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Conference Announcement Theme: Aquinas and 'the Arabs' Type: Annual Fall North American Conference Institution: Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group Universidad Panamericana Location: Mexico City (Mexico) Date: 13.–15.10.2011 __________________________________________________ Conference Schedule: Wednesday 12 October Evening informal dinner near the hotel. Meet at 7:15 pm at the lobby. Thursday 13 October Room 37 8:30 coffee 9-10 Welcome by Universidad Panamericana Rector, Dr. José Manuel Nuñez Pliego, followed by a project description update by Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, & member, De Wulf - Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 10-11:15 Prof. Francisco O’Reily, Philosophy Department at Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay, “Metaphysics as Mimesis of the Divine. An analysis of the Philosophia Prima of the Avicenna Latinus” 11:15-11:30 break 11:30-12:45 Paloma Hernández-Rubio, graduate student, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico, “Sensata communia sunt instrumenta: The role of common sensation in Albert the Great’s De homine” 1-3 Lunch for speakers sponsored by the UP Department of Philosophy 3:00-4:15 Prof. Therese Cory, Philosophy Department, Seattle University, Seattle, WI, USA, “The Influence of Avicenna and the Liber de causis in Aquinas’s ‘Turn to the Phantasms’” 4:15-4:30 break 4:40-5:45 Dr. Marta Borgo, Commissio Leonina, Paris, France, “Aquinas on matter. Notes on the reception of Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics in the 13th century” Evening dinner at 7:30 Friday 14 October Room 37 8:30 coffee 9:00-10:15 Prof. Francsico Romero, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus, Guadalajara, Mexico, “The Reception of Averroes’s Abstractionist Theory of Intentionality in the Latin West” 10:15-10:30 break 10:30-11:45 Prof. Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico, “How did John of la Rochelle influence Thomas Aquinas?” 11:45-1:00 Prof. Deina Ali Abdelkader, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA, USA, “Thomas Aquinas’ Common Good and al-Shatibi’s Public Welfare” 1:00-3:00 Lunch for speakers sponsored by the UP Department of Philosophy 3:00-4:15 Prof. Fouad Ben Ahmed, Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania Institute, Rabat, Morocco, “Arabs’ Interpretation of Aquinas’ Criticism of Averroes’ Unity of the Intellect Theory” 4:15-4:30 break 4:30-5:45 Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA, “Is God’s existence self-evident? Aquinas, In Sententiis, 1. D. 2, Art. 3, and its Sources” Evening dinner at 7:30 Saturday 15 October Room 37 8:30 coffee 9:00-10:30 Presentation of sample translation with commentary for discussion of the project on the Sentences of Thomas Aquinas, by Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, & De Wulf - Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico 10:30 trip to market area at San Ángel for lunch and browsing. After lunch, museum visit. ca. 2:00-6:00 Museo Nacional de Antropología Evening dinner at 6:30/7:00 Conference Hotel: City Express Insurgentes Sur Av. Insurgentes Sur No. 1581 Col. San José Insurgentes 03900 México, D.F. Mexico Tel: +52 (55) 5482-0280 Web: http://www.hotelescity.com Conference Website: http://web.mac.com/mistertea/Aquinas_&_the_Arabs/Research_Seminar_Conferences.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
