Talks, Interviews, and Organized Events
Further below are organized conferences/panels and interviews/public outreach. For anyone interested in handouts for any of my presentations, please do drop a line.
Presentations
Aug. 24, 2026“Dionysius Inside and Outside Byzantium: Gennadios Scholarios’ Reading of the Ps.-Dionysius Between Thomas Aquinas and Earlier Byzantines”25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna
Jun. 3, 2026“Histories of Greek Philosophy in the Prolegomena of 6th-century School of Alexandria: A Case Study of Olympiodorus”International Society of Neoplatonism Studies 2026 meeting, KU Leuven
May 28, 2026“Providence and the Soul between Proclus, the Chaldean Oracles, and Michael Psellos”Workshop on Proclus and Michael Psellos, University of ViennaInvited talk. Organized by Tamar Khubulava.
May 13, 2026“Platonism as the 15th Century Found It: Late Byzantine”Physis Symposium, workshop for the volume in development Cambridge History of Platonism in the Italian Renaissance
Apr. 9, 2025“History of Philosophy and Wisdom in Late Greek Neoplatonism”Visions of the History of Greek Philosophy (workshop I co-organized), HU Berlin
Jun. 21, 2024“The Methodology of Adjudicating between Reason, Revelation, and the Chaldean Oracles in Proclus and Damascius”International Society for Neoplatonic Studies 2024 meeting, panel “The Neoplatonists, the Chaldean Oracles, and Theurgy”, Trinity College DublinInvited talk. Panel organized by Philippe Hoffmann and Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete.
May 31, 2024“Faith, Science, and Epistemic Authority in Middle Byzantium”Workshop Science, Faith, and Superstition, University of BelgradeInvited talk.
Apr. 12, 2024“Damascius, the One, and the Parmenides’ First and Second Hypotheses”Online series Les Platonismes de l’antiquité tardive, CNRS, ParisInvited talk. Hosted by Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete and Philippe Hoffmann.
Jan. 7, 2024“Proclus on Sensible Substance”International Society for Neoplatonic Studies panel, Society for Classical Studies 2024 Meeting, Chicago
Nov. 21, 2023“Reason, Revelation, and Epistemic Authority in Byzantium”Online series Science, Faith, and Superstition (Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion), University of BelgradeInvited talk.
Nov. 13, 2023“Soul and Body in Aristotle, the Commentators, and the Early Byzantines”Workshop in Ancient Philosophy / History of Philosophy Forum, University of Notre DameInvited talk.
Nov. 2, 2023“Soul and Body in Aristotle, the Commentators, and the Early Byzantines”Marquette Midwest Seminar, Marquette UniversityInvited talk. Hosted by Richard Taylor.
Jun. 1, 2023“Neoplatonic Participation and Its Transformation in Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Methone”AAIWG International Conference, Marmara University, IstanbulInvited talk.
Mar. 16, 2023“The Transformation of πρὸς ἕν: From Aristotle’s Platonic Critiques to Platonists’ Aristotelian Critiques”Workshop Platonist Metaphysics in Reaction to Aristotle, KU LeuvenInvited talk. Co-presented with Marilù Papandreou.
Jul. 10, 2022“Plato’s Sophist 248b5–6 and Plotinus’ Defense of Motion in Intellect”Workshop Categories and Kinds: Ancient Philosophers on the Structure of Reality, LMU Munich
Jun. 5, 2022“The Bundle Theory in Gregory of Nyssa’s In hexaemeron”Workshop on Gregory of Nyssa’s Apologia in hexaemeron, University of Oxford
May 25, 2022“Ambiguum 17, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor’s Denial of the ‘Bundle Theory’”Panel “Maximus the Confessor and Greek Philosophy”, North American Patristics Society 2022 Meeting, ChicagoPanel hosted by Tikhon Pino.
Apr. 8, 2022“God and the Active Cause in Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter and the Extant Works”Porphyry in Syriac (online), Universität Wien and Universität SalzburgHosted by George Karamanolis and Yury Arzhanov.
