Workshop for Emerging Scholars (May 30 - June 2)

The Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall recently announced a network of emerging scholars in philosophy and theology, with an inaugural workshop running from the evening of Monday 30th May until Thursday 2nd June 2021, on the theme of Aquinas’s Christology. They welcome applications from graduate students and recent Ph.D. graduates for the event.

Full scholarships will cover all travel expenses (whether from within the UK or internationally), as well as meals and accommodation during participants’ residential stay in Oxford. The schedule will allow time for participants to make use of the outstanding research facilities at the University of Oxford and meet with other scholars within the University. The workshop promises to be intellectually stimulating and, we hope, help to build a convivial community of scholarly support and collegiality.

During the workshop, participants will engage in a peer-facilitated seminar discussion of texts drawn from the tertia pars of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ. Each emerging scholar will present a short paper on an assigned portion of text and lead the subsequent discussion of the issues that it raises.

In addition to the peer-facilitated portion of the workshop, afternoon sessions will be led by distinguished senior scholars:

• Prof. Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America)
• Prof. Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame)
• Prof. N. T. Wright (Oxford)

Applications are welcomed from graduate students in UK and international programs (as well as those who have recently completed doctoral study). Successful applicants will be working in theology, philosophy, or adjacent disciplines (such as the study of religion or biblical studies), but need not be specializing in the thought of Aquinas or focussing on Christology.

Application by CV and covering letter to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk by 1st February 2022.

Thomistic Summer Conference on Faith and Reason

Thomas Aquinas College is holding its first Thomistic Summer Conference at their California campus on June 16-19, 2022. The theme for this summer’s conference is “Faith & Reason.” Featured speakers include Michael Sherwin, OP (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology), John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame), Steven Long (Ave Maria University), and Michael Augros (Thomas Aquinas College). Please see the conference flyer below. More information, including a call for papers, can be found at www.thomasaquinas.edu/tsc.

Call for Papers: Sacra Doctrina Project Conference

Announcing the 2022 Conference of The Sacra Doctrina Project (responsible for the maintenance of Thomistica.net): “Grace and Sanctification: Divine Causality, Human Action, and Supernatural Glory.” June 23-25, 2022 at Thomas Aquinas College - New England. Featuring Steven A. Long and Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. as keynote speakers, as well as Daria Spezzano and Patrick M. Gardner as plenary sessions.

Call for paper proposals of approximately 300 words by January 1, 2022, or by December 15, 2021 for priority consideration. Submit through the conference webpage. More information below.

Call for Papers: CTSA Session: Thomas Aquinas Consultation (Deadline: Sept. 1)

There will be a session at the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) Convention in Atlanta, GA (June 9–12, 2022) pertaining to “Thinking Catholic Interreligiously.” The Call for Papers deadline is September 1st, 2021.

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

The Thomas Aquinas Consultation invites papers that explore relationships between the thought of Thomas Aquinas (and/or the Thomist tradition) and non-Christian religions. Topics may include theological considerations of the extensivity of salvation (e.g., extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), the virtue of religion, the relationship of non-Christian religions to the Church and to Christ, the place of the religions in the plan of divine providence, or explorations of the method and teaching of the Summa contra Gentiles. Papers may also attend to such questions as the influence of interreligious exchange on Thomas’s own thought or that of the later Thomist tradition, the end or finis of interreligious dialogue itself (e.g., in conversation with ST, II-II, q. 10), Thomistic perspectives on adherence to objective truth vs. openness to dialogue with others, Thomist approaches to religious conflict, or Thomistic thought in relation to modern secularity or religious indifferentism.

INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN YOUR PROPOSAL: • Your paper proposal should be not more than 250 words. • You should also include a 100 word précis that will be posted on the CTSA website should your paper be accepted. • Please provide the name and institution of all participants (convener, moderator, presenters), and contact information, including e‐mail. • Indicate whether you will be requiring A/V equipment.

ELIGIBILITY FOR SUBMITTING PAPER PROPOSALS • CTSA guidelines require that those making proposals ordinarily be associate or full members in good standing with their dues paid up. Anyone with an associate or full membership application on file can also submit a proposal if they expect to be accepted for membership in the upcoming June convention. • No member may present a paper/respond to a paper/participate on a panel more than once at a given convention. An exception is made for members of under‐represented groups. Presentations made to the Women’s Consultation on Constructive Theology are included in this rubric. • Members cannot have a speaking role for more than two consecutive years In a three-year period. Deadline: September 1, 2021. Please submit proposals to: dlangevin@dhs.edu You will be notified by e‐mail whether your paper has been accepted by September 14, 2021.

ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM: Dominic Langevin, O.P. (Convener) Daria Spezzano David Elliot

Call for Papers: S.M.A.R.T. at Notre Dame, May 2022

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism (S.M.A.R.T.) is planning a session for the 2022 Notre Dame Conference on Medieval Philosophy to be held 20-22 May 2022 at the University of Notre Dame. S.M.A.R.T. accepts papers on all aspects of Thomism from 1274 to the publication of the Carmelite Cursus Theologiae (1631-1701).

Please send papers and direct enquiries to Domenic D’Ettore at ddettore@marian.edu. Papers and abstracts received by 30 November 2021 will receive full consideration. Selection preference will be given to complete papers. The submission of an abstract alone should be accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae. A final version of an accepted paper is required by 15 March 2021 in order to facilitate a response paper which will be given during the conference session.

Two Journals Seeking Submissions

Two journals are seeking submissions on topics related to Thomistic Studies: The European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas and Studia Gilsoniana.

Fr. Anton ten Klooster, the Managing Editor of the European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas, has been informing colleagues that his journal is seeking submissions. For information about the journal: https://sciendo.com/journal/EJSTA. Fr. ten Klooster can be reached at a.m.tenklooster@tilburguniversity.edu.

Dr. R. Mary Lemmons, special issue editor for Studia Gilsoniana, is also soliciting papers for the third special edition of Studia Gilsoniana on Thomistic Personalism. The second edition will be out in September with the following four papers: (1) "John Paul II’s Gamble with ‘the Meaning of Life” by Joshua P. Hochschild, (2) “No Meaning For Believers? A Reply To Joshua Hochschild” by Mirela Oliva, (3) “On the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology & Thomism” by Daniel C. Wagner, and (4) “Thomas Aquinas on Grace as a Mysterious Kind of Creature” by Elliott Polsky. Dr. Lemmons also noted that the editor-in-chief of Studia Gilsoniana, Fr. Pawel Tarasiewicz, is always looking for excellent submissions. More information about the journal can be found here: http://gilsonsociety.com/?studia-gilsoniana,16. For submissions to this special edition, Dr. Lemmons can be reached at rmlemmons@stthomas.edu.

Call for Papers: Society for Thomistic Personalism

The Society for Thomistic Personalism is soliciting abstracts for their satellite session at this year’s meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held November 18-21, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri. Consider submitting a brief one-page abstract by e-mailing Dr. R. Mary Lemmons at rmlemmons@stthomas.edu by July 19th.

The session’s topic is Today’s Crisis and John Paul II. Potential presenters can choose which crisis they wish to address: relativism, American culture, abortion, assisted suicide, the invention of rights, the divorce culture, the rise of Marxism, the threat of democratic totalitarianism, socialism versus free enterprise versus laissez-faire capitalism, gender relativism, rabid secularism, practical atheism, unwed mothers, absent fathers, anti-family feminism, mass migration, et cetera. Abstract proposals are due by July 19.

Conference: St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher (February 2022)

The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty at the Dominican House of Studies invite papers for their co-sponsored conference on St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher: Theology in a Culture of Grace. The conference will take place at Ave Maria, Florida on February 10-12, 2022. At this event where we celebrate the spiritual benefits of St. Thomas's theology, we will also honor Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P., Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

For more on this conference, which promises to be excellent, click here.