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News from April 2026

Therese Cory (Notre Dame) will be giving an online lecture later this month, as the spring installment in the online series sponsored by the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. Her topic is “On Phenomenal Consciousness: What Was It Like to Be a Medieval Bat?” Tuesday, April 28, 6pm in Rome / 12pm in New York / 10am in Boulder. Details on the SMRP webpage.

The Averroes Edition project, at the University of Cologne, is looking to fill a PhD student position. According to the ad, “a high level of proficiency in Arabic or Hebrew or Latin is required, as is a strong command of English.” The application deadline is May 15, 2026. Further information here.

The Reassessing Aristotelian Science project (Lund) has funding for a six-month project assistant, open to recent graduates who have at least an MA in medieval Latin philosophy. The project is directed by Ana María Mora-Márquez. The application deadline is April 30, 2026. For details see here.

Matt Wennemann, a PhD candidate at CU Boulder, is interested in organizing an online discussion group, this summer, aimed at PhD students in medieval philosophy interested in discussing their dissertation work in progress. To learn more, email Matt directly.

The 3rd Porto Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Summer School, on Petrus Hispanus Tractatus: Logic and Philosophy from the Middle Ages to Modernity, will be held in Porto from 15 to 19 June 2026. The application deadline is closing in just a few days (April 20, 2026). Some financial support is available to participants.

The Thomistic Summer Conference in New England runs from July 30 to August 2, 2026, on the theme of “Metaphysics and Theology in St. Thomas Aquinas.” Details here.

Olga Weijers has created quite an impressive website that provides an overview of her career’s work, including many resources not otherwise available, such as a detailed study of the work of John of Jandun.

Congratulations, belatedly, to Giulio Navarra and Robert Zambiasi, who were named co-winners of the SIEPM’s Jacqueline Hamesse Award for 2025, for the best paper by a junior scholar. Honorable mention went to Dominic LaMantia and Pablo Gabriel Quintana.

News from January 2026

The Australian Catholic University is advertising two positions at the level of lecturer or senior lecturer, one in the history of philosophy and the other in the history of ethics. The application deadline for each is February 2, 2026.

Back in the fall, Irene Binini (Parma) won an ERC starting grant worth around 1.5M euros, on the topic Fictional and Impossible entities, Counterpossible reasoning and Thought Experiments. A study of medieval theories of impossibility and their contemporary relevance. (Congratulations!) She’s now advertising three postdoctoral positions in Parma, two of which are aimed at medievalists working on logic, natural philosophy, or mathematics. The positions can run for up to five years, and knowledge of Italian is not required. Details here.

Next year it’s time again for the SIEPM’s international congress, which is by far the largest event in the field, and which happens only once every five years. This meeting will be held in Zagreb (August 23-27, 2027). The theme is Philosophy in Dialogue in the Middle Ages. Preliminary details here. (This year’s colloquium, as previously announced, will be in Lisbon on September 2-4. You’ve still got until February 7th to put in a proposal for this year.)

The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (Munich) is offering a three-year doctoral position starting in October 2026. An MA degree is required, as well as English and an excellent command of Latin and/or Arabic. The application deadline is March 31, 2026. Details here.

The NEH continues to fund philosophy, and this coming summer they are funding a Summer Institute on Aristotle’s Psychology and Contemporary Philosophy (Texas A&M, June 1-12, 2026). These are funded research opportunities aimed at both faculty and advanced graduate students, and there’s an impressive list of senior faculty involved in running the Institute. It’s being organized by Jose Luis Bermudez (Texas A&M) and Victor Caston (Michigan). The application deadline is March 6.

The Centre for the History of Philosophy at Notre Dame Australia is advertising a fully funded graduate research position (MA or PhD) to study Jewish philosophy and intellectual history. Details available here.

The History of Philosophy Forum at Notre Dame USA is advertising the grant programs it has offered in previous years: one small grant to fund a research stay at Notre Dame for international researchers, and a second for a one-month summer research stay. The deadline is February 1, 2026. Details here.

Jason Aleksander (San Jose State) is collaborating with some folk at UC Santa Cruz to hold a two-day conference next month, Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (Santa Cruz, February 18-19, 2026). The whole conference will be live-streamed on Zoom. The program is here.

Henrik Lagerlund and Alexander Stöpfgeshoff are organizing a conference on Nature and Normativity from the 14th to the 17th century (Stockholm, May 28-29, 2026). This is part of the Nature & Norms project. The cfp deadline is February 20, with some funding possible for travel and accommodation.

This year’s Journées Incipit again runs over two days in Paris (March 27-28, 2026), with the keynote lecture by William Duba (Fribourg).

Milo Crimi (Univ. of Montevallo) has recently made the case, on the APA blog, for the place of Marguerite Porete in the philosophical curriculum. See his essay here.

News from November 2025

The University of Regensburg is advertising a two-year Chair of Fundamental Questions of Theology, with responsibility for the funded project “Critical Edition of Medieval Commentaries on the Prologue of the Gospel of John and their Long-Term Philosophical Reception.” The application deadline is in 9 days, November 27, 2025. “Very good command” of German and English is required. I could not find information online, but anyone interested should contact Dr. Konstanze Sommer.

Anna Tropia and Nicoletta Nativo are organizing an international workshop next week at Charles University on the theme “(Once again) Philosophers versus Theologians: Renaissance Averroisms” (November 21-22, 2025, Prague). For more information contact Anna or Nicoletta.

Russell Friedman (Leuven) will be giving an online lecture next week, sponsored by the SMRP, on the subject “Are Human Souls Equal? Capreolus (Jean Cabrol) on Whether Substantial Forms Admit of More and Less.” Monday, November 24, 6-7pm in Leuven / 12-1pm in New York / 9-10am in Los Angeles. Only on Zoom, at https://cuboulder.zoom.us/my/pasnau.

There’s an online monthly reading group underway devoted to Roger Bacon’s Communia mathematica. It is sponsored by the Roger Bacon Research Society and, more specifically, by Clelia Crialesi and Yael Kedar. The presenter will provide an English translation at each meeting, and so knowledge of Latin is not strictly required. For the schedule of meetings see here.

The Conférences Pierre Abélard delivered by José Meirinhos had to be suspended after the first lecture last month, but lectures two through four have been rescheduled for December 16-18, 2025, live at the Sorbonne or on zoom. Details here.

The University of Groningen is hosting a workshop on the philosophy of Francisco Suárez on April 10-11, 2026. The cfp deadline is December 1. Details here.

The University of New Brunswick is holding an international conference next May on “Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions” (Fredericton, Canada, May 12-13, 2026). The cfp deadline is January 30, 2026.

The SIEPM’s annual colloquium will take place in Lisbon next September 2-4, on the topic of “Individuum and communitas: From metaphysics to politics.” The cfp deadline is February 7, 2026.

The History of Philosophy Forum at the University of Notre Dame has announced the call for applications for two of its grant programs: 1) the Summer Writing and Research Grants, and 2) the Small Grants Program, both of which support research visits to the Notre Dame campus. The application deadline is February 1, 2026.

The Averroes Edition project is inviting scholars to apply for its 2026 visiting fellowships. Details here. The application deadline is January 12, 2026.

Scott Williams (formerly at UNC Asheville, now at Lyon College in Arkansas) has created a personal website to host electronic copies of the Henry of Ghent Opera omnia. The University of Leuven Press generously allows the images of the critical edition to circulate for free provided the apparatus is not reproduced, and this website is a tremendously useful way to access the text of the edition and see what has been published to date. Scott tells me that Gordon Wilson and Bernd Goehring are seeking funding to work on volume 35, Summa 68-72.

Congratulations to Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä) for winning a major grant from the Research Council of Finland, which will fund work over the next six years on his project Illuminationist Philosophy in the Islamic World.

News from September, um make that October 2025

Russell Friedman (Leuven) is advertising two postdoc positions to be associated with his ERC project on “the late scholastic transformation of hylomorphism.” These are three-year positions, with a preferred start date of February 1, 2026. The application deadline is October 20, 2025. Details here.

Les nouvelles conférences Pierre Abélard sont arrivées ! José Meirinhos (University of Porto) gives his first lecture tomorrow (October 7, 2025), followed by a second on October 8th, and two more next week (October 14-15). The theme is Imagination in the Middle Ages. The event takes place at the Sorbonne, but there is a remote option. Further details here.

The Medieval Philosophy Network in the UK is back again this fall, with a meeting in London on November 6, 2025. Remote attendance is possible. Details here.

ASG V runs this December at Ruhr University Bochum. That’s the Fifth International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group, focused this year on al-Mubāḥaṯāt (Dec. 2-4, 2025). Further information available here.

There’s a conference in Edinburgh this coming April entitled “Thinking about God: Historical Perspectives.” The focus is on the relationship between God and the human mind. The cfp deadline is December 15, 2025. The conference is April 16-17, 2026. Details here.

Ibn Rushd’s 900th birthday anniversary is coming, and the Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group will be holding two conferences in his honor this next summer: one in Cordoba (May 19-22, 2026) and one in Paris (May 26-29, 2026). The application deadline is very soon, October 15th. Details here.

The 25th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics runs next June on the topic of “Logic and the Sciences” (Radboud University, Netherlands, June 23-25, 2026). The cfp deadline is November 30, 2025. Accommodations will be provided for all speakers (but not travel expenses). There seems to be no information available on the web yet, but there is an email address: [email protected], so interested parties might reach out there, or else contact the folk at Radboud, e.g. Ciola, Lamprakis, Thakkar, et al.

HOPOS—the international society for the history of philosophy of science—holds its 16th biennial congress next summer at Ohio State University. The cfp deadline is next week, October 15, 2025. The meeting runs June 22-26, 2026 (Columbus, OH). Details here.

Students who might be able to spend some time in Rome this spring should consider applying to the European Diploma in Medieval Studies (DEEM), which focuses on training graduate students in Latin paleography and related skills. All classes are in English (though a working knowledge of Italian is also listed as a prerequisite). The full program runs from January until May, although it is possible to enroll in a shorter portion of the course. The SIEPM-FIDEM is sponsoring a scholarship to the program. The application deadline is December 1, 2024. See details here.

Charles Bolyard (James Madison Univ.) has asked me to spread the word about a huge editorial project he’s involved in, A Cultural History of Wisdom (to be published by Bloomsbury). Chip is editing the medieval volume, and he’s looking for scholars interested in contributing a chapter. You can see the plan for the volume at his website, and by the looks of it he’s making good progress on getting the chapters assigned. But there are a few chapters still in need of authors, so if you’re interested, check it out.

Congratulations to Ide Lévi, who has been appointed maître de conférences at the Sorbonne Université (aka Paris IV). She will be working with Tobias Hoffmann, who holds the chair there as professor of medieval philosophy. (Alas, I have no link. Unlike we Americans, who need several dedicated web pages by the age of 20 to feel good about ourselves, Ide seems to have nothing remotely approaching a presence on the internet!)

Congratulations to Jordan Lavender (Texas A&M), who won the 2025 SMRP Founders’ Prize, for his paper on “The Medieval Scholastic Mind-Body Problem.” Honorable mention went to Matthew Wennemann (Univ. of Colorado) for a paper on “Indeterminate Dimensions and Aquinas’s Change of Mind.” They’ll both be presenting their papers at an SMRP-sponsored session at the Central APA in Chicago in February 2026.

It’s been a while since I’ve given a shout out to the excellent work that Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College) is doing on the SIEPM collection of digital resources. Now is a good time to mention it, because the URL has changed. The new address is https://siepm-digitalresources.bc.edu/. There’s tons of resources here: a catalog of digital books, bibliographies, and much more.

News from June 2025

The Philosophy Department at the Universidad de Chile is looking to hire a specialist in medieval philosophy. Knowledge of Spanish is mandatory. The search closes on June 27, 2025. Details here.

The University of Texas at Austin is searching for a new director for its Center for Jewish Studies. The appointment is at the rank of full professor. The application deadline is September 15, 2025. Details here.

The Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI) will be holding the first of its four causes conferences next fall. This first meeting will be on form and formal causation (Károli University, Budapest, September 10-12, 2025). The cfp deadline is next week, June 10. Details here.

King’s College London is hosting a conference next week (June 13-14) on Bridges between Parallel Paths: Arabic-Islamic and Latin Christian Medieval Philosophies. The conference meets in London, but online participation is possible.

Ruhr University Bochum is hosting a three-day workshop next week, The Reception and Transformation of the Late Ancient Knowledge Tradition in the Arabic-Muslim World. This is the first workshop of the newly established Avicenna Study Center in Bochum (June 11-13, 2025).

Durham University is sponsoring a conference in April 2026 to honor the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’s death. The conference aims to extend to both academic and non-academic engagement with Franciscanism. The deadline for submitting a proposal is October 30, 2025. Details here.

Fabrizio Amerini (Parma) has created a web page dedicated to Hervaeus Natalis. It’s still a work in progress, but already has much useful information.

Congratulations to Thomas Ward, currently at Baylor University, who has accepted a tenured position, beginning this fall, at the University of Texas Austin.

End of April 2025

The University of Geneva is advertising a postdoc, renewable for up to three years, concerning the work of the Scottish philosopher John Mair. The application deadline is May 15, 2025. Details here.

For some years now, Joshua Smart has been helping PhD students around the world form “virtual dissertation groups” with philosophers working in similar areas. I would encourage anyone interested to get in touch with Professor Smart, using the form he makes available here. The more people who connect with him, the better a network of medievalists he will be able to form.

The SMRP is advertising its Founders’ Prize, awarded to the best paper by a junior scholar. The application deadline is July 15, 2025.

The SIEPM is advertising its own version of a best-paper prize for junior scholars. The deadline for the Jacqueline Hamesse Award is June 1, 2025.

The Acts of the XVth International Congress of the SIEPM (Paris 2022) are now available at Brepols, and run to 1200 pages. They are edited by Monica Brinzei, Irene Caiazzo, Christophe Grellard and Aurélien Robert, on the subject of Radical Thinking in the Middle Ages.

Congratulations to Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä), who won the prize for best annual paper–the Rogers Prize–at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. The title of the paper is “Future Contingency and God’s Knowledge of Particulars in Avicenna.”

On a less sanguine note, the destruction of the United States from within has reached our own field. Back in January, I announced that Gloria Frost and Therese Cory had won NEH grants to do research on their book projects. I now have to report that—as of now—those grants have been canceled. Of course, this offers just a glimpse of the damage that has been done everywhere, in the US and beyond.

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:

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Postdocs and conferences: Spring 2023

The Human Abilities project in Berlin is advertising another postdoc, in medieval or early modern philosophy. The application deadline is April 16, 2023. Details here.

Kristell Trego (Fribourg) is advertising a one-year postdoc in medieval philosophy. The position requires fluency in French and a good knowledge of German and English. The application deadline is March 30, 2023. Details here.

The History of Philosophy Forum at Notre Dame is again advertising their Small Grants Program, to be used for travel and accommodation while doing research in South Bend. I fear the application deadline was yesterday, March 15, but perhaps a slight extension could be granted. (If not, well, make a plan to apply next year.)

The Vicious, Sinful, Antisocial Workshop runs, at the start of April, in hybrid format (April 3-4, 2023, Jyväskylä).

The annual Journée Incipit takes place in Paris on April 1, 2023. Details here.

Tobias Hoffmann (Sorbonne) has asked me to announce that the Conférences Pierre Abélard will be delivered in Paris on April 4, 5, 11, and 12 (2023), on the topic Construire la volonté. Yours truly will be giving these lectures, in French. (There is also talk of live-streaming the lectures.)

There’s a conference in Bonn this May on Scotism and Platonism: A New Appraisal (May 25-26, 2023).

Stockholm University is hosting a three-day conference in May on The Mechanization of the Natural World, 1300-1700 (May 25-28, 2023).

The Cohn Institute in Tel Aviv is sponsoring a hybrid workshop this June on Analogy and Justification in Premodern Science (June 21-22, 2023). The cfp deadline is March 31.

KU Leuven is holding a conference this fall on the Aristoteles Latinus: 1973-2023: Celebrating Half a Century of Aristoteles Latinus in Leuven” (October 25-27, 2023). The submission deadline was yesterday, March 15, but perhaps a grace period would be allowed.

I’ve recently discovered a popular essay by Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), posted last fall, arguing that “it’s shocking that histories of medieval philosophy celebrate only Christian thinkers, ignoring Islamic and Jewish thought.” I suspect that this is a sentiment our field has already been persuaded of, for some years now, but this is perhaps a salutary reminder of something we need to practice in fact, not just endorse in principle.

News in the Field from October

King’s College London is advertising another lectureship (effectively, a permanent junior faculty position), “in Late Medieval / Early Modern Philosophy in any of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions, especially in the History of Ethics and the Philosophy of Action.” The application deadline is November 15, 2022.

Next week, there’s a conference in Parma on Logic and Modalities in the Late Middle Ages. It will be held in person but also accessible on zoom (Oct. 17-19, 2022).

This year’s Journée thomiste will be on the subject Obéissance et autorité au Moyen Âge (Paris, December 3, 2022).

An international conference on the History of Logic in the Islamic World is planned for this March in Tehran, featuring a distinguished list of keynote speakers. The conference will be run in a hybrid format, partly in person and partly virtual (March 6-8, 2023). The cfp deadline has been extended until Oct. 31, 2022.

LMU Munich is organizing a conference for this coming May on Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy (May 18-20, 2023). The cfp deadline is Oct. 31, 2022.

The Avicenna Study Group continues next fall: its fourth meeting will concern Avicenna’s “minor works” (Aix-en-Provence, Sept. 13-15, 2023).

The annual SIEPM colloquium for next year will be in Trento (Italy), on the subject Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination (Sept. 13-15, 2023; cfp deadline Jan. 31, 2023).

Alfred Freddoso continues to make progress on his complete online English translation of the Summa theologiae. He’s now approaching the end of the 2a2ae. This is by far the best complete translation available, and for anyone who’s still learning to read scholastic Latin, you really couldn’t do better than to work through this translation side by side with Aquinas’s Latin, available at the Corpus Thomisticum. Fred tells me that, if you are using this translation and find mistakes in it, he’d love to know about them.

End of Summer News

Next month, the Eleventh International Thomistic Congress will begin in Rome. For those who can’t make it there in person, the plenary talks will be live-streamed (September 19-24, 2022).

Next spring, also in Rome, a conference will be devoted to The Concept of ‘Ius’ in Thomas Aquinas (April 21-22, 2023; cfp deadline is December 15, 2022).

Another travel opportunity for Thomists is in Nigeria, next January: a conference on Thomas Aquinas: Medieval Thinker in the 21st Century Global Village (Ibadan, January 25-26, 2023; cfp deadline is October 31, 2022).

Oleg Bychkov (St. Bonaventure Univ.) has asked me to let readers know that the journal he edits—the long-standing, widely indexed peer-reviewed journal Cithara—is looking for articles for its fall issue. They publish essays in the “Judaeo-Christian tradition,” and so would be a good venue for many topics in our field.

Tobias Hoffmann (Paris) has been industriously cataloging. He’s updated his longstanding Scotus bibliography, which has changed its web address and is now here. He’s also pulled together–with the help of some students–an 82-page booklet containing information about books in medieval philosophy published over the last several years. That’s here.

With that list of new books in hand, you might like to know that Brill is advertising a 50% sale on (almost) all its books until the end of September. Offer here.

If you’ve got no money for buying books, you might like to know that Claus Andersen (South Bohemia) has gone to the trouble of hunting down all of the volumes of the Vatican edition of Scotus that are available at the Internet Archive, and provided a master-page linking to them all. (He’s found all but six of them.) The Internet Archive doesn’t let you download the documents as a pdf, but this is still quite a useful resource. (Thanks to Lee Faber at The Smithy for the pointer.)

In a post last month, I mentioned some good news regarding junior hires, and that brought me further good news: Brett Yardley has been appointed as an assistant professor at DeSales University (Pennsylvania), and Nathaniel Taylor has accepted a tenure-track position at The Catholic University of America.

In a recent post, Peter Adamson (Munich) talks to the APA about the academic scene in Europe.

The XVth International Congress of the SIEPM is finally about to begin—next week in Paris. As of yet the schedule of talks does not seem to be available, but it will presumably be posted here at some point. (I myself am sorry to be missing the big event. I’ll be home in Colorado, teaching our first week of classes.)