Leo Catana
Associate Professor - Promotion Programme
Department of Communication
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
‘Heumann’s comments on Porphyry’s Vita Plotini’: Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing, interdisciplinary workshop organised by P. Barker, L. Bergmann and A. Schirrmeister, Humboldt University, Berlin, October 28-29, 2010. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
29 Oct 2010Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Heumann on Diogenes Laertius as a historian of philosophy’: Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing, interdisciplinary workshop organised by P. Barker, L. Bergmann and A. Schirrmeister, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 3, 2011. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
3 Jun 2011Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Heumann (1715) using Pophyry’s Life of Plotinus to dethrone the ancient and Renaissance tradition of general biographies’: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, June 20-23 2012, Cagliari, Sardinia. Paper accepted.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
23 Jun 2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Giordano Bruno’s use of the art of memory within Biblical hermeneutics’: Renaissance Society of America, Venice, April 8-10, 2010. Paper accepted.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
9 Apr 2010Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Giordano Bruno’s hermeneutic comments on the Bible in his De monade’. Presented at the conference Biblical exegesis and the emergence of science in the early modern era, organized by Peter Forshaw in collaboration with British society for the history of Science, University of London, November 27-28, 2004. Paper accepted. 27. nov 2004 - 28. nov 2004
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
27 Nov 2004Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Giordano Brunos hermeneutiske teori for guddommeligt inspirerede tekster’. University of Copenhagen, Department of philosophy, March 15, 2006.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
15 Mar 2006Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Giordano Brunos hermeneutiske kommentarer til Biblen’. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Theology, March 3, 2006.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
3 Mar 2006Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Giordano Bruno on virtue: Between ethics and natural philosophy’: The Renaissance concept of virtue between natural Philosophy and ethics: The Case of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno. Workshop organized together with Dr James Syder, held at City University of New York (CUNY), Department of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, New York, USA, June 28, 2011.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
28 Jun 2011Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Giambattista Vicos historiefilosofi’: Europe’s identity; University of Copenhagen, February 5, 2010. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
5 Feb 2010Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘From Persona to Systema: Heumann’s Rejection of the Biographical Model for Writing the History of Philosophy’. Presented at Center for Intellectual History, St Andrews, Scotland, on May 4, 2017.
Catana, Leo (Other)
4 May 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Filosofihistoriens historie og metode: En introduktion til “filosofiens historiografi”’: Institut for Filosofi og Videnskabsteori, University of Roskilde, March 26, 2004. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
26 Mar 2004Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Filosofihistorie eller intellektuel historie? Om disciplinernes metodologiske konflikt’, Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske språk (IFIKK), University of Oslo, August 23, 2013.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
23 Aug 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Ficino on the philosopher persona and its demise in 18th-century philosophy’. Scottish Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, organized by Mogens Lærke, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. May 2, 2013. Invited keynote speaker.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
2 May 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Ficino on the ordering of Plato’s dialogues: How to become a Platonic persona’, in Libraries, Lives, and the Organization of Knowledge in the Premodern World, organized by Christopher Celenza and Leo Catana, The American Academy, Rome, on December 12-13, 2013. Held on December 13.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
13 Dec 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Ficino on moral virtue in De amore’. Held at the conference Virtue Ethics and Renaissance Neoplatonism, organized by The Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, October 11, 2012.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
11 Oct 2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Elements of Forensic Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias: The Case of Boētheia’, presented at a workshop in the History of Philosophy Research Group, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Debra Nails and Hayden Ausland. June 16, 2015.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
16 Jun 2015Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Does Platonic, Ethical Naturalism Exist? The Case of Plato’s Gorgias’. Presented in a one-day seminar in Copenhagen Intellectual History Seminar co-organized with postdoc Anders Dahl Sørensen, Division of Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen on March 30, 2016.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
30 Mar 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Does God have a look? Giordano Bruno on vision and the Reformation debate’: Postgraduate Seminar, Warburg Institute, University of London, November 23, 1998. 23. nov 1998
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
23 Nov 1998Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Det historiografiske begreb ‘filosofisk system’: Dets oprindelse, natur, indflydelse og legitimitet’: Viva for dr. phil., University of Copenhagen, May 30, based on my book, The historiographical concept 'system of philosophy’: Its origin, nature, influence and legitimacy (Brill: Boston and Leiden, 2008). Examiners: Carl Henrik Koch (University of Copenhagen), Jens Glebe-Møller (University of Copenhagen) and Svante Nordin (University of Lund).
