Author: Morwenna Ludlow

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FINAL updated programme September 2022 WITH CHAIRS .

 

15^th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa

6^th – 9^th 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 7^th  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[12:00                    paper withdrawn]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
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 8^th 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]
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]

We are pleased to say that you can now book on-line for the Gregory of Nyssa colloquium. We apologise for the delay, which has been caused by a shortage of campus staff.

All are welcome to the colloquium! You do not have to be presenting a paper.

Thanks to the generosity of the Posbury St Francis Trust we are offering twelve student bursaries of up to £150 each. If you would like to apply for one of these bursaries please simply fill in this form and send to the Gregory of Nyssa Colloquium email: gregoryofnyssacolloquium@gmail.com .   The bursaries will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.

Booking for the conference:

1. If you are applying for a student bursary, PLEASE DO NOT BOOK ON-LINE. Please email us the form above and we will send you information about payment.

2. Everybody else: please book on-line using this link:-

The 15th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa, University of Exeter | Exeter University

Guidance for booking on-line:

The outline conference programme will give you some idea of timings. All lectures/conference sessions and lunch will take place in the Queen’s Building on Streatham Campus (see map). You may also book accommodation on campus.

Conference registration is necessary for all those attending (there is a reduced price for all students and those attending on-line).

If you wish to, you may book accommodation in Holland Hall, a very comfortable modern university accommodation block on Streatham Campus: this is available both for the conference itself and for a few nights before and after, if you need it. Please select the nights you need.

The evening meals are also optional: there will be a special Gala Dinner on Wednesday 7th September in Reed Hall, one of the historic buildings on the university’s campus and we hope you will be able to join us for that.  If you wish to, you may also book dinners in Holland Hall for the other evenings.

(All payments will be acknowledged with an invoice which you can use to claim expenses from your usual sources, if that applies to you. You do not need to choose the ‘invoice’ option, unless you are trying to arrange direct payment between your institution and the conference without using your own bank account. )

After you have selected your options and before you pay there will be an opportunity to let us know if you have special dietary requirements, or special accessibility requirements for your overnight accommodation.

We would be grateful if you could also complete the attached conference registration form.

We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful campus!

With best wishes,

Morwenna Ludlow

& the conference committee.

The Conference programme will begin at 16:00 on Tuesday 6th September and will close at 18:00 on Friday 9th September.

The conference will be held on the main campus of the University of Exeter: Streatham Campus in Exeter. A map is available here.

Accommodation will be available on the Streatham campus of Exeter University at the price of approx. £67 per night (Bed and Breakfast = B&B). Accessible rooms are available (e.g. rooms which are step-free).

You are of course welcome to book other accommodation in the city of Exeter if you prefer.

Travel to Exeter University:  please find further information here.

Train: the nearest rail station to Exeter University is Exeter St David’s station. This is the main line station with a direct connection to London Paddington station (approx 2 hours 15 mins).  (Exeter “Central” station is on a local branch line and is not very close to campus.)

Exeter St David’s station is a 15 minute walk to the Streatham campus (the accommodation at Holland Hall is one of the nearest parts of campus to the station). It is well-sign-posted but it is up a steep hill. There are taxis available at the station if you prefer.

Flying: If you are flying to the UK you have several options:

1. Fly to one of the London airports and travel to Exeter by train (St David’s train station) or coach. Details on train and coach connections can be found here  under the ‘Public transport’ tab.

2. Fly to Bristol airport which receives a number of international flights. Travel from Bristol Airport to Exeter by taking a bus to Bristol Temple Meads rail station and a train from there to Exeter St David’s rail station. See public transport options here  .

3. Fly to Exeter airport which offers a very limited number of international flights. Travel to Exeter University campus by taxi.  See the ‘by plane’ information on this page here.

Taxis: Apple Taxis Exeter (01392 666666) offices at both Exeter St David’s rail station and Exeter International Airport.

 

 

1. Call for Short communications (re-opened call)

Recognising that many people were not have been in a position to make a proposal last autumn, the committee is re-opening its invitation for proposals for short communications relating to Gregory of Nyssa’s De anima et resurrectione. Possible themes include:-

• Gregory’s soteriology, eschatology and theological anthropology as relating to De anima et resurrectione;
• Gregory’s theological, philosophical and literary influences, as relating to De anima et resurrectione;
• the role of Macrina in Gregory’s writings;
• comparisons between De anima et resurrectione and other texts and thinkers;
• the translation, reception and after-life of De anima et resurrectione and/or its key ideas.

