Dr. Marilena Vlad

Marilena VLAD holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest (2009) and a second Ph.D. from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (2011). She was a scientific researcher (CS III) at the Research Center Traditio of the University of Iași (2009-2010) and post-doc researcher at the University Babeș-Bolyai of Cluj.

She is a member of the editorial board of Chora. Revue d’études anciennes et médiévales (Polirom), editor of Zeta Series in Neoplatonism (Zeta Books), and Associate Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, MA Department of Religious Studies: Texts and Traditions. Director of the research projects Self-Constitution and Discursive Mediation in Late Neoplatonism (2015-2017) and Neoplatonic Heritages in the Corpus Dionysiacum (2013-2015).

Member in the projects Theories and Practices of Prayer in Late Antiquity – 2nd-6th centuries (2013-2016) and Theories of divination in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium (2nd-7th centuries) (2017-2019). In 2020, she received the Reinach Prize from the Association pour l’encouragement des Etudes Grecques en France for her book Damascius et l’ineffable. Récit de l’impossible discours (Paris: Vrin, 2019).

Publications List

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Chapters:

  • Marilena Vlad, “Invoquer, nommer, être présent. Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite sur la prière”, in Théories et pratiques de la prière dans l’Antiquité tardive, Eds. Philippe Hoffmann, Andrei Timotin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020).
  • Marilena Vlad, “La divination du principe chez Damascius et le silence de Platon”. In: Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l’Antiquité tardive à Byzance, Eds. P. Magdalino, A. Timotin (Seyssel: La Pomme d’or, 2019), 99-126.
  • Marilena Vlad, “Dionysius the Areopagite on Angels. Self-constitution versus Constituting Gifts”. In: Neoplatonic Demons and Angels, Eds. Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill, Andrei Timotin (Leiden-Boston: Brill) 269-290.
  • Marilena Vlad, “Denys l’Aréopagite et l’image divine: symbole, empreinte, statue”, in: Kristina Mitalaité, Anca Vasiliu (éd.), L’icône dans la pensée et dans l’art (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), pp. 64-88;
  • Marilena Vlad, “Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Denys l’Aréopagite”, in: Cristian Ciocan, Anca Vasiliu (ed.), Lectures de Jean-Luc Marion (Paris: Cerf, 2016), pp. 47-60;
  • Marilena Vlad, “Damascius and Dionysius on prayer and silence”, in: John Dillon, Andrei Timotin (ed.), Platonic Theories of Prayer. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, vol. 19, (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 192-212;
  • Marilena Vlad, “Parler de rien. Damascius sur le principe au-delà de l’Un”. In: L. G. Soares Santoprete, P. Hoffmann (eds.), Langage des dieux, langage des démons, langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité, Brepols 2017.

Translations:

  • Dionisie Areopagitul, Despre numele divine; Teologia mistică. Traducere din limba greacă, introducere, note și index de Marilena Vlad (Iași: Polirom, 2018)
  • Plotin, Despre genurile fiinţei I, Tratatul VI, 1 [42], în Enneade VI (București, IRI, 2007), pp. 22-79.
  • Plotin, Despre genurile fiinţei II, Tratatul VI, 2 [43], în Enneade VI (București, IRI, 2007), pp. 80-121.
  • Damascius, Despre primele principii: aporii și soluții, vol. I, traducere, introducere şi aparat critic de Marilena Vlad, Humanitas, 2006, ISBN: 973-50-1427-0.
  • Plotin, Despre providenţă I, Tratatul III, 2 [47], în Enneade III-V (București, IRI, 2005), pp. 36-73.
  • Plotin, Dacă există idei ale individualelor, Tratatul V, 7 [18], în Enneade III-V (București, IRI, 2005), pp. 590-595.
  • Plotin, Despre frumosul inteligibil, Tratatul V, 8 [31], în Enneade III-V (București, IRI, 2005), pp. 596-621.

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