Executive Committee

President
Timothy Noone
The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Washington, D.C. 20064
noonet@cua.edu

Vice-President
Richard C. Taylor
Marquette University
Department of Philosophy
Milwaukee WI 53201-1881
mistertea@mac.com

Secretary-Treasurer
Jon McGinnis
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Department of Philosophy
599 Lucas Hall (MC73)
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
(314) 516-5439 mcginnis@umsl.edu

Program Chair
Julie Klein
Villanova University
Department of Philosophy
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
(610) 519-4715
julie.klein@villanova.edu

Publications Chair
Charles Bolyard
James Madison University
Department of Philosophy and Religion MSC 8006, 61 East Grace Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540) 568-2626
bolyarcr@jmu.edu

Newsletter Editor
Daniel P. O'Connell
214 N. 6th Street, #1-Rear
Brooklyn, New York 11211
proclusian@gmail.com

Executive Committee

Mary T. Clark
Manhattanville College (ex-officio)

Richard Cross
Notre Dame University

Allan Bäck
Kutztown University

Mark Henninger
Georgetown University

Julie Klein
Villanova University

Robert Pasnau
University of Colorado, Boulder

James South
Marquette University

Eileen Sweeney
Boston College

Stephen Dumont
University of Notre Dame

Helen S. Lang
Villanova University (ex-officio)

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy was founded in December 1978 to foster research and teaching in the field, to organize scholarly meetings and conferences, to publish a newsletter and a monograph series, and to cooperate with other learned societies in projects of common interest.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

This year's SMRP Founders Award winner is Therese Scarpelli Cory, Seattle
University, for her paper "The Unity of Consciousness in Augustine and Aquinas".

The Society is now accepting submissions for the 2012 SMRP Founders Award. For
details see SMRP Founders Award winner.

SMRP Sessions at the RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Washington, DC
(March 22-24, 2012)

SESSION I: Renaissance Philosophy: Leone Ebreo, Pico, and Savonarola,
Friday, March 23, 3:45-5:15pm

Sponsor: Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

Chair: Peter Mack, Warburg Institute & University of Warwick

Andrew L. Gluck, Independent Scholar
Leone Ebreo's Attitude toward Kabbalah

Georgios Steiris, University of Athens
Pythagoreans and Orphics in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Justine Walden, Yale University
An Anatomy of Influence: Savonarola and Pico's Hidden Affinities

SESSION II: Renaissance Philosophy and Historiography,
Saturday, March 24, 8:45-10-15am

Sponsor: Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

Chair: Thomas Leinkauf, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen
Anti-essentialism and the Rhetoricization of Knowledge: Mario Nizolio's Humanist Attack on Universals

Helen Hattab, University of Houston
Zabarella's Influence on Hobbes via Protestant Theories of Method

Victor Zorrilla, Centro Panamericano de Humanidades
Medieval and Renaissance Influence in Two Sixteenth-Century Spanish Historians

SESSION III: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy in Ficino,
Friday, March 23, 10:30am – 12:00pm

Sponsors: Society for Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy (SMRP), and Society for Renaissance Studies, United Kingdom

Organizers: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College, and Valery Rees, School of Economic Science, London

Chair: Brian Copenhaver, University of California Los Angeles

Fabio Pagani, Scola Normale Supriore di Pisa (Italy)
Ficino as a Young Scholar of Plato: New Findings

Andrew Bozio, University of Michigan
The Contemplative Cosmos: Cognition, Extension, and Space in Ficino's De Amore

SESSION IV: Ficino and Pisano: Love, Friendship and Allegory,
Friday, March 23, 2:00-3:30pm

Sponsors: Society for Medieval and Renaissance Society (SMRP), and Society for Renaissance Studies, United Kingdom

Organizers: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College, and Valery Rees, School of Economic Science, London

Chair: Donald F. Duclow

Amos Edelheit, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Lorenzo Pisano and Marsilio Ficino On Love.

Maria Clara Iglesias, Yale University
Divine Friendship: The Theological Virtues in Marsilio Ficino

Else Marie Lingaas, University of Oslo
In the Shadows of Metaphors – Ficino and Renaissance Hermeneutics

For additional information visit https://rsa.site-ym.com/?page=Washington2012

Newest Update of a Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology

• A Brief Bibilographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2010 - 2011
• A Brief Bibilographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2009 - 2010
• A Brief Bibilographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2008 - 2009
• A Brief Bibilographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2007 - 2008
• A Brief Bibilographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2006 - 2008
  
• A Brief Bibilogrpahical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2004 - 2006
  
• A Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2002 - 2004
• A Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 1998 - 2002
  

The International Charles de Bovelles Society

"The International Charles de Bovelles Society" (IChBS) was called into being at the RSA Conference in Los Angeles earlier this year. The founding members are Tamara Albertini, University of Hawai'i (President), tamaraa@hawaii.edu, Michele Ferrari, University of Toronto (Vice-President) michelpvferrari@gmail.com, Richard Trowbridge, Bryant & Stratton College, rht@wisdomcenteredlife.org (Treasurer), and Cesare Catà, University of Macerata, Italy cesareintower@libero.it (Secretary). This society with current representatives in the U.S., Canada, France, and Italy promotes research on Charles de Bovelles (1479-1567), a French Renaissance philosopher profoundly inspired by Dionysius Areopagita and Ramon Llull, whose ties with Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples also put him in touch with the works of Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Members of the "IChBS" are about to publish an English translation of Bovelles' Liber de Sapiente (1511) and preparing a special issue for Intellectual History Review to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the publication of De Sapiente. A Web Site should be ready by Spring 2010. "IChBS" plans to organize panels on Charles de Bovelles alternately for the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and the RSA Conferences. A panel entitled "French Renaissance Philosopher Charles de Bovelles: Mathematics and Things Divine" will be offered at the upcoming RSA Conference in Venice, April 8-10, 2010. Interested scholars are welcome to contact any of the board members for more information.

Prof. Riccardo Pozzo of Il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) is the director of the Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e la Storia delle Idee, via Nomentana 118, 00196 Rome; this is the leading research center on the "translatio studiorum" domain. He would very much welcome guests and partners from among the SMRP membership. For further information, please contact Prof. Pozzo at riccardo.pozzo@univr.it.

American Philosophical Association,
Washington, DC,
December, 28-29, 2011

Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America,
Washington, DC, March 22-24, 2012