We are delighted to learn that Samuel Meister, who was a postdoctoral fellow at Toronto from 2021-2023, has been appointed to a permanent position in Geneva. Congratulations, Samuel! (He replaces Paolo Crivelli, who, as it happens, will be CSAMP Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Winter semester.)
Details of the CSAMP Proseminar series for Fall 2024 are now available in the ‘Events‘ section of the website. We are looking forward to an inspiring range of talks, with visitors including Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen), Brooke Holmes (Princeton), and Emily Perry (Concordia). Here is an .ics file you can use to import them all straight into your own calendar!
This year’s topic for the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy will be Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia. Dates are tbc: watch this space for details!
Paolo Crivelli, who retired this year from the University of Geneva, will be coming to Toronto in the 2025 Winter semester (January to April) as CSAMP Distinguished Visiting Fellow. We very much look forward to having him with us!
Congratulations to Jon McGinnis, who has been appointed Professor of Classical Islamic Philosophy, and joins us in the fall. We are very much looking forward to having him as part of CSAMP! Read more about the appointment here.
We are delighted to announce that Ulysse Chantreuil will be coming to Toronto to work with Christian Pfeiffer as a Postdoctoral Fellow based at UTM. He will be with us for two years starting fall 2024. Welcome, Ulysse!
We are delighted to hear that Roberto Granieri (PhD Toronto 2021) has been appointed to a permanent position in the Philosophy Department at Roma Tre University. Roberto wrote his thesis at Toronto under the supervision of Lloyd Gerson, on Plato’s Sophist. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven. Congratulations, Roberto!
We are delighted to announce that Dr Wim Nijs (currently working in Leuven, Belgium) has won a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, and will join the Department of Classics and CSAMP for two years in the fall. He will be working on the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, especially his thoughts on flattery, a subject to which Philodemus devoted a book of his work On Virtues and Vices.