Hans Gerhard Senger (1936-2023)

I have just learned from Andreas Speer that Hans Gerhard Senger died yesterday. He was, since 1962, a researcher at the Thomas-Institut in Cologne, and devoted himself particularly to the critical edition of the Cusanus Opera omnia, as well as associated translations, monographs, and papers. Further information about his work is available here, and Dr. Speer’s memorial notice is available here.

John F. Wippel (1933-2023)

I am sorry to report that Father John Wippel died yesterday morning. He taught at Catholic University of America for his entire career, from 1960 on, and was one of the principal figures shaping the study of medieval philosophy in America over the last half century. His work focused particularly on the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas, but made important contributions as well to our understanding of Latin Averroism and Godfrey of Fontaines. There is a brief biography on Wikipedia.

Upcoming Conferences on Zoom and Others

The annual medieval colloquium at the University of Toronto takes place at the end of next week. Details here. (Toronto, Sept. 22-23, 2023.)

The Fourth International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group, starting in Paris in two days, is also accessible remotely. Details here. (Sept. 13-15, 2023.)

The previously advertised SIEPM annual colloquium starts tomorrow in Trento, on the subject of divine foreknowledge. Those unable to attend in person are invited to join remotely. Details here. (Sept. 12-15, 2023.)

In honor of the 800th anniversary of Thomas Aquinas’s birth, Notre Dame is sponsoring what looks to be quite a large conference next fall, Aquinas at 800: Ad multos annos. The cfp deadline is November 1, 2023. (South Bend, Indiana, Sept. 22-25, 2024.)

Johns Hopkins University is beginning what it hopes will become an annual event, the Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. One-page abstracts are due October 10, 2023. (Baltimore, December 10-11, 2023.)

Monika Michałowska and Michael Dunne are sponsoring an international conference on Will-Discourse in the Late Middle Ages. (Łódź, June 20-21, 2024.) The deadline for receiving abstracts is October 31, 2023.

The XXIV European Symposium in Medieval Logic and Semantics will be held next summer in Parma, on the topic of Truth, Falsity and Lying (June 17-20, 2024). The cfp deadline is November 30, 2023.

The Franciscan Institute will be holding a conference next summer on the topic, “Qui primus legit: Studies in Sentence Commentaries on the Eighth Centenary of Alexander of Hales’s Lectures.” The conference’s focus is the broad subject of Sentences commentaries as a genre. Paper proposals should be submitted, by Nov. 15, 2023, to Prof. Aaron Gies. At the moment there seems to be no web page. (St. Bonaventure, New York, July 11-13, 2024.)

The Franciscan Institute is also sponsoring a session at the Leeds medieval studies conference next summer on “Bonaventure as a Reader of Albertus Magnus.” Brief proposals need to be sent by this Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, to Prof. Luke Togni (July 1-4, 2024, Leeds).

If anyone has a paper lying around on Irrationality and Madness (or perhaps just one of the two?), they’ve got four days to submit it to David Bennett and Filip Radovic, who are organizing a session at the Kalamazoo medieval studies congress on the subject. Papers can be submitted here. (Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-11, 2024.) Proposals due Sept. 15, 2023.

The international History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) conference will be in Vienna next July, and they are calling both for individual papers and for symposium proposals. The proposal deadline has been extended to October 1, 2023. Details here. (Vienna, July 9-12, 2024.)

The University of Wisconsin (Madison) is again advertising its Solmsen fellowships, aimed at scholars in the humanities working on Europe pre-1700.

Claus Andersen (Louvain) has continued his efforts to provide us with a guide to medieval editions available at the Internet Archive. His latest list provides links to William of Ockham’s Opera theologica and Opera politica. (But not the Opera philosophica, which, oddly, does not seem to be available there.)

Congratulations to Peter Hartman (Loyola Chicago), who won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval theories of consciousness. Announcement here.