Friday, 12th May 2023

09:15–9:30
Prof. Dr. Irmgard Männlein-Robert & Prof. Dr. Volker Drecoll (Tübingen): Introduction and Greetings by the Organizers

09:30–10:30
Assoc. Prof. Dr. George Karamanolis (Vienna): Porphyry’s Theory of Soul and Its Reception by Eusebius

Coffee Break

11:00–12:00
PD. Dr. Yury Arzhanov (Salzburg): The Newly Found Syriac Version of Porphyry’s Treatise on Principle and Matter and Its Notion of Soul

12:00–13:00
Prof. Dr. Volker Drecoll: The Fragments of Porphyry, Ad Boethum in Eusebius’ Praeparatio Evangelica

Lunch

14:00–15:00
Prof. Dr. Dr. Alfons Fürst (Münster): Competing Overlaps. Porphyry and Eusebius on Fate and Freedom

15:00–16:00
Dr. Fabienne Jourdan (Paris): L'animation tardive de l’embryon : une polémique anti-chrétienne sous-jacente ou simplement une position perçue comme dangereuse par les chrétiens? L’Ad Gaurum de Porphyre lu à l’aune des conflits religieux

Coffee Break

16:30–17:30
Prof. Dr. Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen): Porphyry as a Preserver of Classical Moral Philosophy

Saturday, 13th May 2023

09:30–10:30
Prof. Dr. Marie-Odile Boulnois (Paris): Porphyre, Eusèbe de Césarée et l'empereur Julien sur les sacrifices des êtres animés

Coffee Break

11:00–12:00
Dr. Sonsoles Costero Quiroga (Tübingen): Food for the Soul. Brief Notes about Porphyry Abst. II

Lunch

13:00–14:00
Dr. Nathalia Pedrique (Göttingen): Inclination and Intention: The Meaning of Rhope (ῥοπή) in Porphyry’s Sentences

Coffee Break

15:30–16:30
Prof. Dr. Michael Chase (Paris): Demonic Epistemology: Porphyry’s Conception of the δαίμων as a Neglected Precursor to Some Aspects of Early Christian Asceticism

16:30–16:45
Prof. Dr. Irmgard Männlein-Robert & Prof. Dr. Volker Drecol: Final Remarks