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ASG III: Programme (01 June – 13 July 2021)

Download the programme booklet here as a PDF [12 MB].

01 June 2021: Session One
Time Slot A
Welcome address by Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel (President of Trier University)
Introduction by Andreas Lammer
Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri – St. Louis): “Elementary Physics: Exploratory Thoughts on Avicenna’s Theory of the Elements”

Time Slot B
Silvia Di Vincenzo (IMT Lucca): “Bigger Books on Logic: A Comparative Analysis of Avicenna’s Šifāʾ, Naǧāt, and Išārāt

08 June 2021: Session Two
Time Slot A
Olga Lizzini (Université Aix-Marseille):The Book of the Guidance: Doctrinal Points and Communicational Methods – Introducing Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Hidāya

Time Slot B
Yuta Komura (Waseda University, Tokyo): “Avicenna on Divine Providence and its Relationship to the Problem of God’s Knowledge of Particulars”

15 June 2021: Session Three
Time Slot A
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour (University of Birmingham): “Avicenna’s Treatment of the Mapping Argument in ʿUyūn al-ḥikma, al-Šifāʾ, al-Naǧāt, and Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī

Time Slot B
Dustin Klinger (Harvard University): “The Analysis of Simple Categorical Statements across Avicenna’s Main Works”

22 June 2021: Session Four
Time Slot A
Dimitri Gutas (Yale University, emeritus): “‘The Qurʾān of the Elite’: Avicenna’s Išārāt as it Relates to his Earlier summae and Determines Later (Para-)Philosophy”

Time Slot B
Tommaso Alpina (LMU Munich): “One summa within Another? The Case of Ḥayawān between Qānūn and Šifāʾ 

29 June 2021: Session Five
Time Slot A
Amos Bertolacci (IMT Lucca): “The Doctrine of Causality in the Šifāʾ and in Avicenna’s Previous summae: Dynamics of Selection and Appropriation”

Time Slot B
Shahrzad Irannejad (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): “Avicenna’s Inner Senses and their Ventricular Localization in the summae

06 July 2021: Session Six
Time Slot A
Jules Janssens (De Wulf–Mansion Centre, Leuven): “Avicenna on Dreams (Especially Visionary Dreams): A Doctrinal and Terminological Survey of his Major Works”

Time Slot B
Alexander Lamprakis (LMU Munich): “Avicenna’s View(s) on Dialectic”

13 July 2021: Seventh and last Session
Time Slot A
Mostafa Najafi (University of Lucerne) & Nadja Germann (ALU Freiburg): “Connecting Minds – Constructing Knowledge: Avicenna on Signification and Understanding”

Time Slot B
Wahid Amin (Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham): “Avicenna, the Soul, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

Modus

  • Time Slot A: 8am PDT/11am EDT/4pm BST/5pm CEST (German time)/6pm EEST/7.30pm IRDT/midnight JST
  • Time Slot B: 9.30am PDT/12.30pm EDT/5.30pm BST/6.30pm CEST (German time)/7.30pm EEST/9pm IRDT/1.30am JST

The first presentation (Time Slot A) will last for 45 minutes with just the quickest of breaks after 25-30 minutes. – Afterwards we will have further 30 minutes for discussion, followed by a 10 minute break. – After that break, we will begin with the second presentation (Time Slot B) will likewise last for 45 minutes, again with a quick break after 25-30 minutes. – After the presentation we will have further 30 minutes for discussion. – After the discussion (around 8pm CEST), the official session will be closed, but we invite you to enter our permanent discussion rooms to have a cup of coffee or tea, to continue talking about the presentations, or to drift off to further topics.