Events

Previous conferences & workshops (selection)

• Master Class: Expanding the Canon of Ancient Philosophy (Amsterdam, January 31 - February 1, 2012)
• Hostile Friends: Collaboration and Opposition between the Faculties of Louvain University, 1425-1550 (18 November 2011).
• Debate about the recent book by Graham McAleer: "To Kill Another: Homicide and Natural Law" (October 14 2011).
• Workshop: Desire for Knowledge or Desire for God? Dante Alighieri in his Philosophical Context (7 June 2011) (contact: Andrea Robiglio).
• What is up to us? A Workshop on Aristotle's Theory of Responsibility (February 24-25, 2011).
• International Conference Medieval Philosophy: Varieties of Cognitive Theory in the Later Middle Ages (February 18–20, 2010).
• SIEPM Colloquium at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (October 28–30, 2009): “Philosophical Psychology in Late Medieval Sentences Commentaries”, a conference organized and funded by the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Leuven-Nijmegen Covenant.
• On Tuesday May 12 and Wednesday May 13 2009 the De Wulf-Mansion Centre of the Institute organized a workshop on John Duns Scotus and Later Medieval Philosophy: Some Work in Progress. Presentations will be made by some of the foremost historians of later medieval philosophy, as well as by several doctoral students currently working on their dissertations. A soon to-be-published translation of one of John Duns Scotus' central texts (on our cognition of God) will be presented by the translators and discussed at length.
• On March, 23–24, 2009, the De Wulf–Mansion Centre (Ancient Philosophy) hosted an international workshop Platonic Forms in late Antiquity.
• On 8-10 January 2009, the Aristoteles Latinus hosted an international conference "Bartholomew of Messina and the Cultural Life at the Court of King Manfred of Sicily"in collaboration with the Institute for Medieval Studies (Leuven). Read our program folder (PDF).
• On December, 18–19, 2008, the De Wulf–Mansion Centre and Centre de De Wulf–Mansion (Louvain–la–Neuve) organized an international conference “Aristotle’s Ethics Today”.
• On 13-15 December 2007, the Philosophy Department Freiburg and the Aristoteles Latinus organized a workshop on the "Expositio Problematum Aristotelis" by Peter of Abano, at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau).
• On February, 14–17, 2007, the De Wulf–Mansion Centre organized an international conference "Sould and Mind: Ancient and Medieval Perspectives on De Anima". Read the program folder (PDF).
• On June, 8–10, 2006, the De Wulf–Mansion Centre organized an international conference "Paganism in the Middle Ages".
• On May, 4–5, 2006, the De Wulf–Mansion centre and the Centre De Wulf–Mansion (Louvain–la–Neuve) organized an international conference "Plato and the Poets". Read the program folder (PDF)
• On May, 18–19, 2005, the Centre hosted an international workshop on "Plato Transformed". Read our program folder (PDF)
• On 29-30 April 2005, the Aristoteles Latinus organized a conference "The Aristoteles Latinus. Past, Present, Future."
• On 27-29 May, 2004 the Instituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies, the Department of Linguistics and the Aristoteles Latinus hosted an international conference "Science Translated". Keynote speakers were Joëlle Ducos (Université de Bordeaux), Dirk Geeraerts (KU Leuven), and Alessandro Vitale-Brovarone (Università degli Studi di Torino). A selection of papers has been published by M. Goyens, P. De Leemans, and A. Smets.
• On 30-31 October 2003, the Aristoteles Latinus hosted a conference: "Aristotle's Problemata in Different Times and Tongues". A collection of papers has been published by P. De Leemans and Michèle Goyens.
• On occasion of the retirement of Prof. dr. Jozef Brams, the De Wulf–Mansion Centre, the Aristoteles Latinus and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy (Nijmegen) organized an international workshop "Around Aristoteles Latinus. Recent studies on the recepotion of the physical works in the Middle Ages" on 18-19 October 2002. See the program folder (PDF). A selection of the papers has been edited in a thematic issue of Early Science and Medicine. The study by Dr. Vuillemin-Diem about David of Dinant has been published in the Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age. Summaries of all papers have been published in the Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale.