Various Career Opportunities

• SISMEL is advertising a one-year postdoctoral fellowship intended to support the production of a critical edition in medieval Latin. The deadline has been extended to December 18, 2019.
• The Thomas Ricklin Prize “is aimed at supporting the publication of a critical study or annotated edition of a text in the field of medieval and renaissance philosophy by young scholars.” The prize is worth 3000 Euros. The deadline is December 30, 2019.
• The Charles Schmitt Prize goes to a paper “in any area of intellectual history, broadly construed, 1500 to the present.” Deadline of December 31, 2019.
• Mattia Cipriani (FU Berlin) and Nicola Polloni (HU Berlin) are soliciting papers for a volume entitled “Contrasting Nature: Idealixation and the Degradation of the Natural World in the Middle Ages”. The abstract deadline is January 15, 2020.
• Notre Dame University is advertising Mellow Junior Faculty Fellowships in Medieval Studies. Application deadline: February 1, 2020.
• The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at Toronto is also advertising Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships. Application deadline: February 1, 2020.
• The European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas has put out a call for submissions to volume 38. The deadline is March 1, 2020.
• A special issue of Topoi will be devoted to the topic of double intentionality, looking both at phenomenology and the medieval tradition. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2020.

The Berlin Human Abilities Project

Deserving of a special post is the information that Dominik Perler and Barbara Vetter have won a multi-year Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Grant on the project of “Human Abilities.” The project will range over metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of action, and involve both the history of philosophy and contemporary discussions.

Over the years ahead, there will be quite a few funding opportunities associated with this project, a first set of which are now posted and include positions both for graduate study and for scholars who already have a PhD. The application deadline is December 9, 2020.

Conference Announcements

Wow, what a lot of conferences:

• Next week there’s a conference in Helsinki: “Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550” (December 12-14, 2019).
• This coming January, there will be a conference in London on “The Intercultural Roots of Early Scholasticism: Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin” (January 23-24, 2020).
• The Aquinas Center at Ave Maria University is holding a conference on Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Florida, Feb. 7-18, 2020).
• In April, at St. Andrews, there’s a workshop on “Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages” (April 28-29, 2020). Cfp deadline February 1, 2020. [Date corrected from original post.]
• There is a conference on vernacular philosophy in the later Middle Ages this coming May at the Universidad Complutense (May 11-13, 2020, Madrid). Cfp deadline December 15, 2019.
• Also in May, there’s a conference in London on “13th Century English Franciscan Thought” (May 29-31, 2020).
• The Avicenna Study Group will meet in Germany next June, with the goal of assembling presentations on all eight of Avicenna’s main works (Trier, June 3-5, 2020).
• There’s a conference at Leuven in June on “Essence and Existence in the 13th and 14th Centuries” (June 5-6, 2020). Cfp February 15, 2020.
• “After Avicenna,” a conference on post-Avicennian Islamic thought, will be held in Finland this coming June (June 5-7, 2020, Jyväskylä).
• Next June in Greece there’s a conference on The Reception of Plato in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Athens, June 8-9, 2020). Cfp December 15, 2020.
• The 24th annual colloquium of the SIEPM will take place in Porto this coming June, on the topic “Per cognitionem visualem. The Visualization of Cognitive and Natural Processes in the Middle Ages” (June 18-19, 2020). Cfp deadline February 1.
• Marquette University is holding a conference next summer on Causes and Causality in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition (June 22-24, 2020). Cfp deadline March 1, 2020.
• The European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics will meet in Warsaw this coming June, under the topic “Time, Tense, and Modality” (June 22-25, 2020).
• There’s a conference in the Netherlands next fall on “Complexio across Times and Disciplines” (Nijmegen, September 10-11, 2020). Cfp deadline January 15, 2020.
• There’s a conference next September in Poland on “The Will and Its Acts in Late Medieval Ethics and Theology” (Łódź, September 24-25, 2020). There seems to be no information on the internet, as of yet, but interested parties should contact Monika Michałowska.
• The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is, for the first time, holding its own multi-day conference. The inaugural location is the University of Notre Dame (Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2020, South Bend, Indiana). Cfp deadline February 1, 2020.