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• 29 nov 2018

  30 nov 2018

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Pierre Abélard, multiform genius

  Étudiant terrible et maître illustre, amant légendaire et logicien virtuose, moine instable et abbé réformateur, poète de génie et philosophe précurseur, théologien prestigieux et deux fois condamné pour hérésie, auteur entre autres de commentaires sur Porphyre et sur la Bible, de traités sur la dialectique et sur la Trinité, de poèmes amoureux et liturgiques, et encore – dans le même dossier – d’une autobiographie controversée, d’une correspondance passionnée et d’une règle religieuse, Pierre Abélard n’est pas seulement une des figures les plus célèbres de tout le Moyen Âge, il en est aussi, comme homme, comme écrivain et comme penseur, une des plus riches, des plus complexes et des plus insaisissables.

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• 05 sep 2018

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  The Agreements of the Holy See with States (19th-21st Centuries)

  Models and Transformations, from Confessional States to Religious Freedom

  This conference will explore the international legal agreements signed between the Holy See and individual states, which often but not always took the form of concordats and similar conventions. Its central focus will be to examine these conventions in light of diplomatic practices, as well as in relation to the political and religious dynamics of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, notably the principles and requirements that comprised modernity. This entails assessing the historical evolution of the typology, method, content, scope, and spaces concerned.

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• 01 jan 2018

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Thought

  Philosophical hermeneutics in the Islamicate context

  This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the interpretative dimension, to address contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged with philosophical hermeneutics; the comparative dimension, in order to deal with possible transactions on the basis of common traits and divergences; and the creative dimension, to present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts.

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