End of April 2024

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.

Spring Happenings

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.

News for January 2024

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.

Updates from December 2023

The University of Toronto has advertised a senior position in classical Islamic philosophy. This is the faculty line currently held by Deborah Black who is, alas, retiring. The application deadline is January 11, 2024.

Tamer Nawar (Barcelona) is advertising two three-year postdoctoral positions and two four-year PhD positions, in association with his ERC project on Truth in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. The application deadlines are the end of February 2024.

The Extending New Narratives project is advertising two one-year postdocs, focused on “research related to the retrieval and recognition of philosophical works by women and individuals from other marginalized groups in both the European and non-European traditions” from the 9th century forward. Details here. The application deadline is January 3, 2024.

The History of Philosophy Forum (Notre Dame) is advertising various small grants for scholars seeking to conduct research for several weeks at Notre Dame. Details here. The application deadline is March 15, 2024.

Notre Dame is also advertising its annual Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies. This is a year-long fellowship aimed at scholars who are assistant professors at North American universities. The application deadline is February 1, 2024. Details here.

The monthly KU Leuven hybrid Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy has announced its schedule this academic year, on the general theme of “Encounter, Dialogue, and Integration: The Reception of Western Medieval Philosophy in East Asia.” The schedule, and details on how to join, by zoom or in person, can be found here.

The XXIV European Symposium in Medieval Logic and Semantics has extended its cfp deadline until December 20th, 2023. The theme is Truth, Falsity and Lying (Parma, June 17-20, 2024).

The University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) is holding an interdisciplinary conference in March to honor the 750th anniversary of Thomas Aquinas’s death (March 7-9, 2024). The Cfp deadline is December 31, 2023. Participants will receive a travel stipend.

Symposium Thomisticum VII meets next June on the topic of Aquinas in History. The cfp deadline is February 29, 2024 (Vienna, June 6-8, 2024).

St. Louis University is advertising its annual interdisciplinary Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. They welcome proposals for individual papers and complete sessions (June 10-12, 2024). The submission deadline is December 31, 2023.

The annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition has put out a call for submissions. This year’s topic is “Knowledge, Nous, and Noetics in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Traditions” (Milwaukee, June 24-26, 2024). The cfp deadline is February 15, 2024.

The International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology is holding a conference next summer on The End: Finiteness, Death, and Completion in Medieval Theology (Utrecht, June 26-28, 2024). The application deadline is December 20th, 2024.

The SIEPM has put out the call for proposals for its 2024 annual colloquium, in Prague, on the topic Communities of Debate: Collective Intellectual Practice in Medieval Philosophical Thought. (Sept. 4-6, 2024, Prague). Cfp deadline is Jan. 31, 2024.

Congratulations to Stephen Ogden (Notre Dame), who has won the annual book prize from the Journal of the History of Philosophy for Averroes on Intellect (OUP, 2022).

Congratulations to Colin Murtha (Nijmegen) for winning the SMRP’s 2023 Founder’s Award for the best paper by a younger scholar. The paper’s title is “A Stratified World: Avicenna’s Theory of the Sublunary Strata.”

Back in October, Brill and De Gruyter announced that they would be combing as a single press, De Gruyter Brill. To be exact, De Gruyter is buying Brill. It will be interesting to see the impact this has on these two important presses in our field.

News from October 2023

The Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group (AAIWG) is advertising online classes in both Latin and Arabic. The Latin course, which is for beginners, is free, but it begins tomorrow morning (October 7). The Arabic course–classical Arabic at various levels of instruction–involves a fee. Details here.

There’s a large international conference on medieval theories of intentionality scheduled to begin in 10 days in Romania. There apparently is an online option to attend the conference, although I have not found details online. For participants and contact information see here. (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, October 16-17, 2023).

The whole of the Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi is now available, for free, in electronic form, here. If you’re looking for So-and-So “of Dacia,” this is the place.

Congratulations to Andreas Lammer (Nijmegen), who has just won an ERC Starting Grant on the topic Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation. This €1.5M grant will fund a team of scholars working on this project for 5 years. Scholars seeking to work in this area should keep an eye out for opportunities to be funded through this grant.

From Paleography to Real Books

The Virtual Paleography Group, first organized on this blog during the dark days of the pandemic, is regrouping this fall. No experience required. Interested parties should contact Zita Toth (KCL).

The Claudio Leonardi Fellowship for medieval Latin studies is seeking applications again. This fellowship is aimed at junior scholars, and can be held for up to six months. Judging from previous winners, the selection committee is particularly focused on supporting editions of texts and other such manuscript-based projects. The application deadline is September 30th, 2023. Details here.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy is advertising two travel fellowships for junior scholars (post-PhD), for the purpose of travel related to research. The application deadline is December 1, 2023. Details here.

The Maimonides Centre (Hamburg) is sponsoring a conference next week on Sceptical Trends in the European Universities of the Early Modern Period. Discussions of late scholastic material will be particularly prominent (August 14-15, 2023, Hamburg).

The Société internationale d’histoire des sciences et de la philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (SIHSPAI) will hold an international colloquium this September in Munich (Sept. 6-8, 2023).

The SIEPM’s annual colloquium is scheduled for September 12-15, 2023, in Trento, and concerns medieval debates over foreknowledge.

The Avicenna Study Group is holding its fourth meeting this September, on the topic “A Hidden Treasure: Editorial, Historical, and Philosophical Issues in Avicenna’s ‘Minor’ Works (rasāʾil)” (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, 13-15 September, 2023).

The Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (SISPM) meets September 20-22, 2023, in Rome, on the philosophy of the twelfth century.

The Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is sponsoring several sessions at the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy (Liverpool, April 8-10, 2024). Proposals for individual papers or for whole symposia are welcomed, and should be sent to Zita Toth by September 15, 2023.

The Center for Thomistic Studies and the Thomas Aquinas Society are sponsoring a series of sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), which runs May 9-11, 2024. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2023. Details here.

Anna Marmodoro and Rodrigo Ballon-Villanueva are organizing a conference on Augustine on Relations for next March, in Oxford (March 11-12, 2024). Graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply. The deadline for sending in an abstract is November 15th, 2023.

If there’s still anyone out there who’s into actual printed books, you might like to know that Brill is currently holding its annual summer sale, with 50% off all titles. The discount code, good until the end of September, is 71645.

Summer news from Neukölln

Within the last couple of weeks I’ve learned of a couple of new and notable Italian journals in our field. The first is Noctua, which focuses on “the history of philosophy from the ancient to the modern age,” but is particularly interested in things medieval, unsurprisingly since it seems to be the project of Stefano Caroti (Parma). It’s a biannual, open-access journal, and also produces an open-access book series, Quaderni di Noctua.

A second new Italian journal is Studi sull’Aristotelismo medievale, the scope of which runs from the sixth to the sixteenth century. It’s directed by Alessandro Conti (L’Aquila) and Cecilia Trifogli (Oxford). As with Noctua, the initial volumes are full of interesting material.

Thinking about these new journals reminds me of Jean-Luc Solère’s Table of Tables. This is an extremely useful online resource that I’ve probably mentioned before, but that deserves a reminder. It’s a regularly updated report of medieval papers that have come out over the last year in a long list of journals. In addition to being a great way to see quickly what’s new, it’s also useful simply as a list of journals that publish in medieval philosophy.

Something else pertaining to journals that some may find useful is an attempt to collect information about acceptance rate and response time (and other things) at a long list of English-language journals. See the announcement on the DailyNous. (This is, however, mainly useful for people who work in analytic philosophy, and has no specific connection to medieval philosophy.)

Two scholarships in France for doctoral students are being advertised, both focused on the relationship between law and theology in twelfth-century Europe. The dissertations can be written in French or English. The deadline is very soon (June 30, 2023). The positions begin in September 2023. Details here.

The Thomistic Institute is sponsoring a three-day conference this fall: Aquinas After 750 Years: Still the Common Doctor?” There’s an impressive list of participants. (Washington, DC, Sept. 14-16, 2023).

This November, there’s a conference in Brazil on Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de Femmes: Perspectives on the History of Philosophy (Nov. 20-22, 2023, Porto Alegre). The cfp deadline is August 15.

The Dante Society of America is sponsoring a session on the links between Dante and scholasticism, and especially “Islamo-Judaic Rationalism,” at next spring’s Renaissance Society of America (Chicago, March 21-23, 2024). The cfp deadline is the end of this week, June 30, 2023. Details here.

