History of Philosophy Colloquium
The History of Philosophy Colloquium is a research-oriented event with a workshop character that aims to introduce students to current debates and methods of academic work in the field of the history of philosophy. Students have the opportunity to talk to academics from the field of the history of philosophy and to get to know their research better. In each session, a scholar is invited to present a piece of research and to discuss with the students the content and methodological issues involved in opening up a research context and developing a scholarly project. Each year, a specific academic exercise is placed at the center of the colloquium (e.g. review, dissertation, essay or text interpretation). In this way, the colloquium aims to promote a fruitful exchange between advanced students and researchers in the field of the history of philosophy and to support professional and methodological discussion with regard to early research experience.
Current
Summer term 2025
Wednesday, May 15, 2025, 10:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m., US-A 017
Dr. Richard Schorlemmer (Siegen)
Geruchs- und Farbwahrnehmung bei Aristoteles und den frühen Peripatetikern
(Olfactory and Color Perception in Aristotle and the Early Peripatetics)
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 10:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m., US-A 017
Dr. Aurora Panzica (Basel)
Neues zur Polemik zwischen ,Scholastikern' und Humanisten: Juan Luis Vives, Jan Dullaert und die Entdeckung Amerikas
(News on the Polemic Between ‘Scholastics’ and Humanists: Juan Luis Vives, Jan Dullaert, and the Discovery of America)
Friday, June 20, 2025, 10:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m., US-A 017
Dr. Luciano Micali (Helsinki)
Heymeric of Campo and Beghardian Mysticism
Workshop - Feasting and Fasting: A Philosophical History of Nutrition
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 10:15 a.m.–1:00 p.m., US-A 017
Dr. Carsten Flaig (Berlin)
The Infinite Growth of the Soul. Gregory of Nyssa on Psychic Nourishment
Michele Merlicco (Macerata)
Abstinentes: The Early Modern Debate on Anorexia
Dr. Lars Reuke (Cologne)
Nutrition as the Basic Function of Life: An Early Modern Debate
Thursday, July 3, 2025, 10:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m., US-A 017
Clarisse Reynard (Geneva)
The Ontology of Remembering in Some Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscentia
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m., US-D 207
Olivia Jabbour (Siegen)
Der Universalienstreit im Spiegel eines anonymen Traktats aus dem frühen 15. Jahrhundert
(The Problem of Universals as Reflected in an Anonymous Treatise from the Early 15th Century)
Semester history
Summer term 2024
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Dr. Andrea Fiamma (Milan)
Marcellus Geist as an Albertist: Three Unedited Works on Metaphysics and Theology
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Dr. Luca Burzelli (Siegen)
Guess Who? Reconstructing a Philosophical Debate. The Case of the Elements, in Early 14th-Century Paris
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 2–6 pm, c.t., US-C 102
Dr. Zornitsa Radeva (Mainz)
Kontingente Kontexte: Bartolomeo Viottis De demonstratione libri quinque (1560) im Kreis von Hermann Conring (1606–1681)
(Contingent Contexts: Bartolomeo Viotti's De demonstratione libri quinque (1560) in the Circle of Hermann Conring (1606–1681))
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Dr. Christoph Sander (Rome)
Distant Reading am Seitenrand: Lektürespuren und Rezeptionsgeschichte im Magnetic Margins Korpus
(Distant Reading in the Margins: Traces of Reading and Reception History in the Magnetic Margins Corpus)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Dr. Michael Engel (Hamburg)
Philosophical Glosses, Critical Readership and Terminological Challenges: The Case of BnF Ms. hebr. 968
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 2–6 pm, c.t., US-C 102
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Fiorella Retucci (Cologne)
Das Glück des Menschen: Geschichte einer Lehre und ihre Textabenteuer
(The Luck of Man: History of a Doctrine and Its Textual Adventures)
Summer term 2023
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Fabian Marx (Siegen)
Das Können der Philosophie. Cusanus und die Geschichte des Denkens in De apice theoriae
(The Ability of Philosophy. Cusanus and the History of Thought in De apice theoriae)
Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Michele Merlicco (Paris)
The Inner Life of Things. Francesco Patrizi (1529–1597) and Early Modern Panpsychism
Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 2–6 p.m., c.t., US-C 102
Eva Sahr (Würzburg)
Welches Vorwissen setzen wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse voraus? – Logiker des 16. Jahrhunderts diskutieren Averroes' Kommentare zu den Zweiten Analytiken
(What Prior Knowledge Do Scientific Findings Presuppose?—Logicians of the 16th Century Discuss Averroes' Commentaries on the Second Analytics)
Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 2–6 pm, c.t., US-C 102
Karsten Engel (Basel)
Magnus Hundt (1449–1519): Ein Philosoph und seine Vorstellungen von der Universität
(Magnus Hundt (1449–1519): A Philosopher and His Ideas About the University)
Summer term 2022
Book Presentation—Guest Lecture—Panel Discussion
Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 2:30–5:30 p.m., US-C 104
Dr. Cecilia Muratori (Venice)
Die Unmöglichkeit des Vegetarismus. Warum die Geschichte der Philosophie anachronistisch sein muss
(The Impossibility of Vegetarianism. Why the History of Philosophy Must Be Anachronistic)
