News and Opportunities | September 2025

by Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva and IPM Monthly Team

News | Meetings & Conferences

[Conference] Imagination in the History of Philosophy

→ Budapest (HU), 9 -11 October 2025 | info

[Conference] ‘Oral Tradition and Contemporary Storytelling International Conference’

→ Amsterdam (NL), 10 -11 October 2025 | info

[Conference] What Can Philosophy Learn from Religious Traditions?

→ Munich (DE), 15-17 October 2025 | info

[Seminar] Chaire Pierre Abélard 2025: José Meirinhos, ‘L’imagination au Moyen Âge: perception, connaissance, mémoire, action’

→ Paris (FR), 15-17 October 2025 | info

[Conference] ‘Alienation in History. Estrangement in Language’

→ Florence (IT), 22-24 October 2025 | info

[Workshop] Florida Ancient Philosophy Workshop ‘Plato’s Republic’

→ Florida (US), 15-16 November 2025 | info

[Conference] Fifth International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group

→ Bochum (DE), 2–4 December 2025 | info

Calls | Jobs, Fellowships, Grants

[Postdoctoral researcher (R2)] Sonata Bis NCN research project: “Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages: Local and Papal Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered”

→ Warsaw (PL) | deadline: 30 September 2025 | info

[Assistant/Associate Professor] Jewish Thought at the Department of Philosophy at the Center for Jewish Studies

→ UC-Berkeley (US) | deadline: 15 October 2025 | info

[Postdocs] ERC project TRANSFORM

→ Leuven (BE) | deadline: 20 October 2025 | info

[Associate Professor/Professor] Political Philosophy or History of Modern Philosophy

→ University of Toronto (CA) | deadline: 03 November 2025 | info

[Fellowship] Junior Fellows Program in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)

→ Virginia (US) | deadline: 19 November 2025 | info

[Lecturer/Senior Lecturer] Ancient Philosophy at King’s College London

→ London (UK) | deadline: 30 November 2025 | info

[Fellowship] Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources

→ Virginia (US) | deadline: 7 December 2025 | info

Calls | Meetings & Conferences

[Conference] Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period

→ Venice (IT), 12-13 March 2026 | deadline: 30 September 2025 | info: lilian.diniz@unive.it

[Conference] British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference

→ London (UK), 23-25 April 2026 | deadline: 30 September 2025 | info

[Conference] Biennial Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies

→ Leuven (BE), 1 July 2026 | deadline: 1 October 2025 | info

[Conference] XV International Meeting of LATHIMM ‘Writing the Middle Ages: From Parchment to the Digital World’

→ Rio de Janeiro (BR), 15-17 December 2025 | deadline: 1 October 2025 | info

[Conference] XX International Forum of Philosophy

→ Lima (PE), 18-21 November 2025 | deadline: 5 October 2025 | info

[Conference] Pluralism: East and West

→ Sofia (BG), 3-5 December 2025 | deadline: 6 October 2025 | info

[Conference] Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism

→ Pisa (IT), 26-28 November 2025 | deadline:  15 October 2025 | info

[Conference] 7th Women in Ancient Graeco-Roman Philosophy

→ Berlin (DE), 14-15 November 2025 | deadline: 17 October 2025 | info: zhixi.wang@hu-berlin.de catherine.jane.amour@hu-berlin.de

[Conference] Counfound the Time: Reception in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

→ St Louis (USA), 24-25 January 2026 | deadline: 25 October 2025 | info

[Conference] Eight International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life

→ Norman (USA), 26-28 March 2026 | deadline: 26 October 2025 | info

[Conference] Life and Love Transfigured: Exploring New Horizons in the Franciscan Tradition

→ Durham (UK), 14-16 April 2026 | deadline: 30 October 2025 | info

[Conference] 52nd International Hume Society Conference commemorating the 250th Anniversary of Hume’s Death

→ Prague (CZ), 29 June – 03 July 2026 | deadline: 01 November 2025 | info

[Conference] Henle Conference ‘Essentialism’

→ St Louis (USA), 26-27 March 2026 | deadline: 10 November 2025 | info

[Conference] Ninth Biennial Conference International Association for Presocratic Studies

→ Madrid (ES), 22-26 June 2026 | deadline:  30 November 2025 | info

[Conference] Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology ‘Border Crossings and Interaction: Latin and the Vernacular in Late Medieval Theology and Piety (1300 – 1500)

→ Münster (DE), 18-29 June 2026 | deadline:  01 December 2025 | info

[Congress] ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress ‘Fiction and Lies’

→ Edinburgh (UK), 10-12 June 2026 | deadline: 15 December 2025 | info

[Conference] 2nd Biennial SMRP Conference

→ St Louis (USA), 8-10 June 2026 | deadline: 31 December 2025 | info

[Conference] Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy

→ London (UK), 28-28 May 2026 | deadline: 01 January 2026 | info

[Conference] Ninth Biennial Conference International Association for Presocratic Studies

→ Madrid (ES), 22-26 June 2026 | deadline:  30 November 2025 | info

Calls | Publications

[Special Issue] Norms, Rules, and Discipline in Medieval Religious Houses and Orders

→ Journal: Quaderni di Storia Religiosa Medievale | deadline: 15 August 2025 | info

[Volume] The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Death

→ deadline: 15 August 2025 | info: please send an email to the editors: christopher.moreman@csueastbay.edu; t.soriani@pgr.reading.ac.uk; tullio_emanuele@phd.ceu.edu

[Special Issue] Aesthetics and Medieval Thought

→ Journal: Aesthetic Studies | deadline: 1 September 2025 | info

[Special Issue] Heterodox’ Cosmologies. Astronomy, Ethics, and Critique of Cosmological Models in Philosophical Traditions

→ Journal: Points of Interest | deadline: 15 September 2025 | info

[Special Issue] Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des Femmes

→ Journal: Dois Pontos | deadline: 15 November 2025 | info

[Special Issue] Machines in Thoughts: Philosophy, History, and Epistemology of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

→ Journal: Cognitive Systems Research | deadline: 15 January 2025 | info

[Special Issue] Word and Images Serving Christianity

→ Journal: Religions | deadline: 31 January 2026 | info

[Special Issue] Consciousness and Intentionality – The Mark of Augustine in the Philosophy of Mind

→ Journal: Civitas Avgvstiniana | deadline: 31 March 2026 | info

Additional News & Opportunities

[Course] Free Will in Early Modern Philosophy

→ Gothenburg (SE), 13-17 October 2025 | deadline: 26 September 2025 | info: jani.hakkarainen@tuni.fi

[Course] Introducción a la historia de la filosofía (siglo VII a.c. – 1716)

→ México (MX), 21 January 2026 – 13 May 2026 | deadline: 31 October 2025 | info

[Scholarships] Rare Books School-awarded scholarships

→ Deadline: 2 November 2025 | info

[Award] Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prize 2025: Bodies

→ Deadline: 30 November 2025 | info

©️Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva | “News & Opportunities: September 2025”, IPM Monthly 4/9 (2025).