I trust that everyone celebrated, in their own fashion, the 750th anniversary of Thomas Aquinas’s death this past week. (My own celebrations took place in Leuven.) For anyone uninspired by that anniversary, we now have the 750th anniversary of the 1277 condemnations to look forward to in three years’ time.
Here’s some information about what’s going on in the field. Many of the deadlines are for this Friday, March 15.
Notre Dame’s History of Philosophy Forum is advertising a three-year postdoc, open to any area in the history of philosophy. The application deadline is March 25, 2024. Details here.
That same Notre Dame program is advertising two funding opportunities to spend limited periods of time conducting research in South Bend. The application deadlines are March 15, 2024. Details here.
The SIEPM is advertising various prizes and funding opportunities this spring, including the Jacqueline Hamesse Award for the best paper by a younger scholar, and the one-to-one stipend for junior scholars seeking to spend time working with a senior scholar in the field.
Funded PhD positions in medieval studies are available through a program jointly sponsored by King’s College London and Kent University, thanks to a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. See details here. Students interested in applying in philosophy should contact Dr. Zita Toth (KCL).
There’s also the opportunity for PhD funding in Helsinki, working with Filipe Pereira da Silva on the topic of ancient sources of matter in late medieval commentaries on Aristotle. The application deadline is this week: March 15, 2024. Details here.
The 34th meeting of the Medieval Philosophy Network in the U.K. will take place on March 19th, 2024 in London.
The annual Journée Incipit is scheduled for March 23rd, 2024, in Paris. The keynote lecture will be given by Wouter Goris (Bonn).
In Naples next month there’s a three-day conference on San Tommaso d’Aquino, uomo del Mediterraneo, uomo del dialogo (April 25-27, 2024).
There’s a week-long summer seminar in Germany this summer on thirteenth-century debates on human freedom. The program is open to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs (July 3-7, 2024, Regensburg). Some funding is available. Despite what the website says, I have it on good authority that the correct application deadline is this week: March 15.
The Thomistic Institute (Washington DC) is sponsoring a week-long colloquium for graduate students this summer on Contemporary Thomistic Christology (July 29-Aug 3, 2024, Washington). Funding is available. The application deadline is this week: March 15.
There’s a conference in Paris in June to celebrate the joint 750th anniversaries of the death of Aquinas and Bonaventure (June 13-14, 2024). Details at Pariscope médiéval.
The University of Lisbon, in collaboration with the Society for the European History of Ideas, is organizing its own conference in October to celebrate the Aquinas-Bonaventure anniversaries (October 9-11, 2024, Lisbon). Cfp deadline: March 28, 2024. [Now extended to April 28th.] See details here.
Durham University is advertising two online, two-week intensive courses in Latin and early-modern English paleography. Details here.
A couple of significant European professorships in medieval philosophy have been filled recently. In Leuven, Jenny Pelletier has been appointed to a permanent research professorship. Meanwhile, Nicola Polloni has been appointed to a similar position in Messina.
Help wanted. Some time ago, I announced an initiative to start an open-access series of editions and translations in medieval philosophy. Through the hard work of many, this initiative—the Medieval Text Consortium—is now coming close to seeing the appearance of its first volume, with more in the works. We would be glad to receive proposals for future volumes. At the moment, though, we are looking for someone with skills in LaTeX typesetting (or at a minimum an enthusiasm to learn), who could help us bring these volumes into print. Some compensation is available. Anyone interested in being involved in the project should contact me directly.
In medias PHIL 