ERANOS. The New Cycle.

Research Seminar

"The Eranos Movement"

Villa di Corliano, San Giuliano Terme (Pisa)

July 18 – 22,  2012

 

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 18

7:15 p.m.     Words of Welcome

7:30 p.m.     Dinner

 

Thursday, July 19

10:00 a.m.   Dieter Fuchs (Koszalin), Eranos and the Tradition of Convivial Discussion: Philosophical and Literary Symposia

11:15 a.m.   Chloé Ragazzoli (Oxford), The Egyptian Symposium:  About a Blind Harpist, Ptahhotep, Assmann, Hornung and others

4:00 p.m.     Elettra Stimilli (Rome), Rationality, Irrationality of Religion: A Reflection on Max Weber in the Context of Eranos

5:15 p.m.     Michael Henkel (Leipzig), Psyche and Society: C.G. Jung as Part of the Eranos Movement 

 

Friday, July 20

10:00 a.m.   Sorin Antohi (Bucharest/London), Daydreaming in Ascona: Mircea Eliade`s Vision of a New Humanism and its  Eranos Background

11:15 a.m.   Moshe Idel (Jerusalem), Eliade and Scholem at Eranos

4:00 p.m.     Tilo Schabert (Munich), Schleiermacher`s Voice: Catching the Eranosian Hermeneutics

5:15 p.m.     Hans-Jörg Sigwart (Erlangen), The Methods of Eranos

 

Saturday, July 21

10:00 a.m.   Michel-Yves Perrin (Paris), Jesuits and Dominicans close to the Monte Verità

11:15 a.m.   Stéphane Toussaint (Lucca), Neoplatonism at Eranos 

4:00 p.m      Aaron Powell (Birmingham), A Magic Circleat the Sacred Banquet: A Consi- deration of the Intellectual Relationship between the Eranos Movement and the Temenos Academy

5:15 p.m.    John von Heyking (Lethbridge), The Intermediaries of the Eranos Festival: Orpheus and Hermes 

7:30 p.m.    Festive Dinner

 

Sunday, July 22

Departure

 

The sessions will be chaired by John von Heyking (Thursday morning), Aaron Powell (Thursday afternoon), Chloé Ragazzoli (Friday morning), Michael Henkel (Friday afternoon), Hans-Jörg Sigwart (Saturday morning), and Dieter Fuchs (Saturday afternoon).

 

At a moment to be determined at the seminar Stéphane Toussaint will present a brief talk on the "Fresco of Gods" in the Villa di Corliano.

 

Musical and oral performances concerning Hermes and Orpheus will be presented, in one of the evenings, to recognize the performative character of Eranos.

 

Breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 9:30, Lunch at 1:00 p.m. and Dinner at 7:30 p.m.

 

The Eranos Research Seminar 2012 on "The Eranos Movement" is organized by the Eranos Conference Group (Amici di Eranos) in association with and under the generous support of the Berendel Foundation (London).