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)
9h30: Introduction, George Karamanolis, University of Vienna
10h-10h40: Luc Brisson, CNRS, "Cosmic Sympatheia in Plotinus"
10h40-11h20: Michele Abbate, Università di Genova, "In what sense does the hypercosmic divine order guarantee cosmic sympathy according to Proclus (Theol. Plat. VI 4)?”
11h20-11h40: coffee break
11h40-12h20: Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, "From Sympathy to co-affectedness in Plotinus and Proclus"
12h20-14h30: 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"