The IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca (Italy) seeks to fill a PhD position and two postdoc positions in Arabic philosophy, specifically focused on the topic of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā). The deadline for the PhD position is June 21st, and the deadline for the postdocs is July 8th. For further information contact Amos Bertolacci or Marco Signori.
The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is advertising its annual Founders’ Prize, for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar. The deadline is July 15, 2024. Details here.
The University of Lucerne is holding an international conference next week on Arabic and Latin Senses of Being (June 10-11, 2024). Participation by Zoom is possible.
Monika Michałowska and Michael Dunne are organizing a conference on the will later this month in Łódź, on the subject Will-Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (June 20-21, 2024).
Loyola University Chicago is hosting a conference this summer on Medieval Theories of Consciousness 1200-1350 (August 19-21, 2024). Zoom participation is possible.
The Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics (SMLM) is sponsoring a session at this fall’s meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The topic is Nominalism. (Nov. 14-17, 2024, Chicago). The cfp deadline is June 20. Details here.
Maimonides’s Guide to the Perplexed is now available in a new English translation, with commentary, by Lenn Goodman and Phillip Lieberman (Stanford UP, 2024).
The indefatigable Richard Taylor is editing a series with Brepols, Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions of the Middle Ages. They’ve put out a call for submission of proposals for future volumes. For information about the series and what’s been published so far see here. For further inquiries contact Professor Taylor.
Jon McGinnis will be moving this summer from Missouri to Toronto, where he has been appointed to the position in Arabic philosophy opened up by the retirement of Deborah Black.
Next spring, Alain de Libera will be honored as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, and on the occasion he will receive a sword. (Yes. Perhaps it sounds less odd in French.) Friends and colleagues are invited to subscribe in support of the occasion (Paris [where else?], March 6, 2025). Inquiries can be addressed here.
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