JANUARY 13-14, 2025

Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

 

Please consider taking part in the hybrid mini-conference, "Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability," organized by Professor Irven M. Resnick (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Professor Alexandra Cuffel (Ruhr University Bochum, CERES).

 

Date: January 13–14, 2025
Location: College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr, Essen (offered in-person and online)

 

The conference will examine Albert's contributions to medieval understandings of health, disease, and disability, as well as their intersections with theology and natural philosophy.

 

Registration Process:
The deadline to register is January 8, 2025. Participants will indicate whether they plan to attend in person or virtually. All sessions will be accessible both on-site and online. Further details and the registration form can be found here: 

https://www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/events/albert-the-great-health-disease-disability

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Speakers and Their Presentations:

• Professor Henryk Anzulewicz (Albertus-Magnus-Institut, Germany): "Albert the Great’s Approach to Medicine."

• Dr. Mario Loconsole (University of Salento, Italy): "Healing Metals? Alchemy and Medicine as Arts for Recovering Bodily Substances."

• Professor Görge Hasselhoff (TU Dortmund University, Germany): "Albert, the Rabbi, and the Balsam: On Some Strange Quotations."

• Dr. Marilena Panarelli (University of Palermo, Italy): "The Notion of Complexional Form from Albert the Great’s De Vegetabilibus to Pharmacological Debates in the Medical School of Bologna."

• Professor Alessandro Palazzo (University of Trento, Italy): "Albert the Great on Fevers and other Diseases."

• Dr. Amalia Cerrito (University of Trento, Italy): "Diseases, Defects, and Anomalies in the Embryological Process: Albert the Great and Virtus Formativa."

• Dr. Keagan Brewer (Independent Scholar, Australia): "Taking Care, Taking Control: Women's Health-Care in the German Vernacular Translations of Ps.-Albert's Secrets of Women."

• Professor Irven M. Resnick (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA): "Animals as Natural Physicians and Sources of Health."

 

For additional information and to register, please visit the event website:

https://www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/events/albert-the-great-health-disease-disability

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JULY 3, 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: IAMS at Leeds 2025

 

The International Albertus Magnus Society (IAMS) would like to sponsor one or more sessions during the International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, UK, July 7-10, 2025. See: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/.

 

For 2025 the IMC will have as its theme “Worlds of Learning.” Although individual papers need not address this theme explicitly, nonetheless it offers numerous opportunities for Albertus Magnus scholars. Papers might examine Albert’s role in the creation of the Dominican educational curriculum; the influence of his works through vernacular translations; his reception of Greek, Hebrew, or Arabic sources; and much more.

 

The IMC deadline for proposed sessions is September 30, 2024. We invite scholars to submit proposals by September 15, 2024 to Irven M. Resnick (Irven-Resnick@utc.edu) and Mercedes Rubio (mercedes. rubio@villanueva.edu). A proposal requires a title and an abstract not to exceed 100 words.

Please include your full name; email address; postal address; telephone number; full affiliation details (department, institution); and title (e.g. Dr, Ms, Mr, Mx, Professor, etc). Although we would prefer in- person presentations, virtual presentations will also be considered. A ninety-minute session typically offers three papers; each presenter will be allowed 20 minutes, to be followed by 10 minutes of questions and discussion. Papers may be presented in languages other than English, although these may have a more limited audience. It will be necessary to include an abstract in English, nonetheless.

 

If you have any questions, please contact either Irven M. Resnick (Irven-Resnick@utc.edu) and Mercedes Rubio (mercedes.rubio@villanueva.edu).

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WINTER-SUMMER 2024

Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy

The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG) is hosting multiple presentations connected with chapters in the book Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Latin Traditions, edited by Katja Krause, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, and Nicholas A. Oschman (New York: Routledge, 2023). Presentations with explicit discussion of Albert’s thought include:

 

• Therese Scarpelli Cory, “How Light Makes Color Visible: The Reception of Some Greco-Arabic Theories (Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes) in Medieval Paris, 1240s–50s” (February 24)

• Henryk Anzulewicz, “The Emergence of a Science of Intellect: Albert the Great’s De intellectu et intelligibili” (March 30)

• Isabelle Moulin, “Institution and Causality in Albert the Great’s Sacramental Theology” (June 29)