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Francisco Bastitta Harriet

He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
He teaches History of Medieval Philosophy at the UBA and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, and is a CONICET researcher at the Institute of Philosophy “Dr. Alejandro Korn” (UBA). He was a Mellon Fellow at “Villa I Tatti”, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2016), and a fellow of CONICET and of the Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques (AIEP/IAPS). He has taken part as a researcher in several interdisciplinary projects on the reception of Platonism and Hermeticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His most recent book is An Ontological Freedom: The Origins of the Notion in Gregory of Nyssa and its Influence unto the Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2023).

Claudia D’Amico

Full Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the National University of La Plata (UNLP).
Director of Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (UBA). She is a Principal Researcher of CONICET, Director of the “Programme for Studies on the Reception of Platonism” at the Institute of Philosophy (UBA) and Director of the journal Patristica et Mediaevalia. She is a member of several scholarly societies and serves on the scientific committee of the Cusanus-Gesellschaft in Trier, Germany. Since 1998 she has directed the Círculo de Estudios Cusanos de Buenos Aires.
She was President of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neoplatonismo (2011-2015). Her field of specialisation is medieval Neoplatonism, with particular attention to the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa and its sources.

Enrico Peroli

He obtained his doctorate at the Catholic University of Milan and did postdoctoral work at the University of Munich under the supervision of Werner Beierwaltes. He is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. He is the author of several books and numerous essays ranging from ancient philosophy to the patristic tradition and from Neoplatonic thought to German Idealism. Among his most recent publications are Nikolaus von Kues. Ein Handbuch zu Leben und Werk, Meiner, Hamburg 2023, and Platonisme et Christianisme. Essai d’interprétation, Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2024.

Ezequiel Ludueña

Associate Professor of Philosophical Latin and teaching assistant in History of Medieval Philosophy, both in the Philosophy programme of the University of Buenos Aires, where he completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies. He is editorial secretary of the journals Cuadernos de Filosofía and Patristica et Mediaevalia and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires. He devotes himself to the study and dissemination of medieval philosophical thought, with research focused on Eriugena, Albert the Great, Meister Eckhart and Berthold of Moosburg. He has taught courses and given lectures at universities in Latin America and Europe. He has translated and commented on texts of the ancient and medieval Platonic tradition, and has published articles in specialised and general-interest journals. He currently directs the research project UBACyT-20020220400260BA, entitled “Medieval translators and their precursors”.

Tadeo Lima

He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master’s in German Language and Literature from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Since 2013 he has devoted himself to academic translation. He has translated a large number of philosophical essays and works from English and German into Spanish for various publishers.

Gustavo Riesgo

He is the founder of the Chair of Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino and a part-time professor at that university, where he obtained his Licentiate in Philosophy and the Postgraduate Specialisation in Medieval Thought. He has an extensive prior background in Computer Science with postdoctoral specialisation in Artificial Intelligence, and holds a Master’s in Philosophy with an orientation towards the Natural and Cognitive Sciences from the Universidad Austral, with the thesis “Understanding or Calculating. Cognitive Aspects of Natural Language Processing”. He has received academic fellowships from the Arché Foundation for Advanced Anthropological Studies (UCLA, USA), the Earhart Foundation (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, UK) and the John Templeton Foundation (Institute of Philosophy, Universidad Austral, ARG). He is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires with the research “Hyperluminous Darkness. Tradition, Sources and Originality in the Metaphysics of Light of Dionysius the Areopagite”. He directs the Areopagiticum Foundation, devoted to the study of the Corpus Dionysiacum and its receptions through artificial intelligence tools and to its dissemination from a Digital Humanities perspective. He takes part in the Graduate Programme of the Institute of Philosophy of the Universidad Austral with his doctoral research project “Natural Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Reality and Representation in Computational Mimesis”. He has published translations, articles and books on the subjects of his specialisation.