Gathering and spreading knowledge
I strongly believe that academia is a collective job: no single individual can grasp the stratified complexity and intertwining of issues that define the history of philosophy. This is why meetings are crucial to foster our knowledge and test our hypotheses and assumptions – and they are also a lot of fun! The following is a list of conferences, panels, and research meetings I have organised often in collaboration with friends and colleagues.
ENVISIONING AND DESIGNING NEW RESEARCH IN PHILOSOPHY
2024 | Skills development workshop. KU Leuven (BE), 9 February 2024.
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NATURAL ENTANGLEMENTS: CONFUSED PERCEPTIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
2023 | Panel at the 2023 International Medieval Congress. Leeds (UK), 3-6 July 2023.
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PROJECT DESIGN FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH
2023 | Skills development workshop. KU Leuven (BE), 4 February 2023.
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FROM TOLEDO TO GOTHA: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE IMPACT OF AVICENNA UPON SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY IN EUROPE
2022 | Conference organised by Cécile Bonmariage, Sébastien Moureau, Nicola Polloni, and Andrea Aldo Robiglio. KU Leuven and UC Louvain (BE), 15-16 October 2022.
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HYLOMORPHISM IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES
2022 | Panel at the 2022 SIEPM Congress. Paris (FR), 22-26 August 2022.
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DIVERGENT SCHOLASTICISM: PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT AND SCHOLASTIC TRADITION BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS, 1500-1700
2022 | Organised by Abel Aravena Zamora, Christophe Geudens, and Nicola Polloni. KU Leuven (BE) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (CL), March to October 2022.
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LATE MEDIEVAL HYLOMORPHISM: MATTER AND FORM, 1300–1600
2022 | Organised by Russel Friedman, Zita Toth, and Nicola Polloni. KU Leuven (BE), 9-11 June 2022.
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HYLOMORPHISM INTO PIECES: ELEMENTS, ATOMS AND CORPUSCLES IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (1400–1600)
2022 | Organised by Nicola Polloni and Sylvain Roudaut. Stockholms Universitet (SE) and KU Leuven (BE), 7-8 April 2022.
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MATERIA, 气/QÌ, AND THEIR EPISTEMES
2021 | Organised by Nicola Polloni and Shixiang Jin. KU Leuven (BE) and USTB Beijing (CN), 10-11 December 2021.
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THE ELUSIVE SUBSTRATE: PRIME MATTER AND HYLOMORPHISM FROM ANCIENT ROME TO EARLY QING CHINA
2021-2022 | Colloquium organised by Nicola Polloni. KU Leuven (BE), 14 May 2021 – 18 March 2022.
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MEDIEVAL LOGIC AND ONTOLOGY (MELO) SEMINAR
2021 | Research colloquium organised by Christophe Geudens and Nicola Polloni. KU Leuven (BE), January to September 2021.
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NATURE AND EMERGENCE: A RESEARCH READING GROUP ON SAMUEL ALEXANDER
2020-2021 | Research reading group organised by Alexander Blum, Dominic Dold, Núria Muñoz-Garganté, and Nicola Polloni. Research reading group, KU Leuven, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin (DE) and Leuven (BE). March 2020 to April 2021.
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PRIME MATTER: THE ONTOLOGICAL STAKES OF PHYSICAL ENDURANCE
2020 | Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE), 28 February 2020.
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MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL GATHERINGS II
2019 | Weekly research colloquium, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE), October to December 2019.
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MATTERS ENTAGLED: AN EARLY-CAREER SYMPOSIUM ON HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
2019 | Symposium organised by Elena Băltuță and Nicola Polloni. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE), 12 July 2019.
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CROSS-POLLINATIONS AND CREATIVE INTERPRETATIONS: THE PLACE OF TOLEDO IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
2019 | Panel at international conference: The Multi-Ethnic Borderlands of Medieval Toledo: New Directions. Toledo (ES), 5-7 June 2019.
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MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL GATHERINGS I
2019 | Weekly research colloquium, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE), Apr-July 2019.
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PRE-MODERN EXPERIENCES AND THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE
2017 | Panel at 2017 Meeting of the History of Science Society. Toronto, (CA), 9-12 November 2017.
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TRANSLATING EXPERIENCE: MEDIEVAL ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE, SELF, AND GOD
2017 | Conference organised by Katja Krause and Nicola Polloni. Durham University (UK), 4-6 June 2017.
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DA STAGIRA A PARIGI: PROSPETTIVE ARISTOTELICHE TRA ANTICHITÀ E MEDIOEVO
2016 | Conference organised by Chiara Blengini, Silvia Gastaldi, Nicola Polloni, and Cesare Zizza. Università di Pavia (IT), 30-31 May 2016.
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IDEE, TESTI E AUTORI ARABI ED EBRAICI E LA LORO RICEZIONE LATINA
2014 | Conference, Università di Pavia (IT), 3-4 December 2014.
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PENSARE A WEIMAR: FIGURE DEL PENSIERO TEDESCO NELLA GERMANIA DELLA CRISI
2013 | Conference organised by Luca De Giovanni and Nicola Polloni. Università di Pavia (IT), 10-12 December 2013.
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