There’s a one-week summer school scheduled for July in Porto on Medieval and Early Modern Theories of Cognition. Some support for travel and accommodations is available. (Porto, July 1-6, 2024). The deadline is now, April 30, 2024, but interested parties should make inquiries about whether late applications are possible.
Friedrich Schiller University (Jena) is advertising twelve doctoral research positions in antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of the research group on the Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Theses can be written in German or English. The application deadline is next week, May 7, 2024. Details here. (Heteronomous texts, in case you’re wondering, are those that depend on other texts, such as commentaries, paraphrases, florilegia etc.)
Andreas Lammer’s ERC project on Avicenna is advertising two doctoral positions to begin in Fall 2024. Details here. The application deadline is May 31, 2024.
Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, near Marrakesh, is starting up a Humanities Center under the direction of Abdelouahab Rgoud. They are advertising postdoc positions in classical Arabic philosophy and the philosophy of science. Some information is available here.
The Sacra Doctrina Project is holding its fourth annual academic conference, All Things That Were Made: On Creation, Creatures, and Their Creator (St. Paul, Minnesota, June 6-8, 2024). Registration is open for just another few days, until May 1.
The annual Cornell Summer Colloquium meets again this June. Online attendance is possible. Information available here. (June 5-7, 2024, in Brooklyn).
The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure is co-sponsoring a conference in Utrecht on The End: Finiteness, Death, and Completion in Medieval Theology (June 26-28, 2024).
The Franciscan Institute is also sponsoring a three-day conference on Sentences commentaries to celebrate the eighth centenary of Alexander of Hales’s influential commentary (St. Bonaventure, NY, July 11-13, 2024). Details here.
The program for the 44th Cologne Mediaevistentagung is now available, and registration is open for attendance both in person and on Zoom (Cologne, Sept. 9-13, 2024).
The Medieval Academy will be celebrating its 100th anniversary meeting in 2025, at Harvard (March 20-22), and the organizers are particularly eager this year to recruit scholars from a broad range of disciplines. Eileen Sweeney (Boston College) is co-chair of the meeting, and she’s asked me to encourage medievalists in philosophy to submit proposals. Travel subventions are available. The cfp deadline is June 3, 2024. Details here.
Julián Giglio (University of St. Martín, Argentina) will be teaching an online doctoral seminar — in Spanish, but with readings mainly in French and English — on Nicole Oresme. It runs from May 23 through July 18, 2024. He tells me he’s eager to include doctoral students internationally who have some level of familiarity with Spanish.
One of the nice byproducts of this year’s Journée Incipit in Paris is the creation of an inventory of books published in medieval philosophy in 2023-2024. This year’s catalog was compiled by Monica Brinzei and Tobias Hoffmann. You can find it here.
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