Summer 2024

The Averroes Edition project in Cologne is advertising visiting fellowships of between one and three months, available beginning this October. Junior and senior scholars are eligible to apply. The application deadline is September 1, 2024. Details here.

The Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project is also advertising fellowships of one to three months, in Munich, beginning in January 2025. Junior and senior scholars are eligible to apply. The application deadline is September 2, 2024. Details here.

The Ptolemy project is also advertising a conference this fall on the twelfth-century Arabic-to-Latin translator Gerard of Cremona (Sept. 25-26, 2024, Munich). Details here.

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is sponsoring various sessions at conferences in the year ahead, including

  • The Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025, in Boston) — cfp deadline August 2, 2024
  • The International Medieval Studies Congress (May 8-10, 2025, in Kalamazoo) — cfp deadline Sept. 15, 2024
  • The APA Central Division (Feb. 20-22, Feb. 27-March 1, 2025, online)

For information on all three of these events see the SMRP website.

Aurélien Robert is organizing a two-day conference in Paris this fall on Materialism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Sept. 19-20, 2024, Université Paris Cité).

Also in Paris this fall, the Sorbonne Université is hosting a two-day conference on the connection of the virtues (October 10-11, 2024, Paris). Details here.

There’s a four-day online conference later this fall on Scotus and Scotisms, organized by Francesco Fiorentino and others. There does not seem to be information online at this date, but interested scholars should submit by email an abstract of their contribution, by August 31, 2024. (The conference dates are November 26 and 28, and December 2 and 4.) The zoom link to join the conference is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89943495033.

The Mystical Theology Network — a group that this blog has doubtless said too little about in the past! — is sponsoring a session at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds next summer on the subject Worlds of Women’s ‘Mystical’ Learning: Medieval Female Mystics as Philosophers (July 7-10, 2025), cfp deadline Sept. 15, 2024.

It turns out that the MTN, as I now think of them, has been holding annual conferences since 2012. Their next is June 4-6, 2025, at Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp.

The next issue of Doctor Virtualis: Journal of History of Medieval Philosophy will be devoted to Critical Thinking and the Middle Ages. The cfp deadline is September 30, 2024. This open-access journal, edited at the University of Milan, mainly publishes Italian scholarship but is open to papers in English.

As previously noted on this blog, Notre Dame is hosting a conference this fall celebrating the 800th anniversary of Aquinas’s birth. It is a very large conference indeed, with 120 speakers and as many as eight concurrent sessions at a time, over four days (Sept. 22-25, 2024, South Bend).

E. Jennifer Ashworth (1939-2024)

I am sorry to report that Jenny Ashworth, the great scholar of language and logic in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, died recently after suffering a stroke. She was, for many, a kind and generous presence for decades in the field, and she was one of the leaders of the later 20th-century program to bring logic and semantics into prominence as central topics in medieval philosophy.