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
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