PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
May 18-19, 2012
300 Wallace Hall
Friday, May 18, 2012 Morning Session Chair: Christian Wildberg (Princeton University) |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Anne van den Kerchove (Sorbonne University) Bio "About Some New Fragments of the Corpus Hermeticum" Handout, PowerPoint |
| 11:15 a.m. | Kevin van Bladel (University of Southern California) Bio "An Inventory of the Arabic Hermetica: Problems and Prospects" Handout |
| 12:30 p.m. | LUNCH |
Chair: Alex Kocar (Princeton University) |
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| 2:00 p.m. | Jørgen Podemann Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) Bio “The Eye of the World.” An interpretation of the Kore Kosmou on its Egyptian Background” Paper, Handout |
| 3:15 p.m. | Gregory Shaw (Stonehill College) Bio "Taking the Shape of the Gods: A Theurgic Reading of Hermetic Rebirth" Paper |
| 4:30 p.m. | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 4:45 p.m. | Christian Bull (University of Bergen) Bio "Hermetic Rituals? The Rebirth and the Visionary Ascent" Handout |
| 6:15 p.m | Reception |
Saturday, May 19, 2012 Morning session Chair: Lance Jenott (Princeton University) |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Alex Kocar (Princeton University) Bio "Christian Hermetica: The Circulation and Significance of Pagan Oracles among Late Antique Christians" Handout |
| 11:15 a.m. | Christian Wildberg (Princeton University) Bio "Corpus Hermeticum Tractate III: The Genesis of a Genesis" Handout |
| 12:30 p.m. | LUNCH |
| Afternoon Session |
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| Chair: Geoff Smith (Princeton University) |
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| 2:00 p.m. | Brian Copenhaver (University of California at Los Angeles) Bio "Under Which Lyre: Vico's Hermes after Casaubon" |
| 3:15 p.m. | David Porreca (University of Waterloo) Bio "Opera omnia Hermetis antiqui: Hermes for the 21st Century" |
| 4:30 p.m. | Coffee Break and General Discussion |
Cosponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies; Department of Classics
and Department of Art and Archaeology
Last updated 5/18/12