Because what else would I be doing on Valentine’s Day….

The Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group holds its annual graduate-student online conference next month (March 13-14, 2025). Details here. Those seeking to participate should send in an abstract by the end of TODAY.

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is sponsoring two sessions in the weeks ahead at the online American Philosophical Association meeting.

• The first takes place Thursday, February 20th, and features Graziana Ciola on the semantics of empty terms and Milo Crimi on Ockham’s semantics.
• The second takes place March 1, and features Thomas Williams and Eileen Sweeney, discussing Anselm.
  • Although these sessions are online, one must be registered for the conference to be able to join the meeting. Details here.

The SMRP is also sponsoring a session at the International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo (May 9, 2025). Details here.

The Angelicum, together with the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong, are sponsoring an unusual summer opportunity: a week-long summer school on Buridan and the Buddha: Nominalism and Universals from East to West. Instructors are Vincent Eltschinger (EPHE) and Boaz Schuman (Leuven). August 4-12, 2025, Hong Kong. The application deadline is March 31. Funding is available to cover expenses.

The University of Warsaw is hosting a conference this May in celebration of the 800th anniversary of Thomas Aquinas’s birth, focusing in particular on his scholarly methods (May 28-30, 2025). Cfp deadline: March 15. Details here.

The annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association will take place next fall at Notre Dame, on the subject Esse, Vivere, Intelligere: A Triad at the Heart of the Philosophical Tradition (Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2025). Cfp deadline April 30, 2025.

The Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics is sponsoring a satellite session of the ACPA on the history of the field over the last 20 years. Papers will be published in volume 20 of their proceedings. For information contact Alex Hall.

The journal Studi di estetica — Aesthetic Studies is planning a special issue on aesthetics and medieval thought. The submission deadline is September 1, 2025. Details here.

Anna Marmodoro is moving from Durham to St. Louis University, where she has been appointed the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy.