Both One and Not One
The Annual Conference
of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Helsinki, 14-16 June
2007
Key note speakers are professor Lloyd P. Gerson (University of
Toronto, with a paper tentatively entitled "From Plato's Good to
Platonic God") and professor Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton University).
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 14 June
Main Building, University of Helsinki
Unioninkatu 34, lecture hall XII.
- Registration from 3.30 to 6 pm.
- Opening of the conference at 4 pm followed by a panel
on publishing chaired by John F. Finamore (University of Iowa)
with Suzanne Stern-Gillet (University of Bolton) and Irene van
Rossum (Brill)
- (for the registered participants only)
Friday, 15 June
Tieteiden talo (The House of Arts and Sciences), Kirkkokatu
6
(lectures open to public)
| Place |
Sali 309 |
Sali 313 |
Sali 401 |
Sali 404 |
| Panel |
Middle-Platonic Sources
Chair: John F. Finamore |
Thinking Beyond Being
Chair: Jussi Backman |
Eternity and Time
Chair: Eric Perl |
19th Century
Influences
Chair: Jay Bregman |
| 9.00-9.45 |
Harold Tarrant (University
of Newcastle, Australia): Middle Platonist Influences: Doctrinal
or Exegetical? |
Brendan O’Byrne (Trinity College,
Dublin): Epekeina tes ousias: Plato, Plotinus and Heidegger |
José Carlos
Baracat Jr.(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil):
Desire and Time in Plotinus |
Jay Bregman (University of
Maine): Neoplatonic Philosophy & Theurgy in The Later
Transcendentalists |
| 9.45-10.30 |
John Dillon (Trinity College,
Dublin): Monism and Dualism in the Platonist Tradition from
Plato to Plotinus |
Jussi Backman (University
of Helsinki): Absolute Unity and Temporal Unity:
Proclus and Heidegger on Plato’s Parmenides |
Deepa
Majumdar (Purdue University North Central): Soul, Self, and
the Appearance of Time in the Enneads of Plotinus |
Erja Lipponen (University
of Maine): Philothea – Nineteenth century New-England Neo-Platonism |
| Break
10.30-10.45 |
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| 10.45-11.30 |
Annick Charles-Saget (Université Paris X-Nanterre): Remarques
sur les expressions de théologie négative avant Plotin |
Triin Kallas: The Eternal
Return of (the Reversal of) the Platonism: A Study of Translations |
Eric Perl
(Loyola Marymount University): Eternity as Paradigmatic Time in Plotinus |
Sandra Dučić-Collette
(University of Köln and University of Göttingen): “Grundbegriffe
und Zukunfts-Möglichkeiten des Humanismus”: How Plato’s Metaphysics
Went Over to Christian Mystik in the Light of Lagerborg’s
Die Platonische Liebe |
| 11.30-12.15 |
John F. Finamore (University
of Iowa): Apuleius, The Chaldaean Oracles, and the Neoplatonic
Gods |
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Ben Schomakers:
Experiencing Eternity. On Conflicting Anthropological Tendencies
in Plotinus |
Tomasz Mróz (University of
Zielona Góra, Poland): Plato’s Works Interpreted by the Representatives
of the Neo-scholastic Movement in Poland |
| Lunch
12.15-13.15 |
|
| Place |
Sali 104 |
| Keynote speaker
13.15-14.30 |
Lloyd
P. Gerson (University of Toronto):
From Plato’s Good to Platonic God |
| Break
14.30-14.45 |
|
| Place |
Sali 309 |
Sali 313 |
Sali 401 |
Sali 401 |
| Panel |
Action, Individual and
Community
Chair: Robert Berchman |
Neoplatonic Logic
Chair:
John Martin |
Eternity and Time (continued) |
On the Edges of Artistic
Representation
Chair: Oiva Kuisma |
| 14.45-15.30 |
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida
State University): Plato’s Hippocrates: The Healing Art of
Medicine and Philosophy |
M. Martijn (VU University,
Amsterdam): Geometrical Conversion in Proclus’ Philosophy
of Nature, Philosophy Faculty |
Eleni Perdikouri (University
