The Reception of Plato in Later Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of Athens, June 8–9, 2020

Submissions are invited for a 2-day conference, organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Australian Research Council and Macquarie University, Australia, on the topic of The Reception of Plato in Later Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Taking start from our common interest in the Platonic tradition and its reception in later periods, our collaboration has to date yielded one edited volume (The Neoplatonists and their Heirs, Brill, 2020, ed. Ken Parry and E. Anagnostou-Laoutides), while a second one is anticipated to host select papers from the conference. We now wish to expand our network of co-thinkers and thus, we welcome papers on any aspect of Platonic reception, both in the Byzantine East and the Latin West, in philosophical, literary and/or theological texts.

Confirmed speakers include Prof Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania), Prof Kevin Corrigan (Emory University), Prof Lloyd Gerson (Toronto University), and Prof Ilaria Ramelli (Durham University/ “Angelicum” University/ Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan).