JANUARY 13-15, 2025

Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

A two-day program is scheduled for January 13-14 2025 at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr | Research Alliance, Lindenallee 39-41 | 45127 Essen, Germany. The program, still taking shape, will examine “Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability”. For more information contact Irven-Resnick@utc.edu. We expect to stream presentations online. At present, this is our list of presenters:

1. Alessandro Palazzo, Università di Trento

2. Amalia Cerritto, Università di Trento

3. Görge Hasselhoff, Dortmund University of Technology

4. Keagan Brewer, Macquarie University

5. Marilena Panarelli, Humboldt Fellow at the University of Cologne

6. Mario Loconsole, Università Del Salento

7. Henryk Anzulewicz, Albertus-Magnus-Institut

1. Irven M. Resnick, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and senior fellow (2024-25) at College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr.

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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)