ISNS 2011 Atlanta Conference
ISNS Program: Wednesday, 22 June–Sunday, 26 June, 2011
Wednesday, June 22
Registration: 5–8 pm
Thursday, June 23
Registration: 8:30–12:00
8:30–10:15 am
Plato and Plotinus
- Miriam Byrd, University of Texas at Arlington, “Plato’s Method of Hypothesis in the Meno and Phaedo”
30 minute break
10:45 am–1:00 pm
A. Neoplatonism
- Gabriela Bal, Santa Marcelina College, “Plotinus’ and Damascius’ Mystical Language in the Light of Plato’s Parmenides 3rd Hypothesis and Iamblichus’ Theurgy”
- Pieter d’Hoine, DeWulf-Mansion Center, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus on the Imperfection of the Sensible World: A Neoplatonic Interpretation of Phd. 74ac”
- Gary Gabor, Boston College and Fordham University, “Difficulties with the harmonization thesis in Ammonius”
- Yuri Corrigan, Wooster College, Ohio, “Solovyov, Plotinus and the Modern Mind/Nature Division”
B. Plotinus
- Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., Boston College, “Plotinus’ Study of Light: Metaphysical and Epistemological Implications”
- Matthias Vorwerk, Catholic University of America, “‘If There is a ‘Demon-Itself’, Then He also is a God.’ (Enn. III.5 [50] 6.20): Some Reflections on Plotinus’ Demonology”
- Jean-Marc Narbonne, Laval University, “A new type of causality against the Gnostics: the Plotinian contemplative demiurgy of treatise 30”
- Menahem Luz, University of Haifa, “Aesthetic Theory of the Arts in Plotinus and Porphyry”
Lunch
2:00–3:45 pm
A. John Finamore, Soul and Souls in the Platonic Tradition I
- Jonathan Nelson, Saint Louis University, “The Ontological Status of Soul in Plato”
- Richard Parry, Agnes Scott College, “Parts of the Soul and Cognition in Plato’s Republic’
- Paul Carelli, University of North Florida, “City-Soul Analogies in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws”
B. Pierre Mauboussin, Ammonius Hermeiou
- Rodmon King, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, “The Exegetical Importance of Ammonius’ Commentary on the Peri Hermeneias”
- Jolanta Jaskolowska, Lexington College, Chicago, IL, “Ammonius’ Doctrine of Asyllogistic Logic”
- Pierre Mauboussin, Independent Scholar, “Ammonius and the Problem of Divine Names in Neoplatonism”
30 minute break
4:15–6:00 pm
A. Marilynn Lawrence, Neoplatonism’s Relationship with the Occult, Psi, Esoterica, and the Supernatural I
- Binita Mehta, University of Iowa, “Plotinian Self and the Non-Locality of Consciousness”
- Jay Bregman, University of Maine, “American Theurgy and the Occult”
- Phillip Mead, Independent Scholar, “Theurgic Healing Rites”
B. Michael Chase, Neoplatonism and Contemporary Science, II
- Thomas Mether, Science and the Orthodox Church Project, “Still in the Labyrinth: Questions about the Nature of Artifice and the Artifice of Nature in Modern Science”
- Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, “Living Neoplatonism”
- Michael Chase, CNRS, “Metamorphoses of the theory of instantaneous change in Neoplatonism and contemporary science.”
Banquet—A Southern Speciality: Crab Boil 6:30–9:30 pm
Friday, June 24
9:00–10:15 am
Keynote Address
- Luc Brisson, CNRS, Paris: “Can one speak of mysticism in Plotinus?”
30 minute break
10:45 am–1:00 pm
A. Christina-Panagiota Manolea, Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, and Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Mania Platonic and Neoplatonic
- Suzanne Stern-Gillet, University of Manchester and University of Bolton, “Plato’s Vocabulary of Madness”
- Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Florida State University, “Medical Motifs in the Neoplatonic Conception of Madness”
- Christina-Panagiota Manolea, University of Patras and Hellenic Open University, “Divine Possession in Hermias”
- Marije Martijn, VU University Amsterdam, “The Demon Lover and his Beautiful Mother: Inspired love in Proclus’ In Alc.”
