Conference : Cosmic Sympathy in Later Platonism
8th (Marietta Blau Saal) and 9th (Erika Weinzierl Saal) of May
Organized by Dr. Andreea Lemnaru-Espuna, PhD and Univ.-Prof. Dr. George Karamanolis
Programme
8th of May 2025 (Marietta Blau Saal, Universitätsring 1)
10h: Introduction, George Karamanolis, University of Vienna
10h30-11h10: Luc Brisson, CNRS, "Cosmic Sympatheia in Plotinus" (read by Michael
Chase)
11h10-11h30: Coffee break
11h30-12h10: Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, "From Sympathy to co-affectedness in
Plotinus and Proclus"
12h10-14h30: Lunch at Michl’s Café Restaurant
14h30-15h10: Christian Bull, University of Bergen, "Cosmic Sympathy in the Corpus
Hermeticum"
15h10-15h50: Michael Chase, CNRS, “Synesius on the Eye of the Soul:
Epistemological and Soteriological Implications of the Doctrine of Sympatheia”
19h30: Dinner at The Epos
9th of May 2025 (Erika Weinzierl Saal, Universitätsring 1)
9h30-10h10: Irini Viltanioti, University of Crete, "Cosmic Sympathy and Platonic
Exegesis in Plotinus' Ennead III.4"
10h10-10h50: Andreea Lemnaru-Espuna, University of Vienna, “Iamblichus on
Cosmic Sympathy: the world as a single living being”
10h50-11h10: coffee break
11h10-11h50: Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge: “The heritage of late antique
cosmic sympathy in early-modern thought”
11h50-12h30: Ilaria Ramelli, University of Stanford "The Cosmic Christ and Cosmic
Sympathy in Patristic Platonism"