News of Various Sorts

• Among the latest news in the field, first and always foremost, is that a new job in medieval philosophy has been posted at Dominican University College in Ottawa. It’s listed as a tenure-track assistant professor position, though in the very next sentence the job description seems to say that it’s at most a three-year position. A query to the dean about this seeming contradiction produced no reply. Adding to the mystery is that the job is not advertised on PhilJobs.org, which rather undermines the claim of the ad that “Applications are encourage [sic] from all qualified women and men.” Notice that the position requires “teaching competence in both English and French.”
• There’s a major conference on the history of logic sponsored by Alain de Libera at the Collège de France next week, mostly focused on medieval material (Paris, May 14-15, 2018). Details here.
• The Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group is meeting in August in Mexico City (August 23-25, 2018, Universidad Panamericana). I’m afraid the call for papers expired May 1, but folk who are interested might contact the organizers about whether there’s still room on the program.
• The heroic efforts of Alexis Bugnolo to print an English translation of the entirety of Bonaventure’s Sentences commentary have run into some difficulty. It seems the publisher is unwilling to continue stocking the 2300 remaining copies of volume 1, and is threatening to destroy them. If you’d like to do your part to save an endangered book, you can purchase a copy here. (Thanks to John Inglis for this information.)
  • Unfortunately, perhaps as a kind of collateral damage from these efforts at publication, it seems that the freely available electronic translations of this work are no longer available at the Franciscan Archive.

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Upcoming Conferences

Here’s what’s come in recently about upcoming conferences in medieval philosophy:

• Demonstration, Experience and Science in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Georgetown University, April 19, 2018)
• 19^e Colloque interuniversitaire québécois de philosophie médiévale (UQAM, April 27, 2018)
• Le Bien et le bon selon saint Thomas d’Aquin, sponsored by the Revue thomiste (Toulouse, May 4-5, 2018)
• Le platonisme au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, École thématique du CNRS (Tours, June 4-6, 2018)
• The XXIInd ESMLS will have as its subject “Language, Thought, and Reality: The Continental and British Traditions of Medieval Logic Revisited” (Düsseldorf, June 25-29, 2018)
• Language and Essence, the 2nd annual conference hosted by the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative (Victoria, BC, October 5-7, 2018). Cfp deadline is June 15. (This is a very historian-friendly group; Margaret Cameron is one of the organizers. Calvin Normore is a keynote speaker.)

The Latest Conference News

Here’s the latest news about conferences etc.

• There’s a Journée d’études next month on Cosmologie et philosophie naturelle au XII^ème siècle : travaux récents (Paris, March 15, 2018)
• A provisional schedule is now available for the medieval conference in Boulder on April 5-7, 2018
• The Franciscan Institute (St. Bonaventure, NY) is offering two week-long masterclasses this summer: a first, by Mary Beth Ingham, on John Duns Scotus, and a second, by Jay Hammond, on Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaemeron. Details here
• After Certainty: A Workshop with Robert Pasnau will take place in Paris in a couple of weeks (Paris, March 8, 2018)
• The conference at Leuven this summer on Marsilius of Padua (July 6-7, 2018) has extended its deadline for receiving proposals to February 28th
• The North-Western Italian Philosophy Consortium has announced its 5th International Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy, on the topic “Humans and Nature.” (Pavia, Sept. 17-18, 2018). Both current and recent graduate students are eligible. Paper proposals due June 15
• A multi-day conference on Peter John Olivi and La construction de la personne humaine is taking place in Rome next fall (October 4-6, 2018, La Sapienza). The call for paper deadline is March 15.
• The 23rd annual SIEPM colloquium will be in Leuven (Oct. 10-12, 2018), on the topic of Living and Dying in Medieval Philosophy
• A conference in the Czech Republic has been announced on From Quadrivium to Natural Sciences: New Impulses in the Traditional Framework (Ostrava, Nov. 15-16, 2018). Deadline for submissions is September 3.

News of All Sizes

Here’s the latest collection of news and events that’s come my way:

• There’s a memorial workshop in honor of Marilyn Adams next month at Rutgers University (February 16-17, 2018).
• Brian Leftow, currently the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, has accepted the Alston Chair for the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University.
• LMU Munich is advertising a W2 Professorship in Renaissance philosophy. The application deadline is March 8, 2018. (For North American readers wondering what a W2 professorship is, Peter Adamson (who’s involved in the search) tells me that “the closest analogy would be Associate Professor.” The most senior positions are W3, but a W2 requires a “a strong track record of research already.” If you’re waiting for a W1 to appear, don’t. There apparently is no such thing!)
• Charles University (Prague) is advertising a three-year lectureship in medieval philosophy. Application deadline is March 15, 2018.
• For the 8th year, the Circolo San Tommaso d’Aquino Onlus is sponsoring a contest for younger scholars (35 or younger) on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Application deadline February 16, 2018. The prize is €2000. Information here.
• Graduate students have until the end of January to apply for this year’s Jan Wojcik Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Journal of the History of Philosophy. It’s a travel grant worth up to $4K. Details here.
• Warren Zev Harvey (Hebrew University) is offering a week-long masterclass on the philosophy of Hasdai Crescas, at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, April 30 -May 4, 2018). A small number of grants will be available to cover lodging. For further information, contact Yitzhak Melamed.
• The University of Notre Dame is sponsoring a conference this spring on Disability in Latin Medieval Philosophy and Theology (April 26-28, 2018).
• Also that week in April, the University of Navarra is hosting an International Congress on Intelligence and Will in Thomas Aquinas (Pamplona, April 26-27, 2018). Deadline for proposals is March 1.
• The annual Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy will again be held in Brooklyn (June 6-8, 2o18).
• In July, the Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought is sponsoring a summer school on The Challenge of Natural Teleology: Final Causes from Aristotle to Darwin” (July 3-6, 2018). This is timed to precede the HOPOS Conference, also in Groningen, on July 9-12.

