Late Spring News

This will probably be my last post until August. First, some information about upcoming events:

• The Collège de France is holding a two-day international colloquium, Philosopher au XIIe siècle, at the end of May (Paris, May 29-30, 2017).
• There’s a conference on Knowledge as Assimilation, ranging over ancient and medieval material, co-sponsored by the Rationality in Perception group in Helsinki and the Representation and Reality group in Gothenberg (Helsinki, June 9-11, 2017).
• The University of Bonn is holding a conference this summer, on “Time and Modality. Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives” (July 20-22, 2017). Immediately before the conference (July 17-19), they’re running a summer school in conjunction with themes from the conference. The application deadline for the summer school is May 31. Details on the summer school here.
• The Thomas-Institut has sent out its call for papers for the 2018 Cologne Mediaevistentagung. The topic is The Library: Spaces of Thought and Knowledge Systems. The submission deadline is August 15, 2017. See details here.

Next, some information about people:

• Nate Bulthius, a recent Cornell PhD, is interviewed at the APA blog, where he discusses in some detail his perspective on studying medieval philosophy.
• Thomas Ward, currently at Loyola Marymount, is moving to Baylor University, starting this coming fall. With John Haldane already there, as well as Francis Beckwith, and with Tim O’Connor joining the department as well, this makes Baylor quite a prominent option for graduate study in medieval philosophy.

And then some links, both, as it happens, pertaining to Scotus:

• Tobias Hoffmann’s very useful Scotus bibliography is now available here, where it continues to be updated.
• Thomas Williams has just come out with an extensive collection of English translations of Scotus’s ethical work (OUP 2017). In addition to the book, there is a website, here. On the website, there are additional translations, links to some of Thomas’s papers, and a remarkable unpublished essay that makes the case for why the Vatican edition of Ordinatio III.26-40 is “so frequently bad that no responsible scholar can rely on it.”

Finally, jobs:

• There’s a three-year postdoc position at the above-mentioned Helsinki project, Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550. The application deadline is May 29, 2017. Details here.
• There’s a two-year postdoc advertised in Munich, connected to the project Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen: Antike, Mittelalter, Neuzeit. Quoting from the ad, “The central concern of the project is the medieval reaction to the ancient idea that God’s rulership to the universe is comparable to that between a political ruler and the state that s/he governs.” The application deadline is June 1, 2017. Details here.

Boulder 2018

I am hereby announcing a conference in medieval philosophy to be held at the University of Colorado on April 5-7, 2018.

Everyone is invited, and I expect you all to come.

Although I will not be able to cover all of everyone’s expenses, I hope to have enough funds to cover lodging for anyone who works in the field and would like to come. (Lodging will be at the beautiful Chautauqua cottages.)

This is a one-time event, and I am hoping it will be a big party. Please put it on your calendar and then RSVP, directly to me.

Details regarding the conference, as it develops, will become available here.

Various Announcements

Here’s what’s coming this summer from projects affiliated with Richard Taylor at Marquette:

• The Aquinas and ’the Arabs’ International Working Group’s annual European Workshop will be at the Warburg Institute in London, on the topic of Creation and Artifice (June 1-2, 2017)
• The Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions summer conference will be on the topic of Ibn Rushd / Averroes (June 21-23, 2017, Marquette)
• The Twelfth Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition will be on the topic of “Soul and Nature in Aristotle and Aristotelianism” (June 26-28, 2017, Marquette)
• The Aquinas and ’the Arabs’ International Working Group’s annual North American Workshop will be at the University of Notre Dame (August 25-26, 2017). Cfp deadline of May 1.

And here are a few other things you might like to know about:

• The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (at Penn) is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Visiting Research Fellowship program. It comes with a stipend of $5000, and is targeted specifically at scholars who would benefit from the collection’s “extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science.” Application deadline is May 1.
• The American Academy in Rome is offering a two-week intensive course in Latin Paleography and Codicology in collaboration with the Vatican Library and the University of Notre Dame (January 8-19, 2018). Application deadline is May 30.
• The Albertus Magnus Center has announced their 2017 Summer Program, Divine Power in a Hidden Way: Thomas’s Commentary on the Sentences IV (July 2-14, Norcia, Italy).

Various Spring and Summer Events

Here’s the latest assortment of events in the field:

• The Lumen Christi Institute is again running a series of seminars for doctoral students, with generous funding and enviable locations. The most relevant one for this blog has the topic: Is God Knowable by Natural Reason? Philosophy, Theology, and Trinitarian Thought in the Middle Ages. It will be held this June in Rome, and is directed by Mark Clark and Tim Noone. I’m sorry to say I waited too long to post this, and the deadline is today. See info here. Maybe if you blame me for your application’s being late, they’ll give you an extension.
• I’m even tardier to announce a conference at Columbia University on Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800. This happened back on Feb. 17-18.
• The Princeton-Penn-Columbia Gradute Conference in the History of Philosophy has put out its call for papers. The conference is May 20th in Princeton. Submission deadline is March 25th. Apparently there’s no web page as of yet, but the instructions are as follows:
  

  Papers should not exceed 4000 words (or 30 minutes presentation time). They should be prepared for blind review and sent as a PDF file to ppc.history.conference@gmail.com. In a separate PDF attachment, please include your name, academic affiliation, email address, telephone number, paper title, and an abstract of no more than 300 words.

