2010 ISNS Madrid Conference

LIST OF PANELS AND PAPERS

Panel 1. Dionysius the Areopagite between Orthodoxy and Heresy (Filip Ivanovic, filiwycat@yahoo.com, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

1.1.

Levan Gigineishvili (Tbilisi State University, Georgia): "Pseudo-Dionysius and Shota Rustaveli" 

Sergei Mariev (Ludwig-Maximilians University at Munich, Germany): "The Beauty of the epistrophé. (Dionysius and the Neoplatonic Tradition)"

José María Nieva (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina): "Semántica del eikón y participación en Dionisio Areopagita"

1.2.

Pietro Podolak (University of Würzburg, Germany): "Platonismo e cristianesimo nello ps.Dionigi Areopagita"

Graciela Ritacco (Universidad Católica de La Plata / Universidad del Salvador, Argentina): "La Teurgia entre Unidad y pluralidad. Dionisio del Areópago, Los Nombres Divinos"

Denyza Sumbadze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia): "The Bible and the Areopagitic Teaching"

Ysabel de Andía (CNRS, France): “Réflexions méthodologiques sur les sources et influences sur le Corpus dionysien”

Panel 2. Friendship in Various Traditions (Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., gary.gurtler@bc.edu, Boston College, USA, and Suzanne Stern-Gillet, s.stern-gillet@bolton.ac.uk, University of Bolton and University of Manchester, UK)

2.1.

Albert Joosse (Utrecht University, Neederland): “Self-knowledge and the need for friendship in Plato”

Gary Gurtler, SJ.: “Aristotle on Friendship: Insight from the Four Causes”

Suzanne Stern-Gillet: “Why is the friendship of the small-minded not worth having?”

2.2.

Jean-Philippe Ranger (St. Thomas University, Canada): “Could Aristotle’s Community of Philoi be a Political Community?”

Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (University of Genoa, Italy): “Aristotle’s account of civic friendship”

Sahan Evren (Middle East Technical University, Turkey): “Philia and Democracy: Aspasius' fallacy in NE1159b25-1161b10”

Bernard Collette (University of Liege, Belgium): “Making friends: the Stoic conception of love and its Platonic background”

2.3.

Robin Weiss (DePaul University, USA): “Cicero on friendship after Plato: De amicitia alongside The Symposium”

Tamer Nawar (Queen's College Cambridge, UK): “Augustine on Friendship and Altruism”

Ana Palanciuc (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France): “Philia-agapè dans la cosmologie de Maxime de Chrysopolis (~580-662)”

Sandra Ducic (Durham University, UK): “Hölderlin on Friendship”

Panel 3. Neoplatonic Interpretation of the ‘Socratic’: Olympiodorus and Beyond (Harold Tarrant, Harold.Tarrant@newcastle.edu.au, University of Newcastle, Australia)

Michael Griffin (Oriel College, Oxford, UK): "Hypostasizing Socrates"

James M. Ambury (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA): "Neoplatonic Commentaries on Plato’s Alcibiades I"

François Renaud (Université de Moncton, Canada): "Les stratégies réfutatives de Socrate : l’Alcibiade majeur et le commentaire d’Olympiodore"

Danielle A. Layne (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium): "Proclus and the Integrity of Dramatic Form in Plato’s Dialogues:  The Character of Socrates in the Parmenides and the Alcibiades I"

Harold Tarrant: "Neoplatonist Sensitivity to the Voices of the Platonic Socrates"

Panel 4. Neoplatonism and Contemporary Science (Michael Chase, goya@vjf.cnrs.fr, CNRS, France)

Anna Djintcharadze (Boston College, USA): “Truth and Method. Do Quantum Theory and Anthropology need Neoplatonic Epistemology?”

Daniel Regnier (University of Saskatchewan, Canada): “Life and the Arrow of Time: Some points of congruence between Plotinus' and Prigogine's theories of time”

Robert Zaborowski (University of Warmia and Mazury & Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): “Plotinus on Emotions and its Relevance to Modern Research on Affectivity”

Michael Chase: “Whitehead and Damascius on Time”

Panel 5. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism (Dylan Burns, dylan.burns@yale.edu, Yale University, USA, and Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, luciana.soares@tiscali.it, EPHE–CNRS, France)

5.1.

