Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa 2022

FSA Roma Annual Conference 2022

Philosophy, Theology, Aestetics, Religion from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Description and organization

7th annual conference of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa 2022: Renaissance, Ancient, Medieval and Modern Patterns. Philosophy, Theology, Aestetics, Religion from Antiquity to the Renaissance. From 27th to 31st May 2022.

FSA Gateano Massa is a Network whose purpose is to provide an intellectual setting where scholars of philosophy, theology, religion and classics gather to share and compare their perspectives on the meaning and significance of their collective research

Programme

May 27 Friday: Foro di Alti Studi Gaetano Massa

16h: Introduction – Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma]. In Memoria. Robert Lima [1935-2022]. Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARG]; Jose Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]. John D. Turner [1937-2021]. Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS/LEM, France]; Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma].

16h30: Presentation of FSA Academic Fellows: Presenters. Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia] and Michele Olzi [Universita degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese e Como, Italia]. Michele Abbate, [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia]; Clelia Attanasio [University of Cambridge, UK], Alvaro Campillo Bo [University College Dublin, IRL], Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, NL]; Ivana Costa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina], Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina], Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK],Giada Fiorese [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], Odile Gilon, [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BLG], Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, [Florida State University, USA], Christian Hengstermann [Universitaet Wuppertal, BRD]; Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD], Anna Mamodoro, [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK], Gareth Polmeer [Royal College of Art, UK]; Rafaella Palmisano [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia], Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada], Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS/LEM, France], Fabrizio Sciacca [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia], Erasmo Silvio Storace [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], Daniella Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’] Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL], Giuseppe Vitale [Universtity College Dublin, IRL/University of Cologne, BRD], Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

16h50: Presentation of FSA Arts Fellows: Presenter. Alessandro Sbordoni, [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma, Italia], Roberto Fabbriciani [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma, Italia],

RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

17h00-19h00: Light and Vision in Marsilio Ficino Moderator Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK] « Ficino on the Metaphysics of the Diaphanous » Anna Corrias [University of Cambridge, UK]] “Ficino on Vision in the Commentary on Plotinus’ Enneads » Stephen Gersh, [University of Notre Dame, USA] « Demiurgy and Light in Ficino » Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Ficino’s De Sole and his Metaphysics of Light” Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano]

19h00: Discussion

May 28 Saturday: Foro di Alti Studi Riccardo Campa

ANCIENT AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

9h00-11h00: Mathematics: Mapping Epistemologies. Moderator Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] “Applying Number to the Continuum” Anna Marmodoro [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK] “Crantor and the Epistemological and Mathematical Tale of the Old Academy” Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] “Arithmos and Episteme: A ‘Neopythagorean’ Epistemology of Mathematics” Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma].

9h45: Discussion “Plotinus and Frege on Numbers” Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD] « Aspects of Mathematics in Iamblichus », Daniela Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ’Tor Vergata’ Italia]

10h30: Discussion

11h00-1230: Aesthetics of the Self: Moderator Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] « Towards an Agathological Self: Aesthetics of the Self in the light of Plato and Plotinus » Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia], Henosis in Plotinus and Proclus: Beyond the Self (-identity) Michele Abbate [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia] « Selfhood Unbound: Sensus in Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella » Guido Giglioni [Universita di Macerata, Italia]

12h30: Discussion 1300: Common Lunch: Casa Maria Immacolata

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

15h00-16h45: Aesthetics of the Self: Moderator Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia] “”Shadows of Themselves: Plato on Self, Being and Interiority” Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA]. « Metapsychology and Metaphysics of the Self’ John Hendrix [Roger Williams University, USA] « The Composer’s Imagination: Musical Disposition According to Al-Fârâbî » Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada]

16h45: Discussion

17h15-19h30: Mapping Mind, Language and Intentionality. Moderator Valentina Zaffino, [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano, Italia]. “Proclus’ Metaphysics of Language: Theurgic Intentionality” Jose Manuel Redondo [UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico] “Eriugenia’s de Pradestinatione Liber and the Notion of Primordial Cause” Ezequiel Luduena [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Richard of St. Victor: The Reception of Denys the Areopagite Through the Translation of Eriugena” Clelia Attanasio [University of Cambridge, UK] « Free-Will and Responsibility: Human Mind in Cudworth’s Treatises » Natalia Strok [Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET, Argentina]

19h30: Discussion

May 29 Saturday: Foro di Alti Studi Patrick Atherton

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

9h00-9h45: Nous in the Greek Patres. Moderator: Isidoros Katsos [University of Oxford, UK] “Ethical Intelletualism in Antiquity and the Patristics: The Birth of Original Sin” Ilaria Ramelli [University of Oxford and Durham University, UK]

9h45: Discussion

10h00-11h00:Plotinus’ Role in Shaping Augustine’s Conception of Mind. Moderator Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA]. “Mind in the Confessions of Augustine” Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK] “Plotinus in de Trinitate Joseph O’Leary [Sophia University and Nanzan University, JP]

11h00: Discussion

11h30-12h30: Later Platonism and Gnosticism: Moderator: Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA]. “Toucher Dieu : la critique antignostique de Plotin (Enn. 3.2–3 [47–48] ” Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS-LEM, France] “Plotinus ‘On Providence’ “ Another Engagement with the ‘Tripartite Tractate” (NHC I,5)” Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]

12h30: Discussion Lunch/Open MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

14h00-16h00:Thinking Causes: Fluxus: Moderator Dragos Calma [University College Dublin, IRL] “Influentia: A Way of Questioning Causes in Roger Bacon’s Questiones supra Librum de causis” Odile Gilon [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles] “Flow and Creation in Albert the Great’s De causis et processu universitatis” Maria Evelina Malgieri [University College Dublin, IRL] “Anima Nobilis in Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome” Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL] 1530: Discussion

16h00 -17h30: Thinking Causes: Fluxus: Moderator: Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada] “Bonum est unuscuiusque rei essentia: Berthold of Moosburg’s Radical Agathology” Giuseppe Vitale [Universtity College Dublin, IRL/University of Cologne, BRD] « A Renaissance Reception of Proclus’ Commentary in Euclid: Alessandro Piccolomini and the New Foundations of Mechanics » Alvaro Campillo Bos [University College Dublin, IRL]

17h30: Discussion

21h00: Concerto/Sala Casella/Accademia Filarmonica Romana/ Via Flamina 118, Roma. “Improvisationi: Musica e Cultura” Alessandro Sbordoni, [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma] “Improvizationi Acoustici” Roberto Fabbriciani e Alessandro Sbordoni, [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma]

May 30 Monday: Foro di Alti Studi John D. Turner

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

9h00-10h30: Roman Religions: Moderator Moderator Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] “I culti orientali a Roma in eta imperiale” Luciano Albenese [Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italia], “Incontro e assimilazione (systasis) con Helios nei papiri magici. Alcune osservazioni» (Meeting, petitioning, reaching (systasis) God Helios in the Magical Papyri. Some Remarks) Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania [Italia], “Rules for Reading and ‘Becoming Like God’ in the Anonymous Prolegomena to Plato’s Philosophy” Jose Maria Zamora [Univerdidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]

10h30: Discussion

11h00-13h00: Rethinking Cusanus. Moderator Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] « The Liber de causis in De Coniecturis of Nicholas of Cusa: The Concept of reditio completa » Victoria Arroche [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] « Conjectural Self-Knowledge » in the De Coniecturis of Nicholas of Cusa » Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “The Power of Imagination in Nicholas of Cusa’s Ars coniecturalis” Jose Gonzales Rios, [Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Argentina] 1230: Discussion Lunch/Open RENAISSANCE, MODERN AND ANCIENT PATTERNS

14h00-16h00: Varieties of English Platonism. Moderator Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK] “The Platonic Soteriology of Shakespeare’s Late Plays”, Christian Hengstermann [Universitaet Wuppertal, BRD] “Between Florence and Tuebingen: The Neglected Historiographical Significance of the Cambridge Platonists”, Douglas Hedley [Clare College, Cambridge, UK] ”Frames of inner Vision: Kathleen Raine and Philip Sherrard as Contemporary Cambridge Platonists” Gareth Polmeer [Royal College of Art, UK)

15h30: Discussion

16h00-18h00: Justice and Fictions [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies] Moderator: Claudia Marsico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] « The Primitive Polis, Facts and Fictions » Ivana Costa [Universidad de Bueonos Aires, Argentina]. “Antisthenes, the Cyclops, and the Healthy Polis in Republic, II” Claudia Marsico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Justice and Piety in Plato’s Euthyphro” Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]

17h30: Discussion

18h00-19h30: Drama and Fictions [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies]: Moderator Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Plato’s Laches as a Philosophical Drama. Similarities between the Laches and the Charmides. » Inbal Cohen-Taber [St. Mary’s College/Maryland, USA] “Socrates’ Burial and Euclides” Menahem Luz, [University of Haifa, Israel]

19h30: Discussion

21h00: Banquetto/Trattoria da Aldone e Giacomino, Via Enio 55, Roma

May 31 Tuesday: Foro di Alti Studi Jacob Neusner

ANCIENT, RENAISSANCE, AND MODERN PATTERNS

9h30-10h30: Anabaseis and Katabaseis in Jung’s Psychology: Moderator: Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNR-LEM, France] « Theurgy in Jung and Neoplatonism: Comparative Phenomenology. » Bruce MacLennan [University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA] “Time and the Soul” Alan Cardew, [University of Essex, UK]

10h30: Discussion

11h00-13h30: “Knowledge: Cultural and Political Myths in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Moderator Erasmo Silvio Storace [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], “Power, and Salvation in the Post-Modern Age” Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] “Civilizational Mythology” Fabrizio Sciacca [Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia] “Body: Between Politics and Mythopoiesis” Raffaella Palmisano [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese e Como, Italia] « Simulacra of Totality: Filling the post-modern Void through Cloakroom Communities » Giada Fiorese [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] “Politics of Sexuality: Contemporary Perspectives on Sex, Power, and Desire” Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia].

13h30: Discussion

14h00: Business Meeting: Presenters Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia]; Robert M. Berchman [FSA Roma]; Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]; Jose Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]. Proceedings: FSA Publications Report: FSA/Mimesis; FSA/Wipf&Stock FSA Conferences Report: Roma, Buenos Aires, Madrid FSA Legal and Financial Report: Institute at Caesars Head Ltd. Salem, SC/USA.

Contact

Robert Berchman – berchmanrob@earthlink.net

Eleonora Zeper – eleonora.zeper@gmail.com

Complete programm on the FSA’s Facebook page @FSAGaetanoMassa

Link

https://fsagaetanomassa.wordpress.com/

University of St Andwers

Philosophy and Religion

in Ancient Greece and the Islamic World

Description and organization

The School of Classics at St Andrews is holding a one-day workshop on the interface between philosophy and religion in the ancient Greek and Islamic worlds. The workshop will be held in person (School of Classics, Room S11) and online (via MS Teams).

Organisers: Olaf Almqvist (oha1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Alex Long (agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk).

 

Programme

9.30am Olaf Almqvist, St Andrews
‘God is day night, winter summer, war peace, golden winged, two horned, and born from an egg: Reflections on the Orphic Protogonos and Presocratic Theology’

10.30am Tom Harrison, St Andrews
‘The unknowability of the divine in classical Greek thought’

[short break]

12 noon Zhenyu Cai, Cambridge
‘Al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes on Reason and Revelation’

[lunch]

1.30pm Fedor Benevich, Edinburgh
‘Personal Identity in Islamic Philosophy of Religion’

2.30pm Feriel Bouhafa, Cambridge
‘Different Grounds for Human Moral Obligation (Taklīf) in Islamic Theology and Philosophy’

[short break]

4pm Peter Adamson, LMU
‘Do Giraffes Have an Afterlife? A Muslim Theologian-Philosopher on Animal Souls’

Contact

agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk

oha1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Link

https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/philosophy-and-religion-in-ancient-greece-and-the-islamic-world/

Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa 2022

Renaissance, Ancient and Medieval Patterns

Modern and Postmodern Traces

Programme

May 27
Foro di Alti Studi <Gaetano Massa>

Auditorium

1600: Introduction: Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma]; Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARG]; Jose Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]; Michele Olzi [Universita degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese e Como, Italia].

1615: Presentation of FSA Academic Fellows: Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia] Michele Abbate, [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia];Alvaro Campillo Bo [University College Dublin, IRL], Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]; Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK], Giada Fiorese [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], Odile Gilon, [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BLG], Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, [Florida State University, USA], Ryan Haecker, [University of Cambridge, UK], Christian Hengstermann [University of Muenster, BRD],Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD], Anna Mamodoro, [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK], Dimitri Nikulin, [New School/NY, USA], Mark Nyvlt [Dominican University College, Ottawa, Canada], Raffaella Palmisano [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia], Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada], Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS/LEM, France]; Fabrizio Sciacca [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia], Daniella Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’] Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL], Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

1645: Introduction of FSA Associate Societies: Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia], Canadian Aristotelian Society [CAS] presented by Mark Nyvlt [Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario Canada]

RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

1700-1900: Light and Vision in Marsilio Ficino Moderator Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK] « Ficino on the Metaphysics of the Diaphanous » Anna Corrias [University of Toronto, Canada]
“Ficino on Vision in the Commentary on Plotinus’ Enneads » Stephen Gersh, [University of Notre Dame, USA], « Demiurgy and Light in Ficino » Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA],

“Ficino’s De Sole and his Metaphysics of Light” Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

Cocktails

May 28
Foro di Alti Studi <Riccardo Campa>

Auditorium 2

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

900-1130: Aesthetics of the Self: Moderator Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia]
« Towards an Agathological Self: Aesthetics of the Self in the light of Plato and Plotinus » Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia],

Henosis in Plotinus and Proclus: Beyond the Self (-identity) Michele Abbate [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia]
« Metapsychology and Metaphysics of the Self’ John Hendrix [Roger Williams University, USA]
Kevin Corrigan [Emory University, USA]

« Selfhood Unbound: Sensus in Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella » Guido Giglioni [Universita di Macerata, Italia]

1100: Discussion

Coffee Break

1130-1300: Mathematics: Mapping Epistemologies. Moderator Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA]
“Can the Unlimited be a Fundamental Element of Reality?” Anna Marmodoro [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK]

“Arithmos and Episteme: A ‘Neopythagorean’ Epistemology of Mathematics” Robert Berchman [FSA/Roma]. “Plotinus and Frege on Numbers” Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD]

« On Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers with Reference to Aristotle and Plotinus, Dmitri Nikulin [The New School for Social Research, USA]
« Number as Power and Actuality in Plotinus, Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA]
« Aspects of Mathematics in Iamblichus », Daniela Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ’Tor Vergata’ Italia]

1245: Discussion

1300: Lunch: Casa Maria Immacolata

1500-1630: Cusanus. Moderator Kevin Corrigan [Emory University, USA] Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires]
Victoria Arroche Universidad de Buenos Aires]
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1630: Discussion

1700-1900: Mapping Intellect, Intentionality and Free-Will: Valentina Zaffino, [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

“Proclus on Intellect” Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA].
Jose Manuel Redondo [UNAM, Mexico]
Ezequiel Luduena [Universidad de Buenos Aires]
« Free-Will and Responsibility: Human Mind in Cudworth’s Treatises » Natalia Strok [Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET, Argentina]

1845: Discussion

May 29
Foro di Alti Studi <Patrick Atherton>

Auditorium

900-1045: Platonic Reflections in Cambridge: Moderator Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK],
Adrian Mihai [University of Cambridge, UK],
James Bryson [University of Cambridge, UK]

1045: Discussion

1100-1300: Thinking Causes: Fluxus: Moderator Dragos Calma [University College Dublin, IRL] “Influentia: a Way of Questioning Causes in Roger Bacon’s Questiones supra Librum de causis” Odile Gilon [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles]
“Flow and Creation in Albert the Great’s De causis et processu universitatis” Maria Evelina Malgieri [University College Dublin, IRL]
“Anima Nobilis in Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome” Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL]
« A Renaissance Reception of Proclus’ Commentary in Euclid: Alessandro Piccolomini and the New Foundations of Mechanics » Alvaro Campillo Bos [University College Dublin, IRL]

1300: Discussion:

Lunch/Open

3

EARLY MODERN AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

LATER ANCIENT PATTERNS

1500-1600: Nous in the Greek Patres. Moderator Isidoros Katsos [Hebrew University and University of Cambridge, UK]
“Ethical Intelletualism in Antiquity and the Patristics: The Birth of Original Sin” Ilaria Ramelli [University of Oxford and Durham University, UK]

1545: Discussion

1600-1745: Nous in the Greek Patres: Moderator Moderator Ilaria Ramelli [University of Oxford and Durham University, UK]
“God’ s Practical Reasoning in Origen’s Commentary on Genesis and De Principiis” Isidoros Katsos [University of Cambridge, UK],

“Christ as Wisdom, Word and Truth: Divine Intellect in Origen’s Reading of the Gospel of John” Christian Hengstermann [University of Muenster, BRD].
Daniel Tolan [University of Cambridge, UK],

1730: Discussion

Coffee Break

1800-1930: Plotinus’ Role in Shaping Augustine’s Conception of Mind. Moderator Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA].

“Mind in the Confessions of Augustine” Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK]

 

“Plotinus in de Trinitate” Joseph O’Leary [Sophia University and Nanzan University, JP] 1915: Discussion
2030: Banquetto
May 30

Foro di Alti Studi <John D. Turner> Auditorium

ANCIENT PATTERNS

900-1045: Roman Religions: Moderator Alan Cardew, [University of Essex, UK]
« I culti orientali a Roma in età imperiale « Luciano Albanese [Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italia],
“Incontro e assimilazione (systasis) con Helios nei papiri magici. Alcune osservazioni» (Meeting, petitioning, reaching (systasis) God Helios in the Magical Papyri. Some Remarks) Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania [Italia],
Jose Maria Zamora [Univerdidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP],

1030: Discussion

1045-1300: The Relationship Between the Divine and the Natural World in Theurgy and Neoplatonic Religion: Moderator Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS – LEM, France];
“Varieties of Mystical Experience in Plotinus” John Bussanich [University of New Mexico, USA]
“The Ecocentric nature of Divination in Theurgy and Tibetan Religious Traditions” Crystal Addey [University College Cork, Ireland] and Dawn Collins [University of Wales Trinity St. David, UK]

“Water in Iamblichus’ Theory of Divination” Andreea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez [Paris-Sorbonne IV, France] 1245: Discussion

Lunch/Open

ANCIENT AND MODERN PATTERNS

1430-1615: Gnosticism and Other Platonisms: Moderator Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK]
“Plotinus ‘On Providence’ (Enn. 3.2–3 [47–48]): Another Engagement with the ‘Tripartite Tractate’ (NHC I,5)”

Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]
“Toucher Dieu : la critique antignostique de Plotin” Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS-LEM, France]
Kevin Corrigan, [Emory University, USA]

1600: Discussion

1615-1730: Anabaseis and Katabaseis in Jung’s Psychology: Moderator Crystal Addey [University College Cork, IRL].
« Jung’s Untergang and Übergang” Bruce MacLennan [University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA]
“Time and the Soul” Alan Cardew, [University of Essex, UK]

1715: Discussion

Coffee Break

 

1730-1915: Musical Tropes: Moderator Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA]

“Aristexonos” Mark Nyvlt [Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada]

« The Composer’s Imagination: Musical Disposition according to Al-Fârâbî » Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More

College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada]

“From Renaissance Conceptions of Harmony to Modern Music Pedagogy: Comenius on Music » Tomas

Nejeschleba [Palacky University, Ceska Republika]

1915: Discussion

2100-2200: Concerto/Discoteca di Stato – Palazzo Caetani/Via delle Botteghe Oscure.

Alessandro Sbordoni [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma]

May 31
Auditorium
Foro di Alti Studi <Jacob Neusner>

ANCIENT, MODERN AND POSTMODERN PATTERNS

900-1030: Socratica: Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies. Moderator Inbal Cohen- Taber [Technion University, Israel]
Claudia Marisco [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]
Menahem Luz [Unversity of Haifa, Israel]

Ivana Costa, [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]

1100-1230: Epicurea: Moderator Menahem Luz [University of Haifa, Israel] Pamela Gordon [University of Kansas, USA]
Inbal Cohen-Taber [Technion University, Israel]

Lunch/Open

1400-1600: Cultural and Political ‘Myths’ of Techgnosticism: Moderator Giada Fiorese [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia],
“Knowledge, Power, and Salvation in the Post-Modern Age” Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia]

“Gnosis and Mysteries in F. W. J. Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology” Fabrizio Sciacca [Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia]
“Body: Between Politics and Mythopoiesis” Raffaella Palmisano [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia].

“Pleromatic Modernities: Research notes towards a Definition of Techgnosis” Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia].
1600: Discussion

Coffee Break

1630: Business Meeting

Contact

Robert Berchman – berchmanrob@earthlink.net

Eleonora Zeper – eleonora.zeper@gmail.com

Link

https://fsagaetanomassa.wordpress.com/

CNRS – LEM, Université de Vienne, Université Laval et Université d’Amsterdam

Le Traité 10 de Plotin et les Gnostiques

Description et organisation

Troixième rencontre du nouveau Webinaire « Les platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive: interactions philosophiques et religieuses (Platonisms of Late Antiquity: Philosophical and Religious Interactions).

• Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (CNRS-LEM)
• Anna Van den Kerchove (IPT-LEM)
• Jean-Daniel Dubois (EPHE-LEM)
• Daniela Taormina (Université de Roma “Tor Vergata“)

Le webinaire est organisé par Luciana G. Soares Santoprete, Anna van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur et Dylan Burns.

Workshop de lecture animé par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (CNRS-LEM), Anna Van den Kerchove (IPT-LEM), Jean-Daniel Dubois (EPHE-LEM) et Daniela Taormina (Université de Roma « Tor Vergata »)

La conférence aura lieu à 16h le vendredi 18 mars. Elle se déroulera en ligne.

N’hésitez pas à transmettre cette invitation à toute personne susceptible d’être intéressée par cette conférence ou toute autre conférence future sur les platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive.

Contact

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Lien

https://lem-umr8584.cnrs.fr/?Actualites-84&lang=fr

CNRS – LEM, Université de Vienne, Université Laval et Université d’Amsterdam

Divination and Theurgy in Antiquity

Rencontre animée par Andrei Timotin (EPHE-LEM) et Crystal Addey (University College Cork)

Description et organisation

Quatrième rencontre du nouveau Webinaire « Les platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive: interactions philosophiques et religieuses (Platonisms of Late Antiquity: Philosophical and Religious Interactions).

Andrei Timotin (EPHE-LEM)
« Trois théories antiques de la divination : Plutarque,
Jamblique, Augustin. »

Crystal Addey (University College Cork)
« Platonic Philosopher-Priestesses and Female Theurgists. »

Le webinaire est organisé par Luciana G. Soares Santoprete, Anna van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur et Dylan Burns.

La conférence aura lieu à 16h le vendredi 1 avril. Elle se déroulera en ligne.

N’hésitez pas à transmettre cette invitation à toute personne susceptible d’être intéressée par cette conférence ou toute autre conférence future sur les platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive.

Contact

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Lien

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Brill Plutarch Studies

Series Editors Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta and Delfim Ferreira Leão
Ever since the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the influence of Plutarch, the great writer of Chaeronea, has been enormous. From Montaigne and Shakespeare to S. Zweig and J.K. Rowling, Plutarch has helped to shape modern Western thought and culture. Besides being an influential figure for intellectual and literary trends, Plutarch has also been fundamental in the transmission of ancient lore to medieval, Renaissance and modern Europe. Indeed, Plutarch is still a key figure for our understanding of the first centuries of the Common Era: his social provenance, education, rich political career and social life make him a first-rate witness to the cultural life of late antiquity.

The past two decades have witnessed an upsurge in scholarship on Plutarch. Classicists, archaeologists, historians, philosophers and theologians alike have shown a renewed interest in this intriguing figure and his works, particularly for the light they might shed on ancient culture. In point of fact, both his Lives and his Moralia are inexhaustible sources of information about numerous aspects of the ancient world and its wisdom, helping scholars as they attempt to reconstruct the past. This is as true for religion, philosophy, literature, politics, and science (botanic, zoology, astronomy, or mathematics), as it is for pseudo-sciences such as divination, astrology, or numerology.

Brill’s Plutarch Studies is a response to this renewed scholarly interest in the encyclopedic writer of Chaeronea. In addition to monographs and edited volumes, the series includes updated [English] translations of and commentaries on both Lives and Moralia. As such, it intends both to bring together the most significant Plutarch scholarship of recent years, as well as to provide a forum in which new approaches might be discussed.

(Text from the editors)
Link

Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism

Madeleine Scopello, Leiden: Brill, 2022

Description

The exceptional place women held in Manichaeism, in everyday life or myth, is the object of this book. Relying on firsthand Manichaean texts in several languages and on polemical sources, as well as on iconography, the various papers analyze aspects of women’s social engagement by spreading Mani’s doctrine, working to support the community, or corresponding with other Manichaean groups. Topics such as women’s relation to the body and elect or hearer status are also investigated. The major role played by female entities in the myth is enlightened through occidental and oriental texts and paintings discovered in Central Asia and China.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

1 Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the ‘Seduction of the Archons’ and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth
  Jason David BeDuhn