B. Marilynn Lawrence, Neoplatonism’s Relationship with the Occult, Psi, Esoterica, and the Supernatural II
- Thomas Mether, Science and the Orthodox Church Project, “Remarkable Affinities in the Ontology of Psychic Powers in Plotinian Neoplatonism and Huayen Buddhism”
- Clark Carlton, Tennessee Technological University, “Testimony from Beyond the Grave: The Role of Afterlife Stories in the Eastern Christian Ascetical Tradition”
Lunch
Tour of Emory and the Carlos Museum: 2:30–5:00 pm
Evening free
Saturday, June 25
8:30–10:15 am
John Finamore, Soul and Souls in the Platonic Tradition II
- John F. Finamore. University of Iowa, “Plutarch and Apuleius on Socrates’ daimonion”
- Wendy Helleman, University of Jos, Nigeria, “Memory, Prayer and Magic in Plotinus’ Treatise on the Soul (Enneads iv 3-4 [27-28])”
- Donna Altimari, Adler Law, “The Soul/Body Relation in Augustine’s De Quantitate Animae as the Intellectual Foundation for a Christian Notion of Ascent”
30 minute break
10:45 am–1:00 pm
A. Robert Berchman, Philosophy of Mind: Ancient, Medieval, Modern
- Robert M. Berchman, Dowling College and Bard College, “The Principle of Prior Simplicity, Identity, Continuity in Plotinus and Leibniz”
- John Hendrix, University of Lincoln, “Neoplatonism in the Risala (De intellectu) of Alfarabi”
- Danny Munoz-Hutchison, St. Olaf College, “Plotinus on Subjectivity and Objectivity”
B. Neoplatonism
- John N. Martin, University of Cincinnati, “The Neoplatonic Semantics of Nicolas Malebranche”
- Emilie Kutash, St. Joseph’s College, “Walk like an Egyptian: Talk like a Chaldean: Theogonic Mythology reinvented: The Goddess and Late Antique Onto-gony”
- John Corrigan, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, “Emerson, Whitman, and the Theurgy of the Eye”
- Leo Catana, University of Copenhagen, “The Historiographical Conceptualization of Neoplatonism Revisited”
Lunch
2:00–3:45 pm
A. Donald Duclow, Neoplatonism and Renaissance Philosophy
Presider: Suzanne Stern-Gillet, University of Bolton and University of Manchester
- Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College, “Recycling Proclus with Nicholas of Cusa”
- Elizabeth Brient, University of Georgia, “Proclus and Cusanus on ‘Intellectual’ or ‘Non-Temporal Time’”
- Knut Alfsvåg, School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, “Luther as a Reader of Pseudo-Dionysius”
B. Arabic Platonism
- David Bennett, UCLA, “Introducing the ‘New Philosophers‘ of early Abbasid Baghdad”
- Donna Shalev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “‘Platon écrivain’ in the Arabic biographical tradition: an allusion to ποικιλία”
- Brandon Zimmerman, Catholic University of America “Does Plotinus Present a Metaphysics of Creation?”
30 minute break
4:15–6:35 pm
A. John Turner and Kevin Corrigan, Plotinus, Gnostics, and The Anonymous Parmenides Commentary: The State of the Discussion
- John D. Turner (Nebraska, Lincoln): “The Anonymous Parmenides Commentary: State of the Question”
- Zeke Mazur (Chicago/Laval): “Traces of Gnostic Influence in the Transcendental Epistemology of the Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides”
- Tuomas Rasimus (Helsinki/Laval): “Porphyry and the Gnostics: Reassessing Pierre Hadot’s Thesis in Light of the Second- and Third-Century Sethian Treatises”
- Dylan Burns (Yale): “The Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides, the Roman Gnostics, and the Question of the Christian Contribution to Neoplatonism”
B. Neoplatonism
- Marc-Antoine Gavray, Université de Liège, “Harmonizing Worlds by Simplicius: Reconciling Plato and Aristotle’s Cosmologies”
- Danielle A. Layne, Loyola University New Orleans, “The Cause of Double Ignorance in Proclus”
- Eric D. Perl, Loyola Marymount University, “The Motion of Intellect: On the Neoplatonic Reading of Sophist 248e-249d”
- John A. Pourtless IV, Florida State University, “The Analysis of Intelligible Matter: A Case Study in Reformulating Neoplatonism”
Sunday, June 26
8:30–10:15 am
- Carl O’Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear, “Neoplatonic Teachings on Plato’s Phaedrus”
- Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia, “Neoplatonist problems concerning the Status of Myth in the Phaedrus”
- Sarah Klitenic Wear, Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Syrianus on the World Soul: The Thought of Syrianus on Phaedrus 248A as Found in Proclus, In Tim. 106.2ff and Hermias, In Phdr. 131, 2ff”
- Carl O’Brien, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, “Theotaxonomy in Hermias and Neoplatonism”
Coffee Break: 15 minutes
Concluding Addresses and Business Meeting: 10:30–11:00
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