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TEACHING CLASSICS Fundamental Values in the Changing World May 1 – 7, 2009 Akademgorodok Novosibirsk, Russia Novosibirsk State University Institute of Philosophy and Law Centre for Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition TEACHING CLASSICS Fundamental Values in the Changing World May 1 – 7, 2009 Akademgorodok Novosibirsk, Russia Supported by Open Society InstituteHigher Education Support ProgramRegional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eugene AFONASIN, Director of the Project Anna KUZNETSOVA, Administrative Director Natalia PEREDEREEVA, Secretary and Accountant VENUE Hotel and recreation centre LESNAYA SKAZKA, Berdsk, Novosibirsk region, Russia Tel. +7 (383) 334 06 23; 334 06 80 lesnayaskazka@mail.ru http://www.lesnaya-skazka.ru/ For additional information please write Eugene Afonasin at afonasin@gmail.com Or refer to http://www.nsu.ru/classics/reset/index.htm
http://www.nsu.ru/classics/ +7 (383) 363 20 35 P. Box 127, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia E-mail: afonasin@gmail.com
14.30–15.00 Eugene Afonasin On the Scope and Nature of the Project. Some Preliminaries to the Spring Session Reading class 15.00–17.00 Plato, Timaeus – I Conducted by Svetlana Mesyats and Andrej Schetnikov
10.30–13.00 Luc Brisson The meaning of eikos muthos in Plato's Timaeus 13.00–15.00 Lunch
Reading class 15.00–17.00 Plato, Timaeus – II Conducted by Svetlana Mesyats and Andrej Schetnikov
10.30–13.00 Plato, Timaeus – III Conducted by Svetlana Mesyats and Andrej Schetnikov 13.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Luc Brisson The ontological structure of Plato's cosmoloty May 4, Monday Lecture and Discussion 10.30–13.00 Eugene Afonasin and Anna Kuznetsova Houses of philosophical schools in Athens 13.00–15.00 Lunch
Lecture and Discussion 15.00–17.00 Luc Brisson How and why do the building blocks of the universe change constantly in Plato's Timaeus ? May 5, Tuesday Lecture and Discussion 15.00–17.00 Luc Brisson The Timaeus in late Antiquity May 6, Wednesday Round-Table Discussion 10.30–13.00 Luc Brisson
13.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Eugene Afonasin and Anna Kuznetsova
10.30–13.00 Plato, Timaeus – IV Conducted by Svetlana Mesyats and Andrej Schetnikov 13.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Reading Philosophical Texts: Solving textological and conceptual problems, editing techniques and new technologies of reading and editing classical texts Results and Future Plans
Anna AFONASINA (KUZNETSOVA) Doctoral Student at Novosibirsk State University; studied theology and religion at Altay State University (Barnaul) and philosophy at Novosibirsk State University; teaches courses in sociology, the history of religion, and Ancient philosophy; a specialist in Ancient Greek Philosophy, esp. the Pythagorean Tradition Eugene AFONASIN Professor of Philosophy at Novosibirsk State University, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences; studied physics at Novosibirsk University, medieval philosophy at the Central European University, and classics at Oxford and Boston; teaches classes on the history of philosophy, Roman Law, and Latin; a specialist in Ancient Greek Philosophy, esp. Late Antiquity; published books on Gnosticism and a Russian translation of the Stromateis by Clement of Alexandria Sergey ASTAPOV Associate Professor, South State University, Rostov-on-Don; studied philosophy at Rostov State University; teaches the history of religion, Patristic theology, and Latin; research interests include methodology of the theological thought; the Orthodox apophatic thought and negative dialectics as the method of apophatism, esp. in the Hesychasts.
Leonidas BARGELIOTES Emeritus Professor at the University of Athens and the President of Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture; studied theology and philosophy at the University of Athens and the Universities of Norma and Emory (USA); a very experienced organizer of scientific activities, published numerous works on the Classical tradition. Igor BERESTOV Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, lecturer at Novosibirsk State University; studied geophysics and philosophy at Novosibirsk State University; teaches courses in the history of philosophy; a specialist in Ancient philosophy, esp. Plotinus
Luc BRISSON Directeur de Recherche (1ère classe) au C.N.R.S., a member of the Centre Jean Pépin (Unité Propre de Recherche n° 76 du CNRS); studied philosophy, philology and sociology at l'Université de Montréal and l'École Pratique des Hautes Études; a world famous historian of Ancient philosophy; publications include translations and commentaries in Plato and Plotinus; books How Philosophers Saved Myths (ET Chicago 2004), Plato the Myth Maker (ET Chicago 1999); Inventing the Universe, with W. Meyerstein (New York 1995), Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (ET Berkeley 2002), etc. Pavel BUTAKOV Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, lecturer at Novosibirsk State University; studied philosophy at Novosibirsk State University; teaches the history of philosophy; research interests include Latin Patristics, esp. Tertullian
John DILLON Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus), Trinity College, Dublin; Director of the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition; studied ancient philosophy at Oxford, Dublin and the University of California, Berkeley; a worldwide known scholar of the Classical Tradition, especially Platonism; publications include The Middle Platonists (1977, 19962), The Heirs of Plato (2003), etc.
Michail EGOROCHKIN Lecturer, Altay State University, Barnaul; studied theology at Altay State University; teaches culturology and philosophy; research interests include theoretical philology and Epic literature
Anna ELASHKINA Doctoral Student, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences; studied physics and philosophy at Novosibirsk State University; participates in various non-governmental program of additional education for High school pupils in Natural sciences and philosophy; research interests include Plato's dialectics and artificial intelligence Levan GIGINEISHVILI Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; studied philosophy at Tbilisi State University, Medieval history at the CEU, and education at Harvard University; participated in various international projects, including scholarship at the University of Leuven; teaches an introductory course in Modern Western thinking, Classical Greek literature, and a special course on Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity; a specialist in Patristic, Byzantine, and Medieval Georgian thought, esp. Ioane Petritsi
Sergey GOLOVANOV Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of philosophy and law, Novosibirsk; studied history at Mordovian State University and theology at Ivano-Frankisk Theologian Catechetical Spiritual Institute of the UGCC; research interests include Greek and Latin Patristics, esp. Gregory the Great Inna GOLUBOVICH Professor, Odessa National University; studied history and philosophy at Odessa National University; teaches philosophy, anthropology, religion, and the methodology of humanities; a specialist in Ethics and Biography
Alexey KAMENSKIKH Assistant Professor, Perm State Tech University; studied history at Perm State University and philosophy at Perm State Tech University; teaches a general course of philosophy, social philosophy, and religion; research interests include the history of Late Ancient philosophy and religion, esp. Christian Platonism and Gnosticism Ioulia (Lilian) KARALI – GIANNAKOPOULOU Professor of Environmental Archaeology, Department of Archaeology & History of Art, Faculty of History & Archaeology, School of Philosophy, at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; studied Archaeology and Byzantine history in the University of Athens and the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I); a well known archaeologist, a specialist in environmental archaeology, Greek Prehistory (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic periods & Bronze Age), bioarchaeology (man, animals, molluscs), and geoarchaeology Anton KRAVCHIK Senior lecturer, Odessa National University; studied physics and philosophy at Odessa National University; teaches the history of philosophy; research interests include the methodology of sciences and epistemology
Maria KRAVCHIK Lecturer and secretary, Odessa National University; studied philosophy at Odessa National University; teaches the theory of culture and Semiotics; research focuses in the theory of culture
Timothy MYAKIN Associate Professor of Classical Philology and Ancient History at Novosibirsk State University; studied history at Novosibirsk University; teaches Latin and Ancient history; a specialist in Ancient poetry, law and language; published books on Ancient poetry (Sappho); translations of Greek and Roman legal texts and a series of articles on Roman history Svetlana MESYATS Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; educated at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute; teaches the history of philosophy, Ontology and Metaphysics; a specialist in Ancient metaphysics and the philosophy of nature, Neoplatonism, and Late Antique philosophic commentaries.
