Anna Somfai - ODT Personal data sheet


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name	Anna Somfai
name of institution	Central European University, Budapest
doctoral school	KEE Doctoral School of History (Academic staff member Az oktató a doktori iskola doktoranduszai számára oktat tantárgyat, és/vagy a doktori iskola megszavazta, hogy doktoranduszok számára kutatási témát írjon ki. )
the share of work in the different doctoral schools.	KEE Doctoral School of History 100%

Contact details
phone number	+36 1 327-3000/2198
	own web page

Academic title
scientific degree, title	Ph.D.
year degree was obtained	1998
discipline to which degree belongs	history
institution granting the degree	University of Cambridge (to be translated)

Employment
2009 -	Central European University, Budapest university professor or researcher

Thesis topic supervisor
number of doctoral students supervised until now	1
number of students who fulfilled course requirements	0
students who obtained their degrees:
	Thesis topic proposals

Research
research area	Ancient and late antique philosophy and science, medieval science, medieval manuscript studies. Cognitive science, cognitive philosophy. Visual thinking.
research field in which current research is conducted	history philosophy

Publications

2019

Anna Somfai: Visual Thinking: A Cognitive Reading of Codex Layouts, KÉPI TANULÁS MŰHELYE FÜZETEK 4: (1) pp. 19-27.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English

2019

Anna Somfai: Déjà Vu? Visual Thinking in Medieval Manuscripts and Imaging the Unimaginable, In: András, Benedek; Kristóf, Nyíri (szerk.) Learning and Technology in Historical Perspective, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (2019) pp. 79-90.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English

2011

Somfai Anna: The Liber Floridus in the Encyclopaedic Tradition: Philosophical and Scientific Diagrams in Context, In: Karen, De Coene (szerk.) Liber Floridus 1121. The World in a Book, Ghent University (2011) pp. 75-89.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English

2005

Somfai Anna: The Brussels gloss: a tenth-century reading of the geometrical and arithmetical passages of Calcidius’s Commentary (ca. 400 AD) to Plato’s Timaeus, In: D, Jacquart; Ch, Burnett (szerk.) Scientia in Margine : études sur les Marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen-Age à la Renaissance, Librairie DROZ S. A. (2005) pp. 139-169.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English

2004

Somfai Anna: Calcidius’s Commentary to Plato’s Timaeus and its place in the commentary tradition: the concept of analogia in text and diagrams, In: Peter, Adamson; Han, Baltussen; M W, F Stone (szerk.) Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries, Vol.2, University of London (2004) pp. 203-220.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English

2003

Somfai Anna: The nature of daemons: a theological application of the concept of geometrical proportion in Calcidius’ Commentary to Plato’s Timaeus (40d-41a), In: R, Sharples; A, Sheppard (szerk.) Ancient approaches to the ‘Timaeus’ (Supplement 78 to the Bulletin of the Institute Of Classical Studies), University of London (2003) pp. 129-142.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English

2002

Somfai Anna: The Eleventh-Century Shift in the Reception of Plato’s Timaeus and Calcidius’s Commentary, JOURNAL OF THE WARBURG AND COURTAULD INSTITUTES 65: pp. 1-21.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English
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2001

Somfai Anna: Hildegard of Bingen: the vision of power and the power of vision, In: N, van Deusen (szerk.) Issues in Medieval Philosophy: Essays in honor of Richard C. Dales, Institute of Mediæval Music (2001) pp. 97-120.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English

1995

Somfai Anna: A szervanalógia a középkori nyugat-európai gondolkodásban, In: Kapitány, Ágnes; Kapitány, Gábor (szerk.) Jelbeszéd az életünk, Osiris; Századvég (1995) pp. 372-383.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: Hungarian

1992

Somfai Anna: "Az epikureista” John of Salisbury Policraticusának etikai interpretációja, In: Molnár, Péter; Szakács, Béla Zsolt (szerk.) Mediaevalia, ELTE BTK Középkori Egyetemes Történeti Tudományos Diákkör (1992) pp. 32-52.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: Hungarian

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further relevant information regarding accreditation (in Hungarian)
Invited peer reviewer for the European Research Council FP7 ‘Ideas’ Specific Program. (to be translated)

2024. IV. 17.
ODT ülés
Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).