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FINAL updated programme September 2022 WITH CHAIRS .
15th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa
6th – 9th September 2022, Exeter
Programme [All sessions in the Queen’s Building, Streatham Campus, Exeter]
Tuesday 6th September
15:00 Arrival [Queen’s café]
West Country cream tea
16:00 Welcome [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Morwenna Ludlow
16:30 Plenary 1 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair : Morwenna Ludlow
Matthieu CASSIN (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes du Centre national de la recherche scientifique): Deux lectures inconciliables du De anima et resurrectione ? la division en chapitres (kephalaia), les scholies et les lecteurs anciens
17:15 Plenary 2 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Matthieu Cassin
Morwenna LUDLOW (University of Exeter): Consolation: philosophy, rhetoric and the gospel in De anima et resurrectione.
1`9:00 Dinner [your own choice: in town or Holland Hall if booked ahead]
Wednesday 7th September
08:30 Morning Prayer : the Mary Harris Memorial Chapel
led by Revd. Hannah Alderson, Lazenby Chaplain, University of Exeter.
09:00 Plenary 3 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Volker Henning Drecoll
Lenka KARFÍKOVÁ (Charles University, Prague): Macrina’s Eschatological Hope: The immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body and the restoration of human nature according to the dialogue De anima et resurrectione
09:45 Plenary 4 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Volker Henning Drecoll
Francisco BASTITTA HARRIET (Universidad de Buenos Aires – UCA – CONICET): ‘This Body that You Love’: Gregory of Nyssa and Macrina on Corporeal Identity
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 short communications A [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Brandon Gallaher
11:00 Jonathan FARRUGIA “…the reforming of the dissolved being…” (An et res PG 46, 76) The saved body in Gregory of Nyssa’s De Anima et Resurrectione and his homilies
11:30 Mark DELCOGLIANO Gregory of Nyssa on the Dissolution of the Body and the Soul’s Ongoing Connection with its Body’s Elements
[12:00 paper withdrawn]
12:30 Lunch (Queen’s Café: included in conference registration)
14:00 short communications B and C
| B [seminar room]
Chair: Hélène Grelier-Deneux |
C [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1]
Chair: Gabriel Jaramillo |
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| 14:00 | [on-line presentation] Olga SEVASTYANOVA The Definition of the Soul by Gregory of Nyssa De Anima et Resurrectione as Compared with the Scriptural Terms נֶפֶשׁ, נְשָׁמָה and ר֣וּחַ. | Ryan GILFEATHER Rhetoric and Participatory Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa’s Representations of Macrina |
| 14:30 | Basil (Milan) GAVRILOVIC The Mind as δύναμις and the Notion of Freedom: An Analysis of Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio and De Anima et Resurrectione | Michael PETRIN Gregory of Nyssa’s Literary Diptych of Macrina: The Life and the Dialogue in the Context of Late Ancient Philosophy |
| 15:00 | Xavier BATLLO L’impassibilité de L’âme, Entre Grégoire de Nysse et Évagre le Pontique: Rapports et Enjeux | Ilaria VIGORELLI Death as an instrument of salvation |
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Plenary 5 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: J. Warren Smith
Volker Henning DRECOLL (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): The discussion about the unity of the soul in De anima et resurrectione. A Commentary on GNO III/3, p. 31,16 – 43,16
16:45 Pause
17:00-18:30 [seminar room] Translation workshop: translating De anima et resurrectione Chair: Mark DelCogliano; With: Matthieu Cassin, Morwenna Ludlow, Warren Smith
19:30 Conference dinner at Reed Hall [if booked ahead]
Thursday 8th September
08:30 Morning Prayer : the Mary Harris Memorial Chapel led by: Volker Henning Drecoll
09:00 Plenary 6 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Matthieu Cassin
Ty Paul MONROE (Assumption University – Worcester, Massachusetts): The Resurrection and Christo-logic in De anima et resurrectione
09:45 Plenary 7 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Matthieu Cassin
Hélène GRELIER-DENEUX (Université Paris Nanterre): L’œuvre de l’âme sur le corps, l’œuvre de la divinité du Christ sur son humanité dans la résurrection : étude comparative de deux images ( De anima et resurrectione, Antirrheticus adversus Apolinarium)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Short communications D and E
| D Chair: Miguel Brugarolas
[seminar room] |
E Chair: Morwenna Ludlow
[Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] |
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| 11:00 | Gabriel JARAMILLO VARGAS Education as a Heart-to-Heart Dialogue: The Horse and Eyes in De Anima et Resurrectione | Tomasz STĘPIEŃ Macrina and Diotima. A Woman as a Mystagogue |
| 11:30 | [on-line presentation] Avweroswo AKPOJARO What Has Berlin To Do With Cappadocia? The Eschatological Visions Of Gregory Of Nyssa And Friedrich Schleiermacher | Ana Cristina VILLA-BETANCOURT Is there a terminological basis to consider Macrina a spiritual leader? |
| 12:00 | Tera HARMON Stream or Seed?: Gregory of Nyssa on Human Growth in the Resurrection | Marta PRZYSZYCHOWSKA Two Macrinas? Macrina the Younger as a literary construct |
12:30 Lunch [Queen’s Building: included in conference registration]
13:30 Plenary 8 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] [Chair: Volker Drecoll
Charalampos APOSTOLOPOULOS (Prof. Emeritus) : Gregors von Nyssa De anima et resurrectione als “Phaedo Christianus”
14:30 PGR workshop [seminar room] Presenting: Kavya Bhat and Szymon Kaplon
15:30 Walk / travel to Exeter Cathedral [optional]
16:00 Guided tour of Exeter Cathedral [optional] Meet at 16:00; tour begins at 16:15
17:30 Cathedral Evening Prayer [optional]
19:00 Dinner [your own choice: in town or Holland Hall]
Friday 9th September
08:30 Morning Prayer : the Mary Harris Memorial Chapel [led by Ilaria Vigorelli]
09:00 Plenary 9 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo
[on-line presentation]: Johannes ZACHHUBER (Trinity College, University of Oxford): Gregory of Nyssa’s account of human knowledge according to De anima et resurrectione
09:45 Plenary 10 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo
Miguel BRUGAROLAS (University of Navarra, Pamplona): God, freedom and supreme good in the Dialogue De anima et resurrection
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Short communications F [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Ilaria Vigorelli
| 11:00 | Giulio MASPERO The Resurrection and the Feast of Tabernacles in Gregory of Nyssa and Methodius of Olympus’. |
| 11:30 | [on-line presentation] Nikolai KIEL Origenes-Rezeption in De anima et resurrectione des Gregor von Nyssa (presentation in English) |
| 12:00 | [on-line presentation] Stefanie SCHLENCZEK Grief, resilience and Gregory of Nyssa’s De anima et resurrectione |
12:30 Lunch [Queen’s Building: included in conference registration]
14:00 Short communications G [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Lenka Karfíkova
[14:00 paper withdrawn]
14:30 [on-line presentation] Hannah BLACK Imagery for Soteriological Transformation in De anima et resurrectione
15:00 Mike MOTIA On the soul and the resurrection as protreptic
15:30 Coffee break
16:15 Plenary 11 [Queen’s Lecture Theatre 1] Chair: Francisco Bastitta Harriet
Warren SMITH (Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina: The Body and the Beatific Vision: An Unresolved Question
17:00 Conclusions and forward-planning [end of the formal part of the conference]
19:00 Dinner [your own choice: in town or Holland Hall]