The EGSAMP international summer school 2011 is devoted to the topic »Translatio studiorum: Critical Editions and Translations of Philosophical Texts« and will take place 1st – 7th September 2011 in Levico Terme (Tn) in Italy.This summer school, organized by the Dipartimento di Filosofia, Storia e Beni culturali of the University of Trento and the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne, is aimed both at PhD students and Postdoc fellows engaged in critical editions or projects concerned with the transmission of philosophical texts. Participants will have the opportunity to present their ongoing research, enhance their competence in the field of the edition of philosophical texts and get helpful feedback regarding their projects. In addition to the presentations of the projects, internationally renowned scholars will present different concepts and methodologies of critical edition projects they are involved in.

Invited speakers

Carlos Steel (K.U. Leuven) – Loris Sturlese (Università del Salento, Lecce)

Andreas Speer (University of Cologne) – Kent Emery Jr. (Notre Dame, In.)

WenChao Li (Hannover) – Walter Jaeschke (Bochum) – Sebastiano Gentile (Cassino)

PhD students and Postdocs interested in taking part in the summer school are invited to send a CV and a short abstract (max. 300 words) of their proposed paper by June 1st. The papers may not exceed twenty minutes.Participants will enjoy free accomodation and meals. Moreover, a limited number of travel stipends can be provided by EGSAMP.

Please direct applications or any additional inquiries to Alessandro Palazzo (alessandro.palazzo@unitn.it) or Andreas Speer (andreas.speer@uni-koeln.de).

Organized by

EGSAMP (European Graduate School for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy)

Università degli Studi di Trento – Dipartimento di Filosofia, Storia e Beni Culturali 

At the last plenary meeting on September 13th, 2010, EGSAMP was happy to accept four new member institutions, represented by the following scholars:

Bernd Roling (Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin)
Frans A.J. de Haas (Chair of Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Universiteit Leiden)
E.P. (Bert) Bos (Medieval Philosophy, Institute for Philosophy, Universiteit Leiden)
R.M. (Bert) van den Berg (Ancient Philosophy, Institute for Philosophy, Universiteit Leiden)
Alessandro Palazzo (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento)

Our Members page has been updated with links to their homepages.

The research on the transmission of the Arabic text of Avicenna’s  Kitab al-Shifa’ (Book of the Cure), one of the most important, extensive and influential works of Arabic philosophy in the Middle Ages, is still at a preliminary stage. The aim of the colloquium is to assess the state of the art on this subject; to outline an inventory of the known manuscripts of this work and of the modalities of its indirect tradition; and to fix the guidelines of the method conducive to a future critical edition. Towards this aim, the colloquium focuses on the manuscript dissemination of the single parts of the Shifa’, the codicological study of some of its best manuscripts, and the on-going projects of digital libraries and publications related to Avicenna’s philosophy. A special “didactic” session is devoted to students of Arabic language and philosophy. The interaction among specialists of Arabic logic, natural philosophy and metaphysics, experts of Avicenna’s thought and its reception, and connoisseurs of Arabic codicology – an attempt of a new methodology of scholarly communication – is the necessary starting-point to ground the research on the Arabic text of the Shifa’ on a properly scientific basis.Progam-Download: pisa_colloquium_22-24_09_10.pdf

EGSAMP will organize a seminar on ‘Paleography of Latin Philosophical Manuscripts’ taking place in Lecce October 5th-8th and organized by the Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln and the Dottorato di ricerca in Filologia ed ermeneutica del testo, Università del Salento, Scuola Superiore ISUFI.

Subjects of teaching and discussion are paleographical and codicological questions, esp. the examination, description and dating of manuscripts from the 12th till the 15th centuries.
The lectures will be given by Dr. Ilya Dines.

Contact: Dr. Fiorella Retucci / fretucci@uni-koeln.de

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EGSAMP will organize a workshop on ‘The Concept of Life in Late Ancient Philosophy’ taking place in Cologne September 24th-25th. Among the speakers will be Christoph Helmig (Berlin), Philip Van der Eijk (Berlin), Jan Opsomer (Cologne) and James Wilberding (Newcastle).Participation is free, registration by email (to philipp.steinkrueger @ uni-koeln.de) is, however, appreciated.