Irina MOCHALOVA Associate Professor of Philosophy, Leningrad Pushkin State University; the editor-in-chief of the journal Vestnik LSU (series philosophy); studied the history of philosophy at St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University; published numerous works on the Old Academy Petr MOISEEV Assistant Professor, Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture; studied history and philosophy at Novosibirsk State University; teaches philosophy, and history and theory of culture; research interests include Greek Patristics, esp. the Corpus Dionysiacum, and Russian Literature
Dmitry MORDVINOV Teacher at Omsk branch of Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages; studied philology at Omsk State University; teaches English and Spanish; research interests include Classical philology, the methodology of teaching languages, and international relations (esp. the 17th century and nuclear non-proliferation) Michail NEMTSEV Lecturer, Novosibirsk State University of Technology; studied history at Altay State Pedagogical University and philosophy at Philosophy Department of Novosibirsk State University; teaches sociology and philosophy; research interests include hermeneutics and various aspects of social science Dominic J. O’MEARA Professor ordinaire, Chair of Metaphysics and Ancient Philosophy at the University of Fribourg; studied ancient philosophy at Cambridge and l'École Pratique des Hautes Études; a well known historian of Ancient philosophy; the author of several critical editions, monographs, and introductory books, including Michaelis Pselli Philosophica minora (Leipzig 1989); Pythagoras Revived (Oxford 1989); Plotinus : An Introduction to the Enneads (Oxford 1993); Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2003); Syrianus On Aristotle Metaphysics 13-14, with J. Dillon (London 2006); Syrianus On Aristotle Metaphysics 3-4 (London 2008) Vadim PROZOROV Professor, Moscow State University, studied history at Moscow State University and Medieval history at the CEU; participated in various international projects, including Fulbright scholarship (the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC); teaches Medieval history, sources of the Medieval history, and historical geography; a specialist in Latin Patristics and Legal history, esp. Gregory the Great and his epoch
John RIST Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, a famous scholar of the Classical Tradition, especially Neoplatonism; studied Ancient philosophy at Cambridge; publications include Eros and Psyche: Studies in Plato, Plotinus and Origen (Toronto 1964) Plotinus: The Road to Reality (Cambridge 1967), Human Value: A Study of Ancient Philosophical Ethics (Philosophia Antiqua 40) (Leiden 1982), Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (Cambridge 1994), Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality (Cambridge 2001), etc. Eugene RODIN Assistant Professor, Tula State Pedagogical University; studied linguistics (English, German, Swedish) at Moscow State Linguistics University and Tula State Pedagogical University; teaches religious ethics, religious philosophy, and the history of religion; a specialist in religious philosophy, esp. Gnosticism Andrey SCHETNIKOV Vice director of ΣΙΓΜΑ: The Centre for Educational Projects (Novosibirsk), studied at the department of physics of Novosibirsk State University; a well known historian of Ancient mathematics; the author of numerous articles in the history of science and education; translator of Nicomachus of Gerasa, Theon of Smyrna, Proclus and other Greek authors into Russian Sergey SHEVTSOV Professor, Odessa National University; studied philology and philosophy at Odessa National University; teaches the history of philosophy and the philosophy of law; research interests include the history of Western and Russian legal tradition, esp. legal consciousness, and literature
Timur STUKANOV Assistant Professor, Siberian State Industrial University; studied philosophy at Tomsk State University; teaches philosophy and the history and theory of culture; writes dissertation on Russian religious thought, esp. this of Lev Karsavin
Teun TIELEMAN Senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University; co-director (with Prof. Dr. Annette Merz) of the research program ‘Habent sua fata libelli: “Text processing in the philosophical and religious movements within the Roman Empire (1-300 CE)'; Director of Studies, Research Master Program of the Department of Philosophy; studied classics in Utrecht University; published Galen and Chrysippus On the Soul: Argument and Refutation in the De Placitis Books II and III (Leiden/Boston 1996) and Chrysippus’ On Affections. Reconstruction and Interpretation (Leiden/Boston 2003), and numerous articles in Ancient philosophy and science. Andrej TIKHONOV Associate Professor, South State University, Rostov-on-Don; studied philosophy at Rostov State University; teaches courses in the history of Western philosophy, esp. the history of anthropological thought and German Idealism; participated in a number of international schools and conferences; research interests include Plato
Alexander TYUTYUNNIKOV Associate Professor, Perm State University; studied physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and philosophy at Ural State University; teaches the history of philosophy and the history and methodology of sciences; research interests include Ancient philosophy, esp. Plotinus, and the philosophy of sciences
Mostafa YOUNESIE Professor of Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, where he previously studied Western Political thought; a specialist in Classical and Medieval political philosophy viewed in comparative and intercultural prospective; published many works both on Western and Islamic intellectual traditions (especially, Plato and al-Farabi), including papers on “Political Thought, Justice and Civilizational Dialogue”, “Farabi: Herald of Comparative Political Philosophy”, etc. Marina WOLF Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, lecturer at Novosibirsk State University; studied history and philosophy at Novosibirsk State University; teaches the history of ancient Greek and medieval Arabic thought; research interests include the Greek philosophy and the Orient. |
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