The 2016 meeting of the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG)
Córdoba, Spain, 20-21 June 2016
Location:
Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de Cordoba
Monday 20 June
Session One: Chair Prof. Luis López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
9:15-10:15am: Presentation #1: Prof. Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Universidad de Cordoba,
“Behind the veil: The Syriac influence in the construction of theArabic legacy”
10:25-11:25am: Presentation #2: Dr. Janis Esots, Institute of Isma’ili Studies, London:
“Al-Fārābī on milla.”
11:45am-12:45pm: Presentation #3: Dr. Rafael Ramon Guerrero, Profesor Emerito, Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
“Ibn Hazm on Philosophy and Religion”
Session Two Chair: Prof. Josep Puig Montada, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
3:00-4:00pm: Presentation #4: Prof. Pedro Mantas, Universidad de Cordoba,
“The Tathlīth al-waḥdānīyah”
4:00-5:00pm: Presentation #5: Prof. Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo, Universidad Panamericana, Campus Guadalajara, Mexico:
“Aquinas’ Reception of John of Damascus’ Philosophy of Religious Worship”
5:20-6:20pm: Presentation #6: Prof. Luis López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City:
“Philosophical Argumentation For the Eternity of the World in Classical Islam”
6:20-7:20pm: Presentation #7: Dr. Ann Giletti, University of California, Rome Campus,
“Crying Heresy: Aquinas and the Controversy over Eternal Creation” (via Skype)
Tuesday 21 June
Session Three Chair: Dr. Katja Krause, Max Planck Institut for the History of Science, Berlin
8:45-9:45am: Presentation #8: Prof. Terence Kleven, Central College, Iowa:
“Al-Fārābī’s The Book of Analysis (Kitāb al-Taḥlīl)”
11:30am-12:30pm: Presentation #10: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, and DWMC, KU Leuven:
“Remarks on the Metaphysics of the Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khair / Liber de causis, Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas.”
12:30-1:30pm: Presentation #11: Dr. Daniel DeHaan, Cambridge University,
“Avicenna’s Metaphysics and the Triplex Via in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae 1. 2-4”
Session Four Chair: Prof. Therese Scapelli Cory, University of Notre Dame, USA
3:30-4:30pm: Presentation #12: Prof. José Meirinhos & Dr. Celia López Alcalde, University of Porto
“Abstraction and intellectual illumination. Petrus Hispanus as a mediator between the Arabs and Thomas Aquinas?”
5:30-6:30pm: Presentation #13: Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University,
“Albert the Great’s Arabic Cosmology: The Early Reversals Reconsidered”
6:30-7:00pm: Closing remarks