Programm

Fr. 24 September, 16:00-17:30, Hauptgebäude 4.011

Introduction

Prof. Dr. James Wilberding (Newcastle/ Bochum)Life without Equivocation:  Plotinus on what it means to be alive

Sa. 25 September

10:30-11:30, Hauptgebäude 4.011

Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk (Berlin)A Late Antique Treatise on the Generation and Nature of Human Beings: The Anonymous of Brussels

12:00-13:00, Hauptgebäude 4.011

Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmig (Berlin)Changing Selfs and the Meaning of “ousia of Life” in later Neoplatonic Psychology

15:00-16:00, Hauptgebäude 4.011

Prof. Dr. Jan Opsomer (Köln/ Leuven)What Soul?

Angesichts der Spannungen gegenwärtiger Geopolitik, die regelmäßig an dem kulturellen Gegensatz zwischen der westlichen, mit einem universalistischen Anspruch auftretenden Rationalität und einem islamischen Fundamentalismus festgemacht werden, scheint es kaum vorstellbar, dass gerade die arabische Wissenschaft für die Entwicklung der westlich-abendländischen Rationalität maßgeblich Pate gestanden hat.

Dies geschieht vor allem durch diejenigen arabisch-islamischen Denker, die im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert mit ihren Kommentaren dem lateinischen Westen die Werke des Aristoteles nahebrachten, dessen Wissenschaftstheorie bis heute das Leitmodell unserer wissenschaftlich-technischen Zivilisation darstellt. Dieses Wissenschaftsmodell bot in dem genannten Zeitraum den gemeinsamen intellektuellen Boden, auf dem auch über die damaligen Kulturkreise hinweg kontroverse Themen im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Religion diskutiert werden konnten.

Zu diesem Rezeptionsprozess hat vor allen anderen Averroes, mit arabischem Namen Ibn Rushd, mit seinen Aristoteleskommentaren entscheidend beigetragen. Er, der schon seinen Zeitgenossen als der „commentator“ des Aristoteles galt, ist der entscheidende Vermittler des aristotelischen Wissenschaftsmodells, das vor allem durch seine ins Lateinische übersetzten Kommentare die größte Wirkung weit über das Mittelalter hinaus bis in die Renaissance und in die frühe Neuzeit entfaltete.

PROGRAMM

Begrüßung durch den Präsidenten der Akademie
Professor Dr. Dr. Hanns Hatt

Vorträge
Einführung
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Speer
Arbeitsstellenleiter Averroes Latinus-Edition, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln

Wie liest Averroes die naturphilosophischen Schriften des Aristoteles?
Dr. Marc Geoffroy
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique–Laboratoire d’Etude sur les Monothéismes, Villejuif

Muss man bei Averroes zwischen den Zeilen lesen? Seine Position zur Frage, ob Gott die Individuen kennt.
Prof. Dr. Frank Griffel
Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven

Glück und Erkenntnis: Averroes’ Herausforderung für die Philosophie im 13. Jahrhundert
Prof. Dr. Carlos Steel
DeWulf-Mansion Centrum, Kath. Universiteit Leuven / Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Brüssel

Rezeption und Bedeutung des Averroes für die arabische Moderne
Prof. Dr. Anke von Kügelgen
Institut für Islamwissenschaft und Neuere Orientalische Philologie, Universität Bern

Ende der Vorträge voraussichtlich 19 Uhr

Die Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei und allgemein zugänglich. Um eine vorherige Anmeldung unter awk@awk.nrw.de wird jedoch gebeten.

Tagungsort: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Karl-Arnold-Haus der Wissenschaften, Palmenstraße 16, Düsseldorf

Genaueres über die Ausschreibung finden Sie unter http://www.cetefil.it und  http://www.hum.leiden.edu/pallas-icd/research/mitt/

brief description and Program

Letter and Mind - How Philosophy Benefits from Philology

De littera vel spiritu sive de philologia ancilla philosophiae

The third EGSAMP Summer School will be held in Santa Cesarea near Lecce from 14-20 September 2009.With more than 50 participants from about 10 universities the summerschool shows its international character.Scholars and doctoral students will present their topics and projects (many of them linked to the specific field in question). There will also be two panels, (i) on the influence of new editions on our understanding and conceptualization of medieval philosophy and its historiography and (ii) on special methodological and philological issues in the field of critical editions.

The summer school will take place as part of a bilateral progamme sponsored by the DFG and supported by the Università del Salento and to various institutions in Lecce under the title “Philosophical and theological discourses in the 13th and 14th century”. We are also grateful to our continuing EGSAMP-sponsor, the Kölner Pensionskasse, and to the friends and sponsors of the university of Cologne.

PROGRAM

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