Post-Docs, Grants, Summer Schools, Etc.

• I don’t usually post information about medieval jobs that are advertised at philjobs.org, but Jeff Brower asked me to call attention to the very attractive three-year postdoc that Purdue University is advertising, specifically in medieval philosophy! The application deadline is the end of December. Details here.
• As the Daily Nous reported a few weeks back, a couple of medievalists have recently won grants of around $2M from the European Research Council.
  • Dragos Calma (Cambridge) won for his project: “Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions. A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries).”
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) won for her project: “The Social Epistemology of Argumentation.” (This is evidently not an historical project, however.)
• Enrique Alarcón is directing a conference this spring: “Inteligencia y voluntad en Tomás de Aquino” (April 26-27, 2018, Pamplona).
• The Maimonides Centre in Hamburg is organizing a summer school for graduate students on “Sceptical Strategies, Methods, and Approaches in the Middle Ages: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions” (July 29-Aug. 3, 2018, in Hamburg). Details here.
• The Lumen Christi Institute is organizing a summer seminar for doctoral students on “St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice” (June 24-July 4, 2018, Chicago), and a second on “Truth and Authority in Augustine’s City of God” (July 21-28, 2018, Berkeley). Details here.
• The Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec (near Cracow) is hosting a conference next fall: “Altiora te ne quaesieris (Sir. 3, 22): The medieval pursuit of wisdom” (September 2-7, 2018). Cfp deadline is March 31.
• A useful Aquinas resource to know about is the Aquinas Institute‘s online version of their bilingual editions. Everything they’ve published is available free here, in an easy-to-use, searchable bilingual format. As of now, that consists in Sent. IV dd. 1-25, ST, In Job, In Matt., In Johan., and all of the Pauline commentaries. For scholars, the Corpus Thomisticum is still clearly much better, but for students this could come to be a very useful resource.

Conferences and More

Here’s the latest news about what’s happening around the medieval community:

• Twin workshops are being organized in Morocco for March 2018. On March 12-13, there will be a conference on Averroes in Rabat. On March 15-16, the action will move south to Marrakech, for a workshop on “Human Knowing in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Traditions.” Applications are still being accepted; see details here.
• L’Institut d’Études Médiévales has organized a conference in Paris on the subject “Existe-t-il une mystique médiévale?” (Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2017)
• St. Andrews is sponsoring a conference on Medieval Logic and Its Contemporary Relevance (April 30-May 2, 2018). CfP deadline February 1.
• There’s a conference on Anselm at the University of Houston next spring, extending to all aspects of his career (May 4-5, 2018). CfP deadline February 1. [There doesn’t seem to be anything on the web yet, but anyone interested should contact Sally Vaughn.]
• Speaking of Anselm, the Institute for Saint Anselm Studies (Manchester, NH) is advertising a summer research grant for graduate students and recent PhDs who are interested in spending a week doing research at the Institute. Application deadline February 1, 2018. Details here.
• The thirteenth annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition will run on June 2 5-27, 2018, on the topic “Principles, Cosmology, and First Philosophy in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition.” Details here.
• Jonathan Jacobs is directing an NEH Seminar on Will, Commandment, and Human Perfection in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Colgate University, July 8-Aug. 4, 2018). [If this looks familiar, it’s because he regularly offers this topic as an NEH summer seminar.] Application deadline: March 7.
• There’s an interesting interview with Calvin Normore at the Medieval Logic and Semantics blog. It’s mainly devoted to the place of logic in philosophy and in the history of philosophy.
• The 2017 Rising Scholar Award, sponsored by the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, has been awarded to Daniel Shields (Pontifical College Josephinum) for his paper “Everything in Motion is Put in Motion by Another: A Principle in Aquinas’ First Way.”
• Through the end of February, Quaracchi is holding one of its occasional 50% off sales. That offer covers a whole lot of important Franciscan philosophical texts. You can find the catalog here.

Upcoming Events

There’s a lot to report on events in the field this coming year. Here’s a start:

• University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (Sept. 22-23, 2017)
• Dialectic and Analytics in the Aristotelian Tradition (Providence College [Rhode Island], Oct. 13-14, 2017)
• Scotus and Scotism: A Conference on Duns Scotus’s Reportatio Parisiensis (Bonn, Oct. 16, 2017)
• Deus summe cognoscibilis. The theological relevance of St. Bonaventure (Rome, Nov. 15-17, 2017)
• Symposium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – Feminine* Perspectives (Montreal, March 15-17, 2018). Cfp deadline Oct. 7
• Meister Eckhart in Köln (University of Cologne, March 15-18, 2018)
• Habit in the History of Philosophy (University of Durham, April 12-14, 2018). Cfp deadline Dec. 31
• Natural Law in Medieval Philosophy: Traditions, Convergences and Divergences (Rome, April 10-11, 2018). Cfp deadline Oct. 30
• Language, Thought, and Reality: The Continental and British Traditions of Medieval Logic Revisited (XXIInd European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, Düsseldorf, June 25-29, 2018)
• The Library: Spaces of Thought and Knowledge Systems (41. Cologne Mediaevistentagung, Sept. 10-14, 2018)