Labex

Pseudoplatonica et écrits authentiques de Platon

Programme

10h Accueil

10h15 Francesca SCROFANI (assoc. Centre Jean Pépin, CNRS) et Marco DONATO (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli) : Introduction

10h30 Marco DONATO : « Les dialogues ‘pseudoplatoniciens’, entre reprise et exégèse créatrice »

11h15 Pause

11h30 Pietro BERTOCCHINI (Università degli Studi di Padova) : « A Comparison of the Modes of Imitation in the Pseudoplatonica »

12h15 Andrea BEGHINI (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici « Benedetto Croce ») : « Entre exégèse platonicienne et intertextualité. Le cas de l’Axiochos »

13h Pause déjeuner

14h30 Edoardo BENATI (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa / University of Durham) : « Law as a ‘Discovery of Being’: The Minos in the Light of the Cratylus »

15h15 Francesca SCROFANI : « L’Hipparque. Exégèse et réflexion politique »

16h Remarques finales et conclusions

Contact

Francesca Scrofani (assoc. Centre Jean Pépin, CNRS)
Marco Donato (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli)

Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme

54, Boulevard Raspail – 75006 Paris

Salle 15 (sous-sol)

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

https://labexhastec.ephe.psl.eu/wp-content/uploads/programme_pseudoplatonica_15_mars_2019.pdf

Radboud University

Plato and Contemporary Political Thought 

From Nietzsche to Badiou

Description and organization

The aim of this international conference is to explore and discuss Plato’s multifarious impact on contemporary political thought. Plato’s influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century political philosophy can hardly be overestimated. It is fascinating to notice the very broad range of highly diverse, and sometimes even opposite, interpretations that characterize the reception of Platonic political philosophy in contemporary thought. Virtually all the major modern and contemporary political thinkers (such as Agamben, Arendt, Badiou, Cavarero, Derrida, Foucault, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, Patočka, Popper, Stiegler, Strauss, Weil, just to name a few examples) have been engaged in a profound conversation with Plato. Far from being a mere erudite or historical exercise, this deep and enduring interest in Plato provides clear evidence that he remains a crucial reference point and a source of inspiration for all those who want to rethink the political.

Programme

30 January 2019

Room: Erasmus Building, E15.39-41
10:15-10:30 Opening
10:30-12:00 Jussi Backman (Jyväskylä, Finland)
Politics of the Idea: (Anti-)Platonic Politics in Arendt and Badiou

Room: Erasmus Building, E15.39-41
14:00-15:00 Federico Stella (Roma, Italy)
Leo Strauss’ Medieval Understanding of Plato
15:00-16:00 Marina Marren (Cairo, Egypt)
The Enemy Within: Schmitt’s Key Ideas as Failures of Plato’s “Statesman”

31 January 2019

Room:Grotius Building, GR1.112
10:30-11:30 Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Politics of Exile: Present-day Readings of the Myth of Er
11:30-12:30 Cristina Basili (Barcelona, Spain)
Leo Strauss and the Problem of Irony in Plato’s “Republic”

Room: Erasmus Building, E.1.17
14:00-15:30 Mauro Bonazzi (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
From Wilamowitz to Nazism: The Invention of Plato’s Political Philosophy

Contact

Registration is required. Send an email to: a.cimino@ftr.ru.nl

(Text by the organizers)

Link

http://www.ru.nl/ptrs/chps/

L’héritage philosophique de l’Antiquité

à l’époque tardo-antique et médiévale

Ousia : essence ou substance ?

Programme

17 janvier, 14h30-18h30,Sorbonne Université, Maison de la recherche, salle D040 (rdc)

Franco Ferrari (Univ. de Salerno) : Le terme ousia représente-t-il chez Platon un pollachos legomenon ?

Elsa Grasso (Univ. de Nice) : L’ousia dans le Sophiste et le Théétète

 

7 février, 14h30-18h30,Sorbonne Université, Maison de la recherche, salle D040 (rdc)

Francesco Aronadio (Univ. Roma 2 Tor Vergata) : Neither substance nor essence: Plato’s ousia

Pauliina Remes (Univ. d’Uppsala) : Ousia thematic in Plotinus

 

21 mars, 14h30-18h30,Sorbonne Université, Maison de la recherche, salle D040 (rdc)

Adrien Lecerf (Centre Léon Robin, CNRS-Sorbonne Univ.) : Essence, puissance, activité dans l’Antiquité tardive

Izabela Jurasz (Centre Léon Robin, CNRS-Sorbonne Univ.) : Ituta – itya – itye : comment Bardesane et Éphrem décrivent l’ousia de Dieu

 

11 avril, 14h30-18h30,Sorbonne Université, Maison de la recherche, salle D040 (rdc)

Eyjolfur K. Emilsson (Univ. d’Oslo) : Being and thinking in Plotinus: which comes first or are they equal?

