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International Conference on St. Maximus the Confessor

The Architecture of the Cosmos

Helsinki, September 2nd - 4th 2013

Conference Programme

Monday, September 2nd

Moderator: Pauli Annala

9.30  Words of Welcome
His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrosius, Bishop of Helsinki

Opening
Pauli Annala (Univ. of Helsinki)

9.45−10.30  Antoine Levy (Univ. of Joensuu and Helsinki)
"γωνία - Looking Into the Corners of St. Maximus' Cosmic Architecture"

10.45−11.30  Vladimir Cvetković (Univ. of Aarhus)
"The Mystery of Christ as Revived Logos Theology"

11.30−12.15 Christophe Erismann (Univ. of Lausanne)
"Maximus on the ontological structure of reality" [Delivered in absentia]

Lunch

14.00−14.45 István Perczel  (Central European Univ. Budapest)
"Saint Maximus on the Lord’s Prayer: An Inquiry into his relationship to the Origenist tradition"

14.45−15.30  Grigory Benevich (Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, St. Petersburg)
”Maximus Confessor’s teaching on God's Providence” [Delivered in absentia]

15.30−16.30 Discussion

Tuesday, September 3rd 

Moderator: Istvàn Perczel

9.30−10.15 Pauli Annala (Univ. of Helsinki)
"The Exterior and the Interior Space in the Mystagogia of St. Maximus the Confessor"

10.15−11.00 Torstein T. Tollefsen (Univ. of Oslo)
"The Concept of the Universal in the Philosophy of St Maximus"

11.15−12.00 Nikolaos Loudovikos ( Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki)
"Inner and Outer Worlds: Maximus the Confessor’s Eucharistic Gnosiology"  [Delivered inabsentia]

Lunch

14.00−14.45  Pascal Mueller-Jourdan: (Catholic University of the West, Angers, France)
”The metaphysical position of the divine as ‘desirable’ in Proclus’ Platonic theology and Maximus Confessor’s thought”  [Delivered in absentia].

14.45−15.30 Alexei Nesteruk (Univ. of Portsmouth)
"World Cosmos and Church Cosmos: St. Maximus the Confessor and Modern Cosmology"

15.30−16.30 Discussion

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Titles of papers presented 

Wednesday, September 4th

Moderator: Torstein T. Tollefsen

9.30 - 10.15 Simo Knuuttila (Univ. of Helsinki)
"Apatheia in Maximus the Confessor"

10.15 - 11.00 Ana Palanciuc (Univ. of Paris VII - Diderot)
"Change, Motion and Place in Maximus Confessor's Ambigua"

11.15 - 12.00 Peter Van Deun (Leuven Univ.)
"Exploring some unedited or neglected texts attributed to Maximus the Confessor"

Lunch

14.00 - 14.45 Christian Boudignon (Aix-Marseille Univ.)
"Pseudo Macarius as explicit but unnoticed source of the cosmic liturgy of Maximus Confessor"

14.45 - 15.30 Valery V. Petroff (Russian Academy of Sciences)
"Ὑπάρχω and ὑφίστημι in Maximus the Confessor’s Ambigua"

15.30 - 16.30 Discussion

16.30 Final words - Antoine Lévy