International Colloquium on Bonaventure and Aquinas

2024 marks the 750th anniversary of the death of both Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Thomas Aquinas. To commemorate the occasion, the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL), in partnership with the Center for Classical Studies of the same University (CEC), the Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI), and the Red Latinoamericana de Filosofía Medieval (RLFM), is organizing a colloquium, which will take place between 9th and the 11th of October, 2024. The aim of the colloquium is to contribute to the renewal of the studies on these two prominent philosophers of the 13th century.

Keynote speakers

  1. Fran O’Rourke (University College Dublin)

  2. Franziska van Buren (KU Leuven)

  3. Fabrizio Amerini (Università degli studi di Parma)

  4. Armando Norte (Universidade de Lisboa)

The organizers invite the submission of conference abstracts and panel proposals on one of the following topics:

  1. The philosophy of Bonaventure

  2. The philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

  3. Comparative studies between Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas

  4. The influences of and on Bonaventure and/or Thomas Aquinas

  5. Bonaventure and/or Thomas Aquinas and the universities of the 13th century

  6. The presence of Bonaventure and/or Thomas Aquinas in present-day philosophy

The abstracts submitted, as well as the panel proposals submitted, must demonstrate the innovative nature of the research to be presented.

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