News from October 2023

The Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group (AAIWG) is advertising online classes in both Latin and Arabic. The Latin course, which is for beginners, is free, but it begins tomorrow morning (October 7). The Arabic course–classical Arabic at various levels of instruction–involves a fee. Details here.

There’s a large international conference on medieval theories of intentionality scheduled to begin in 10 days in Romania. There apparently is an online option to attend the conference, although I have not found details online. For participants and contact information see here. (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, October 16-17, 2023).

The whole of the Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi is now available, for free, in electronic form, here. If you’re looking for So-and-So “of Dacia,” this is the place.

Congratulations to Andreas Lammer (Nijmegen), who has just won an ERC Starting Grant on the topic Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation. This €1.5M grant will fund a team of scholars working on this project for 5 years. Scholars seeking to work in this area should keep an eye out for opportunities to be funded through this grant.

David Burrell (1933-2023)

Father David Burrell died this past Sunday. He was a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and spent most of his teaching career at the University of Notre Dame, where he had also been an undergraduate. His many publications are concerned especially with interfaith dialogue among the Abrahamic traditions. There is a brief obituary here.