This month, IPM Monthly celebrates its first anniversary and proudly looks back on its journey so far. In this video, we shed light on how it all started, our experience being part of this project, and our wishes for the future of the magazine.
By IPM Monthly team
Browse through our section and find out what is going on in the field of medieval philosophy and related branches of philosophical research. This month we include many fascinating conferences, workshops, and summer schools that are going to take place in May and June 2023.
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By IPM Monthly team
Navigate the raging seas of the academy through updates and insights about posts, training, and call for papers. This month we feature some opportunities for postdoctoral research and visiting stays, many important calls for papers, and two prestigious awards.
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By Sarah Virgi
For centuries before the electronic mail and the internet came about, philosophers exchanged letters. In fact, some of the most important claims and arguments made by authors such as Leibniz, Descartes, and Kant, for instance, were written as part of a correspondence with other thinkers. Since his undergraduate studies, Paul Hullmeine has become interested in the correspondence between two premodern thinkers in the Islamic world: Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) and al-Bīrūnī (d. after 1050). This year, he has started a new post-doctoral research project funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), which aims at exploring the various philosophical and scientific aspects of this correspondence. Moreover, the project will also establish a new Arabic text and an English translation of the letters written by Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī, which can be used to teach in class and, according to Hullmeine, would serve as a good introductory text to Aristotelian natural philosophy.
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By Celeste Pedro
Europeana is a European Union initiative resulting from the collaboration between three organisations devoted to creating, managing, and providing access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage. The Digital Storytelling Festival is held in partnership with The Heritage Lab and had its first edition back in 2021.
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By Mário João Correia
In May, our monthly list of recently published books on philosophy, history, and the Middle Ages features the following authors: Gerardo Botteri, Roberto Casazza, Christoph Galle, Michael J. Kelly, K. Patrick Fazioli, Zachary Thomas Gerhard Eger, Lesley Smith, Franziska van Buren, Jeremiah Hackett, Thomas S. Maloney, Matthieu Raffray, Ryan Thornton, Joshua P. Hochschild, Turner C. Nevitt, Adam Wood, Gábor Borbély, Marco Nievergelt, Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, Jo Ann Moran Cruz, Tanja Skambraks, Simone Guidi, Mário S. de Carvalho, Simona Langella, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Anthony Grafton, Paolo Sachet, Helen Deeming, Frieda van der Heijden, Ana María Cuesta Sánchez, Ángel Pazos-López, Hannah Skoda, and Olivier Bulnois.
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By Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva
This May we go back to Switzerland to introduce you to Davide Falessi! Davide is a PhD student in a joint programme at the University of Lucerne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (France). He was awarded both a BA (2019) and an MA (2021) in Philosophy by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy). His main interests lie in the relationship between logic and metaphysics in medieval Latin philosophy, with a special focus on the 14th century. In this sense, Davide began his research by considering both realist and nominalist theories of continuity and their use of modal logic to account for the ontological status of indivisibles and continuous quantities.
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Por Francisco Iversen
En su análisis de la cultura griega y, especialmente, de la obra de Alcidamente de Elea, Luis Ángel Castello –gran profesor de griego en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y Universidad de San Martín, entre otros, muy bien recordado por todos sus exalumnos– problematizaba la tensión entre oralidad y escritura en la Grecia Antigua. Dicha tensión no puede pasar desapercibida a la mayoría de nuestros lectores que, aunque en el ejercicio de sus tareas de investigación y docencia ponen en juego ambas habilidades, ven muchas veces priorizada a la escritura sobre la oralidad. Así, la presente entrevista intenta saldar esa deuda gracias a Azul Birenbaum, Locutora Nacional que ejerce en Argentina como conductora en radio y televisión, quien nos va a hablar del uso profesional de la palabra hablada.
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