The Harmony of Reason: Music and Philosophy from Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity -22-23-24/09/2
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 22-23-24/09/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Sala Stemmi, Palazzo della Carovana, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 , Pisa (Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Francesco Pelosi, Federico M. Petrucci
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
22/09/2016
10.30 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)
23/09/2016
Chair: Maria Michela Sassi (Università di Pisa)
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?
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
24/09/2016
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
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Philippe Hoffmann (École Pratique des Hautes Études) Philosophie et μουσική dans l’Antiquité tardive