Various News Items

• The University of Bonn is hosting a two-day conference on Duns Scotus’s Interlocutors at Paris (April 4-5, 2019)
• There’s a one-day Midwestern Medieval Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Notre Dame this spring (April 5, 2019)
• St. Andrews is hosting a workshop on the history of Arabic logic this spring (May 7-8, 2019)
• A one-day conference on Contingency and Necessity in Medieval and Post-Medieval Scholasticism is being held this June at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, June 6, 2019). The deadline for submitting an abstract is April 1.
• Neoplatonism & Aristotelianism in Early Arabic Philosophy is the topic of the Twelfth Annual Summer International Live Video Workshop at Marquette (Milwaukee, June 18-21, 2019)
• The Thomistic Symposium in Rome this fall concerns the topic “Thomas Aquinas on Creation and Nature” (October 3-5, 2019)
• There’s a one-year research fellowship being advertised at King’s College London on Franciscan thought in Paris circa 1220-45. Information here. The application deadline is March 24, 2019.
• The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg) is advertising two doctoral fellowships and two postdoctoral fellowships, focused on the nature and scope of skepticism in the Jewish context. The application deadline is April 1, 2019.
• The Nijmegen Center for the History of Philosophy and Science is encouraging applicants to a two-year postdoctoral fellowship through the Radboud Excellence Initiative. Interested parties should contact Paul Bakker.
• Martin Lenz has written the perfect clickbait post for the readers of this blog: Should contemporary philosophers read Ockham? Or: what did history ever do for us?
• The Journal of the History of Philosophy is looking for a new editor to succeed our own Jack Zupko, whose five-year term concludes in July 2020. Interested parties should contact Tad Schmaltz.
• Finally, congratulations to Thomas Hibbs, longtime professor at Boston College and more recently at Baylor, who has just been named president of the University of Dallas, his alma mater.