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PREPARATORY WORKSHOP THE NEOPLATONIC

SCHOOL OF ATHENS AND ITS CONTEXT21 DEC18

europainvestiga2018@gmail.comhttps://www.ucm.es/escueladeatenas/workshop-2018

Preparatory Workshop: The Neoplatonic School of Athens and its context

The Research Projects “Towards a Social History of Late Antique Pagan Holy Men” (EUIN2017-85631) and “The Neoplatonic School of Athens (4th-6th c.) in its historical and philosophical context” (HAR2017-83613-C2-1-P), funded by the Spanish Research Ministry (2017-2020), organize a preparatory workshop as a starting point of a joint research group on the social history, philosophical context and literary and archaological nuances of the Neoplatonic School of Athens. The participants will present their work lines towards a future collaborative research endeavour on this topics:

• Social History of the Neoplatonic School of Athens and Social Networks.

• Key philosophical topics of the Neoplatonic School of Athens and their relations with other schools.

• Literature and thought around the School of Athens and its context.

• Neoplatonism and Gender.

• Archaeology of the Neoplatonic Schools (Athens and other schools).

• Neoplatonic schools and urban contexts.

• Neoplatonism and Christian holiness.

The aim of this workshop is to foster future cooperation aiming at the preparation of a European call and to develop common research interests.

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Friday 21th December9:30—10:00 Reception and presentation of the workshop.

1st Part: Research lines on History and ArchaeologyChair: Rosa Sanz Serrano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

10:00—10:30 Clelia Martínez Maza (Universidad de Málaga)

10:30—11:00 Sabine Ladstätter (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

11:00—11:30 Aitor Blanco (Universidad de Navarra)

11:30—12:00 Coffee pause

2nd Part: Research lines on Philology and PhilosophyChair: Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

12:30—13:00 Alberto Bernabé Pajares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

13:00—13:30 Filip Doroszewski (Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie)

13:30—15:00 Lunch

Chair: David Hernández de la Fuente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 15:00—15:30 Isabel Velázquez Soriano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

15:30—16:00 José María Zamora Calvo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

3rd Part: PhD ProjectsChair: José María Zamora Calvo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

16:00—16:40 Marco Alviz Fernandez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)Sonsoles Costero Quiroga (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)Marina Díaz Bourgeal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Ana de Francisco Heredero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Salón de GradosUCM Faculty of Philology

Ciudad Universitaria, Edificio A, Plaza Menéndez Pelayo, s/n,

28040 Madrid