Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Klassische Philologie, HU Berlin

International Workshop "Visions of the History of Greek Philosophy"

Organizers: Anna Izdebska, Jonathan Greig, Izabela Jurasz, Ruizhi Ma

Registration per e-mail: izdebska@hu-berlin.de

Institut für Klassische Philologie, HU Berlin
Venue: HU Berlin, Hauptgebäude (Unter den Linden 6), Room 2070A (first floor, west side)

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ProgrammePoster "Visions of History"

Day 1 (Wednesday, April 9)


Morning Session:
09:30 – 09:50: Dr. Anna Izdebska
Opening Remarks and Welcome


09:50 – 10:30: Dr. Pietro Zaccaria
“In the Beginning Were the Greeks: Diogenes Laertius on the Origins of Philosophy”

10:30 – 11:10: Dr. Mathilde Bremond
“Catalogues of Opinions: The Sophistic Heritage and Its Impact on Plato and Aristotle’s Doxographies”

11:10 – 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:10: Prof. Matthias Perkams
“Theologia bipertita? Plato’s ‘Hypocrisy’, Synesius’ Deceit and the Socio-Political Role of Post-Socratic Philosophy”

12:10 – 12:50: Dr. Izabela Jurasz
“Origen vs. Celsus, or the Dogmatic Importance of the History of Philosophy”

12:50 – 14:30: Lunch Break


Afternoon Session:
14:30 – 15:10: Prof. Clare Auvray-Assayas
“Re-Shaping and Re-Setting History of Greek Philosophy in Rome: Cicero’s Polemical Strategies”

15:10 – 15:50: Dr. Constantinos Macris
"Porphyry’s Philosophos historia in Close-Up: An Attempt at Reconstructing a Neoplatonic Vision of the History of (Greek) Philosophy"

15:50 – 16:20: Coffee Break

16:20 – 17:00: Dr. Jonathan Greig
"History of Philosophy and Theology in Late Neoplatonism: Proclus and Damascius between the Schools of Athens and Alexandria"

17:00 – 17:40: Professor Rosa Maria Piccione
“How to Represent a Vision of Greek Philosophy without Saying a Single Word: The Anthology of Stobaeus"


Day 2 (Thursday, April 10)


Morning Session:
9:00 – 9:40: Prof. Denis Michael Searby
“Defacing the Ancient Philosophers: Convergence of Opinion in the Greek Gnomologia”

9:40 – 10:20: Dr. Yury Arzhanov
“Syriac Perspectives on the History of Greek Philosophy”

10:20 – 11:00: Prof. Carmela Baffioni
“An Encyclopedia of Sciences at the Service of Religion: Re-Elaboration of Greek Texts in the Epistles of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ”

11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:00: Dr. Anna Izdebska
“Al-‘Āmirī, Pseudo-Ammonius, and the Siwān al-Ḥikma: Retelling the History of Greek Philosophy for Arabic Audiences”

12:00 – 12:40: Ruizhi Ma
“Completion, Declination, and Progression of Philosophy: Historical Awareness of the Development of Philosophy in Avicenna, Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, and al-Birūnī”

12:40 – 14:20: Lunch for Speakers


Afternoon Session:
14:20 – 15:00: Dr. Łukasz Piątak
“‘Their Speech Was in Symbols’: The ‘Illuminationist’ Vision of History of Greek Philosophy According to al-Shahrazūrī's Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ”

15:00 – 15:40: Dr. Daniel Davies
"Visions of Greek Philosophy in Medieval Jewish Thought”

15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:40: Prof. Jean-Baptiste Gourinat
“Fragments and Doxography in the Reconstruction of Ancient Philosophy: Usener and his Circle (Diels and Von Arnim)”

16:40 – 17:20: Prof. André Laks
“Between Diogenes Laertius and Aristotle: Nietzsche’s Unpublished Essay Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”

17:20 Closing Discussion:
“Expanding Narratives: Greek Philosophy Across Contexts”