Rebecca Coughlin McGill University, Hierarchy and Mediation: Dionysius influence on the thought of Marsilio Ficino

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1 Renaissance and Early Modern Platonisms Sara Itoku Ahbel-Rappe Rebecca Coughlin McGill University, Hierarchy and Mediation: Dionysius influence on the thought of Marsilio Ficino Teresa Rodríguez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Giovanni Pico s Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Plato and Aristotle Sara Ahbel-Rappe <rappe@umich.edu>, University of Michigan, The Sovereign Feminine in The Heroic Frenzies of Giordano Bruno Divine Power and Presence in Later Platonism: Theurgy, Ritual, Epistemology, Aesthetics, and Metaphysics Robert Berchman <berchmanrob@earthlink.net> Robert M. Berchman <berchmanrob@earthlink.net>, FSA/Roma and IAT/Bard College, Origen of Alexandria: The Limits of Meaning and Subjectivity Emma Wasserman <wasserme@religion.rutgers.edu>, Rutgers University, Self-Mastery and Divine Presence in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Aron Reppmann, <aron.reppmann@trnty.edu>, Trinity Christian College, Prayer in the Christian Platonism of the Alexandrian School Platonising heresy in the early modern period: the case of Origen s revival Andrea Bianchi andrea.bianchi.y@gmail.com, Giovanni Tortoriello g.tortoriello2@gmail.com Natalia Strok <natiska@gmail.com>, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET)/ University of Buenos Aires/ University of La Plata, Cudworth on the Platonic Trinity: Origen to the rescue Giovanni Tortoriello <g.tortoriello2@gmail.com>, Martin-Luther University Halle- Wittemberg, Philipp Melanchthon and the twofold reception of Platonism Andrea Bianchi <andrea.bianchi.y@gmail.com>, Catholic University of Milan, Handle with care : Jean Le Clerc and the threat of Origen s Platonism Beauty and Pedagogy in Neoplatonic Thought David Ellis <ellisdb@bc.edu>, Gary Gurtler, S.J. <gurtlerg@bc.edu>, Santiago Ramos <santiago.xavier.ramos@gmail.com> Session 1: Gary Gurtler, S.J. <gurtlerg@bc.edu>, Boston College, Light and Beauty in the Pedagogy of the Soul s Ascent in I.6[1] José María Zamora Calvo <jm.zamora@uam.es>, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, "Beauty and soul's ascent in Plotinus"

2 David Ellis Boston College, "From the External to the Internal: Beauty and Dialectic in Plotinus Pedagogy" Session 2: Paula Pico Estrada Universidad Nacional del Salvador, "Beauty as a path to the Good in Nicholas of Cusa's Sermo CCXLIII John G. Moore <jmoore@lander.edu>, Lander University, "From Alexandrian Sublimity to Patristic Wonder: On the Borromean Knot of Logos, Nous and the One in Neo-Platonist Education-Theory" Santiago Ramos <santiago.xavier.ramos@gmail.com>, Boston College, "Analogy, Pedagogy, and Ascent in Plato" Conceptions of the Soul in Plato, Aristotle, and the Platonic Tradition John F. Finamore <john-finamore@uiowa.edu> and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin <sslavevagriffin@fsu.edu> Session 1: Donna Altimari Adler <donnaaltimari@comcast.net>, Independent Scholar, The Harmonizing Function of the World Soul vis-à-vis the Polis Nelson, Jonathan <jonathan.nelson@uprovidence.edu>, University of Providence, A Deductive Reading of Plato s Affinity Argument Jonathan Reeder <jar13u@my.fsu.edu>, Florida State University, The Soul as Physician of the Body in Plato s Timaeus Session 2: Svetla Slaveva-Griffin <sslavevagriffin@fsu.edu>, Florida State University, A House of Ensoulment Douglas Campbell <doug.roland.campbell@gmail.com>, University of Toronto, Conceptions of the Soul in Plato, Aristotle, and the Platonic Tradition Abraham P. Bos <apbos@xs4all.nl>, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Aristotle on Life- Bearing Pneuma and on God as Begetter of the Cosmos Session 3: Anna Christine Corbeil <anna-christine.lalande-corbeil@umontreal.ca>, University of Montreal, On myths of the soul and soul as a myth in Plato and Plotinus Wiebke-Marie Stock <wmstock1@gmail.com>, University of Bonn/University of Notre Dame), Eidôlon. Plotinus on the Soul and its Shadow Jonathan H. Young <jonathan-young@uiowa.edu>, University of Iowa, The Ascension of the Human Soul in Origen s Contra Celsum

