From Paleography to Real Books

The Virtual Paleography Group, first organized on this blog during the dark days of the pandemic, is regrouping this fall. No experience required. Interested parties should contact Zita Toth (KCL).

The Claudio Leonardi Fellowship for medieval Latin studies is seeking applications again. This fellowship is aimed at junior scholars, and can be held for up to six months. Judging from previous winners, the selection committee is particularly focused on supporting editions of texts and other such manuscript-based projects. The application deadline is September 30th, 2023. Details here.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy is advertising two travel fellowships for junior scholars (post-PhD), for the purpose of travel related to research. The application deadline is December 1, 2023. Details here.

The Maimonides Centre (Hamburg) is sponsoring a conference next week on Sceptical Trends in the European Universities of the Early Modern Period. Discussions of late scholastic material will be particularly prominent (August 14-15, 2023, Hamburg).

The Société internationale d’histoire des sciences et de la philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (SIHSPAI) will hold an international colloquium this September in Munich (Sept. 6-8, 2023).

The SIEPM’s annual colloquium is scheduled for September 12-15, 2023, in Trento, and concerns medieval debates over foreknowledge.

The Avicenna Study Group is holding its fourth meeting this September, on the topic “A Hidden Treasure: Editorial, Historical, and Philosophical Issues in Avicenna’s ‘Minor’ Works (rasāʾil)” (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, 13-15 September, 2023).

The Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (SISPM) meets September 20-22, 2023, in Rome, on the philosophy of the twelfth century.

The Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is sponsoring several sessions at the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy (Liverpool, April 8-10, 2024). Proposals for individual papers or for whole symposia are welcomed, and should be sent to Zita Toth by September 15, 2023.

The Center for Thomistic Studies and the Thomas Aquinas Society are sponsoring a series of sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), which runs May 9-11, 2024. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2023. Details here.

Anna Marmodoro and Rodrigo Ballon-Villanueva are organizing a conference on Augustine on Relations for next March, in Oxford (March 11-12, 2024). Graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply. The deadline for sending in an abstract is November 15th, 2023.

If there’s still anyone out there who’s into actual printed books, you might like to know that Brill is currently holding its annual summer sale, with 50% off all titles. The discount code, good until the end of September, is 71645.