Eternity in Porphyry of Tyre”.

Lenka Karfíková, Charles University Prague, “Eternity and Time in Porphyry’s Sentence 44”.

Marc-Antoine Gavray, University of Liège, “Philoponus and Simplicius on the Eternity of Time”.

Daniel Regnier

Anna Izdebska, University of Warsaw, “A new addition to the late antique Neoplatonist corpus? The Arabic Commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses attributed to Proclus”

Daniel Regnier, St. Thomas More College, “Argument and Ascent in Islamic Neoplatonism:  The Theology of Aristotle as Spiritual Exercise”

Michael Engel, Universität Hamburg, “The Impact of Averroes’ Paraphrase of the Republic on Medieval Jewish Philosophy„

Yehuda Halper, Bar Ilan University, “Platonic Eros and Biblical Love: Plato’s Symposium in Johanan Alemanno’s Interpretation of Song of Songs“

Tomáš Nejeschleba

Martin Žemla, Centre for Renaissance Texts, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, “Influentia, lumine et motu Solis irradiatus… Ficino´s Metaphysics of Light in the Work of Heinrich Khunrath“

Jiří Michalík, Centre for Renaissance Texts, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, “Johannes Kepler and His Neoplatonic Sources”

Tomáš Nejeschleba, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, “The Platonic Framework of Valeriano Magni’s Philosophy”

Luka Boršić, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb and Ivana Skuhala Karasman, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, “Adventures of a Christian Cabalist”

Tomáš Nejeschleba

Simon J. G. Burton, University of Warsaw, Poland, “Cusanus and the Universal Reformation: The Legacy of Fifteenth-Century Lullist and Neo-Platonic Reform“

Petr Pavlas, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, “Triadism and the Book Metaphor in John Amos Comenius”

Jan Čížek, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Centre for Renaissance Texts, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, “The Pansophia of John Amos Comenius in the Context of Renaissance Neo-Platonism”

Menahem Luz, University of Haifa, “The Image of Socrates in Antisthenes’ Lost Dialogues”

Miriam Byrd, University of Texas at Arlington, “Plato’s Forms in Us as Objects of Dianoia”

Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan, “Socrates’ Esoteric Disclosure in Plato’s Apology: a comparative religions approach”

Marilena Vlad

Marilena Vlad, Institute for Philosophy “Al. Dragomir”, Bucharest, “The self-constituted being. Proclus and Damascius”

Chiara Militello, Catania University, “Is self-knowledge one or multiple? Consciousness in ‘Simplicius’, Commentary on On the Soul”

François Lortie, Université Laval, “Philosophy and Philology in Proclus‘ Interpretation of Plato”

José C. Baracat Jr. and Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Ashton Green, University of Notre Dame, “Dimensionality and Tenuous Bodies: Discovering the Nature of Space in Neoplatonic Thought through Accounts of Light Transmission”.

Jeremy Byrd, Tarrant County College, “Standing in the Vestibule: Proclus on Intermediates”.

Michael Chase, CNRS-Centre Jean Pépin, “Damascius and al-Naẓẓām on the Atomic Leap”.

John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli

Ágoston Guba, Philosophical Institute, RCH, HAS (Budapest), “Desire and Dispositional Memory in Plotinus”

Filip Karfík, Universität Freiburg, “The soul-body relation upside down (Plotinus VI.4-5)”

Lela Alexidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, “Eros as Soul’s ‘Eye’ in Plotinus: What does it see and not see?”

Karolina Kochanczyk – Boninska, Marta Przyszychowska, and Tomasz Stepien

Aron Reppmann, Trinity Christian College, ”Nonsubstantial creaturely being in Gregory of Nyssa’s On the soul and the resurrection”

Valery V. Petroff, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science, ”Aristotle’s Approach to the Problem of Corporeal Identity and its Development in the Later Tradition”

Nadezhda Volkova, Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Science, “Plotinus and Aristotle on matter and evil”

Dylan M. Burns and Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Jonathan H. Young, University of Iowa, “Demons on the Border: The Overlapping Demonologies of Origen and Celsus.”

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Universität Bonn, “Des trois rois de Platon aux trois dieux d’Hésiode : la polémique antignostique dans le Traité 32, 3 de Plotin”.

Christopher Sauder, Collège Universitaire Dominicain (Ottawa, Canada), “Providence and Gnosticism from Ennead 33 (II.9) to Enneads 47-48 (III.2-3).”

Jana Schultz

Anna Afonasina, Novosibirsk State University, “The Letters of the Pythagorean Women in Context”

Sandra Dučić Collette,  Independent Researcher, “Duke William IX of Aquitaine, Countess of Dia … and the reversal of the Platonic concept of love”

Ludovica Radif, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, “Donne ‘Fuori Misura’ Alessandra Scala e Cassandra Fedele“

Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro, Universidad de Sao Paulo, “The Soul Harmony Theory:  Testimony of an Hermeneutic Device for Reading Presocratic Theories in Late Antiquity”

Monika Recinová, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, “Reception of Xenophanes´ Philosophical Theology in Plato and Christian Platonists”

Tomasz Mróz, University of Zielona Góra, “Lewis Campbell’s Studies on Plato and their Philosophical Significance”