Network
Research and collaborations
While academia is increasingly shaped by individual achievements, research remains deeply rooted in dialogue, exchange, and collaboration. Indeed, some of the most rewarding experiences in my academic life have come from working with colleagues across different institutions, countries, and disciplines. Over the years, these encounters have opened up new perspectives, fostered lasting relationships, and given rise to shared projects and initiatives. This page brings together some of these collaborations, past and present, waiting for many more to unfold in the near future.
CurrenT projects
Global Scholasticism Academic Network | 2025-present
Research network led by Abel Aravena Zamora, Lu Jiang, and Nicola Polloni. Find out more
The Global Scholasticism Academic Network is devoted to fostering the exchange of ideas and interpretations concerning the global history of scholasticism across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. A collaborative initiative between the University of Messina (Italy), the University of Playa Ancha (Chile), and Sun Yat-sen University (China), the network – coordinated by Abel Aravena Zamora, Lu Jiang, and Nicola Polloni – organises events, supports research, and promotes dialogue on the global circulation and transformation of scholastic philosophy. The network brings together researchers studying medieval and early modern scholastic traditions, as well as their receptions and reinterpretations in diverse intellectual cultures. Its activities are designed to encourage philosophical dialogue, facilitate the exchange of scholarship, and stimulate new research on the role of scholasticism in cross-cultural transmissions of knowledge.
The Extensions Project | 2019-present
Interdisciplinary outreach project. Find out more
Extensions is an interdisciplinary project that brings together philosophy, art, physics, and psychology to investigate the elusive nature of matter and the limits of perception. Taking as one of its starting points the medieval idea of prime matter, the project explores how absence, invisibility, and indeterminacy can nonetheless be approached through conceptual, visual, and scientific practices. Through collaboration across disciplines, Extensions examines how different forms of inquiry construct, test, and transform our understanding of reality, especially at the margins where what exists resists immediate apprehension.
PREVIOUS Collaborations
Recepción y evolución del concepto de anima mundi en el siglo XII | 2023-2025
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (grant no. PICT-2021-GRF-TII-00018), Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR), PI: Cecilia Rusconi.
“Certainty without doubt and truth without error”: The Mathematical Epistemology of Roger Bacon | 2021-2024
Tel Hai College (IL), Israel Science Foundation project (grant no. 2773/21), PI: Giora Hon and Yael Kedar.
Teoría finalistas en la Edad Media | 2021-2024
Universidad Católica de Argentina (AR), PI: Laura Corso Estrada.
Ex umbra in solem: Historia de la documentación de la enseñanza de la filosofía natural (Física) a partir de los manuscritos del Colegio Máximo San Miguel y del Convictorio Carolino, Chile (1698–1798) | 2020-2023
Universidad de Playa Ancha (CL), Proyecto Fondecyt Iniciación 11200279 (ANID-Chile), PI: Abel Aravena Zamora.
Greek-Arabic and Latin Biblical and Patristic Manuscripts | 2019-2021
Universidad de Córdoba (ES). Funding Entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, ref. IPGC2018-096807-B-I00, PI: Juan Pedro Montferrer-Sala.
Aristotelica Portugalensia: The Reception of Aristotle in Portugal until the 18th Century | 2018-2025
Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto (PT). PI: Paula Oliveira e Silva.
Reason, Politics and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy | 2019-2025
Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto (PT). PI: José Meirinhos.
The Ordered Universe | 2016-2020
Durham University and University of Oxford (UK). Funding Entity: Arts and Humanities Research Council, PI: Giles Gasper.
Unity and Plurality of the Logos in the World | 2016-2018
Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (ES). Funding Entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, ref. FFI2015-63947-P, PI: María Jesús Soto-Bruna.
Latest update: October 2026