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete: “Le platonisme gnosticisant et l’histoire du platonisme”

Aláya Dullius (University of Brasilia, Brazil): “The Unknowable One. Plotinus and the Apocryphon of John”

Nicholas J. Baker-Brian (Cardiff University, UK): “Christ is an Intellect’: Alexander of Lycopolis against the Manichaeans and the Philosophical Translation of a Gnosticising Cosmogony”

5.2.

Zeke Mazur (University of Chicago, USA): “The Delphic Maxim “Know Yourself” as Ritual Praxis: Self–Knowledge and Self–Apprehension in Gnosticism and the Roots of Plotinian Mysticism”

Menahem Luz (University of Haifa, Israel): “God an Intelligible World”.

Jean-Marc Narbonne (Université de Laval, Canada): "The Gnostic context of the causa sui argument in Plotinus Treatise 39”

Panel 6. Platonism, Freedom, Providence, and Fate (Jean-Michel Charrue, jmcharrue@aol.com, Institut Saint-Pierre, France, and Marilynn Lawrence, pronoia@nni.com)

6.1.

Simon Fortier (Université de Laval, Canada): “The mechanics of providence: An analysis of questions three and four of Proclus’ De decem dubitationes circa providentiam”

Dylan Burns (Yale University, USA): “Election, Providence, and Polemics between Plotinus and the Sethian Gnostics”

Jean-Michel Charrue: “Providence ou liberté : Porphyre”

6.2.

Marcus Reis Pinheiro (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil): “Cosmology, Astrology and Conscience in Plotinus”

Emilie Kutash (Boston University, USA): “The Mortal Soul at the Crossroads: Proclus on Fate and Providence”

Carl O’Brien (University College Cork, Ireland): “Divine Foreknowledge, Metaphysics and Fate: the Middle Platonist/ Stoic Debate”

6.3.

Laurent Lavaud (Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France): “La liberté divine chez Plotin et Grégoire de Nysse : filiation et rupture”

Crystal Addey (Cardiff University, UK): “Manifesting the Gods: Divination, Divine Providence and Will in Iamblichus’ De mysteriis”

Andrei Timotin (EPHE-CNRS, France): “Théories moyen-platoniciennes de la providence «démonique». Sources et variations”

Panel 7. The Descent, Ascent, and Dual Nature of the Soul (John Finamore, john-finamore@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa, USA)

7.1.

J. Noel Hubler (Lebanon Valley College, USA): "Plotinus on Cognition:  Aristotle and the Stoics in the service of Plato"

Eric J. Morelli (Emory University, USA): "Plotinus’ Two Interpretations of the Mixing of the Soul"

Maria Picone (Rice University, USA): "A Numbers Game: On the Interconnectivity of Matter, Soul and the One in Plotinus"

7.2.

Daniela P. Taormina (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy): "Giamblico: duplicità dell’anima e causa dell’agire umano"

Tuomo Lankila (University of Helsinki, Finland): "Comparing Neoplatonist Theories of Soul's Mystical Faculty"

Wiebke-Marie Stock (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): "Images of the ascent of the soul in late antiquity"

7.3.

John F. Finamore: "The 'Common Intellect' and the Platonic 'Irrational Soul' in Themistius"

John Phillips (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA): “Soul and Intellect in the Platonist Tradition”

Anna Corrias (The Warburg Institute,University of London, UK): "Imagination and Memory in Marsilio Ficino’s Theory of the Vehicles of the Soul"

Panel 8. The Figure of Syrianus in the Athenian School of Platonism (Sarah Klitenic Wear, sklitenic@yahoo.com, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA)

Angela Longo (Université de Genève, Swiss): “L’elogio di Siriano e i proemi dottrinali procliani"

John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): “The Ubiquity of Divinity according to Iamblichus and Syrianus”

Sarah Klitenic Wear: “Syrianus on the Demiurge and the Mixing Bowl”

Panel 9. Platonic and Aristotelian Commentary in a Neoplatonic Register (Emilie Kutash, eeekut@optonline.net, Boston University, USA)

Peter Lautner (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary): “Accounting for a lack”

Marc-Antoine Gavray (University of Liege, Belgium): “Confronting Ideas: an example of litigious harmonization by Simplicius"

Owen Goldin (Marquette University, USA): “Philoponus, Forms and Predicative Chains”

Marilynn Lawrence: “Platonized Chance or Luck in Simplicius and Philoponus”

 

Panel 10. Neoplatonist Epistemology and the Limits of Reason (Cinzia Arruzza, cinzia_arruzza@yahoo.it, University of Bonn, Germany, and Damian Caluori, dcaluori@trinity.edu, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA)

