The Self in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Conceptions and Practices in China and the West
May 22, Thursday
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 – 15:30 Beatrix Mecsi
“Self-reflection and self-cultivation in portrait paintings of scholars in China 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– 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
May 23, Friday
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– 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 –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 –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 – 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
May 24, Saturday
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 – 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 – 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 –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 – 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