Mar. 16, 2022“‘One and Being Are Said in the Same Number of Ways’: Damascius on the Relation of One and Being in Light of Aristotle’s Critique in Metaphysics Γ.2 and Iota”Workshop Being, Essence, Individuality: Post-Proclean Developments, KU Leuven
Nov. 6, 2021“The Book of Causes and Nicholas of Methone on Created and Uncreated Being”Online workshop Being, the First Created Thing: Sources and Reception of the Book of Causes, Prop. IV, UC Dublin
Apr. 13, 2021“Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early Byzantines”Online conference Nicholas of Methone: Between Neoplatonism and the Byzantine Tradition, Austrian Academy of Sciences / UC DublinConference I co-organized.
Oct. 15, 2020“Soul and Divinization in Proclus, Nicholas of Methone, and the Palamite Controversy”Online conference Curare la persona, panel Theandrites, Scuola Grande di San Marco / Istituto Ellenico di VeneziaPanel organized by Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Wear.
Dec. 7, 2019“Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas”Workshop Divine Ideas (part of ERC project NeoplAT), UC DublinOrganized by Dragos Calma.
Jul. 18, 2019“The Ground of Being in the Parmenides’ First and Second Hypotheses: Damascius’ Inheritance of Proclus’ Reading of the First Hypothesis”Symposium Platonicum XII, Paris
Jul. 4, 2019“Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Methone on Divine Causality in Their Critiques of Proclus and Use of Ps.-Dionysius”Symposium Thomisticum IV, Rome
May 24, 2019“Nicholas of Methone on Participation in His Critique of Proclus”Vienna Colloquium in Byzantine Philosophy, University of Vienna
Apr. 11, 2017“Proclus and Damascius on the One’s Causality”Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Organized conferences, workshops, and panels
Jun. 3–6, 2026Neoplatonist Visions of the History of Greek Philosophy and Their Reception in the Abrahamic TraditionsPanel at the annual International Society of Neoplatonism Studies conferenceCo-organized with Anna Izdebska.
May 30, 2026Colloquium on Byzantine Philosophy and the AncientsWorkshop, University of ViennaCo-organized with George Karamanolis.
Apr. 9–10, 2025Visions of the History of Greek PhilosophyWorkshop, HU BerlinCo-organized with Anna Izdebska, Ruizhi Ma, and Izabela Jurasz.
Jun. 19–23, 2024Plato and Aristotle in (non-)contradiction? The reception and use of the PNC in the Neoplatonic schoolPanel at the annual International Society of Neoplatonism Studies conference, Trinity College DublinCo-organized with Arthur Oosthout and Sokratis-Athanasios Kiosoglou.
Sept. 21–22, 2023To Know “Everything”: Epistemological reflections on the concept of the totality in the Platonic and Peripatetic traditionsConference, KU LeuvenCo-organized with Arthur Oosthout and Sokratis-Athanasios Kiosoglou.
Apr. 12–13, 2021Nicholas of Methone: Between Neoplatonism and the Byzantine TraditionConference (online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Austrian Academy of SciencesCo-organized with Dragos Calma and Joshua Robinson.
Oct. 5–6, 2017Philosophy in Byzantium: The Order of Nature and Order of HumankindConference, LMU MunichCo-organized with Peter Adamson and Dimitrios Vasilakis.
Jun. 14, 2017Form and Participation in Graeco-Arabic NeoplatonismPanel at the annual International Society of Neoplatonism Studies conference, University of OlomoucCo-organized with Bligh (née Bethany) Somma.
Interviews and public outreach
Dec. 7, 2025“Esoteric Orthodoxy in East Rome: Jonathan Greig on Maximus the Confessor”Secret History of Western Esotericism PodcastInterview on Maximus the Confessor.
Jul. 3, 2024“Jonathan Greig on the East Roman Proclus Reception, Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries”Secret History of Western Esotericism PodcastInterview on Proclus’ reception in the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire.