Events & CFP in Early Modern Studies
“Disputes and Divergences inside and outside of the Society of Jesus (16th-20th century)” @ Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 17-20, 2025 (CFP)”
More information and submissions Organized by Rômulo Ehalt (Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie), Elisa Frei (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) and the Laboratorium Jesuit Studies (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu) at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt & Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und [...]
“Materialism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance”, 19-20 September 2024 @ CNRS-SPHERE (Paris)
More information Organized by: Aurélien Robert (SPHERE,CNRS). The conference is funded by ANR ANTHRAME project (dir. F. Mariani Zini) & MedPhil project (dir. A. Robert). Location: Université Paris Cité, Condorcet building – Room Luc Valentin 454A (4th floor) [...]
“La svolta della filosofia moderna / Le tournant de la philosophie moderne”, 25-27 September 2024 @ IISF Naples
More information Under the auspices of the CENTRE D'ÉTUDES CARTÉSIENNES, SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ, CENTRO DIPARTIMENTALE DI STUDIES SU DESCARTES “ETTORE LOJACONO,” UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO - DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI DI STUDI UMANISTICI, UNIVERSITY DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI [...]
“Boezio: alle radici dell’Europa”, 10-11 ottobre @ Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
More information 1500 years after his death, this conference (in Italian) aims to illustrate the figure of Boethius in the context of the society of his time, and the influence of his writings on the [...]
“Thomas Aquinas and the Present” (“Tomáš Akvinský a současnost”) @ Dominican Monastery, Prague, 24-26 October 2024
More information 24-26 October 2024 Venue: the Baroque refectory and the large lecture room of the Registration: registration form Registration deadline: until 18 October 2024. Fee: 400 CZK - please pay to no. 6375022/2700, VS [...]
Online Seminar Series “Platonismo e Aristotelismo nel XVI secolo. Dimensione pubblica e diffusione sociale”, org. by N. Milanesi, A. Sola, Sept. 24-Jan 25 GalleryOnline Seminar Series “Platonismo e Aristotelismo nel XVI secolo. Dimensione pubblica e diffusione sociale”, org. by N. Milanesi, A. Sola, Sept. 24-Jan 25
Online Seminar Series “Platonismo e Aristotelismo nel XVI secolo. Dimensione pubblica e diffusione sociale”, org. by N. Milanesi, A. Sola, Sept. 24-Jan 25
More information Organized by Nicola Milanesi and Andrea Sola, this online seminar series explores the dialogue and the possible interconnections between Platonism and Aristotelianism in sixteenth-century philosophy. This is the permanent link valid for all [...]
Descartes Laboratory: a New Online Seminar of Cartesian Studies – 2024-2025 Program
More information The Descartes Laboratory seminar is an online a branch of the "Seminari Cartesiani di Villa Mirafiori", organized by CNR-ILIESI and La Sapienza Department of Philosophy, and directed by Claudio Buccolini, Antonella Del Prete, Francesco [...]
“Evidences of Truth: Francisco Rodrigues SJ (c. 1515–1573) and Normative Knowledge Production in Early Modern Portuguese Asia”, 11-13 September 2024 Gallery“Evidences of Truth: Francisco Rodrigues SJ (c. 1515–1573) and Normative Knowledge Production in Early Modern Portuguese Asia”, 11-13 September 2024
“Evidences of Truth: Francisco Rodrigues SJ (c. 1515–1573) and Normative Knowledge Production in Early Modern Portuguese Asia”, 11-13 September 2024
More information Organized by Rômulo Ehalt (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), and featuring the IEF members Mário Santiago de Carvalho and João Francisco Ferreira, this event will be drawing upon the outcomes [...]
“Aquinas on Cognition”, 22-24 November 2024 (Call for Abstracts)
More information Aims of the Conference For Thomas Aquinas, ‘cognitio’ had an extremely wide range. It included external sensations like seeing, hearing and smelling, and internal sensations like imagining and remembering, intellectual acts like apprehension, judgment, and reasoning, and [...]
SIEPM Colloquium: “Communities of Debate: Collective Intellectual Practice in Medieval Philosophical Thought”, Prague, 4-6 September 2024
More information Although scholars in the middle ages are often presented as lone actors who produced highly-individual texts, their works are often the result of several levels of collective work that provided the necessary foundation [...]
“Scholasticism and Humanism”, 12th-14th September 2024, Online
An online seminar on second scholasticism, organized by Igor Agostini, Simona Langella, Mauro Mantovani and Rafael Ramis Barcelo. More information soon. Speakers: Mauricio Beuchot, Luca Bianchi, Paul R. Blum, Romanus Cessario, M. Dominique Couzinet, Mário [...]
“Summer School – Medieval and Early Modern Theories of Cognition”, @ (Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, 1-6 July 2024
More information Summer School 2024 The Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Thematic Line (Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto) is pleased to announce the first Porto Summer School on Medieval and Early Modern [...]
“Attention et distraction à l’âge classique”, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 24-25 May 2024
More information Organisation : Paul Rateau et Mélanie Zappulla Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - HIPHIMO Du : Vendredi 24 mai 2024at 09:45 Au : Samedi 25 mai 2024 at 16:30 Programme VENDREDI 24 MAI 2024 Session 1 (9h45-12h30): L’attention et la [...]
“Early Modern Debates on the Beatific Vision: Byzantine Revival and Latin Reactions”, 18-19 June 2024, @ Centre De Wulf-Mansion
More information Organized by Patrícia Calvário and Jacob Schmutz | Salle Ladrière (A 124), Collège Mercier Place Cardinal Mercier 14, Louvain-la-neuve Program 18 June 14:00–14:30: Welcome address and introduction by the conference organizers Session 1 [...]
“Logique et Métaphysique à l’époque cartésienne”, @ Università del Salento, Lecce, 13-14 March 2024
More information Organized by Igor Agostini @ the "Centro Dipartimentale di studi su Descartes e il Seicento" (Lecce), in collaboration with the "Centre d’études cartésienne" of the Sorbonne University. The seminar is organized within the [...]
“Forum Descartes”, @ Ecole Normale Supérieure, 18-20 January 2024
More information Conference organized by Sophie Roux, Ecole Normale Supérieure, in partnership with ENS - PSL (Translitterae, République des savoirs), ENS Lyon (IHRIM, ERC NOTCOM), Université Paris-Diderot (SPHERE, ERC PHILIUMM), Université Paris-Nanterre (IREPH, Extending New [...]
“Globalizing Hylomorphism: Matter and Materiality Between Europe and China in the 16th Century”, 20 December 2023
More information Research seminar hosting Nicola Polloni (MSCA Research Fellow at the University of Porto currently on secondment at UCLouvain), who will present his project “Globalizing Hylomorphism: Matter and Materiality Between Europe and China in [...]
“Early Modern Transformations and Adaptations of the Aristotelian Scientific Vocabulary”, Seminar Series, October-December 2024, Online
More information This international online seminar series is organized by Simone Guidi and Enrico Pasini at the CNR's Institute for the european intellectual lexicon and history of ideas (CNR-ILIESI) and is associated with a forthcoming [...]
“Distinction and Identity in Late-Scholastic Thought and Beyond”, 15-17 May 2023 @ Louvain-La-Neuve
More information The conference, organized by Claus Asbjørn Andersen and Jacob Schmutz, aims to bring together scholars working on different strands of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern thought. Its broader focus is on the general variety of [...]
“The Mechanization of the Natural World, 1300-1700” – 25-28 May 2023 @ Stockholm University
Mechanism or mechanical philosophy as defended by philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi, offering a general picture of how the physical world is to be explained, is often seen as a replacement [...]
Journée d’étude “François de Sales (1567-1622). Métaphysique, spiritualité et controverse”
Adresse ENS – 45, rue d’Ulm – Paris Ve Salle W Organisé par : République des savoirs et le Centre d’Études Cartésiennes Responsables : Dan Arbib (ENS/République des savoirs), Alberto Frigo (Université de Milan/Centre d’Études Cartésiennes), Thomas Gueydier (Institut Catholique de [...]
Divergent Scholasticism: Philosophical Thought and Scholastic Tradition between Europe and the Americas, 1500-1700
More information A very common narrative in the history of both philosophy and science reconstructs the dawn of early-modern thought as a clean break from the dusk of Scholasticism and its Aristotelian roots. The workshop [...]
SIEPM One-to-One Stipend (deadline: September 30, 2021)
More information The SIEPM One-to-One Stipend supports junior researchers (up to and including the postdoc level) to visit and work with a senior researcher. Each year, four Stipends are available. The amount for each Stipend [...]
Convegno “Le idee divine nella prima scuola francescana di Parigi. Un esame delle fonti greche e latine”, 28-29 settembre 2021 @ Trento
More information Palazzo Paolo Prodi - Via Tommaso Gar 14, Trento - Aula 01 Alla luce del recente interesse per il pensiero della cosiddetta “prima scuola francescana” di Parigi (prima metà del XIII sec.), il [...]
International Congress “De Cognitione” – VIII Congreso de SOFIME @ University of Porto, 6-8 September 2021
More information On September 6-8, 2021, the Iberian Society for Medieval Philosophy (Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval – SOFIME) will hold at the Faculdade de Letras – Universidade do Porto, Portugal, its 8th International Congress, under [...]
Online International Seminar “The Genesis Of Globalization: History, Geography, Literature, Philosophy”, 22-23 September 2021
More information El Congreso se propone abordar el proceso globalizador a través de una perspectiva eminentemente comparatista. Las diferentes comunicaciones se enmarcan en cuatro ámbitos disciplinarios fundamentales: Historia, Geografía, Literatura y Filosofía. El objetivo es dar cuerpo [...]
I Simposio Internacional “Entre la Edad Media y la Modernidad: la Ruptura del Espacio en Europa y en el Nuevo Mundo”, Cáceres, 16-17 September 2021 GalleryI Simposio Internacional “Entre la Edad Media y la Modernidad: la Ruptura del Espacio en Europa y en el Nuevo Mundo”, Cáceres, 16-17 September 2021
I Simposio Internacional “Entre la Edad Media y la Modernidad: la Ruptura del Espacio en Europa y en el Nuevo Mundo”, Cáceres, 16-17 September 2021
More information The topic: “The Rupture of Space”, alludes to the rupture of the geographical and cultural boundaries that the adventure of the circumference of the Planet led by Magellan and completed by Elcano and [...]
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Inaugural Conference – October 3-6, 2021 @ University of Notre Dame
More information This inaugural conference brings together more than 90 scholars from across the country and around the world to share their research. Cosponsors are Department of Philosophy Nanovic Institute for European Studies Institute for Scholarship [...]
Online conference – “Profiling Saints Understanding the Theological and Cultural Foundations of Catholic Hagiographical Models (1500s–1900s)”
More information In the Catholic Church’s tradition and canon law, canonizations represent the final step of trials aiming to verify the heroicity of virtues and/or the martyrdom of those who died in the odor of [...]
Spring School “Schol’Art” 20-26 March 2022
More information At the school of the Scholastics: rereading the theories of arts and letters in the early modern age This collective project developed at the University of Louvain (GEMCA - Group for Early Modern [...]
Call for Papers: “‘Superstitio’ from Ancient to Early Modern: Philosophy, Lexicography, and History of Ideas
More information Call for Papers for the end-2021 issue of Lexicon Philosophicum (deadline: Nov 15, 2021). Lexicon Philosophicum is the flagship journal of ILIESI (Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee). It [...]
“«L’essentialisme» wolffien et la métaphysique de la science moderne” @ Collège de France, 24 June 2021
More information Online one-day conference, organized by Claudine Tiercelin. Registration is required to Alexandre Declos: alexandre.declos@college-de-france.fr. En présentant la pensée philosophique de Christian Wolff (1679-1754) en 1990, Michel Puech soulignait que : « L’idée de [...]
“John of the Cross: Carmel, Desire and Transformation” @ St Mary’s University Twickenham, London, 21st – 23rd June 2021
More information Saint John of the Cross remains a major source of Western thought on spirituality, theology and mysticism. He is of continuing relevance in the context of present cultural malaise concerning meaning, purpose, authenticity [...]
“Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology” – Online Conference – 29 June – 02 July 2021
More information Annual meeting of IGTM – International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology - Hosted by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. In the high Middle Ages, a novel concept [...]
“Actualidad y proyección de la tradición escolástica” – International Congress @ Universidad Francisco de Vitoria – 17-18 June 2021
This Congress (Madrid, 17-18 June) is organized by Professor Leopoldo José Prieto Lopez. It will be available a Zoom streaming of the event: • 17 June • 18 June
“Matter” and its semantic correlations. Some Ancient and Modern Examples
Online event and a first step in the research project by Elena Rapetti, Savina Raynaud and Nicoletta Scotti according to the D.1 line grants (2019-20), financed by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and undertaken in its [...]
CFP: “Christian missions in Asia and Africa (16th-19th centuries): between imperialism and inculturation”, ALADAA International Congress. Quito, July-August 2020 GalleryCFP: “Christian missions in Asia and Africa (16th-19th centuries): between imperialism and inculturation”, ALADAA International Congress. Quito, July-August 2020
CFP: “Christian missions in Asia and Africa (16th-19th centuries): between imperialism and inculturation”, ALADAA International Congress. Quito, July-August 2020
SYMPOSIUM “Christian missions in Asia and Africa (16th-19th centuries): between imperialism and inculturation” Coordinators: • Dr. José Antonio Cervera Jiménez, The College of Mexico, jacervera@colmex.mx • Dr. Ricardo E. Martínez Esquivel, University of Costa Rica, ricardo.martinezesquivel@ucr.ac.cr As [...]
FCT-Funded Post-Doc Research Positions in Philosophy (Up to 6 Years)
The Institute for Philosophical Studies (IEF) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC) welcomes and supports qualified candidates interested in applying for fix-term (up to 6 years) research positions [...]
CFP: Heavens on Trial @ University of Venice
The ERC Group Early Modern Cosmology (based at Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, GA n. 725883), in partnership with the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, invites applications for the summer symposium Heavens on Trial [...]
CFP: “From Hylomorphism to Early Modern Theories of Matters”
15th International Colloquium for the History of Natural Philosophy 26th-29th of May 2020 University of Campinas, Brazil Call for Papers open until January 30th, 2020 Send a proposal with name, institution, title, and an abstract [...]
Questiones Quodlibetales III
21 gennaio 2020 R. Salis (Università degli Studi di Padova) Il commento di Alessandro di Afrodisia al libro Γ della Metafisica di Aristotele: le origini della dottrina dell’analogia dell’essere F. Zanin (Liceo ginnasio G. B. [...]
CFP: XVIII International Conference on Jesuit Missions
Montevideo, Uruguay, November 4-7, 2020 PRIMERA CIRCULAR FINAL XVIII Jornadas Misiones Jesuíticas 2a Circular THE JESUIT MISSIONS SEEN FROM THE 21ST CENTURY: Assimilation, regional translations and local forms of the Jesuit ecumenical project. Deadline for [...]
Commentare il De interpretatione: da Alessandro di Afrodisia al XIV secolo
More information 21-22 November 2019 University of Bergamo, Aula 8, Via Pignolo 123 Program: 21 November Chair: Riccardo Saccenti (Bergamo) h. 15.00-16.00: Maddalena Bonelli (Bergamo): I frammenti del commento perduto di Alessandro di Afrodisia nel De [...]
Al di la’ della morte. L’immortalità dell’anima nel pensiero occidentale
More information Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ingresso da Via Accademia delle Scienze 6 Sala dei Mappamondi Giovedì 21 e venerdì 22 novembre 2019 Il convegno prenderà in esame alcuni momenti centrali del fecondo dibattito che [...]
CFP: “The Man According to Hobbes”
The Hobbes Scholars International Association Fourth International Conference Thomas Hobbes 4-5 June, 2020 Facultat de Filosofia - Universitat de Barcelona Sala Gran i Aula 406, Carrer Montalegre, 6. 08001 Barcelona This conference invite papers on any [...]
CFP: Causes and Causality in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
More information This Conference is intended to provide a formal occasion and central location for philosophers and scholars of the Midwest region (and elsewhere) to present and discuss their current work on Aristotle and his [...]
CFP: The Reception of Plato in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
More information National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece Submission deadline: December 15, 2019 Conference date(s): June 8, 2020 - June 9, 2020 Confirmed Speakers include (in alphabetical order): [...]
CFP: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius
International conference Dates: 30 September – 3 October 2020 Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Organiser: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Co-organiser: German Historical Institute Warsaw Keynotes: Paula Findlen (Stanford), Howard Hotson (Oxford) Abstract [...]
EUCHINA: June 17-19, 2020: International Jesuit Studies Symposium in Lisbon (Call for Papers)
Lisbon, Portugal - June 17–19, 2020 Engaging the World: The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History Call for Papers | PDF Flyer Co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College and Brotéria in [...]
SISPM Conference – Universidade do Porto: “Finzione nel discorso filosofico medievale”
XXIV Convegno della Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (SISPM) Porto, Faculdade de Letras Via Panorâmica s/n Sala de reuniões (Aula riunioni, piano 2) 2-4 settembre 2019 Per il numero limitato di posti, [...]
“De Intellectu: Greek, Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew Texts and Their Influence… Tribute to R. R. Guerrero”
University of Porto, 6th-7th February 2020 Faculdade de Letras, Meetings room. Call for participation: Read more Philosophy changed radically during the Middle Ages as a result of the translation of a considerable number of texts [...]
CFP: “Science – Philosophy – Theology. Dialogue areas and perspectives”
Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland Warsaw, Poland Conference date(s): October 15, 2019 - October 16, 2019 More information Submission deadline: July 15, 2019 The organizers of the international conference "Science – [...]
CFP: “Platonism and Aristotelianism in the History of Philosophy”
North-Western Italian Philosophy Consortium Pavia (Collegio Giasone del Maino), Italy Conference date(s): September 16, 2019 - September 17, 2019 More information Submission deadline: July 15, 2019 FINO Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy The History [...]
CFP: “International Hobbes Association, 2020 Annual Meeting”
APA/Philadelphia Conference date(s): January 8, 2020 - January 11, 2020 More information Submission deadline: June 15, 2019 The International Hobbes Association will be sponsoring two sessions at the American Philosophical Association 2020 Eastern Divisionmeeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You are invited to [...]
CFP: “Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science: The emergence of mathematical physics in the context of experimental philosophy”
ICUB; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest Bucureşti, Romania Conference date(s): October 30, 2019 - November 1, 2019 More information Submission deadline: June 10, 2019 As we all know, early modern science came to the world [...]
CFA: The Sixth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 6–7 June 2019
The Sixth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy University of Helsinki, 6–7 June 2019 More information Submission deadline: March 1 In a joint effort by philosophers in Finland and Hungary, the Seminar was founded to [...]
CFP: Plato and Platonism in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition. Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
Plato and Platonism in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition. Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition More information Established Scholars: send a title and tentative abstract; Graduate Students: send a title, abstract and have your faculty advisor or [...]
CFP: Transformations in Early Modern Philosophy. Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (2019)
Transformations in Early Modern Philosophy Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (2019) More information The University of Queensland (UQ) is delighted to host the second Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (ASEMP), in Brisbane, Australia, [...]
Conference: “The Iberian School of Peace. Natural Right and Human Dignity”, University of Coimbra, October 24th-25th, 2019
The Iberian School of Peace: Natural Right and Human Dignity. International Conference, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, October 24th-25th, 2019 Organized by: Pedro Calafate – University of Lisbon/FCUL Mário Santiago de [...]
Conference: “Francisco Suárez: Predecessors and Successors” – 26-27 April 2019, Loyola University Chicago
Francisco Suárez: Predecessors and Successors 26-27 April 2019 - Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, Beane Hall Ballroom, Lewis Tower Speakers include: Brian Embry (Groningen), Helen Hattab (Houston), Sydney Penner (Asbury), Kara Richardson (Syracuse), Tad Schmaltz (Michigan), Christopher Shields (Notre Dame) The [...]