An Interdisciplinary Colloquium
The imago Dei – Epistemology – Man as social animal – Virtue and human finality – Contemplation and beatitude
Programma
Friday, 28 April 2023
9:00 | Welcome Addresses
Session 1: Imago Dei
9:15 | Isabelle Moulin (University of Strasbourg) | Le vestige comme l’“autre” image chez Albert le Grand
9:45 | Sebastien Milazzo (University of Strasbourg) | L’imago Dei dans le traité De angelorum creatione
10:15 | Discussion
10:45 | Break
Session 2: The Limits of Nature
11:00 | Fabio de Gregorio (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Albert the Great’s Physics of the Human Soul in Judah Romano’s Commentary on Genesis 1,1-2,4 (1330)
11:30 | Amos Bertolacci (Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca) | Strategies of Human Divinization: Avicenna and Albert the Great
12:00 | Discussion
12:30 | Lunch
Session 3: Platonic Themes
15:00 | Alessandra Beccarisi (Università degli Studi di Foggia) | Neoplatonic Theories in Albert the Great’s Gospel of Matthew
15:30 | Dominic Dold (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Albert the Great on Meno’s Paradox
16:00 | Discussion
16:30 | Break
Session 4: Epistemology
16:45 | Paul D. Hellmeier (LMU, Munich) | Of Bats and Eagles. What they See and what they Do Not See: Two Key Metaphors for Human Knowledge in Albertus Magnus
17:15 | Thérèse Scarpelli Cory (Univ. of Notre Dame, USA) | The Self-knowing Soul in Albert the Great
17:45 | Discussion
18:30 | End of Day 1
Saturday, 29 April 2023
Session 5: Empirical Knowledge
9:00 | Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Albert and Scientific Experience
9:30 | Paloma Hernández Rubio (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico) | Grasping the Naked Individual: Albert the Great on Common Sensation in De homine
10:00 | Discussion
10:30 | Break
Session 6: The Social Animal
11:00 | Hans-Joachim Schmidt (University of Fribourg) | Social Cohesion and the Defense of Private Life
11:30 | Bernhard Blankenhorn (University of Fribourg) | L’homme comme être social et ecclésial selon Albert le Grand
12:00 | Discussion
12:30 | Lunch
Session 7: Virtue and Perfection
14:45 | Tobias Hoffmann (Sorbonne, Paris) | Albert the Great’s Early Account of Prudence
15:15 | Tracy Wietecha (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Becoming a Moral Subject: civilitas in Albert the Great’s Ethical Commentaries
15:45 | Discussion
16:15 | Break
Session 8: God and Human Knowledge
16:30 | Franklin Harkins (Boston College) | Divine Providence and Human Knowledge in Albert’s Super Iob
17:00 | Meghan Duke (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.) | God’s Infinitude in Albert’s Thought on the Beatific Vision
17:30 | Discussion
18:00 | Concluding Remarks and Discussion of Future Steps
18:30 | End of the Colloquium