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
30 May 2008Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Den arabiske filosofis betydning for Vestens opfattelse af forholdet mellem religion, naturvidenskab og moral’: Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen, April 15, 2009. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
15 Apr 2009Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Brucker’s introduction of the historiographical divide between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism’. Paper presented in collaboration with George Karamanolis (http://www.fks.uoc.gr/english/cvs/KaramanolisCV.htm) at a workshop at Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, University of Copenhagen, May 12, 2011.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
11 May 2011Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Begrebet persona i Ficinos De amore (1469). Platonselskabets 22. symposion. Copenhagen, June 7-8, 2013. Held on June 8. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
8 Jun 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Anti-Platonism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Northern Europe: Its Significance to our Understanding of Renaissance Neoplatonism and its Virtue Ethics’. Held at the conference Virtue Ethics and Renaissance Neoplatonism, organized by The Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, October 11, 2012.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
11 Oct 2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Anti-Platonism in Northern Europe between the 1680s and the 1740s: Its implications for the modern interpretation of ancient Neoplatonic biographies’: Platonism in Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, organized by Paulina Remes and Lorenzo Cassini, Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala. Held on January 23, 2012. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
23 Jan 2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Ancient Platonism and the Historiography of Philosophy’. Three papers at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. August 21-23, 2017.
Catana, Leo (Other)
21 Aug 2017 → 23 Aug 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘About a sceptical note of Bruno regarding melancholy’: Form and the arts, organized by The Norwegian Research Council, Florence, October 31, 1999. Invited. 31. okt 1999
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
31 Oct 1999Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘A dialogue in the celestial curia: Giordano Bruno’s use of classical stellar constellations in his moral dialogue Lo spaccio della bestia trionfante (The expulsion of the triumphant beast, 1584)’: Dialogue & conversation. Les lieux d’une sociabilité ideale de la Renaissance aux Lumières. University of Copenhagen, October 4-5, 2007. Invited. 4. okt 2007 - 5. okt 2007
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
5 Oct 2007Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Workshop with Karen Jordan, University of Iceland, at CApE: Sustainability and Environmental Virtue Ethics
Catana, Leo (Other)
21 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Socratic Studies Work Group
Catana, Leo (Participant)
10 Dec 2021Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
The Historiography of Philosophy, 1800-1950. International conference organized by Leo Catana and Mogens Lærke (ENS, de Lyon) in collaboration with Michael Beaney (British Society for the History of Philosopy) and Institut d’Historie des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités, ENS de Lyon). To be held on September 27-28, 2018, in Copenhagen.
Catana, Leo (Participant)
27 Sep 2018 → 28 Sep 2018Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
The Historiography of Democratic Athens before Grote. Workshop organized by Mirko Canevaro and Leo Catana Department of Classics, The University of Edinburgh, spring 2018
Catana, Leo (Participant)
4 May 2018Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Seminar on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Thought, organized by Leo Catana and Sabrina Ebbersmeyer in The Copenhagen Intellectual History Seminar, April 15, 2018
Catana, Leo (Participant)
15 Apr 2015Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Reading Group at CApE: Sustainability and Environmental Virtue Ethics
Catana, Leo (Other)
20 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Reading Group at CApE: Environmental Virtue Ethics II, Environmental Virtues
Catana, Leo (Other)
2 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Reading Group at CApE: Environmental Virtue Ethics I, Land Ethics
Catana, Leo (Other)
16 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean: Towards a History, organized by Professor George Boys-Stones, University of Toronto, December 8-10, 2022
Catana, Leo (Participant)
8 Dec 2022 → 10 Dec 2022Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Moderator for the following paper: David T. Runia (Melbourne), “From Stoicism to Platonism: the Difficult Case of Philo De Providentia I”, presented at the following conference: From Stoicism to Platonism? On a Possibly Asymmetrical Relationship of the Two Philosophical Schools in the Period 100 BCE-100 CE, organized by Troels Engberg-Pedersen. Copenhagen, August 19-23, 2014. Runia’s paper was presented on August 21, 2014.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
21 Aug 2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Why do We Need a Translation of Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae (1742-44)? Presentation of a Book Project’. Presented at the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar on February 2, 2021, organized by Professor Daniel Garber, Princeton University. The seminar is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up04SyC3x94&t=6s
Catana, Leo (Other)
2 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Two Concepts of Natural Right in Plato’s Gorgias’, presented at the conference Socratica IV, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 13-16, 2018.
Catana, Leo (Other)
13 Nov 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘The Socratic School in Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae’, presented at the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Athens, June 10-14, 2020. Panel: Plato’s Reception in Modern (Historiography of) Philosophy (from the 18th century until now). Cancelled due to covid19.
Catana, Leo (Other)
10 Jun 2020 → 14 Jun 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘The Historiography of the Athenian Democracy beyond Grote: The Significance of Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae’, presented at the workshop The Historiography of Democratic Athens before Grote, organized by Mirko Canevaro and Leo Catana Department of Classics, The University of Edinburgh, May 4, 2018. Please see https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/historiography-on-democratic-athens
Catana, Leo (Other)
4 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘The Historiography of Philosophies developed in the Period 100 BCE to 200 CE’, Presented at the workshop Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean: Towards a History, organized by Professor George Boys-Stones, University of Toronto, and Matthias Haake, University of Tubingen, on December 8-10, 2022. Presented on December 8. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Other)
8 Dec 2022 → 10 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘The Good Life beyond Consumption’, presentation at Concito, Læderstræde 20, Copenhagen, April 11, 2024.
Catana, Leo (Other)
11 Apr 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘The Absence of Land in Modern, Aristotelian, Environmental Virtue Ethics’, presented at the Nordic Summer University: Sustainability, Ethics, and the Environment Study Circle, organized by Linnea Luuppala and Mikko Pumala, Umeå, Sweden, on 10-12 January 2024, in collaboration with Umeå University, Sweden. Presented on January 11, 2024.
Catana, Leo (Other)
11 Jan 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Strukturelle eller individorieneterede tilgange til den grønne omstilling?’. Inviteret.
Catana, Leo (Other)
9 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Socrates on his own Philosophizing as a Way of Protecting Justice’. Presented at a workshop organized with Anders Dahl Sørensen, at the History of Philosophy, Section of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
Catana, Leo (Other)
3 Dec 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Sjælens “iklædninger” i Platons Gorgias 523a-524a’, presented at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 7, 2019, at the conference Plantonselskabets 25. symposium.
Catana, Leo (Other)
7 Jun 2019 → 8 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Plato on Recognition of Political Leaders: The Importance of Mirrored Character Traits’, key note paper presented at the conference Hellenic political philosophy and contemporary Europe, held at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Invited keynote.
Catana, Leo (Other)
4 Sep 2019 → 4 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Naturorienteret dydsetik: Handling, motivation og karaktertræk’. Presented in Tænketanken Hav, Læderstræde 20, Copenhagen, April 8, 2024.
Catana, Leo (Other)
8 Apr 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Leo Catana, ‘Nature-Oriented Understandings of Justice in Greek Antiquity’, presented at the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Dublin, June 19-23. Paper accepted.
Catana, Leo (Other)
19 Jun 2024 → 23 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Leo Catana, 'The Concept "System of Philosophy": The Case of Jacob Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy'
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Leo Catana, 'The origin of the division between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism'
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Leo Catana, ‘Doxographical or Philosophical History of Philosophy: On Michael Frede’s Precepts for Writing the History of Philosophy’
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