Sylvain Roux (Univ. de Poitiers) : L’ousia, le substrat et le problème de l’intellection selon Plotin

 

16 mai, 14h30-18h30,Sorbonne Université, Maison de la recherche, salle D040 (rdc)

Annick Jaulin (Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) : Ousia et sterêsis chez Aristote

Silvia Fazzo (Milan) : Retour sur ousia chez Aristote et Alexandre d’Aphrodise

 

13 juin, 14h-19h,Sorbonne Université, Maison de la recherche, salle D040 (rdc)

Francesco Fronterotta (Univ. de Rome La Sapienza) : Le modèle, la copie, le réceptacle : l’ousia et ses degrés dans le Timée de Platon

Cristina Viano (Centre Léon Robin, CNRS-Sorbonne Univ.) : Ousia et matière : l’énigme de la prôtê hulê

Enrico Berti (Univ. de Padoue) : Substance et essence, entre Aristote et Thomas d’Aquin

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

http://www.centreleonrobin.fr/recherche/seminaires-2/l%E2%80%99h%C3%A9ritage-philosophique-de-l%E2%80%99antiquit%C3%A9-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99%C3%A9poque-tardo-antique-et-m%C3%A9di%C3%A9vale-ousia

Platão

Cornelli, Gabriele (coord.); Lopes, Rodolfo (coord.), São Paulo: Paulus, 2018

Descrição

O que esperar de um compêndio a Platão em língua portuguesa? Antes de mais nada, que possa constituir-se em uma chave de entrada no vasto e profundo mar dos estudos platônicos com a marca da diversidade de abordagens que constituem hoje quiçá a característica mais marcante da scholarship lusófona, especialmente quando comparada com outras comunidades geopolíticas, mais marcadas por certa homogeneidade de estilos e hermenêuticas. O leitor encontrará nesta obra uma polifonia de metodologias e referências que desejam conduzi-lo a um olhar mais abrangente e generoso para com Platão e seus comentadores. A busca pela diversidade de abordagens levou os editores também a convidar para este projeto estudiosos não-lusófonos de primeira-linha. Ao mesmo tempo em que estes contribuem em sua totalidade com contribuições originais traduzidas para o português, a seleção de cada um deles teve como critério o seu histórico de cooperação com a comunidade de platonistas de língua portuguesa, notoriamente aberta a diálogos fecundos com as tradições mais variadas.

(Texto da editora)