Giovanna Ceresola (Università di Genova, Italy): “Quel che si vede della verità: appunti di gnoseologia agostiniana”

Gary Gabor (Fordham University, USA): “The dispute between Porphyry and Iamblichus on Division”

Robert Van der Berg (Leiden University, Neederland): “False opinion in Plotinus”

François Lortie (Université de Laval, Canada / École Pratique des Hautes Études, France): “The Limits of Human Thought in Late Neoplatonism”

Panel 11. Neoplatonismo Medieval: sus fuentes y su posteridad (Oscar Federico Bauchwitz, neoplatonismo@bol.com.br, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, and Cicero C. Bezerra, cicerobezerra@hotmail.com, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brasil)

11.1.

Catalina Cubillos (Universidad de Navarra, Spain): “Apofatismo y neoplatonismo en la teoría de los nombres divinos de Nicolás de Cusa”

Claudia D’Amico (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina): “Proclus latinus: su gravitación en la Edad Media a través de Bertoldo de Moosburgo y Nicolás de Cusa”

Jesús de Garay (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): "La recepción de Proclo en Nicolás de Cusa"

11.2.

Edrisi Fernandes (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil): “Fuentes clásicas del entendimiento medieval de la materialidad inteligible”

Celso Martins Azar Filho (Université Fédérale du Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): “Scepticisme et néoplatonisme dans les Essais de Montaigne”

Cecília Cintra Cavaleiro de Macedo (Universidade Federal de São Paulo / Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil): “Ibn Gabirol y la materia como camino”

Miguel Saralegui (Universidad de Navarra, Spain): “Maquiavelo platónico: los límites de la interpretación realista de Maquiavelo”

11.3.

Natalia Soledad Strok (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina): “El pensamiento de Eriúgena en la historiografía alemana moderna: Brucker y Rixner”

Jorge Augusto Da Silva Santos (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil): “Tradizione platonica e cristianesimo nel dialogo Peri psyches kaì anastáseos  di Gregorio di Nissa: “status quaestionis”

Cicero Cunha Bezerra: “La mística neoplatónica: para allá de lo sagrado y de lo profano”

Magda Mchedlidze (Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Georgia): “Les tendances néoplatoniciennes dans la pensée théologique de l’Orient chrétien aux XIe-XIIe siècles (Michel Psellos, Jean Italos, Ioané Petritsi)”

11.4.

A. David K. Owen  (Harvard University, USA): “El collar y la paloma: Ibn Hazm comentador del Sumposion de Platón”

Mikheil Makharadze (Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Adjara / Scientific Council of Philosophical  Institute,  Georgia): "Areopagitics and Rustaveli"

Oscar Federico Bauchwitz: “Pobreza y Necesidad en Heidegger y Eckhart: para una mística del cotidiano”

Panel 12. How is it possible for the individual soul to unite with the One in Neoplatonism?  And is it a mystical experience? / Comment l'âme humaine individuelle arrive-t-elle à s'unir à l'Un dans le Néoplatonisme? (Luc Brisson, lbrisson@agalma.net, CNRS, France)

Vishwa Alduri: "Plato´s Saving Mythos: The Language of Salvation in The Republic"

Giampaolo Abbate (University of Lisbon, Portugal): "The mystical experience in Plotinus towards two kinds of supra-rational contemplation"

Anna Gierlińska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland): “The problem of a mystical experience in the light of the philosophy of Proclus. Some remarks on On the sacred art” 

Lela Alexidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia): “One in the Beings and One within Us: Basis of the Union with the One in Petritsi’s Interpretation of Proclus’ Elements”

Loraine Oliveira (Université de Brasilia, Brazil): “Notes sur Eros: le regard amoureux de l'Âme vers l'Un chez Plotin”

Oiva Kuisma (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Proclus on Mystical Experience” 

Panel 13. Stromata. Neoplatonic Questions (José M. Zamora, jm.zamora@uam.es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

13.1.

José Baracat Jr. (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): "How and for whom did Plotinus write?" 

Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "Plotinus’  historiography"

Atsushi Sumi (Hanazono University, Japan): "Plotinus on Sophist 248E6-249A2"

Malena Tonelli (Universidad de Buenos Aires–CONICET, Argentina): "La exégesis de Plotino del Timeo de Platón. Un análisis de la relación entre el demiurgo y la segunda hipóstasis"

David G. Santos (University of Lisbon, Portugal): “The Religious Ontology in Plotinus”

13.2.

