SIEPM colloquium at Notre Dame (October 8-10, 2008)

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With thanks to Roberta Baranowski at the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame, news of an upcoming colloquium: "Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at the Papal Court," to be held at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana), October 8-11, 2008. The colloquium is actually put on by the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM), to mark its 50th anniversary. The description of the colloquium:

The XVth Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM), which will mark the 50th anniversary of the Société, will take place at the University of Notre Dame on Wednesday, October 8 through Friday, October 10, 2008. The Colloquium, organized by Kent Emery, Jr. (Notre Dame) assisted by William J. Courtenay (Madison, Wisconsin), will focus on the particularities of the teaching of philosophy and theology in the studia of the mendicant (Augustinian, Carmelite, Dominican, Franciscan) and monastic (Benedictine, Cistercian) orders and at the theological schools at the Papal Court (notably at Avignon) as distinct from instruction in the faculties of the university proper.

More about it here, with a PDF file containing its entire program here.

To whet your appetite, the speakers at the conference are:

  • Fabrizio Amerini (Parma)
  • Luca Bianchi (Vercelli)
  • Alain Boureau (Paris)
  • Stephen F. Brown (Boston)
  • Julie Casteigt (Toulouse)
  • Amos Corbini (Torino)
  • Russell Friedman (Leuven)
  • Hester Gelber (Palo Alto, California)
  • Joseph W. Goering (Toronto)
  • Wouter Goris (Amsterdam)
  • Guy Guldentops (Köln)
  • Jacqueline Hamesse (Louvain-La-Neuve)
  • Maarten Hoenen (Freiburg Im Breisgau)
  • Alfonso Maierù (Roma)
  • Michèle Mulchahey (Toronto)
  • Lauge Nielsen (København)
  • Patrick Nold (Albany)
  • Adriano Oliva, O.P. (Paris)
  • Alessandro Palazzo (Lecce)
  • Georgio Pini (The Bronx, New York)
  • Sylvain Piron (Paris)
  • François-Xavier Putallaz (Fribourg, Suisse)
  • Christopher Schabel (Nicosia)
  • Neslihan Senocak (New York)
  • Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B. (Conception Abbey, Missouri)
  • Christian Trottmann (Dijon-Paris-Tours)
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Mark Johnson is an associate professor of Theology at Marquette University, and founded thomistica.net on Squarespace in November of 2004. He studied with James Weisheipl, Leonard Boyle, Walter Principe, and Lawrence Dewan, at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Canada).