Índice

Vida – Fialho, Maria do Céu; Koike, Katsuzo

Academia– Cornelli, Gabriele

Doutrinas não-escritas– Mesquita, António Pedro

Ordenação dos Diálogos – Lopes, Rodolfo

 Pré-Socráticos – Bordoy, Francesc Casadesús

 Sofistas – McKirahan, Richard

 Sócrates – Benoit, Hector

 Linguagem – Santos, José Gabriel Trindade

 Dialética – Casertano, Giovanni

 Epistemologia – Fronterotta, Francesco

 Teoria das Ideias – Ferrari, Franco

 Cosmologia – Brisson, Luc

 Matemática – Puente, Fernando Rey

 Princípios – Perine, Marcelo

 Psicologia – Robinson, Tom

 Ética e política – Vegetti, Mario

 Gênero – Renaut, Olivier

 Medicina – Marino, Silvio

 Religião – Bernabé, Alberto

 Retórica – Lopes, Daniel Rossi Nunes

 Poética – Santoro, Fernando

Link: https://pombalina.uc.pt/pt-pt/livro/plat%C3%A3o_0

Plato Latinus

Aspects de la transmission de Platon en Latin dans l’Antiquité

Jean-Baptiste Guillaumin et Carlos Lévy (éd.), Turnhout: Brepolis, 2018

Description

Recueil d’études sur la présence du platonisme dans la littérature latine antique.
Si Platon constitue, pour les auteurs latins, une autorité et une figure de référence, la philosophie “platonicienne” a connu, de l’époque tardo-républicaine à l’Antiquité tardive, de nombreuses adaptations et réinterprétations dans la littérature latine, de l’œuvre pionnière d’un Cicéron à la somme théorique léguée au Moyen Âge par un Boèce. De fait, durant cet intervalle de quelque six siècles, les auteurs qui se réclament de Platon adoptent successivement différentes attitudes philosophiques à l’égard du corpus platonicien et recourent à toute une gamme de genres et de formes littéraires pour en exposer les contours. Ils se sont montrés fidèles en cela à la tradition platonicienne qui, dès l’origine, a refusé de se figer dans une orthodoxie dogmatique. Sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, les différentes contributions réunies dans ce volume cherchent à apporter des éclairages complémentaires sur les différents moments du platonisme latin et sur la variété des approches qui le caractérisent, mettant ainsi en évidence la richesse protéiforme du Plato Latinus.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

C. Lévy & J.-B. Guillaumin, Présentation
T. Reinhardt, Antiochus of Ascalon on Epistemology in the Academic Tradition
F. Renaud, Le projet platonicien d’une rhétorique philosophique et son rapport à la politique chez Cicéron
F. Prost, Le Laelius de Cicéron et le Lysis de Platon
P. Donini, Le fonti medioplatoniche di Seneca : Antioco, la conoscenza e le idee – reprise d’un article de 1977
C. Moreschini, Dio e dèi in Apuleio
A. Setaioli, La citazione di Plotino in Servio, ad. Aen. 9.182
J.-B. Guillaumin, De la représentation mythologique à l’ontologie néoplatonicienne : rôle et statut des dieux chez Martianus Capella
B. Bakhouche, Les Hebraica dans le Commentaire au Timée de Calcidius
A.-I. Bouton-Touboulic, Os illud Platonis : Platonisme, scepticisme et néoplatonisme dans le Contra Academicos d’Augustin
Min-Jun Huh, Les questions sur les universaux dans le premier commentaire de Boèce à l’Isagogè et le débat Plotin-Porphyre autour de l’ousia
Bibliographie générale
Index locorum

Lien

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503577890-1

University of Oslo – Department of Classics

Plato and the Ancient Platonic Tradition

Programme

Friday 9th November

13.00 – 13.15: Welcome – Tea/Coffee

13.15 – 14.30: Klaus Corcilius– Universität Tübingen, ‘Practical Reasoning and Participation in the Timaeus

14.30 – 15.45: Pauliina Remes – Uppsala Universitet, ‘From Conversational Virtues to Dialogical Epistemology: Plato and his Commentators’

15.45 – 16.15: Tea/Coffee

16.15 – 17.30: Riccardo Chiaradonna –Università degli studi Roma Tre, ‘‘Existence’ in Neoplatonist Metaphysics’

18.30: Dinner for speakers

Saturday 10th November

9.30 – 10.45: Alexandra Michalewski – Centre Léon Robin, ‘Perception, Recollection and Self-knowledge in Plotinus and other Platonists’

10.45 – 12.00: Jan Opsomer– Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Argumentative structures and strategies in Proclus’ Elements of Theology

12.00 – 12.45: Lunch

12.45 – 14.00: Jonathan Beere– Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘Plato on Why Cities are Ruled’

14.00 – 15.15: Rusty Jones– Harvard University, ‘The Real Challenge of Plato’s Republic

15.15 – 15.45: Tea/Coffee

15.45 – 17.00: Panos Dimas– Universitetet i Oslo, ‘False Pleasures in the Philebus

17.00 – 18.15: David Ebrey – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘The Philosopher’s Courage and the Right Exchange’

20.15: Conference dinner for speakers and local researchers at the restaurant Olympen, Grønlandsleiret 15.

The Conference is funded by the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas and The Research Council of Norway, and is hosted by the Society for Ancient Philosophy at UiO.

Contact

Time and place: Nov. 9, 2018 – Nov. 10, 2018 2:00 PM, Room 452, Georg Morgenstierne’s House

(Text by the organizers)

Link

https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2018/plato-and-the-ancient.html

Centre Jean Pépin et LEM

Séminaire d’initiation à la philosophie antique

Le Phèdre de Platon

 

 

Description et organisation

Séminaire d’initiation à la philosophie antique. Centre Jean Pépin et LEM dans le cadre du département de philosophie de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm – Platonisme et Néoplatonisme organisé par Luc Brisson, Pierre Caye et Philippe Hoffmann. Les séances auront lieu les lundis de 15h à 17h Salle L. 369 Département de Physique École Normale Supérieure 24 rue Lhomond (3éme étage)- 75005 Paris. 

Programme

8 octobre 2018 : Luc Brisson, Titres et structure du Phèdre

15 octobre 2018 : André Rehbinder, De l’epideixis au dithyrambe : étude du rapport entre les deux premiers discours du Phèdre.

12 novembre 2018 : Monique Dixsaut, De quelle dialectique Socrate peut-il être amoureux ?

19 novembre 2018 : Luc Brisson, Le mythe central du Phèdre ; source de la doctrine platonicienne de l’âme.

26 novembre 2018 : Sandra Boehringer, Une eau d’une autre source pour la cruche socratique : l’erôs de Sappho dans le Phèdre.

3 décembre 2018 : Emmanuelle Jouet-Pastré, Le jeu de l’écriture dans le Phèdre.

10 décembre 2018 : Giuseppe Cambiano, La rhétorique comme technique dans le Phèdre.

17 décembre 2018 Alexis Pinchard, La langue des dieux chez Platon : un mythe heuristique ?

14 janvier 2018 : Anne Gabrièle Wersinger, Le discours de Lysias.

21 janvier 2019 : Arnaud Macé, La « Pharmacie de Platon». Derrida interprète du Phèdre.

28 janvier 2019 : Dimitri El Murr, Eros et philia dans le Phèdre.

4 février 2019 : Vivien Longhi, De quelles médecines est-il question dans le Phèdre de Platon ?

11 février 2019 : Philippe Hoffmann, Le Phèdre et les doctrines néoplatoniciennes de l’ascension de l’âme (Plotin, Proclus).

Contact

Département de Physique École Normale Supérieure 24 rue Lhomond (3éme étage)- 75005 Paris. 

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

https://umr8230.cnrs.fr/

Platonic Pathways

John F Finamore and Danielle A. Layne, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

This anthology of 16 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2016 annual conference.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

The Significance of Initiation Rituals in Plato’s Meno – Michael Romero

Plato’s Timaean Psychology – John Finamore

The Creative Thinker: A New Reading of Numenius fr. 16.10-12 – Joshua Langseth

First Philosophy, Abstract Objects, and Divine Aseity: Aristotle and Plotinus – Robert M. Berchman

Plotinus on philia and its Empedoclean origin – Giannis Stamatellos

In What Sense Does the One Exist? Existence and Hypostasis in Plotinus – Michael Wiitala and Paul DiRado

A Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry – Seamus O’Neill

Alienation and Divinization: Iamblichus’ Theurgic Vision – Gregory Shaw

Iamblichus’ method for creating Theurgic Sacrifice – Sam Webster

The Understanding of Time and Eternity in the polemic between Eunomius, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa – Tomasz Stępień

Tension in the soul: A Stoic/Platonic concept in Plutarch, Proclus, and Simplicius – Marilynn Lawrence

Peritrope in Damascius as the Apparatus of Speculative Ontology – Tyler Tritten

Mysticism, Apocalypticism, and Platonism – Ilaria Ramelli

Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics – Bethany Parsons

From Embryo to Saint: a Thomist Account of Being Human – Melissa Rovig Vanden Bout

From the Neoplatonizing Christian Gnosticism of Philip K. Dick to the Neoplatonizing Hermetic Gnosticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson – Jay Bregman

Link

https://brill.com/view/journals/jpt/14/1/article-p87_13.xml?language=en

Ebhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Seelenreisen in antiker philosophischer Literatur

Beschreibung und Organisation

Vor dem Hintergrund eines sich gesellschaftlich wie wissenschaftlich abzeichnenden neuen Interesses an philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen der ‚Seele’ will dieses Projekt eine für antike, vor allem vorsokratische, orphisch-pythagoreische, platonische, jüdische und christliche Seelenkonzeptionen wesentliche konstituierende Komponente – die Unsterblichkeit der menschlichen Seele – konkreter in den Blick nehmen und anhand des heuristischen Paradigmas der Seelenreise sowohl nach historischen Entwicklungen als auch nach systematischen Denkfiguren unter Berücksichtigung der jeweiligen literarischen und Überlieferungs-Kontexte analysieren.