Matthias Vorwerk (The Catholic University of America, USA): “If There is a ‘Demon-Itself’, Then He also is a God.” (Enn. III.5 [50] 6.20). Some Reflections on Plotinus’ Demonology"

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (The Florida State University, USA): "Plotinian Motifs in the pseudo-Galenic De Spermate"

Thomas Vidart (Université de Caen, France): "Unification and Division in the Activities of the Soul: the conditions of Knowledge in Plotinus' thought"

Charles Snyder (New School for Social Research, USA): "Desire and Need in Plotinus' Intellect"

José M. Zamora: "Contexts of sympátheia in Plotinus"

13.3.

Daniel Regnier (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Canada): "Heroism and the Heraclean Soul in Plotinus’ Ethics"

Judith Omtzigt (University of Heidelberg, Germany): "The moral status of the Plotinian artist"

Miguel Salmerón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): “El arte como ‘doble espiritualización’ en Plotino”

Giannis Stamatellos (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "Plotinus’ concept of matter in Giordano Bruno’s De la causa, principio e uno"

13.4.

Nancy Ellen Ogle (University of Maine, USA): "Voices in the Cave: A Platonic Reading of Apuleius’ The Transformations of Lucius"

Antoni Bordoy (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain): “Some Questions about the Orphic infuence on the Neo-platonic theory of Soul”

Gabriela Müller (Universidad de Buenos Aires–CONICET, Argentina): "La doctrina de los tres dioses de Numenio"

José Gaspar Birlanga (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): “De la materia a la luz. La impronta neoplatónica en la pintura contemporánea: de Kandinsky a Rothko”

Luke Gardiner (University of Cambridge, UK): "Indeterminacy and the Historian: Rethinking Cosmology and Epistemology in the Historia Ecclesiastica of Socrates Scholasticus"

13.5.

Robert M. Berchman (Dowling College and Bard College, USA): "Toward a Definition of Nous and Geist Metaphysics. A Philosophical Tradition"

José Miguel Vicente Pecino (SAFA-San Luis, S.J. High School, Spain): “La tradición neoplatónica en la poesía romántica inglesa, 1757-1850”

Jay Bregman (University of Maine, USA): "Thomas Taylor The Platonist's  American Transcendental  Disciples and  Academic Critics"

13.6.

Daniele Bertini (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy): "A Platonist View on Intentionalism and Content of Experience"

Miriam Byrd (University of Texas at Arlington, USA): "Plato’s Method of Hypothesis in the Early Dialogues"

Tushar Irani (Wesleyan University, USA): "Reason and Value in Platonism"

Claudia Zatta (Wabash College, USA): "Between War and Self-Sufficiency: Aristotle’s Happy Cities" 

Diego Garrocho (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): “Desire, pleasure and passion in Aristotle: a taxonomy of emotions”

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 23 February, 2010)

If you wish to submit an abstract (one-page maximum) for any of the panels (PROPOSED PANELS), please send your abstract directly to the organiser(s) of the panel.

We also welcome individual abstracts for papers that do not fall under any of the panels listed on the first attachment. Please send your abstract (again, one-page maximum) to the three conference organisers:

.John Finamore: john-finamore@uiowa.edu

.Gary M. Gurtler: gurtlerg@bc.edu             

.José M. Zamora: isns2010madrid@gmail.com

All abstracts, whether individual or for inclusion in the panels, are due by 23 February, 2010.

It is not too late to submit a panel proposal for the conference. We are planning to send an addendum out in late January, 2010. Please send your proposal to us (at the addresses above) by 26 January.

Papers may be presented in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian.  It is recommended that those delivering papers in languages other than English provide printed copies to their audience at the conference.

Please note that anyone giving a paper at the conference must be a member of the ISNS.  Membership rights may be obtained through paying the dues for 2009. They are now being accepted on the web site of the Philosophy Documentation Center: http://www.pdcnet.org/member-isns.html Dues are $60.00 per year ($20.00 for students and retirees).   

We ask every participant to make choices for the optional gala dinner at Segovia in advance and to update personal information (to be displayed on the badge) through the Registration. The form is to be e-mailed to isns2010madrid@gmail.com by June 10, 2010.

Conference fee amounts to 25 €. For all payment details, as well as other costs, go to Registration.