- Beginning tomorrow, if you happen to be free, the Université de Lorraine is sponsoring a conference on the Genesis commentaries of Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa (Metz, March 9-10, 2016)
- This weekend, there’s a big conference at Georgetown on The Philosophies of Robert Grosseteste and Richard Rufus of Cornwall (Washington, March 11-12, 2016)
- The Representation and Reality group is holding Workshop 13 next month on Representation, Content and Intentionality in the Aristotelian Tradition (Gothenburg, April 22-23, 2016)
- The hard-working folk in Gothenburg will also be holding their big annual conference in June, on The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition (Gothenburg, June 10-12, 2016)
- The annual Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy is this May. Presumably they’d be glad to get a good medieval paper on the program. The submission deadline is March 20th (Princeton, May 21, 2016). Apparently there’s nothing on the web, but send queries to Rachel Cristy or Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval.
- Russell Friedman is running an Auriol Workshop this June (Leuven, June 3-4, 2016); contact him for more information.
- The Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought is sponsoring a summer school on The Challenge of Natural Teoleology: Final Causes from Aristotle to Darwin (Groningen, June 28-July 1, 2016)
- For the more theologically minded, the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, in cooperation with the Benedictine Monks of Norcia, are offering a two week summer program on Aquinas’s commentary on Hebrews (Norcia [Italy], July 10-24, 2016)
- Next fall in Uppsala, there are two linked conferences on the theme of Perception, Reason and Desire in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. First, there’s a graduate conference on the history of philosophy focusing on this topic (Uppsala, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2016). Connected with that is a meeting of the Nordic Network in the History of Philosophy Workshop, though details of this don’t seem to have been advertised yet.
- Also next fall, the faculty of theology at Nicolaus Copernicus University will be holding a three-day workshop on Soul or Brain: What Makes Us Human? The conference focuses particularly on “the merits and limits” of the Aristotelian-scholastic tradition (Toruń [Poland], October 19-21, 2016). CFP deadline April 30.
- The Joint Research Group for the Study of Post-Medieval Scholasticism is organizing a conference on the late scholastic author Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641), to be held at the University of South Bohemia (České Budějovice [Czech Republic], November 25-27, 2016).
The late scholastic author Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, in two senses. Intended?
And I’d always thought of myself as a late scholastic author!