The University of Toronto has advertised a senior position in classical Islamic philosophy. This is the faculty line currently held by Deborah Black who is, alas, retiring. The application deadline is January 11, 2024.
Tamer Nawar (Barcelona) is advertising two three-year postdoctoral positions and two four-year PhD positions, in association with his ERC project on Truth in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. The application deadlines are the end of February 2024.
The Extending New Narratives project is advertising two one-year postdocs, focused on “research related to the retrieval and recognition of philosophical works by women and individuals from other marginalized groups in both the European and non-European traditions” from the 9th century forward. Details here. The application deadline is January 3, 2024.
The History of Philosophy Forum (Notre Dame) is advertising various small grants for scholars seeking to conduct research for several weeks at Notre Dame. Details here. The application deadline is March 15, 2024.
Notre Dame is also advertising its annual Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies. This is a year-long fellowship aimed at scholars who are assistant professors at North American universities. The application deadline is February 1, 2024. Details here.
The monthly KU Leuven hybrid Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy has announced its schedule this academic year, on the general theme of “Encounter, Dialogue, and Integration: The Reception of Western Medieval Philosophy in East Asia.” The schedule, and details on how to join, by zoom or in person, can be found here.
The XXIV European Symposium in Medieval Logic and Semantics has extended its cfp deadline until December 20th, 2023. The theme is Truth, Falsity and Lying (Parma, June 17-20, 2024).
The University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) is holding an interdisciplinary conference in March to honor the 750th anniversary of Thomas Aquinas’s death (March 7-9, 2024). The Cfp deadline is December 31, 2023. Participants will receive a travel stipend.
Symposium Thomisticum VII meets next June on the topic of Aquinas in History. The cfp deadline is February 29, 2024 (Vienna, June 6-8, 2024).
St. Louis University is advertising its annual interdisciplinary Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. They welcome proposals for individual papers and complete sessions (June 10-12, 2024). The submission deadline is December 31, 2023.
The annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition has put out a call for submissions. This year’s topic is “Knowledge, Nous, and Noetics in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Traditions” (Milwaukee, June 24-26, 2024). The cfp deadline is February 15, 2024.
The International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology is holding a conference next summer on The End: Finiteness, Death, and Completion in Medieval Theology (Utrecht, June 26-28, 2024). The application deadline is December 20th, 2024.
The SIEPM has put out the call for proposals for its 2024 annual colloquium, in Prague, on the topic Communities of Debate: Collective Intellectual Practice in Medieval Philosophical Thought. (Sept. 4-6, 2024, Prague). Cfp deadline is Jan. 31, 2024.
Congratulations to Stephen Ogden (Notre Dame), who has won the annual book prize from the Journal of the History of Philosophy for Averroes on Intellect (OUP, 2022).
Congratulations to Colin Murtha (Nijmegen) for winning the SMRP’s 2023 Founder’s Award for the best paper by a younger scholar. The paper’s title is “A Stratified World: Avicenna’s Theory of the Sublunary Strata.”
Back in October, Brill and De Gruyter announced that they would be combing as a single press, De Gruyter Brill. To be exact, De Gruyter is buying Brill. It will be interesting to see the impact this has on these two important presses in our field.
In medias PHIL 