The CEU Institute for Advanced Study
The CEU Humanities Development Initiative
and The Human Project
in cooperation with
The CEU Department of Philosophy
and Department of Medieval Studies
present
The Self in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds:
Conceptions and Practices in China and the West
May 22 – 24, 2014
Central European University
Budapest 1051, Nádor Utca 13
Room 001
Thursday May 22
14:00 – 15:10 14:00 – 14:15 Opening and welcome
Éva Fodor – Director, CEU Institute for Advanced Study Curie Virág – Workshop organizer
14:20 –14:50 Lecture by László Bene
“Modern notions in the interpretation of ancient Greek philosophical texts: the case of Plotinus’ theory of self-knowledge”
14:50 – 15:05 Q&A
15:10 – 16:30 15:10 – 15:30 Beatrix Mecsi
“Self-reflection and self-cultivation in portrait paintings of scholars inChina and Korea”
15:30 – 15:40 Discussant: Penelope Riboud
15:40 – 15:50 Q&A
15:50 – 16:30 Text reading and discussion
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 – 18:10 16:50– 17:10 Ryan Balot
“The self’s responsibility for itself in Greek ethics”
17:10 – 17:20 Discussant: Emese Mogyoródi
17:20 – 17:30 Q&A
17:30 – 18:10 Text reading and discussion
18:10 Drinks, dinner etc.
Friday May 23
9:00 – 10:20 9:00 –9:20 Roel Sterckx
“The professional self and non-self in early China.”
9:20 – 9:30 Discussant: Brad Inwood
9:30 – 9:40 Q&A
9:40 – 10:20 Text reading and discussion
10:20 – 10:35 Coffee break
10:35 – 11:55 10:35– 10:55 Romain Graziani
“Individual, body and persona. Debates on the multiple nature of the self in early China, and their literary implications”
10:55 – 11:05 Discussant: Gábor Betegh
11:05 – 11:15 Q&A
11:15 – 11:55 Text reading and discussion
11:55 – 13:30 Lunch, Lobby of Nádor Utca 13
13:30 – 14:50 13:30 –13:50 Michael Puett
“Visions of the self, inside and outside of ritual space”
13:50 – 14:00 Discussant: Romain Graziani
14:00– 14:10 Q&A
14:10 – 14:50 Text reading and discussion
14:50 – 15:05 Coffee
15:05 – 16:25 15:05 –15:25 Máté Veres
“Becoming like an idle God: the divine paradigm of human
flourishing in Epicurus”
15:25 – 15:35 Discussant: Brad Inwood
15:35 – 15:45 Q&A
15:45 – 16:25 Text reading and discussion
16:25 – 16:40 Coffee
16:40 – 18:00 16:40 – 17:00 István Perczel
“Theaetetus 156a-157c: A Platonic philosophical myth and its career in late antique pagan and Christian philosophy”
17:00 – 17:10 Discussant: Robert Wardy
17:10 – 17:20 Q&A
17:20 – 18:00 Text reading and discussion
18:00 Drinks, dinner, etc.
Saturday May 24
9:00 – 10:20 9:00 –9:20 Brad Inwood
“Marcus Aurelius and the self.”
9:20 – 9:30 Discussant: Romain Graziani
9:30 – 9:40 Q&A
9:40 – 10:20 Text reading and discussion
10:20 – 10:35 Coffee
10:35 – 11:55 10:35 – 10:55 Curie Virág
“The composition of personhood in medieval China: through the
cosmological prism”
10:55 – 11:05 Discussant: István Bodnár
11:05 – 11:15 Q&A
11:15 – 11:55 Text reading and discussion
11:55 – 13:30 Lunch, Lobby of Nádor Utca 13
13:30 – 14:50 13:30 – 13:50 Melinda Pap
“The image of self in Zhanran's Diamond Scalpel Treatise”
13:50 – 14:00 Discussant: Ferenc Ruzsa
14:00 – 14:10 Q and A
14:10 – 14:50 Text reading and discussion
14:50 – 15:05 Coffee
15:05 – 16:25 15:05 –15:25 Penelope Riboud
“Spot the differences: what does the funerary landscape say about the self in medieval Northern China?”
15:25 – 15:35 Discussant: Gábor Kósa
15:35 – 15:45 Q&A
15:45 – 16:25 Text reading and discussion
16:25 – 16:40 Coffee
16:40 – 18:00 16:40 – 17:00 György Geréby
“Who is it who gets saved? The self, personhood and the beatific vision debates in the fourteenth century.”
17:00 – 17:10 Discussant: Ryan Balot
17:10 – 17:20 Q&A
17:20 – 18:00 Text reading and discussion
18:00 – 18:40 Roundtable discussion
18:40 Drinks, dinner, etc.
Presenters
Ryan Balot Ancient Greek Political Thought University of Toronto (Political Science)
György Geréby Medieval Philosophy and Theology CEU (Medieval Studies)
Romain Graziani Early Chinese Thought École Normale Superieure Lyon (Institut d’Asie
Orientale)/University of Geneva
Brad Inwood Ancient Greek Philosophy University of Toronto (Philosophy, Classics)
Beatrix Mecsi East Asian Art History ELTE (Institute of East Asian Studies)
Melinda Pap Medieval Chinese Buddhism ELTE (Department of Chinese Studies)
Istvan Perczel Thought and Religion in Late Antiquity CEU (Medieval Studies)
Michael Puett Early Chinese Thought and Religion Harvard University (East Asian Lang. and Civ.)
Penelope Riboud Medieval Chinese Religion University of Paris (INALCO)
Roel Sterckx Early Chinese Thought and Religion Cambridge University (Asian & Middle
Eastern Studies)
Máté Veres Ancient Greek philosophy CEU (Philosophy)
Curie Virág Early and Medieval Chinese Thought University of Toronto (E. Asian Studies)/
CEU IAS
Opening lecture
László Bene Ancient Greek Philosophy ELTE (Philosophy)
Invited Discussants
Gábor Betegh Ancient Greek Philosophy CEU (Philosophy)
István Bodnár Ancient Greek Philosophy CEU/ELTE (Philosophy)
Emese Mogyoródi Ancient Greek Philosophy University of Szeged (Philosophy)
Ferenc Ruzsa Indian Philosophy ELTE (Philosophy)
Robert Wardy Ancient Greek/Chinese Philosophy Cambridge University (Classics)
Gábor Kósa Medieval Chinese Religion ELTE (Institute of East Asian Studies)
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