PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity

Colloquium

Herme<neu>tica
New Approaches to the Text and Interpretation of the
Corpus Hermeticum

Poster

May 18-19, 2012

300 Wallace Hall

Friday, May 18, 2012

Morning Session

Chair:  Christian Wildberg (Princeton University)

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


Afternoon Session

Chair:  Alex Kocar (Princeton University)

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)

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

Chair:  Geoff Smith (Princeton University)

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