Tagungsprogramm

MONTAG, 30. JULI 2018

ab 13.00 Uhr- Tagungsbüro, Kaffee und Erfrischungen

14.00‒14.15 Uhr Begrüßung

14.15‒15.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Ioannis Kalogerakos (Athen) Seelenreisen und Raumvorstellungen der Frühzeit

15.00‒15.45 Uhr Prof. Dr. Christoph Riedweg (Zürich) Pythagoreische Jenseitsvorstellungen – eine Spurensuche

15.45‒16.15 Uhr Kaffeepause

16.15‒17.00 Uhr Dr. Alessandro Stavru (Neapel/Mailand) Pythagoreische Seelenreisen bei Aristophanes

17.00‒17.45 Uhr Prof. Dr. Mauro Tulli (Pisa) Homer und Hesiod bei Platon: der Seelenmythos im Phaidon

17.45‒18.30 Uhr Kleiner Empfang

18.30‒20.00 Uhr Abendvortrag Prof. Dr. Jan Bremmer (Groningen) The Journey of Thespesios in the Light of his Predecessors Gemeinsames Abendessen der Referentinnen und Referenten

DIENSTAG, 31. JULI 2018

9.30‒10.15 Uhr Prof. Dr. Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui (Madrid) Hail, Soul, Thou Shalt Be King Hereafter! Political Imagery in the Greek Afterlife Journeys

10.15‒11.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Gernot M. Müller (Eichstätt) Römische Seelenwanderungen: Ciceros Auffassungen von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele im Horizont seiner Begründung einer Philosophie in Rom

11.00‒11.15 Uhr Kaffeepause

11.15‒12.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Enno Edzard Popkes (Kiel) Begegnungen von Platonismus und frühem Christentum im Diskursuniversum „Seelenwanderung“: aktuelle Potenziale antiker Denkwelten

12.00‒14.00 Uhr Mittagspause

14.00‒14.45 Uhr Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jens Halfwassen (Heidelberg) Etwas in uns bleibt immer oben: Plotins Lehre vom nicht-abgestiegenen Seelengrund

14.45‒15.30 Uhr Prof. Dr. Irmgard Männlein-Robert (Tübingen) Reisen der Seele durch Körper, Raum und Text: Porphyrios’ De antro nympharum ab

16.00 Uhr Führung durch das Evangelische Stift Gemeinsames Abendessen der Referentinnen und Referenten

MITTWOCH, 1. AUGUST 2018

9.00‒9.45 Uhr Prof. Dr. Volker Drecoll (Tübingen) Wo bleibt die Seele nach dem Tod? Augustins Aussagen über seelische und körperliche Auferstehung

9.45‒10.30 Uhr Dr. Dmitrij Bumazhnov (Göttingen) Die Reisen des Intellekts und der Baum des Bösen im syrischen Buch des heiligen Hierotheos aus dem 6. Jh. n. Chr.

10.30‒10.45 Uhr Kaffepause 10.45‒11.30 Uhr Prof. Dr. Matthias Perkams (Jena) Seelenreise durch die Himmel. Die Ursache der Gründung von Schulen des Barhadbeschabbas

11.30‒12.15 Uhr Prof. Dr. Jörg Robert (Tübingen) Ekstase und Epistemologie – Athanasius Kirchers Iter exstaticum

12.15‒13.00 Uhr Schlussdiskussion

Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Irmgard Männlein-Robert

irmgard.maennlein-robert@uni-tuebingen.de

(Text der Veranstalter) 

Link

https://fit.uni-tuebingen.de/Project/Details?id=5947

International Plato Society

 Plato’s heritage in historical perspective

intellectual transformations and new research strategies

 

Description and organization

The International Plato Society (IPS) is pleased to announce the colloquium “Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies”, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia on the 28th and 30th of August 2018.

The colloquium will serve as a platform for the IPS Executive Committee’s mid-term meeting.

The study of Plato’s heritage is a way of diagnosing modernity – in so far as it is made explicit in philosophical discourse. This is precisely why intellectual transformations and new research strategies are relevant themes for both international and Russian Plato studies.

