Lumen Christi is offering a wide range of summer seminars, including seminars on eudaimonia (in Philadelphia, with Martin Seligman, Candace Vogler and others) and on Aquinas on Free Choice (in Chicago, with Stephen Brock). The seminars are aimed at PhD students. Application deadlines are this week — February 2 — and the funding is very generous. Details here.
The University of Notre Dame is advertising a summer school for graduate students–in Rome!–on premodern philosophy and science, on the topic Elements of Nature/Elements of Reasoning (June 17-20, 2024). Significant funding is available. The application deadline is February 15, 2024.
The Angelicum Thomistic Institute, in collaboration with Hong Kong Baptist University, is advertising a summer seminar on Asian philosophy and scholasticism: Peace, Inside and Out. Both graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are eligible to apply, and funding is available for all participants (July 15-26, 2024, Hong Kong). The application deadline has been extended to February 29, 2024.
There’s a major conference in two weeks in Paris on New Social Perspectives in Medieval Philosophy, organized by Ana María Mora-Márquez (Gothenburg) and Jenny Pelletier (Gothenburg) (February 12-14, 2024).
The Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group is advertising its twelfth annual graduate conference (online, March 15-16, 2024). The cfp deadline is February 9.
Thomas Aquinas College (California) is again organizing a Thomistic summer conference, this year on the theme of Virtue, Law, and the Common Good (June 13-16, 2024). The cfp deadline is February 19.
Babes-Bolyai University, in Romania, is organizing a conference in April on medieval theories of the internal senses (April 19-20, Cluj-Napoca). There’s a call for abstracts that expires February 20th, 2024.
The Carmelite Institute in Rome, in collaboration with the IRHT-CNRS in Paris, is organizing a workshop on John Baconthorpe (May 9-11, 2024, in Rome). Proposals should be sent, by March, to Monica Brinzei.
Quaderni di Noctua, the open-access Italian journal, has put out a call for papers on the work of Henry of Harclay. Interested scholars should contact Francesco Fiorentino (Bari) by March 31, 2024.
The Aquinas Institute (Wyoming) is advertising bargain-priced paperback editions of its bilingual Aquinas volumes. The only catch is that these editions are for sale only outside the United States. Details here.
Congratulations to Stephen Ogden (Notre Dame) for winning an NEH fellowship to support his next book project, in which he is building on his work on Ibn Rushd on intellect to take on the topic of the active intellect in Ibn Sīnā.
Congratulations to Shane Duarte (Notre Dame) for winning an NEH fellowship to support the latest of his book-length translations of Francisco Suárez. The project the NEH is funding is Metaphysical Disputations 30, on arguments from natural reason for God’s existence and nature. Shane has already published beautiful faithful bilingual editions/translations of DM I-IV (CUA Press, 2021-2023), and he tells me that he hopes, in time, to press on to translate DM 5-11. If you see him at a conference, buy him a beer or two.
In medias PHIL 