Leo Catana
Associate Professor - Promotion Programme
Department of Communication
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
- 2016
‘Plato’s Timaeus as an Ethical Work: Its Relation to his Gorgias’. Presented at the Oslo Conference on Ancient Philosophy, November 4-5, 2016.
Catana, Leo (Other)
4 Nov 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on Plato’s Gorgias’. Presented at the conference The Sophistic Renaissance: Authors, Texts, Interpretations, organized by Teodoro Katinis. Venice, September 26, 2016: http://philevents.org/event/show/21078.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
26 Sep 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Some Parallels between the Gorgias and the Timaeus: The Case of Technē’. Presented in a workshop co-organized with Professor Thomas Johansen (University of Oxford) in the History of Philosophy Research Group on May 19, 2016.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
19 May 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Varieties of Ancient, Ethical Naturalism and Its Modern Critics: The Case of G. E. Moore (1903)’: Philosophy Research Colloquium, Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 4, 2300 Copenhagen S, Room 16.1.54. April 6, 2016, at 12:15-13:00.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
6 Apr 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. Workshop oragnized by Leo Catana and Anders Dahl Sørensen in The Copenhagen Intellectual History Seminar, March 30, 2017
Catana, Leo (Participant)
30 Mar 2016Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
‘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
‘Taxis and Kosmos as Causal Principles in Plato’s Gorgias 506d5-507c3: Their Significance in Early Greek Science’: The 10th London Ancient Science Conference, organized by Professor Andrew Gregory. The Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, February 15-18, 2016. Keynote speaker.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
15 Feb 2016 → 18 Feb 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
- 2015
‘Socrates and Sophists on Technê in Plato’s Gorgias’. Paper presented at the conference La verité: Plato et les sophistes, Aix-en-Provence, France, organized by The International Plato Society, October 9-11, 2015. Paper presented on October 9, 2015. http://platosociety.org/call-for-papers-la-verite-platon-et-les-sophistes/
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
9 Oct 2015Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Writing the History of Political Philosophy: The Methodological Background in History of Philosophy and Intellectual History’. Paper held at the CONCEPTA: International Research School in Conceptual History. Offered in cooperation with the Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, the Dept. of History, University of Southern Denmark, and the Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, August 12, 2015. https://phdcourses.dk/Course/38057.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
12 Aug 2015Activity: 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
‘Tannery and Duhem on the concept of a system in the history of philosophy and history of science’. Paper held at the Center for Naturfilosofi og Videnskabsstudier, University of Copenhagen, May 22, 2015.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
22 May 2015Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘The Soul’s “Likeness”: The Political Understanding in Plato’s Gorgias’, presented at the Plato Centre, Trinity College Dublin, on May 13, 2015.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
13 May 2015Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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
- 2014
‘What is the Significance of ‘Protection’ in Plato’s Gorgias?’, presented at a Conference on ancient philosophy, organized by Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, University of Oslo, October 24-25, 2014.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
25 Oct 2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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
‘History of philosophy and intellectual history: The genesis of the two disciplines and their current relationship’, in the lecture series organized by Mogens Lærke in CNRS, Lyon, in the spring of 2014: Méthodes et histoire de l'histoire de la philosophie. Held on April 17, 2014.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
17 Apr 2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Classica & Mediaevalia (Journal)
Catana, Leo (Editor)
2014 → 2018Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
‘Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: On the Methodology of the Discipline’, presented to the staff at the Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, on March 5, 2014.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Plato’s Gorgias 507c8-508a4: Cosmopolitan and Cosmic Citizenship’, presented at a workshop on the Gorgias organized in together with James Doyle (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University) and presented to the History of Philosophy Research Group, Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen. May 6, 2014.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
- 2013
‘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
‘The Unmaking of Marsilio Ficino’s Plotinus Interpretation’: Platonism after Plato in the Renaissance, organized in collaboration with the Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, University of Copenhagen, by Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Anna Corrias (Warburg Institute) and Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen). Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. November 7-8, 2013. On November 8.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
8 Nov 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘The Coincidence of Opposites: Cusanian and non-Cusanian Interpretations of the Doctrine in Giordano Bruno’: 1° Simposio Internacional Cusano en Latinoamerica de Jovenes Invenstigadores. Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 30 to November 2, 2013. On November 1
