Leo Catana
Associate Professor - Promotion Programme
Department of Communication
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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 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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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 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 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 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
‘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
‘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’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
‘Historical studies and motivations’: Postgraduate seminar, Warburg Institute, University of London, May 12, 1997.
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
12 May 1997Activity: 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
‘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
‘Jacob Brucker and his contribution to the historiography of history of science: The case of Duhem and Koyré’: International Society for Intellectual History Conference: Translatio Studiorum: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Bearers of Intellectual ¿History, University of Verona, Italy¿, May 25-27, 2009. Paper accepted. 25. maj 2009 - 27. maj 2009
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
25 May 2009Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Jacob Bruckers betydning for renæssancefilosofiens historiografi’: Forum for Renæssancestudier, University of Copenhagen, March 27, 2008. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
27 Mar 2008Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Jacob Brucker’s historiographical concept ‘system of philosophy’: Its influence and legitimacy’: Philosophy and Historiography, Robinson College, Cambridge, April 3-5, 2006. Organized by Thomas Baldwin (York), Knud Haakonssen (Sussex) and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge). Paper accepted. 3. apr 2006 - 5. apr 2006
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
5 Apr 2006Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Late ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century Germany’. Defence of dr.theol. thesis at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. October 6, 2017. Opponents: Professor George Boys-Stones, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham, England; Professor Camilla Serch-Hanssen, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norwary; Ass. Professor dr. theol. Carsten Pallesen, The Faculty of Theology, UCPH.
Catana, Leo (Other)
6 Oct 2017Activity: 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
‘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
‘Meanings of ‘contractio’ in Bruno’s Sigillus sigillorum’: Giordano Bruno as a Renaissance Philosopher, organized by Hilary Gatti in collaboration with The British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of London, June 15-17, 2000. Invited. 15. jun 2000 - 17. jun 2000
Catana, Leo (Lecturer)
17 Jun 2000Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Om den filosofiske brug af Liber de causis i renæssancen. Om en upåagtet åre i renæssancens nyplatonisme’: Forum for Renæssancestudier, University of Copenhagen, October 31, 2003. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
31 Oct 2003Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Oplysningstiden — tolerancens tidsalder?’: Filosofiklubben, Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, September 25, 2009. Invited.
Catana, Leo (Speaker)
25 Sep 2009Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘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
‘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
‘Plato on Ethical Requirements and Options in the Process of Political Recognition: Gorgias 513a7-513c2’. Presented at The 15th annual ISNS conference, to be held in Olomouc, The Czech Republic, on June 14-17, 2017, in conjunction with Palacký University Olomouc.
Catana, Leo (Other)
14 Jun 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Plato on Recognition in the Realm of Politics: Gorgias 513a-c’. Presented at the workshop organised by Leo Catana and Anders Dahl Sørensen in the History of Philosophy Research Group, Division of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, May 24, 2017. Other contributors: Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia); Vivil Haraldsen (University of Oslo); Bert van den Berg (University of Leiden).
Catana, Leo (Other)
24 May 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
‘Plato on Recognition in the Realm of Politics’. Presented at the Centre for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen, on April 24, 2017.
Catana, Leo (Other)
24 Apr 2017Activity: 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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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
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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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