Short communications at the conference will take 20 minutes max. with 7 minutes for questions. Provision will be made for a limited number of communications to be made on-line for those who are otherwise unable to attend the conference.

Please send your abstract of not more than 300 words on the form (accessed here: call for papers Spring 2022) to gregoryofnyssacolloquium@gmail.com by 12 noon on Friday 27th May 2022.

2. Call for applications to the doctoral workshop

Following the successful doctoral workshops at the colloquia in Rome and Paris, the committee invite proposals from current doctoral students to join the doctoral workshop in Exeter.

Purpose / structure of the workshop:

Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to discuss their work with a more experienced scholar in the field, who will have read a sample of their work in advance. Each workshop session will include several such discussions, so that students can learn from their peers as well as from their appointed mentor. Successful applicants will be expected to attend the whole conference. Provision will be made for some students to attend on-line if they are unable to attend in person.

Eligibility:

• You will be a student at any stage of your doctoral programme prior to your final examination.
• You will be writing a doctoral dissertation on Gregory of Nyssa, or on early Christian eschatology or on related authors or themes (e.g. on one of the other Cappadocians, or on philosophy and theology in the fourth century).
• If your proposal is successful, you will need to submit a piece of work relating to your doctoral dissertation by 15^th July 2022. This piece of writing should be 5,000 words maximum. It could be e.g. a detailed research proposal/chapter plan, a summary of research findings so far, or one chapter/part of one chapter.

How to apply:

Please send the following to gregoryofnyssacolloquium@gmail.com by 12 noon on 27th May 2022:

• application form (accessed here: call for doctoral workshop Spring 2022 ) with the title of your dissertation and an explanation of what work you would submit if you were chosen for the workshop;
• a brief CV (one or two pages);
• a brief letter of recommendation from your doctoral supervisor (no more than one page).

For both calls:

• The languages of the conference are: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish; proposals and papers are accepted in any of these languages.
• The committee will inform you whether your proposal has been accepted by Friday 10th June 2022

We look forward to welcoming you to the colloquium!

Morwenna Ludlow, Richard Flower, Brandon Gallaher, Gabriele Galluzzo, Emma Loosley Leeming

 

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for the call for papers below has been extended to December 12th. We will respond by the end of January 2022.

Please do continue to circulate the call for papers among your networks.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Morwenna Ludlow and the committee

 

 

The committee of the 15th International Colloquium invites proposals for papers. Possible themes include:-

• Gregory’s soteriology, eschatology and theological anthropology as relating to De anima et resurrectione;
• Gregory’s theological, philosophical and literary influences, as relating to De anima et resurrectione;
• the role of Macrina in Gregory’s writings;
• comparisons between De anima et resurrectione and other texts and thinkers;
• the translation, reception and after-life of De anima et resurrectione and/or its key ideas.

Proposals are invited for the two following kinds of communication:-

1. Plenary lectures: a maximum of 40 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions.
2. Short communications: a maximum of 20 minutes, with 7 minutes for questions.

The languages of the conference are: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish; proposals and papers are accepted in any of these languages.

Please send your abstract of not more than 300 words on the form below by Friday 26^th November.

The committee will inform you whether your proposal has been accepted by 14^th January 2022.

Please note:- 

• PhD students may submit a proposal for a short paper. However, there will also be a later call for applications to the PhD student workshops, which will include any aspect of the study of Gregory of Nyssa. We recommend you aim to speak on a topic closely related to your dissertation.
• The conference proceedings will be published, but acceptance of a paper for the conference does not guarantee publication: there will be a separate process of selection for the volume.

We look forward to welcoming you to the colloquium!

Morwenna Ludlow, Richard Flower, Brandon Gallaher, Gabriele Galluzzo, Emma Loosley Leeming

 

Please download the proposal form here [form is on second page]:-

call for papers

 

We can confirm the dates for the 15th International Colloquium at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 6th – Friday 9th September 2022

A call for papers will be issued next week. We expect to meet in person, but we are also planning to make some aspects of the colloquium accessible to those who might not be able to travel. We are, of course, keeping a close eye on the current situation.

We look forward to welcoming you to the colloquium!

Morwenna Ludlow

University of Exeter

Image: Gregory of Nyssa, mosaic from La Martorana, Palermo. Credit: N.P. Ludlow