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
1 Nov 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Virtue theories in Marsilio Ficino’s De amore’, Virtue ethics and Renaissance Platonism October 3, 2013. Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics (CNVE)
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
3 Oct 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘The Relationship between History of Philosophy and Intellectual History’ (workshop directed by LC); ‘History of Philosophy or Intellectual History? On the Methodological Conflict between the two Disciplines’ (paper by LC). Held at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. September 13, 2013.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
13 Sep 2013Activity: 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
‘Virtue theories in Ficino’s De amore’: International Society of Neoplatonic Studies, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. June 12-15, 2013. Held on June 15. Paper accepted.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
15 Jun 2013Activity: 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
‘Platon i renæssancen’. Seminar organized in connection with the publication Platon. Værk og virkning, eds. Jens Kristian Larsen and Jacob Fink. May 31, 2013. Gyldendal, Copenhagen. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
31 May 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
‘Power Structures in Ancient Ontologies: A Historiographical Approach’. Paper held at the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College under the auspices of the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies Project, directed by Dr Anna Marmodoro, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, England, UK. Held on January 15, 2013, 5.00-6.30 PM. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
15 Jan 2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
- 2012
‘Philosophical problems in the history of philosophy: What are they?’ Invited as a keynote speaker together with Daniel Garber, Division of Philosophy, Princeton University. The conference is held at the Descartes Centre, Technische University at Eindhoven, organized by Paul Ziche and Wiep Van Bunge under the auspecies of National Research School of Ethics. November 3, 2012
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
3 Nov 2012Activity: 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
‘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
‘Sources to Ficino’s Platonic Virtue Ethics’. Presented at The Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, University of Copenhagen, September 12, 2012.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
12 Sep 2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘History of Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition: The Relevance and Meaning of Contextualization’. Held at The 15th International Conference on the History of Concepts (Spaces, Languages, Time), organized by The History of Political and Social Concepts Group and the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki. Helsinki, August 23-25, 2012. Paper held on August 25, 2012.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
25 Aug 2012Activity: 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
‘Marsilio Ficino and ethical virtue in De amore (1469)’. Presented in Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, University of Copenhagen, June 8, 2012.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
8 Jun 2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘The historiographical divide between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism': Danish Institute at Athens, Maj 10. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
10 May 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
- 2011
‘The internal-external distinction in the methodology of history of philosophy’: Philosophy and its history: New essays on the methods and aims of research in the history of philosophy, organised by Mogens Lærke, Justin E.H. Smith, Eric Schliesser. Montreal, Canada, October 29-30, 2011. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
29 Oct 2011Activity: 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
‘The historiography of Neoplatonism revisited’: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. Organised by Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, and John Finnamore, University of Iowa. Atlanta, USA, June 25, 2011. Paper accepted.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
25 Jun 2011Activity: 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
‘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
‘Platon i renæssancen’: Det Historisk-Filologiske Selskab, Copenhagen, March 16, 2011. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
16 Mar 2011Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
- 2010
‘Receptionen af arabisk filosofi i renæssancen: latinske oversættelser af Averröes og al-Ghazâli i senmiddelalder og renæssance. Ph.d. seminar, University of Copenhagen, Institut for regionale og tværkulturelle studier (TORS). December 6, 2010. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
6 Dec 2010Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘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
‘Plotinus’ historiography’: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Madrid, June 17-20. Paper accepted.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
17 Jun 2010Activity: 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
‘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
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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, ‘Doxographical or Philosophical History of Philosophy: On Michael Frede’s Precepts for Writing the History of Philosophy’
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