THE HARMONY OF REASON - Scuola Normale Superiore

THE HARMONY
OF REASON
Music and Philosophy from the
Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity
22-24 September 2016
Sala Stemmi
Palazzo della Carovana
Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 - Pisa
Speakers
LAURA M. CASTELLI
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
STEPHEN GERSH
(University of Notre Dame)
CHRISTOPH HELMIG
(Universität zu Köln)
PHILIPPE HOFFMANN
Organizers
FRANCESCO PELOSI
FEDERICO M. PETRUCCI
(École Pratique des Hautes Études)
GEORGE KARAMANOLIS
(Universität Wien)
CARLOS LÉVY
(Université Paris-Sorbonne)
ALEXANDRA MICHALEWSKI
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
DOMINIC O’MEARA
(Université de Fribourg)
FRANCESCO PELOSI
(Scuola Normale Superiore)
MASSIMO RAFFA
(Liceo Classico “L. Piccolo”, Capo d’Orlando)
HAROLD TARRANT
(University of Newcastle - AU)
MÁTÉ VERES
(Central European University)
The Conference is funded by MIUR (Futuro in Ricerca 2013)
Gruppo di ricerca sulla
musica della Grecia antica
Scuola Normale Superiore
Elaborazione a cura del Servizio Comunicazione e Relazioni Esterne | SNS
FEDERICO M. PETRUCCI
(Scuola Normale Superiore)
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THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER
10.30
Chair: RICCARDO CHIARADONNA (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
15.00
ALEXANDRA MICHALEWSKI (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Rythme et dynamisme producteur. Réflexions sur le rôle de la musique dans les
traités de Plotin
15.45
GEORGE KARAMANOLIS (Universität Wien)
What philosophy has to do with music theory: the scope and argument of
Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics
16.30
Coffee break
17.00
CHRISTOPH HELMIG (Universität zu Köln)
The digression on the criterion in Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s
Harmonics
Welcome and introduction
Chair: BRUNO CENTRONE (Università di Pisa)
11.00
CARLOS LÉVY (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Fonctions du paradigme musical chez Philon d’Alexandrie
11.45
Coffee break
12.00
FEDERICO M. PETRUCCI (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Exegetical strategies in the Middle Platonist interpretation of Plato’s Divisio
Animae
Chair: HAROLD TARRANT (University of Newcastle - AU)
15.30 MÁTÉ VERES (Central European University)
Sextus Empiricus against the musicians
16.15
FRANCESCO PELOSI (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Musical imagery in Clement of Alexandria and Origen
18.00
Visit to the ‘Camposanto Monumentale’ in Pisa
(by invitation only)
SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
Chair: GIOVANNA R. GIARDINA (Università degli Studi di Catania)
9.30
DOMINIC O’MEARA (Université de Fribourg)
The music of the virtues in late ancient Platonism
10.15
STEPHEN GERSH (University of Notre Dame)
Harmonics as model for theology in Proclus
FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
11.00
Coffee break
Chair: MARIA MICHELA SASSI (Università di Pisa)
11.30
PHILIPPE HOFFMANN (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
Philosophie et μουσική dans l’Antiquité tardive
9.30
LAURA M. CASTELLI (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Alexander of Aphrodisias and musical models for ontological enquiries
10.15
MASSIMO RAFFA (Liceo Classico “L. Piccolo”, Capo d’Orlando)
Alexander of Aphrodisias in Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics
11.00
Coffee break
11.30
HAROLD TARRANT (University of Newcastle - AU)
How far can Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics be treated as a
Middle Platonic exercise?