Awards

• SIEPM Life-Time Achievement Award
• Jacqueline Hamesse Award

SIEPM Life-Time Achievement Award

The SIEPM Life-Time Achievement Award recognizes the outstanding achievement and the significant and sustained contributions of research and/or teaching in the broad field of medieval philosophy throughout the recipient's career. It is awarded every five years during the SIEPM World Congress.

• Eligibility and Criteria:
  - The Award is meant for one person, not a group of persons.
  - The recipient is invited to attend the Congress (at the SIEPM's travel and lodging expense) to receive the award medal. The Bureau invites the awardee to give a response to the laudatio.
  - The candidate must be an SIEPM member. Every SIEPM member is eligible, except for current Bureau members. Former Bureau members are eligible.
   
• Nomination procedure:
  - Any SIEPM member in good standing can make a nomination.
  - The nomination letter should: (1) explain why the nominee deserves the award; (2) identify the nominee's specific lifetime contributions to the field of medieval philosophy and explain the significance of the nominee's work and/or teaching and its impact; (3) include a curriculum vitae of the nominee. The nomination letter can be written in all official languages of the SIEPM, and should be sent to: siepm (at) kuleuven.be
  - The next deadline will be a year before the next International Congress in 2027. Deadline of the nomination: May 1, 2026. The nominations sent after this date will not be taken into consideration.
   
• Evaluation:
  - The nominations are evaluated by the Bureau of the SIEPM.
   
• Awardees:

- Prof. dr. Sten Ebbesen (awarded in 2022)

Jacqueline Hamesse Award

• The nature of the award:
  - Previously called the SIEPM Junior Scholar Award, the name has changed in 2023 to the Jacqueline Hamesse Award, in order to remember Jacqueline Hamesse, who passed away in February 2023, and as treasurer, secretary and president of the SIEPM promoted inclusiveness and especially encouraged young researchers.
  - An annual and open call for submissions. Next deadline: June 1, 2025.
   
• Requirements of the submission:
  - A scholarly paper published within a year of the submission deadline or accepted for publication.
  - On a topic related to medieval philosophy.
  - Written in one of the official languages of the SIEPM.
  - Accompanied by an abstract of up to 200 words.
  - The paper, or an earlier version of it, must not have received any previous award.
   
• Eligibility:
  - Doctoral students or postdoctoral researchers up to three years after obtaining the doctoral degree (unless there have been any career breaks).
  - SIEPM membership is not required.
  - Current board members are not eligible.
   
• Evaluating procedure:
  - After input from Bureau members, the Secretary General establishes an ad hoc committee. The size of this committee depends on the number of applications received. Scholarly competences that reflect the topics of the received papers will be a factor in selecting the committee members.
  - All SIEPM members can be invited to serve on the committee. The committee is to be chaired by a Bureau member.
   
• The award: 
  - 500 Euros and a mention in the Bulletin.
   
• Runner-up(s):
  - The second best paper - or in case ranking is very difficult, the next best papers - will be acknowledged in the Bulletin.
   
• How to apply:
  - Send a (a) short CV, (b) your paper, and (c) a proof of acceptance or publication of your paper to siepm (at) kuleuven.be. The applications received past the deadline are not considered for the award.
   
• Previous awardees:

2024: 

2023: Arina Simonian, “Ein Eckhartzitat als locus communis im Kontext einer mystischen Messerklärung,” in Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch 16, 2022, 273-297.
Runner-ups: Andrea Fiamma and Hisashi Obuchi

2022: Aurora Panzica, "An (Apparent) Exception in the Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Antiperistasis as Action on Contrary Qualities and its Interpretation in the Medieval Philosophical and Medical Commentary Tradition", Revista Española de Filosofia Medieval (forthcoming).

Runner-ups: Thomas Gruber and Athanasios Rinotas

2021: Alexander Lamprakis, "Believing Miracles in 10th-11th Century Baghdad: Four Christian Philosophers on a Problem of Epistemic Justification", in Robert Pasnau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, vol. 9 (Oxford, 2021).

Runner-up: Claudia Appolloni

2020: Lukáš Lička, "The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision", in Elena Baltuta (ed.), Medieval Perceptual Puzzles. Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Leiden 2020, 73-110.

Runner-ups: Mark Thakkar, Luciana Cioca, Clelia Crialesi