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PAIDEIA

May 22nd - 24th 2024

RESEARCH CLASSES AND SEMINARS

Wednesday May 22nd

FSA Teaching/Research Seminars/VN Students

9.00 – Welcome: Luigi Miraglia, Vivarium Novum [President]; Ignacio Armella Chavez, Vivarium Novum, [Vice-President]; Coordinator on International Conferences: Robert M. Berchman, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma [General Director]; Michele Olzi, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma [General Secretary]; Álvaro José Campillo Bo, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma [Coordinator of International Conferences]

ANCIENT PATTERNS

Teaching Seminars

9.30-10.30 – Socratic Questions [Co-Sponsored by The International Society for Socratic Studies]; Moderator: Claudia Mársico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] Inbal Cohen-Taber [St. Mary’s College/Maryland, USA] “Plato’s Lysis: How to Answer a Socratic Question”

10.30: Discussion

11.00-12.45 – Images and Ontology in Plato’s Republic [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies]; Moderator: Inbal Cohen-Taber [St. Mary’s College/Maryland, USA] Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “The Sun”; Claudia Mársico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “The Line”; Ivana Costa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “The Cave”.

12.45 – Discussion.

LUNCH

ANCIENT PATTERNS

Research Seminars: FSA Fellows/VN Students

15.00-16.15 – Plato’s Lysis [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies]; Moderator: Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] Claudia Marsico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Plato’s Lysis and the Socratic Carnival”; Ivana Costa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Metaphysics for Lysis and Menexenus”

16.15 – Discussion.

17.00-18.15 – Plato’s Lysis [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies]; Moderator: Ivana Costa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “True and Derived Friendship [Plato’s Lysis 219c-e]”; Inbal Cohen-Taber [St. Mary’s College/Maryland, USA] “Plato’s Lysis: How to Become a Friend to Another”

18.30 – Discussion

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Thursday May 23rd

MODERN AND ANCIENT PATTERNS

VILLA FALCONIERI

Teaching Seminar

ANCIENT PATTERNS

9.30-11.00 – Mathematica. Plato’s Divided Line, Republic 507b–511e; Moderator: Michele Abbate [Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italia]

Salvatore Lavecchia [Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia]; Elizabetta Cattanei [Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italia]

Research Seminars

MODERN PATTERNS

11.00-12.15 – Mathematica: Activities & Properties of Number, Part I; Moderator: Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] Francesco Zucconi [Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia] “Geometrical Spaces Shaped by their Embedded Points”; Robert M. Berchman [FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma] “Mapping Mathematical Intentionality”

12.15 – Discussion

LUNCH

ANCIENT PATTERNS

14.30 - 16.00 – Mathematica: Research Seminar, Activities & Properties of Number, Part II; Moderator: Elizabetta Cattanei [Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italia] Gianmarco Minesi [Paris Sorbonne, France] “From Unity to Number and Back: Exploring Parmenides 155e–157a”; Michele Abbate [Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italia] “Mathematics and Geometry in Proclus’ Metaphysical-Theological Perspective”; Álvaro José Campillo Bo [FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma], “Numbering Souls: Proclus on Arithmetical Number”

16.00 – Discussion

16.30~17.30 – Mathematica: Activities & Properties of Number, Part III; Moderator: Francesco Zucconi [Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia] Bruce MacLennan [University of Tennessee/Knoxville, USA] “Numbers as Abstract Noeta and Embodied Noera”; Marco Ghione [Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia] “Anatolius of Laodicea. On the Decad and the Arithmological Logical Literature of the Imperial Age”

17.30 – Discussion

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Friday May 24th

RENAISSANCE AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

VILLA FALCONIERI

Teaching Seminars

9.00-10.30 – Translating Cusanus; Moderator: Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET, Argentina]

“Translating a docta eloquentia: Dionysius Exiguus and Eriugena Engage with Gregory Nyssen’s De imagine [Francisco Bastitta, Ezequiel Ludueña, Manella Tonelli - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]; “The Presence of the Oneness in the Soul: Sources and Developments in Nicholas of Cusa’s Thought [Claudia Arroche, Claudia D’Amico, José Gonzalez Ríos -Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]

10.30 – Discussion

11.00-12.30 – Mapping Ficino; Moderator: Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA]

Valery Rees [University of Cambridge, UK] “Ficino’s Life and Context”; Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Ficino and Mystical Theology”

12.30 – Discussion

LUNCH

RENAISSANCE AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

Research Seminars

14.30-17.30 – Ficino on Intellect; Moderator: Valery Rees [University of Cambridge, UK] Anna Corrias [University of Cambridge, UK] “Intellect in the Commentary on Priscianus Lydus’ Exposition of Theophrastus”; Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Intellect in the Commentary on Dionysius the Areopagite”; Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Intellect in the Commentary on Plotinus’ Enneads”; Valery Rees [University of Cambridge, UK] “Intellect in Selected Letters and the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles”

17.30 – Discussion

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PAIDEUSIS

May 25th - 28th 2024:

CONFERENCE

Saturday May 25th

FORO DI ALTI STUDI "GAETANO MASSA"

VILLA FALCONIERI

9.00 – Welcome: Luigi Miraglia, Vivarium Novum [President]; Ignacio Armella Chavez, Vivarium Novum [Vice-President]; Alvaro Bo, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma [Coordinator of International Conferences]

9.10 – Presentation of FSA Officers: Michele Olzi [General Secretary, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma] Robert M. Berchman [Director General, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Valentina Zaffino [Director Europe, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Claudia D’Amico [Director, Latin America, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Victoria Arroche [Co-Director, Latin America, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Jose Maria Zamora [FSA Director, Spain, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [Director, Brazil-Portugal, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Mark Nyvlt [FSA Director, North America, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Claudia Marsico [Co-Director, International Studies, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]; Alvaro Bo [Director, International Conferences, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]

9.15 – Presentation of FSA Associates: Robert M. Berchman [Director General, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma] Helena Schoeb [Associate Editor, Philosophy, De Gruyter-Brill Academic Publications]; David H. Rosenthal [President, The Institute at Caesars Head, Ltd/USA]

9.20 – Presentation of FSA Academic Fellows: Michele Olzi [General Secretary, FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma]. Mauro Agosto [Pontificia Università Lateranense, Città del Vaticano]; Francesco Aresco [University of Cambridge, UK]; Arianna Fermani [Università di Macerata, Italia]; Eleonora Falini [Florida State University, USA]; Franco Ferrari [Università di Pavia, Italia]; Marco Ghione [Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia]; Claudio Moreschini [Università degli di Studi di Pisa, Italia]; Elsa Simonetti [KU/Leuven, NEL]; Nicola Spanu [Independent Scholar]; Chiara Tommasi [Università degli di Studi di Pisa, Italia]

ANCIENT PATTERNS

9.30-11.15 – Vivarium Novum: Συμφιλοσοφεῖν; Moderator: Alvaro Bo [FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma] Mauro Agosto [Pontificia Università Lateranense, Città del Vaticano] “Il dedecus di Critone”; Franco Ferrari [Università di Pavia] “Il mondo come paradigma dell’esistenza: la concezione della ὅμοίωσις θεῷ nel Timeo di Platone”; Arianna Fermani [Università di Macerata] “L’apparenza (non sempre) inganna. Valori e limiti dei φαινόμενα tra Platone e Aristotele”

11.15 – Discussion

11.45-13.00 – The Greek Patres; Moderator: Jose-Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Espagna] Daniel Tolan [The Polansky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences/The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel] “Philo and Origen on the scala naturae”; Ilaria Ramelli [Stanford University, USA] “Origen and Augustine on the Intellect–Will Relation: Between Ethical Intellectualism and a Loop Theory”

13.00 – Discussion

LUNCH

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

15.00-16.45 – Rethinking Boundaries; Moderator: Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET, Argentina] Enrico Peroli [Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio Chieti Pescara, Italia] “Nicholas of Cusa and the Philosophical Pedagogy of ‘Manuductio’”; Francisco Bastitta Harriet [Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET] “Nicholas of Cusa and Pico della Mirandola on felicitas Beyond the Intellect and the Will”; Valentina Zaffino [Università degli di Sudi di Calabria, Italia] “The Doctrine of Conjectures in Cusanus’ Late Sermones”

16.45 – Discussion

17.15-18.45 – Conjecturing With Cusanus; Moderator: Enrico Peroli [Università degli Studi "G. d’Annunzio" Chieti Pescara, Italia] Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET] “Negative science, conjectural art and enigmatic science in Nicholas of Cusa”; José González Ríos [Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET] “Ars coniecturalis as method in Nicholas of Cusa’s thought”; Victoria Arroche [Universidad de Buenos Aires] “Participation and Conjecture in Nicholas of Cusa’s De coniecturis”

18.45 – Discussion

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Sunday May 26th

FORO DI ALTI STUDI "RICCARDO CAMPA"

VILLA FALCONIERI

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

9.00~10.45 – Music Divine [Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Aristotelian Society]; Moderator: Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA]

Mark Nyvlt [University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada] “Aristoxenus on Harmonics: Science, Melody, and Catharsis”; Eleonora Falini [Florida State University, USA] “Musikê or Harmonia? Science, Alchemy, and Platonism in the ninth book of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii by Martianus Capella”; Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada] “Al-Farabi, Music and Imagination”

10.45 – Discussion

11.15~13.00 – Pathmarks Neoplatonic; Moderator: Andreea-Maria Lemnaru [Cambridge University, UK] Jose-Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Espagna] “Paradigmatic Virtues from Plotinus to Iamblichus; Luciano Albanese [Università degli di Studi di Roma Sapienza, Italia] “Damascio e gli Oracoli caldaici; Francesco Aresco [University of Cambridge, UK] “The Neoplatonic Hermeneutics of Pico della Mirandola”

13.00 – Discussion

LUNCH

MODERN AND ANCIENT PATTERNS

15.00~16.15 – A Familiar Plato [Co-Sponsored by Center for Platonic Studies, University of Cambridge]; Moderator: Elena Glazov Corrigan [Emory University, USA] Alan Cardew [University of Essex, UK] “Ad Ilissum - Platonism in Arcadia”; Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK] Corrigan, Plato and Serious Play”

16.15 – Discussion

16.45~17.30 – A Familiar Plato; Moderator: Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] Elena Glazov Corrigan [Emory University, USA] Reading Pasternak’s “Revolutionary City”

17.30 – Discussion

18.00~19.00 – A Less Familiar Plato: A Less Familiar Journey. A Conversation with Kevin Corrigan [Emory University, USA]; Moderator: Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, [Florida State University, USA]

19.00 – Discussion

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Monday May 27th

FORO DI ALTI STUDI "JOHN D. TURNER"

ANCIENT PATTERNS

9.00-11.45 – Theurgy and Neoplatonism; Moderator: Francesco Zucconi [Università di Udine, Italia] Salvatore Lavecchia [Università di Udine, Italia] “Plotinus and His Polemics Against Magic”; Andreea-Maria Lemnaru [Cambridge University, UK] “Theurgy and Possession in Iamblichus's De Mysteriis: What Differences?”; Jose Manuel Redondo Ornelas [UNAM, Mexico] “Proclus: The Limits of Theurgy and the Negotiation of Fate”

11.45 – Discussion

12.15-13.30 – Theurgy and Neoplatonism; Moderator: Salvatore Lavecchia [Università di Udine, Italia] Michele Abbate [Università di Salerno, Italia] “Theurgy and its Philosophical Meaning in Neoplatonism”; Francesco Zucconi [Università di Udine, Italia] “Geometrical Constructions and Forms of Visualizing Theurgy”; Bruce McLennan [University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA] “Archetypal Numbers and Forms in the Human Psyche”

13.30 – Discussion

LUNCH

15.00-16.45 – Later Platonism and Gnosticism [Co-Sponsored by Philosophy of Late Antique Project]; Moderator: Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS-LEM, France] Chiara Tommasi [Università degli di Studi di Pisa, Italia] “Female Principles in Gnosticism”; Claudio Moreschini [Università degli di Studi di Pisa, Italia] “Logos cosmico secondo Massimo il Confessore”; Elsa Simonetti [EPHE, France] “Salvation of the body and salvation of the soul in the philosophical discourse of the Early Roman Empire”

16.45 – Discussion

17.15 -19.00 – Later Platonism and Gnosticism [Co-Sponsored by Platonisms of Late Antique Project]; Moderator: Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA] Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands] “Ancient Gnostic Theories of Form”; Nicola Spanu [Independent Scholar] “The Divine Father of the Chaldean Oracles in Light of Proclus’ and Damascius’ Oracular Exegesis”; Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS-LEM, France] “Les étapes de la connaissence dans l’ascension de l’âme vers l’Un selon Plotin”

19.00 – Discussion

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Tuesday May 28th

FORO DI ALTI STUDI PATRICK ATHERTON

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN PATTERNS

9.00-10.15 – Aporiai Politeia; Moderator: Malena Tonelli [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] “Political Bodies. Considerations on Biopower, Political Symbolism and Ethics”; Alessandra Caprioli [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] “Body and political action. Reflections on Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition”

10.15 – Respondent: Inbal Cohen-Taber [St. Mary’s College/Maryland, USA]

10.45 – Discussion

11.30-12.45 – Bios and Thanatos; Moderator: Victoria Arroche [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] Malena Tonelli [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “The Choice of Life in Plotinus’ Enneads III4 [15]”; Ezequiel Ludueña [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Death as a Metaphor in John Scotus Eriugena”

12.45 – Discussion

LUNCH

14.30-16.45 – Interiority; Moderator: Michele Abbate [Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italia]

Claudia Lo Casto [Università di Salerno, Italia] “Il vero sé nel pensiero di Plotino”; Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA] “Lux mentium: Augustine’s Argument to God as Truth and its Recent Resumptions”; Lela Alexidze [State University of Tbilisi, Georgia] “Nicholas of Cusa’s Theory of Vision and Some Parallels with Ioane Petritsi’s philosophy”

16.45 – Discussion

17.15 – Round table discussion; Moderator: Michele Olzi [FSA Gaetano Massa/Roma, General Secretary].

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How to participate

In person: reservation required by writing to convegni@vivariumnovum.net.

Online: it will be possible to register on the Zoom platform to follow the conference remotely, through the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HTAL6Q4WS2Gudib07vMRaQ

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Robert M. Berchman

Alvaro José Campillo Bo

Claudia D'Amico

Michele Olzi

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

Francesco Zucconi

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Victoria Arroche

Stephen Gersh

Andreea-Maria Lemnaru

Claudia Mársico

Mark Nyvlt

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Helena Schöb

José Maria Zamora

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