of Patras): Matter, Logos and Time. The Temporal Structure of the Sensible World in Plotinus |
Oiva Kuisma (University of
Helsinki): Art and Logos in Neoplatonism |
| 15.30-16.15 |
Pauliina Remes (University
of Helsinki): Inverting the Order of Priority: Simplicius
on Theory and Practice |
John Martin (University of
Cincinnati): The Lover of the Beautiful and the Good: Platonic
Foundations of Aesthetic and Moral Value |
Gina Zavota
(Kent State University): On the Possibility of a Phenomenological
Eternity: Plotinus, Husserl, and the Road Less Travelled |
Tony Brinkley (University
of Maine) and Raina Kostova (Jacksonville State University):
Looking into the Sun: The Idea of the Countenance in Pavel
Florensky’s Iconostasis |
| Break
16.15-16.30 |
|
| 16.30-17.15 |
Noel Hubler: Finding
treasure in Aristotle and Plotinus: The Ethical and Political
Consequences of Aristotle’s and Plotinus’ Ontology. |
Anna Zhyrkova (Tel Aviv University):
Porphyry’s Interpretation of Categories – A Neoplatonic Approach
to Nominalism? |
Helen
Lang (Villanova University: Time as Life and Time as a Measure
of Movement and Life |
Heather Parsons (University
of Maine): Represented Body of Elizabeth I: Surmising
a Mystical Aesthetic? |
| 17.15-18.00 |
Thomas Vidart (Paris): Plotin
et les genres Stoïciens |
|
Vladimir
Cvetkovic: Philoponus and St. Maximus the Confessor: The Refutation
of the Eternity of the World |
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Friday Conference Banquet
Banquet for the conference speakers only at 7 pm (15 June).
Place to be announced.
Saturday 16 June
Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6
(lectures open to public)
|
|
Sali 309 |
Sali 313 |
Sali 401 |
Sali 404 |
| Panel |
Mind: Unity, Identity, and Explanation
Chair:
Miira Tuominen |
Genera of Being in Plotinus
Chair: Luc Brisson |
Neoplatonic Mysticism
Chair:
Deepa Majumdar |
Mirrors and Images: Symbol
and Likeness in the Platonic Tradition
Chair: Taneli Kukkonen |
| 9.00-9.45
|
Miira Tuominen (University
of Helsinki): Is Aristotle’s Theory of Intellect Neoplatonic? |
Luc Brisson (C.N.R.S., Paris):
La doctrine du logos dans la critique par Plotin des categories
d’Aristote |
Crystal Addey (University
of Bristol): Rationality, Supra-rationality and Mysticism
in Iamblichean Theurgy and Divination |
Alexei Medvedev (University
of South Australia): From Within the Mouth Cave:
Plato’s Cratylus and Iconicity, Sound Symbolism and Phonosemantic
Hypothesis on Human Language |
| 9.45-10.30 |
Damian Caluori (Worcester
College, Oxford, and University of Zurich): The Unity of All
Souls: Why Plotinus Introduced the Hypostasis Soul |
Pieter d’Hoine (University of Leuven): The Neoplatonic Debate on Forms of symbebèkota |
Tuomo Lankila (University
of Helsinki): Theurgy and Mysticism in Proclus |
Sonja Weiss (University
of Ljubljana): Plotinus on Love for the One |
| Break
10.30-10.45 |
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| 10.45-11.30 |
Gwenaëlle Aubry (C.N.R.S.,
Paris): Self, Identity, and Identification in Plotinus |
Hayden Ausland (University
of Montana): Analytic Method in Later Platonism and Socratic
Induction |
Zeke Mazur (University of
Chicago): What is the Self to Which
One Must Revert? A “Crypto-Hypostasis” as Both Subject and
Object of Plotinian “Autocentric” Mysticism |
Enrica Ruaro (University of
Genoa): The Plant, the Grubs and the Gardener. A Contribution
to the Reading of En. IV.3.4. 26-37 |
| 11.30-12.15 |
Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University):
Proclus on Mathematical Explanation |
Christophe Erismann (University
of Cambridge): John of Damascus and Neoplatonic Logic |
Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval
University) : TBA |
Mikko Telaranta (University
of Helsinki): TBA |
| Lunch
12.15-13.15 |
|
| Place |
Sali 104 |
| Keynote speaker
13.15-14.30 |
Suzanne
Stern-Gillet (University of Bolton):
Plotinus and the
Moral Point of View |
| Break
14.30-14.45 |
|
| Place |
Sali 309 |
Sali 313 |
Sali 401 |
Sali 404 |
| Panel |
Soul: Perception, Life
and Imagination
Chair: Pauliina Remes |
Freedom, Providence and
Fate
Chair: J.-M. Charrue |
Virtues in Plotinus
Chair: Gary Gurtler |
The Genesis of the World:
Aspects of the Platonic Tradition
Chair: Pauli Annala |
| 14.45-15.30 |
Steven Strange (Emory University):
Plotinus on the Objects of Sense-Perception |
Pr. E. Moutsopoulos (Académie
d’Athènes): Kairos et expectative, sur une sémantique de l'espérance
chez Proclus |
Gary Gurtler (Boston College):
How the Mighty Have Fallen: On Virtues (I 2[19]), On
Dialectic (I 3[20]) |
Pauli Annala (University of
Helsinki): Timaeus 29A and the Origins of the Metaphysics
of Three Principles |
| 15.30-16.15 |
Mika Perälä (University of
Helsinki): Plotinus on Paying Attention in Enn. IV.4.8 |
Maria Protopapas-Marnelli
(Académie d’Athènes): Hasard et Intelligence humaine |
Bernard
Collette (The Free University of Brussels):
On the Mutual Implication of Virtues According to Plotinus and
its Stoic Background (Enn. I 2 [19] 7, Stobaeus II, 63, 6-24
and other texts) |
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| Break
16.15-16.30 |
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| 16.30-17.15 |
Peter Lautner (Budapest):
Thoughts and Mental Images in Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s
Harmonics |
Jean-Michel Charrue (Université
de Lille III, Paris): Providence et liberté dans la pensée
de Proclus |
Sebastian Gertz
(University of Cambridge):
The Plotinian Ascent and the Neo-Platonist Interpretation
of Phaedo 63b-69e |
Lorenz Festin (San Carlos
Seminary,
Philippines): Trinity and Creation: The Significance
of the Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Perspective |
| 17.15-18.00 |
Jari Kaukua (University of
Jyväskylä): Neoplatonic Influences on Avicenna’s Discussion
of Self-awareness |
Matthieu Guyot: L’âme du sage
peut-elle se libérer’ de son corps? (La question du suicide
dans la pensée de Plotin) |
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Membership
The speakers
are strongly encouraged to join the society. Please see our
membership page for details (www.isns.us/membership.htm)
Registration fee
The registration fee of the conference is 65 Euros, payable by all speakers
excluding the keynote speakers. The fee should be paid directly to the
conference bank account:
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Payments will be accepted until 15 May 2007. Note that we cannot
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The registration fee includes among other things one dinner and some coffee
servings.
Please also note that earlier during the same week, Helsinki will
host two conferences that may be of interest to the ISNS participants,
Applying Peirce -- International Conference
at the University of Helsinki and the 9th World
Congress of Semiotics with which the Peirce conference is arranged in conjunction.
For those interested, please visit the web-site:
http://www.helsinki.fi/peirce/2007/index.html
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We recommend as centrally situated, with a walking distance
to Tieteidentalo, for instance the following hotels:
Budget:
Cumulus Kaisaniemi
Gasthaus Omapohja (this is simple, friendly and inexpensive, especially
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Hotel Arthur
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Business:
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Sokos Hotel Helsinki
Sokos Hotel Torni (lovely, but not quite as close to Tieteidentalo.
No more than 20-30 minutes of walk.)
Executive:
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