We propose the following topics for the colloquium:

  1. The history of Plato interpretation as an element of the evolution of European culture. Different periods and tendencies of interpretive programs. Schools of thought and intellectual trends which shaped and determined the study of Plato in the 19th and 20th centuries. The specifics of the study of Plato’s heritage in different disciplinary traditions such as classical philology or the history of philosophy. The role of Plato interpretation in various philosophical projects and the “turns” of European philosophy and culture. Plato in Russia.
  2. Contemporary strategies of studying Plato. The problems of the “Plato’s corpus”: its unity and its role in the context of the Academy, its educational program and the strategies of interaction with the outside, non-academic social world of Plato’s time. The perspectives for and the limits of the chronological approach to Plato’s texts. Problems relating to genre characteristics. The particularities of modern stylometric investigations.
  3. The experience of translating Plato into modern languages and publishing Plato’s texts. Problems of style and terminological accuracy. Commentary as an element of the translation and the publishing of a classical text. Typology of contemporary commentaries, structure and “plot organization” of existing contemporary Plato editions.

Institutions

The colloquium will be supported by the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia and the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. All meetings will take place in the historical center of St. Petersburg.

Organizing committee 

Chairman of the organizing committee: Prof. Roman Svetlov (Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities), chairman of the “Plato Philosophy Society”.

Co-moderators of the program organizing committee:

  • Lead researcher, Editor-in-Chief of the “Platonic Investigations / Πλατωνικὰ ζητήματα” Irina Protopopova, PhD (Russian State University for the Humanities),
  • Prof. Lev Letyagin (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia)
  • Prof. Dmitry Shmonin (Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities),
  • Prof. Igor Goncharov (Syktyvkar State University).

Members of the organizing committee:

  • Dmitry Kurdybajlo (Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities)
  • Irina Mochalova (Saint Petersburg State University)
  • Elena Alymova (Saint Petersburg State University)
  • Tatiana Litvin (Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities)

The publication of the colloquium materials

The texts of the colloquium will be published in our periodical “Platonic Investigations/ Πλατωνικὰ ζητήματα”. 

Preliminary colloquium program

  • Day 1 –  two plenary sessions (11.00- 14.00; 15.00- 18.00; 3-4 reports per session), reception.
  • Day 2 – the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Platonic society (11.00- 13.00) and plenary session (13.30- 18.00 – 5-6 reports).
  • Day 3 – Sections sessions (11.00 – 18.00). 18.00 – closing remarks.

Procedure and deadlines

Please, send estimated titles of your papers (we are preparing preliminary program of Conference for institution’s officials in January).

Please send the abstracts (300-500 words, prepared for blind-review) by 1 May 2018 to plato.spb@gmail.com.

Working languages

The working languages of the conference are Russian and English. We propose that the participants send their papers in ahead of time, so that translations can be prepared and then displayed on a separate screen during the presentation.

The study of Plato in Russia

The first systematic translations of Plato’s heritage into Russian have been produced in the 18th century, however separate fragments translated into Old Russian appear in various florilegiums dating back to 12th-16th centuries. The differences in interpretation of Plato in Russia are connected to the different historical periods and the development of modern forms of education and science, particularly following the reforms of Peter the Great. The study of Plato in Russia has always had a philosophical, scientific and cultural importance. There exists a culturally ingrained myth of the “Platonism” of the russian soul, inclined to a contemplative kind of spirituality; a Platonism of a Christian “Byzantine” variety. Even during the Soviet Union the study of Greek antiquity, including Plato, continued even though it acquired a specific character.

Nevertheless, the institutionalization of these studies has only become possible in the 1990s. Since 1993 a yearly conference, “The universe of Plato’s thought”, takes place in St.Petersburg. Since 2012 yearly Plato conferences take place in Moscow.  Both in St.Petersburg and in Moscow, a number of international Plato specialists have participated. In 2014 the “Plato Philosophical Society”, which closely cooperates with the IPS, has been officially registered. One of its main goals is to lay the groundwork for the publication of new Russian translations of Plato, amongst other things by facilitating the uptake of the rich international experience of analyzing and translating Plato. Since 2014 the “Plato Philosophical Society” publish a periodical “Platonic Investigations / Πλατωνικὰ ζητήματα”, a number of influential international Platonists among its authors and members of its Advisory Committee.

Contact

plato.spb@gmail.com

(Text by the organizers)

Link

https://platosociety.org/call-for-papers-platos-heritage-in-historical-perspective-intellectual-transformations-and-new-research-strategies-st-petersburg-august-28th-30th-2018/