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is also sponsoring a series of sessions at that same RSA meeting in March 2024. They’ve put out a wide-open call for proposals, with a deadline of August 7, 2024. There seems to be nothing yet on their web page about this, but interested parties should contact Jason Aleksander.

Those whose interests run to the early modern period may like to know about a new website, run by Steven Nadler (Madison), that aims to serve something like the purpose of this blog, for that community. (It is, however, set up along different lines, and I will be interested to see whether it works better.)

Although I don’t usually mention the publication of books, my fondness for John Buridan compels me to announce with great pleasure that the long-awaited edition (with translation) of the Quaestiones de anima has finally been published by Springer. The editorial team is Klima–Sobol–Hartman–Zupko.

On the subject of books, Tobias Hoffmann (Sorbonne) and colleagues have been producing, for a few years now, an impressively comprehensive catalog of new books in the field of medieval philosophy. It’s available online, and well worth paging through.

Beginning next month, Princeton’s fabulous online Index of Medieval Art will be accessible without subscription. Even if you don’t do scholarly work on visual material, it’s a great way to quickly find images to enliven teaching, presentations and, come to think of it, even blogs. For instance, here’s the first-ever (?!) image to grace this particular blog:

https://theindex.princeton.edu/javax.faces.resource/GraphicImageView_getContentStream.action?ln=omnifaces.graphic&v=0&p=507B96AE-C72E-4305-8A86-E83C619AE2C0

Nope, that seems not to have worked. Oh well. No images today.

Prizes & Databases &c.

The SIEPM has awarded its 2022 junior scholar award to Aurora Panzica (Fribourg), for her paper “Antiperistasis as Action on Contrary Qualities and Its Interpretation in the Medieval Philosophical and Medical Commentary Tradition.” Runners up for the prize were Thomas Gruber (Harvard) and Athanasios Rinotas (Leuven).

This prize will henceforth be known as the Jacqueline Hamesse Award, and the deadline to be considered for this year’s prize is June 1, 2023. Details here.

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy has awarded its 2022 Founders’ Award (best paper by a junior scholar) to Mohammed Saleh Zarapour (Manchester) for his paper, “Dashtaki’s Solution to the Liar Paradox.”

The SMRP’s deadline for submissions to the 2023 Founders’ Award is June 15, 2023. Details here.

Graziana Ciola (Nijmegen) is advertising two PhD positions tied to her ERC grant on late medieval semantics and mathematics and its Renaissance reception. The application deadline is May 14, 2023. Details here.

The topic of the 44th Cologne Mediaevistentagung is Constellations, understood as “a dynamic and dense network of relationships between persons, ideas, theories, problems and documents” (Cologne, September 9-13, 2024). The cfp deadline is July 31, 2023.

The Semitics department at Catholic University is offering a variety of online summer courses: Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, and Syriac. These are courses focused on reading historical texts, and so ideal for scholarly purposes. They are not cheap–the cost of the Arabic course is around $3000–but this would be an excellent way to get a start at this material. Details here.

A steadily growing resource for readers who work on Latin material is the Corpus Corporum, being developed under the guidance of Philipp Roelli (Zurich). It’s an attempt to assemble a very large corpus of Latin texts, searchable in sophisticated ways, all linked to a large number of classical and medieval Latin dictionaries.

Speaking of Latin databases, Stephen Dumont has called to my attention that Godfrey of Fontaines’s quodlibetal questions are now available in searchable form in Brepols’ Library of Latin Texts. (Do an author search for ‘Gaufridus’!) As I have mentioned previously, this is a useful source for a lot of important texts. Unfortunately, it requires a subscription.

News of February 2023

Ana María Mora-Márquez (Gothenburg) is advertising a three-year postdoc to work in her project on Reassessing Aristotelian Science. “The general aim of the project is to investigate Aristotelian philosophy of science as a likely precursor of contemporary social epistemology of science.” The application deadline is February 28, 2023. Details here.

Harvard is advertising a postdoc, renewable for up to three years, in the history of philosophy. Applications should be submitted by February 15, 2023. Details here. Scholars in ancient and medieval would seem likely to stand a particularly good chance, given the department’s needs.

