There are loads of conferences and workshops on Neoplatonism, and especially Plotinus, happening in the coming weeks. Particularly promising among them is “The presence of Plotinus: the self, contemplation, and spiritual exercise,” which will be held remotely on June 16-18, and at which the NSEA’s own Nicholas Banner will be appearing. The schedule you find below. All interested in participation can contact Mateusz Stróżyński, via monosautos@gmail.com.

The Presence of Plotinus, June 16-18

Wednesday June 16, 14:30-19 CEST = 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. EDT

15:00: Lloyd Gerson, “The Demiurgic Intellect and individual intellects in Plotinus.”

17:00: Siobhan Doyle, “Plotinus: The Self as the Logos of the Particularized Soul.”

18:00: Yady Oren, “The Self as Potential for Self-Consciousness and Independence.”

Thursday, June 17, times CEST

15:00: Sara Ahbel-Rappe, “Beginning to resemble the ground on which you walk: Ennead V.8, 10.30.”

17:00: Agoston Guba, “The dimmest intellection: Nature’s creation an awareness in Plotinus.”

18:00: Luciana Gabriela Santoprete, “Beauty and spiritual exercises in the ascent toward God in Plotinus.”

Friday, June 18. Times CEST

15:00: Christian Tornau, “Rhetoric, philosophy, and spiritual exercise in Plotinus.”

17:00: Nicholas Banner, “Everywhere and nowhere: the textual indeterminacy of the undescended soul in Plotinus as performative anagogic writing”

18:00: Mateusz Stróżyński, “Imagination and spiritual exercise in Plotinus.”