Update 23 April 2026: Tentative Schedule (Site under revision)
Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism
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Cordoba 22 presentations 19-22 May 2026;
Paris 23 presentations 26-29 May 2026
(Penultimate versions of schedules indicated here, final versions forthcoming)
These conference meetings are dedicated to the memory Prof. Alfred L. Ivry (1935-2026), specialist in the thought of Ibn Rushd and Medieval Arabic and Jewish Philosophy
Cordoba, May 19-22, 2026 (session chairs TBD)
Location: C. Samuel de los Santos y Gener, 9, Centro, 14003 Córdoba, Spain
Note: Attendees will need to register at Casa Árabe.
Additional Reminders for presenters: (i) Presentations are to be for 20-25 min. only to allow for 25-30 min. of discussion. Total time for presentation and discussion is 50 min. These will be distributed to other presenters and session chairs before the meeting. (ii) Drafts or complete papers are to sent to the organizers at aaiwgscholarssubmissions@gmail.com by 1 April 2026.
May 19
Arrival 8:15
8:30 Welcome
9:00-9:50 (1) Seyedali Taghavinasab, University of Lucerne / LMU Munich School of Ancient Philosophy, “Averroes on the Notion of Assent”
10:00-10:50 (2) Ivonne María Acuña Macouzet, Universidad Panamericana, “The Uses and Limits of Metaphor in Ibn Rushd’s Logic”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (3) Salima Zouaghi, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ecology and Civilization: Ibn Rushd and the Theory of Climates”
12:30-13:20 (4) Abigail Whalen, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, “Ibn Rushd on Individuation: From Indeterminate Dimensions to Individuals,”
13:30-14:20 (5) Worod Al-Musawi, independent researcher, “Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Quran: His Quotations and Philosophical Exegesis”
14:20-16:30 Lunch
16:30-17:20 (6) David Twetten, Marquette University, “The Cosmology of Early Ibn Rushd: A New Discovery”
17:30-18:20 (7) Mercedes Rubio, Universidad Villanueva, Madrid, “How Averroes Uses the Cosmological Analogy for His Epistemology”
Possible conference dinner
May 20
9:00-9:50 (8) Mostafa Najafi, Senior Lecturer and Researcher for Philosophy and Theology in the Islamic World, Theology Faculty, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, “Arabic Errors in Ibn Rušd’s Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
10:00-10:50 (9) Terry Kleven, Central College, Pella, Iowa, “Ibn Rushd on Necessity and Possibility in his Middle Commentary on Peri Hermeneias, Chapter Two, Sections 28-37 (Aristotle, Chapter 9, 18a28- 19b4)”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:20 (10) Josep Puig Montada, “The import of the last four questions of Averroes’s The Incoherence of The Incoherence for the history of philosophy”.
12:30-13:20 (11) withdrawn
13:30-14:20 (12) Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, “Ibn Rushd on Reproduction and the Atypical Case of ‘False Pregnancy'”
May 21
9:00-9:50 (13) Maryam Al-Sayyed, associate researcher, Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Amman, & Prof. Zaid Edayat, University of Jordan, “Ibn Rushd on Ethics and Politics: Reassessing the Structure of Practical Philosophy”
10:00-10:50 (14) Feriel Bouhafa, Julius-Maximilian Universität Würzburg, “The Roots of Ibn Rushd’s Ontology of the Good: between his Compatiblist Theory of Action and Critique of Plato’s Theory of Forms”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (15) Brahim Bourchachene, Mohammed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi UAE, “The ethical Question in Averroes: On the Ghazalian Influence”
12:30-13:20 (16) Karen Taliaferro, University of Florida, “Ibn Rushd on Human and Divine Knowledge: The Limits of Philosophy”
13:30-14:20 (17) Mehmet Ata Az, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Divinity, Ankara, “Aquinas’s Critique of Averroes on the Material Intellect: A Faculty of the Soul or a Separate Substance?”
14:20-16:30 Lunch
16:30-17:20 (18) Alessandro Mulieri, CNRS – Triangle Laboratory (Lyon) & CVIPOF – Sciences Po (Paris), “Marsilius of Padua and the Question of Political Aristotelian Averroism”
17:30-18:20 (19) Yehuda Halper, Bar-Ilan University, “Dialectic in Aristotle’s Metaphysics B: from Averroes to Abraham Bibago’s 15th c. Hebrew, super-Commentary”
May 22
9:00-9:50 (20) (withdrawn)
10:00-10:50 (21) Jamie Turner, University of Birmingham, “Moderate Evidentialism in Averroesian Epistemology”
11:00-11:50 (22) Safia Zghal, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & The Free University of Brussels, “Renan’s Averroes and Anṭūn’s Ibn Rushd: On the Tensions Between Influence, Instrumentalization, and Emancipation from a Model”
12-12:30 Closing discussion and conclusion.
Cordoba Housing Options
(1) Prof. Pedro Mantas of the University of Cordoba shared that there are some rooms available among university residences (ca. 40€ per night including a light breakfast). Bus transportation to the Casa Árabe area will take ca. 30 min.: 10 waiting for the bus, 10 minutes by bus, and then 10 walking.
If you are interested in this option, please write directly to Prof. Mantas (fs1maesp@uco.es) for reservation options or for answers to questions.
(2) Hotels, ranked by proximity to Casa Árabe:
VITIUM URBAN SUITES
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Paris, May 26-29, 2026 (session chairs TBD)
Location: Sorbonne Université, Michelet Auditorium, 46 Rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris
Special Note:
To be admitted into the auditorium for any day of the conference, it is strictly necessary to sign up through this form by May 21, 2026. All Paris attendees must register via this LINK.
Additional Reminders for presenters: (i) Presentations are to be for 20-25 min. only to allow for 25-30 min. of discussion. Total time for presentation and discussion is 50 min. These will be distributed to other presenters and session chairs before the meeting. (ii) Drafts or complete papers are to sent to the organizers at aaiwgscholarssubmissions@gmail.com by 1 April 2026.
May 26
Arrival 8:15
8:30 Welcome
9:00-9:50 (1) Filippo Contin, University of Salerno, PhD candidate in Medieval Philosophy, “From Themistius to the Latin Masters: The Transformation of an Averroistic Sentence in the Scholastic Tradition”
10:00-10:50 (2) Alex Schmid, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, “Dante’s Averroist Psychology: Jewish and Islamic Metaphysics and Dante’s Conception of Revelation”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (3) Simone Antonilli, Università degli Studi di Trieste & Università degli Studi di Udine, “Autour du commentaire (šarḥ) d’Ibn Rušd à al-‘Aqīda du Mahdī Ibn Tūmart”
12:30-13:20 (4) Nicoletta Nativo, Charles University, Prague, “Averroes, Albert, and the Moderni: Paduan Debates on Psychology”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:20 (5) Traci Phillipson, Loras College, Dubuque, IA, “The Relation of Intellect, Will, and Intelligibles in Act: Exploring the Possibility for Individual Moral Responsibility in the Work of Ibn Rushd”
16:20-16:50 Break
16:50-17:40 (6) Ayşenur Ünügür Tabur, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, “Multiplicity without Matter: Averroes’s Unity of Mind and Avicenna’s Dilemma”
17:50-18:40 (7) Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo, St. Gregory the Great Seminary, Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, “Many Discourses, One Science: Averroes and Aquinas on the Unity of Religious Science”
May 27
9:00-9:50 (8) Youssef El Amari, Abdelamek Essaadi University, “Philosophy and Religious Innovation (Bid‘a): On the Obstacles to the Consolidation of Philosophy in the Western Islamic World, al-Shāṭibī Critique of Walīd Ibn Rushd”
10:00-10:50 (9) Richard Taylor, Marquette University & KU Leuven, “Philosophy in Dialectical Context: Ibn Rushd’s Tahāfut at-tahāfut (Incoherence of the Incoherence)”
11:00-11:50 (10) Therese-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America, “Ibn Rushd on Images and What Distinguishes a Good Image from a Bad One”
Afternoon free for visiting Paris
May 28
9:00-9:50 (11) David Twetten, Marquette University, “The Meaning of the Bath Analogy Across Averroes’ Works”
10:00-10:50 (12) Terry Kleven, Central College, Pella, Iowa, “Ibn Rushd’s Religious Arguments for the Unity of God: Study IV of Kitāb al-Kašf ‘an Manāhij al-Adilla ‘Aqā’id al-Milla (Müller, pp. 47, 1.3-51, 1.7)”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (13) Anakhanim Ahadova, University of Wrocław, “’Yes and No’: Ibn Arabi’s Epistemological and Hermeneutical Response to Averroes”
12:30-13:20 (14) Muhammad Usman, University of Heidelberg, “The Epistemic Limits of Speculative Theology: Ibn Rushd’s Perspective on God and Morality”
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-15:50 (15) Yehuda Halper, Bar-Ilan University, “Averroes and Ibn Tufayl on Experience as a Principle of Science”
16:00-16:50 (16) Steven Harvey, Bar-Ilan University, “The Commentator in Hebrew: Ibn Rushd or Averroes?”
17:00-19:30 Meeting Reception at Le Club of Sorbonne Université
May 29
9:00-9:50 (17) Andre Martin, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin , “Averroes Among the ‘Augustinians’: The Curious Case of Peter Auriol’s Cognitive Psychology”
10:00-10:50 (18) Jordan Lavender, Texas A&M University, “Life and Mind in Averroes and Peter Auriol”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (19) Tracy Wietecha, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Reassessing Averroes’s Middle Commentary on the Ethics: Averroes’s Commentary in Albert the Great’s Super Ethica”
12:30-13:20 (20) Adam Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, “Albertus’ Critique of Averroes’ Naturalism in his Commentary on the Sentences”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:20 (21) (withdrawn)
16:20-17:00 Break
17:00-17:50 (22) Paula Oliveira e Silva, University of Porto / Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, “The Active Intellect as the Efficient Cause in the Production of the Intelligible. A Jesuit Antidote Against Remaining Averroism”
18:00-18:50 (23) Michele Meroni, Università degli Studi di Pavi, “Averroes’ Influence in Debates on Animal Behavior at Paris (1270-1300)”
19:00-19:30 Closing discussion
Paris Housing Options
One Paris housing option:
Prof. Th.-A. Druart was kind enough to share the following information:
“While in Paris I spent a night at Centre Vincentien F, Portal, 95 rue de Sèvres, Paris 75006, Internet site: cmission.fr, email: acceuil@cmparis.com. For the night plus breakfast I paid 50 euros. The rooms have a sink plus a small desk, internet. Restrooms and showers are at the end of the corridor. It’s very clean. The property has a big garden. The metro station Vanneau is just in front of it and in 5 stops one arrives at Cluny-La Sorbonne near Vrin, etc.” Thanks, Therese!
Prof. Tobias Hoffmann, our Paris meeting host, offers this suggestion:
Le foyer Saint-Jean-Eudes https://fsje.fr
This is a relatively inexpensive housing option. It’s a 20 minutes walk from the main site of the Sorbonne, where the conference will take place. Notice: this is not a hotel. If you plan to arrive late in the evening, you will have make arrangements beforehand. Once you are checked in, you get the keys and you can enter any time you want. Another difficulty might be that in order to make a booking, you have to pay half the amount of the stay as a down payment. We don’t know if they accept credit cards for that. All participants should book As Soon As Possible as May is already in the midst of the touristic season and prices might be quite high.
Conferences Information
NOTE: Projectors for Powerpoint or PDF will be available at both locations.
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Original CFP is here below.
Call for Papers: Conferences on “Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism” May 2026
The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG) will celebrate the 900th anniversary of the birth of Ibn Rushd / Averrroes with two summer conferences, one in Cordoba at the Casa Árabe 19-22 May 2026 and one in Paris at Sorbonne Université 26-29 May 2026.
The language of the conferences will be English, but proposals and presentations in other languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian) are permitted if accompanied by English translation (or acceptable machine translation).
Proposals are invited for presentations on Ibn Rushd’s / Averroes’s oeuvre and its context, including but not limited to his philosophical thought, medical works, writings on religion and jurisprudence, historical contexts, sources, influences, et al.
These conferences are open to members and non-members of the AAIWG.
Dates, deadlines and submission parameters:
(i) Proposals by established scholars, post doctoral researchers and graduate student researchers are welcome. Note that all proposals must be accompanied by a current CV or a link to a current CV. Submit to: aaiwgscholarssubmissions@gmail.com
(ii) Deadline: 15 October 2025. Proposals or abstracts of no more than 250 words must contain 1) a clear statement of the issue and/or problem that they intend to address and 2) a tentative hypothesis about conclusion(s), with the understanding that findings can change once one is actually in the research and writing process. NOTE: Proposals must indicate clearly whether they are for Cordoba, Paris or either.
(iii) Notification of acceptance by the Scientific Committee will be made on 15 November*. Those whose proposals are accepted must confirm their participation by 1 December*. Otherwise ranked alternates will be offered the place on the program. NOTE: Due to the very large number of submissions, we intend to announce the program 1 December and to request confirmation of participation by 15 December.
(iv) 1 April 2026. Deadline for submission of drafted papers (with or without footnotes) for advance distribution to registered attendees.
(v) Oral presentations will be ca. 20 min. and should summarize the draft papers. Any handouts must be provided by the presenter. We anticipate question and discussion periods for each paper will be substantial.
(vi) The precise format and number of conference days (3-4) will be determined and shared by mid-December. Sessions may be organized topically and may have commentators (depending on the number of applicants and registered participants).
(vii) In accord with the regular procedures for AAIWG conferences, there are no fees charged to presenters or participants. Note, however, participants are responsible for all their own costs of travel, housing and meals. (Organized occasions for meals may be arranged.)
Note on publication: Details regarding the submission of papers for a volume, “Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism,” proposed for publication in the Brepols PATMA series will be shared in the last session of each of the conferences.
Questions? Email Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu and Luis X. López-Farjeat llopez@up.edu.mx