Coming Events

Upcoming conferences, around the world:

• Journée d’études “Aristote médiéval” (Strasbourg, Feb. 9, 2016)
• Les Éléments de théologie et le Livre des causes du V^e au XVII^e siècle (Paris, Feb. 12-13, 2016)
• The Emergence of Structuralism and Formalism (Prague, June 24-26, 2016); CFP deadline April 30 [with a strong focus on the history of mathematics]
• Rhetoric and Dialectic: The Annual Aristotle and Aristotelianism Conference (Marquette, June 27-29, 2016); CFP deadline March 1
• Immateriality, Thinking and the Self in the Philosophy of the Long Middle Ages (two conferences, jointly organized by Cambridge and Peking universities, with the Cambridge conference in early July 2016 and the Beijing conference in December 2016) [Correction: these events happened in 2015. But there is a follow-up conference on February 18th, 2016, at Cambridge, jointly with Tim Crane’s New Directions in the Philosophy of Mind project. See here.]
• Pseudo-Aristotelian Texts in Medieval Thought: 22nd Annual SIEPM Colloquium (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Sept. 28-30, 2016); CFP deadline Feb. 29

Opportunities and Initiatives

• The research group at the University of Groningen has begun the Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought. Their web site lists various initiatives that they have under way: winter schools and summer schools and workshops of various kinds.
• The Journal of the History of Philosophy is advertising the Jan Wojcik Memorial Prize for graduate students in the history of philosophy. The prize, of up to $4000, funds travel for either research or conference participation. The deadline is January 31.
• The University of Würzburg is hosting a week-long summer school on Intention and Attention: A Joint Venture Between Phenomenology and History of Philosophy. Several distinguished medievalists are involved. Dates: July 25-29, 2016. Deadline: January 31.
• A conference has been announced for this summer on The Roman de la Rose and Thirteenth-Century Parisian Philosophy (Paris, June 20-21, 2016). The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 1.
• The Lumen Christi Institute’s annual summer institute on Thomas Aquinas concerns the Five Ways. This is aimed at doctoral students, and comes with room, board, and a travel stipend (Rome, June 23-28). Applications due February 1.

Awards etc.

Here are a few news items, dating back to last year, about medievalists from around the globe:

• Dag Hasse (Würzburg) has won the Leibniz Prize, worth 2.5 million Euros. Humanists in general don’t often win this prize, and so it’s a fortunate thing for the field that once again the award has gone to a distinguished medieval philosopher. (Dominik Perler won back in 2006.)
• Jeffrey Hause (Creighton) has been named a “Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation, a group “chosen on the basis of their extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching.”
• Ana María Mora-Márquez (Gothenburg) has been named a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, one of only four scholars in the humanities to win the prize this year.
• Finally, I’m sorry to report, very belatedly, that David Lindberg, the great historian of medieval science, died last year in Madison, at the age of 79. (He died a year ago to this day, as it happens.)