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The
10th Colloquium
on Gregory of Nyssa was be organized by the Centre for Patristic,
Medieval and Renaissance Texts from Wednesday to Sunday, 15th-19th September
2004, in Olomouc.
A seminar on the Latin work "Augustine, The Human Mind
according to De trinitate IX and X" (doc. Lenka Karfíková, Dr. theol.).
A translation seminar "Gregory of Nyssa" (doc. Lenka
Karfíková, Dr. theol).
Seminar "Greek Mathematical Texts" (Filip Karfík,
PhD. - Mgr. Zbyněk Šír).
The Centre for Working with Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance
Texts organised a symposium from the 26th to the 27th of April, 2002 in Prague
in the Villa Lanna "Number in Texts prior to the Year 1600". The programme
to the symposium can be found
here,
several photographs from the symposium can be found
here.
On the 13th and 14th of November 2001 the Centre along with
the Section for the Study of the History of Philosophy of the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance at the Department of Philosophy FF UP in Olomouc and the Centrum
Prokopios Sázava collaborated in the organisation of an international conference
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) His Work in the Past and his Heritage for the Future,
which took place under the patronage of the Chairman of the Senate of the Czech
Republic, Petr Pithart. Several associates of the centre presented papers at
the conference: prof. PhDr. Pavel Floss (paper Die philosophische Problematik
des II. und III. Buches der Schrift De Docta Ignorantia) a PhDr. Jozef Matula,
Ph.D. (paper The Meaning of Pace de Fidei for Interreligious Dialogue).
In collaboration with the Research Centre for the History of
Science, the Centre organised on 9.11.01 in Prague (The Academy of Sciences
ČR, Národní 3) a colloquium Euclid and Greek Mathematics, where papers were
presented by prof. B. Vitrac (Centre Louis Gernet, CNRS, Paris), RNDr. M. Bečvářová
(the Research Centre for the History of Science) and members of the Centre Mgr.
Z. Šír (a contribution on Greek Mathematical Texts - anthology project) and
Mgr. F. Karfík, PhD. (a contribution on Euclid and stoicheia).
From the 7.- 9. 2. 2001 a symposium of The Centre for Patristic,
Medieval and Renaissance Texts took place on the grounds of Palacky University
and at the Aletti Centre in Olomouc. This symposium organised with the support
of the Rector of Palacky University prof. Jana Mačáková individual centre researchers
presented their projects to the wider academic public. Photographs from the
symposium are
here.