• The SMRP is soliciting submissions for its annual Founders’ Award. The prize goes to the best paper for a junior scholar. Deadline is April 1. See details here.
• Labex Hastec is sponsoring a one-day conference, Les Lumières de l’Orient médiéval aux racines de la Renaissance européenne (Paris, March 21, 2017).
• Georgetown University, in collaboration with the Ordered Universe Project, is hosting a conference, Aspectus and Affectus: Robert Grosseteste, Understanding and Feeling (Washington, March 31-April 1, 2017).
• The University of Toronto is beginning an annual conference on the history of metaphysics. This year’s topic is time (April 29-30, 2017). A few details here.
• The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism has put out a call for papers for its session at the 2017 meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Dallas, 16-19 November 2017). Deadline is May 15th.
• The Cornell Summer Colloquium is back, but not in Ithaca. This year, Scott MacDonald is running the colloquium in Brooklyn (June 7-9, 2017).
• The Nordic Network for the History of Philosophy is organizing a workshop on Perception, Knowledge, and Assimilation (Helsinki, June 12, 2017). It’s aimed at younger scholars, and has some funding to cover expenses. Application deadline is March 31. Details here. [Please note correct date, changed from my original post.]
• Finally, the Aquinas Institute is raffling off a complete set of its Opera omnia series. Enter before March 7th, here.

Various End-of-Year News Items

Here are various things that I’ve been meaning to announce. First a prize:

• The Charles Schmitt Prize is on again, covering intellectual history, 1500 to the present. Doctoral students and new PhDs only. The deadline is December 31. Details here.

Next, some conferences:

• Studying the Arts in Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge at the Arts Faculty of Prague University in the Middle Ages (Prague, Dec. 8-9, 2016).
• Early Modern Philosophy and Early Modern Scholasticism (Brussels, 19-20 Jan. 2017)
• 5^th Annual On-Line International Live Video Graduate Student Workshop (sponsored by the Aquinas and the Arabs Group, 10-11 February 2017). Cfp deadline of Jan. 9.
• A one-day workshop in NYC for early-career women working in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (Fordham, April 22, 2017) Cfp deadline of Feb. 15.
• Francisco Suárez: Scholasticism and the Modern World (University of Navarra, 26-28 April 2017). Cfp deadline is Feb. 1.
• Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition: Soul and Nature in Aristotle and Aristotelianism (26-28 June 2017). Cfp deadline of March 1.
• 2017 Dominican Colloquium in Berkeley. Person, Soul and Consciousness: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (July 12-15, 2017). Cfp deadline of March 1.

Upcoming Conferences etc.

• Journée Thomiste: Religion, respect et blasphème (Paris, Dec. 2, 2016)
• Ontological Commitment in Medieval Logic (winter school) (Geneva, December 13-17, 2016)
• Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries (Humboldt Univ. Berlin, April 6-7, 2017)
• The Sixth Thomas Aquinas International Society Conference (Bologna, April 20-22, 2017) [the topic is the Human Person]
• Towards a Biblical Thomism. Thomas Aquinas and the Renewal of Biblical Theology (Toruń [Poland], April 24-26, 2017)
• Proofs of Propositions in 14th-Century Logic (St. Andrews, May 23-25, 2017)
• Walter Chatton and His Intellectual Milieu (Leuven, June 2-3, 2017). Contact Jenny Pelletier for information.
• Will, Commandment, and Human Perfection in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, NEH Seminar (Colgate University [New York], July 9 – Aug. 4, 2017)
• ‘Frater, Magister, Minister et Episcopus‘: The Works and Worlds of Saint Bonaventure (Franciscan Institute [St. Bonaventure, NY], July 12-15, 2017)

Fall 2016 Conferences

Although it still feels like summer in Boulder (judging strictly by the weather), it is time to bring the blog back to life. First, some conferences not previously announced for this fall:

• Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ (Marquette Univ., Sept. 16-17, 2016) [As usual, I include conferences that have already occurred, on the grounds that it can be valuable to see the program even if the laws of nature make it impossible to attend the conference]
• Averroism between the 15th and 17th Century (Palacky University, Czech Republic, Nov. 9-10, 2016)
• Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (University of Oslo, Dec. 2-3, 2016)
• Meaning, Metaphor, and Maimonides: Honoring Josef Stern (Franke Institute for the Humanities [Chicago], Dec. 4-5, 2016)

Also, here are three calls for papers, two from the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy:

• for the 2017 Central APA and
• the 2017 Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo.

and a third from the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Group, also for Kalamazoo (contact nicholas.oschman@marquette.edu)

(Unfortunately, the deadline for all three of these is today, Sept. 19th, but perhaps you can get a brief extension from the organizers.)