3 Session 4: Andreea-Maria Carrez Université Paris Sorbonne IV, Forms and theory of divine inspiration in Iamblichus's De Mysteriis Julio Cesar Moreira Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo PUC SP, The ochema-pneuma and the purification of the soul: a philosophical quarrel between Porphyry and Iamblichus John F. Finamore <john-finamore@uiowa.edu>, University of Iowa, Hermias on the Vehicle of the Soul Nature, Ecology, and Neoplatonism Marilynn Lawrence <Pronoia12@gmail.com> Michael F. Wagner <mwagner@sandiego.edu>, The University of San Diego, "Foundations of Ecology in Plotinus' Neoplatonism" Binita Mehta <bvm6@txstate.edu>, Texas State University, "Plotinian Principles in Goethe s Philosophy of Nature" Marilynn Lawrence <mlawrence1@mail.immaculata.edu> <pronoia12@gmail.com>, Immaculata University, "Is Neoplatonism Panpsychist, and Does it Matter for Our Understanding of Nature?" Neoplatonism in Comparative Light: The Search for a Transcendent-Immanent God Deepa Majumdar <dmajumda@pnw.edu> Stefan Sperl <ss6@soas.ac.uk>, SOAS University of London, Immanence, Transcendence and the Parity of Religions: Examples from the Sufi Tradition Benedikt Rottenecker <br0437@mun.ca>, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Immanence and Transcendence in Plato and Plotinus Deepa Majumdar <dmajumda@pnw.edu>, Purdue University Northwest, Transcendence- Immanence of the First Principle: Comparing Plotinus One with Brahman (Advaita Vedantā) The One and the Dao Christos Sideras <c.sideras@ucl.ac.uk> Twyla Gibson <gibsontg@missouri.edu>, University of Missouri, Water and Wing: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Identify Parallel Patterns in Zhuangzi, Plato, and Plotinus

4 Individual papers Khashayar Beigi University of California at Berkeley, Veils of Light: Neoplatonic Elements in the Illuminationist School of Suhrawardi Dmtry Biriukov National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) (Russia), Platonic and Aristotelian paradigms of participation in Origen Paul DiRado Colorado State University, The Ethics and Metaphysics of Likeness in Ennead I.2 Roberto Granier Loyola Marymount College, Plotinus Criticism of the Stoic Categories: Platonic Anti-materialism and Aristotelian Arguments Elizabeth Hill Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alcibiades, the Bad Lover: The Ethics of Plato s Erotic Philosophy Joshua Langseth <joshua-langseth@uiowa.edu>, University of Iowa, The Double Logos: The Legacy of the Endiathetos and Prophorikos in Platonic Theology George Beke Latura <glbeke@me.com>, Independent Researcher, Plato s Cosmology: Conflicting Theories. Danielle A. Layne <layne@gonzaga.edu>, Gonzaga University, Feminine Power in Proclus Commentary on Plato s Timaeus Bruce MacLennan <maclennan@utk.edu>, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Psychodynamics of the Mathematika Florian Marion <florian.marion@uclouvain.be>, Catholic University of Louvain, Damascius Theodicy: Psychic Input of Disorder and Evil into the World Nicholas Marshall <nicholas.marshall@shu.edu>, Seton Hall University, Porphyry A Baseline for Theurgy? Holly Moore <moorho01@luther.edu>, Luther College, Plato on the Method of Collection and the Purification of the Soul Eric J. Morelli <morelliej@gmail.com>, Emory University, Rational Opinion Daniel O Connell <daniel.oconnell@mcc.edu>, Mott Community College, Human nondiscursive thinking with reference to Aristotle and Plotinus Guy Schuh <guyschuh@gmail.com>, Georgia Southern University, The Good and the Beautiful in the Platonic Tradition

5 Gregory Shaw Stonehill College, Christianity s True Doctrine and the Demise of Platonism Michael Wiitala <mwiitala@gmail.com>, Cleveland State University, Every Happy Man is a God: Consolation of Philosophy III Brandon Zimmerman <66zimmerman@cua.edu>, Catholic Theological Institute, The Antiquity of the Question of the Many from the One