The previously mentioned conference next week in Vienna, on Primary and Secondary Causality (February 16-17, 2023), will now run in a hybrid format. Those interested in joining by Zoom can register here.

The Aquinas and the Arabs online international graduate student workshop will run March 17-18, 2023. The application deadline is February 19, 2023. Details here.

UC Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) is holding a conference in May on Distinction and Identity in Late-Scholastic Thought and Beyond (May 15-17, 2023). Information is available here.

The Angelicum Thomistic Institute is running a summer school on Neo-Confucians and Scholastics on Practical Reasoning, Deliberation, and Choice (Rome, July 13-20, 2023). The seminar is aimed at graduate students and possibly advanced undergraduates. The application deadline is February 28.

The Leo Elders Foundation is sponsoring a junior scholar essay contest. The application deadline is September 1, 2023. Details here.

Emory University is sponsoring an online Working Group on Race and Gender in the Global Middle Ages. I would guess there are no philosophers presently involved in the project, but there ought to be, and I’m sure they’d warmly welcome you! Details here.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Brower (Purdue), who has won a year-long NEH fellowship to pursue his book-in-progress on Aquinas’s ontology of space.

Regarding my previous post, on the prospects for AI technology in medieval research, there are a couple of interesting responses, beneath the original post, by Zita Toth and Nicola Polloni.

A New Year in Medieval Philosophy

As part of her ERC grant on 12th-century logic, Caterina Tarlazzi (Venice) seeks to hire an expert in digital humanities—in particular, an expert in digital scholarly editions. A master’s degree, not a doctorate, is required. Details here. The application deadline is February 8, 2023.

The University of Jyväskylä is advertising two postdocs for Martina Reuter’s project on Gender in Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy. I would think the clever medievalist might make a strong case for inclusion in the scope of this program. Application deadline is January 31, 2023. Application details here.

There’s a new journal starting up in the history of philosophy, Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. It’s published by Brill, and edited by Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn) and Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State).

The SIEPM has announced the deadlines for its usual slate of prizes and funding opportunities: a junior scholar award (deadline of June 1, 2023); a stipend for junior scholars to study with senior scholars (deadline of May 1, 2023); a subvention for the publication of a monograph. Information can be found here.

Looking up the previous alerted me to an honor that I had been previously unaware, and so had failed to report: the SIEPM’s lifetime achievement award, which is given out only every five years (during the World Congress) was awarded this past August to Sten Ebbesen (Copenhagen). Congratulations Sten!

Next month, Dragos Calma (Dublin) and Tobias Hoffmann (Sorbonne) are sponsoring an in-person conference in Vienna on Primary and Secondary Causality: Medieval Theories at the Crossroads between Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism (February 16-17, 2023).

In March there’s an international two-day online conference on the subject What Can the Will Do? It’s being organized by Monika Michałowska (Łódź) and Jenny Pelletier (Gothenburg). It will be entirely on zoom (March 23-24, 2023).

The AAIWG — that’s the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group, for those not in the know — is planning a conference in late spring in Istanbul, at Marmara University. The cfp deadline is just a couple of days away (January 21, 2023), so act quickly if you’d like to be involved. The dates are May 29–June 1, 2023. More details here.

The Universidad de los Andes is hosting a Congreso Tomista Internacional in June. (There does not seem to be, as yet, information on the web, but inquiries can be sent to congresotomista@gmail.com.) Santiago, June 28-30, 2023. The cfp deadline is March 31, 2023.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy is advertising its annual summer seminar, and this year’s topic is The Ancient Origins of Renaissance and Early Modern Feminism. It will be directed by Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill). The seminar is open to advanced graduate students and recent PhDs, and comes with generous funding. (Montreal, May 15-19, 2023. The application deadline is February 15.)

Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, California) is again hosting a Thomistic Summer Conference. This year’s topic is The Soul in the Philosophy and Theology of St. Thomas (June 15-18, 2023). The cfp deadline is January 31, 2023.

The Lumen Christi Institute is again hosting an interesting roster of summer seminars, aimed at current PhD students, and extending to topics such as Augustine’s City of God and Gregory Nazianzen. Generous funding is available. Details here. Application deadlines are in February.