2 Trois témoignages polémiques sur l’engagement des femmes dans la diffusion de la religion de Mani. Analyse historique et lexicale
Madeleine Scopello

3 La « Mère de la Vie ». Identité et fonctions
Fernando Bermejo-Rubio

4 L’usage manichéen du terme Enthymèsis dans les Kephalaia coptes de Berlin
Jean-Daniel Dubois

5 The Manichaean Women in the Greek and Coptic Letters from Kellis
Majella Franzmann

6 “You Being for Us Helpers, and Worthy Patrons …” (P. Kell. Copt. 31). Manichaean Gift-Exchange in the Village of Kellis
Mattias Brand

7 The (Female) Manichaean Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Eastern Manichaean Texts
Adam Benkato and Sam Langsdale

8 Digital Restoration of an Icon of the Light Maiden Preserved on a Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-Century Kocho
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi

9 The Figure of the Virgin of Light in the New Chinese Manichaica
Gábor Kósa

(Text from the publisher)

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/61006

Plotinus on Love

An Introduction to His Metaphysics through the Concept of Eros

Alberto Bertozzi, Leiden: Brill, 2021

Description

Plotinus’ metaphysics is often portrayed as comprising two movements: the derivation of all reality from a single source, the One, and the return of the individual soul to it. Alberto Bertozzi argues that love is the origin, culmination, and regulative force of this double movement. The One is both the self-loving source of the derivation and articulation of all reality in levels of unity and love and the ultimate goal of the longing of the soul, whose return to its source is a gradual transformation of the love it originally received from the One. Touching on virtually all major concepts of Plotinus’ philosophy, Plotinus on Love is at once an investigation of a lesser-studied Plotinian theme and an introduction to his metaphysics. Plotinus on Love is winner of the 2021 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL).

(Text by the publisher)

Table of contents

Front Matter
EPHE

Séminaire doctoral du samedi

Description et organisation

Théologies et mystiques de la Grèce hellénistique et de la fin de l’Antiquité – Séminaire mensuel de doctorants et post-doctorants, par Philippe Hoffmann

Programme

12 mars 2022
Zdenek Lenner
L’éros théorique de Porphyre ou la philia théurgique de Jamblique ?

2 avril 2022
Miriam Cutino
Le double sens du discours emphatique et le style « noble » des néoplatoniciens

Marco Donato
Tria genera bonorum : origines et histoire d’une distinction académico-péripatéticienne

7 mai 2022
Akindynos Kaniamos
La divinisation astrale dans le Commentaire sur le Timée de Proclus

Claudia Gianturco
Le problème du mal chez Proclus et dans le Pseudo-Denys: une confrontation philosophique et
textuelle

11 juin 2022
Max Bergamo
La réception d’Héraclite dans l’Antiquité tardive

Gheorghe Pascalau
Le lieu du temps. Où se trouve le temps dans la hiérarchie des hypostases selon Proclus ?

Contact

Philippe.Hoffmann@ephe.sorbonne.fr

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien : https://www.ephe.psl.eu/formations/conferences/theologies-et-mystiques-de-la-grece-hellenistique-et-de-la-fin-de-l-antiquite-seminaire-mensuel-de-doctorants-et-post-doctorants

Koinonia

Rivista dell’Associazione di Studi Tardoantichi

Napoli: D’Auria

Descrizione

Il settore di studi abbracciante grosso modo il periodo che va dal II all’VIII secolo d.C., e che suole designarsi come quello di «tardoantico», ha assunto da tempo una fisionomia unitaria e una sua autonomia metodologica. L’antichità classica vi è colta nei momenti della sua crisi decisiva, ma tali momenti sono a loro volta creativi, portatori di nuovi fermenti, di nuovi significati: conflitti di cultura, al centro e alla periferia; conflitti di lingue; conflitti di religioni, di forme artisiche, di tradizioni giuridiche, ecc. fanno da sfondo agli scontri delle «nationes» e delle classi nel seno dell’Impero. Istituti e forme subiscono mutamenti radicali, alcuni scompaiono e altri risorgono a nuova vita, e sempre con una comune connotazione etica di base, che è di avanzamento senza tagli irreparabili, di graduale distacco dal passato, non di oblio del passato.

(Testo degli editori)

Presidente

Prof. Lucio De Giovanni

Link

https://studitardoantichi.org/riviste/