conferences

The Colour of Dreams. The Physiology of Oneiric Experience in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Traditions | CSMBR Online Lecture Series, org. F. Bigotti | Centre for the Study of the Mind and Body in the Renaissance | 25 June 2026

«Nel suo conio nulla mi s’inforsa». L’esame sulla vera fede di Paradiso XXIV alla luce di una fonte araba inesplorata | Congresso Dantesco Internazionale AlmaDante 2026 | Ravenna, 27-30 May 2026

The Status of Mathematics in Arabic Philosophical Discourse. Classifications and the Summae | Journée d’études « L’évolution des classifications des mathématiques jusqu’à l’âge classique », Laboratoire SPHERE, org. P. Crozet, V. de Risi, A. Axworthy, S. Bella, C. Crialesi, Paris, 9 March 2026

Arcs-en-ciel et coups de foudre. Météorologie et théologie chez Dante | Journée d’études « Par tous les temps ! Représentations, perceptions et théories météorologiques médiévales », Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM)/Espace Mendès France (org. J. Ducos, P.-M. Joris), Poitiers, 2 October 2025

Dreaming in Colour. Greek Arabic Latin | International Conference PRIN PNRR 2022 ‘Pensare il futuro nel Medioevo | Thinking About the Future in the Middle Ages’, Università di Firenze (org. A. Palazzo, A. Rodolfi), Firenze, 15-17 September 2025

Phantasia and Imaginatio in Albert the Great in Light of His Arabic Sources | International Conference PRIN 2022 ‘Itineraries of Philosophy and Science from Baghdad to Florence: Albert the Great, his Sources and his Legacies’, Università di Napoli L’Orientale (org. A. Bertolacci, A. Sannino), Napoli, 10-12 June 2025

L’intelletto e la sfera. Per un’introduzione alla filosofia araba medievale | Università di Firenze (org. A. Rodolfi), Firenze, 20 November 2024

Translating Images. The Place of Geometrical Diagrams in a Multilingual Philosophical Tradition | International Conference ‘Surveying the Realm of Medieval Geometry (XII-XV c.)’ (org. C. Crialesi, F. Galli), in collaboration with Micrologus. Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies (SISMEL) and Conférences transculturelles de l’Union Académique International, SISMEL, Florence, 9-11 October 2024

Quasi fulgor. Lampo e visione in al-Ġazālī, Alberto Magno e Dante | Conferenza PRIN 2022 ‘«Frate e maestro fummi». Dante e la filosofia di Alberto Magno’ (org. A. Rodolfi), Università di Firenze, Firenze, 3-4 June 2024

The Imagination of the Mosquito. Al-Ġazālī on the Inner Senses | International Conference ‘Mens et membra. Models of Psychophysiology between Aristotelianism and Abrahamitic Religions’ (org. M. Meroni, L. Valletta), Università di Milano, Milano, 8-9 February 2024

Trasformazioni elementali e provvidenza divina. Cause materiali e finali dell’emersione delle terre in al-Ġazālī (e in Avicenna) | PhiBor Conference ‘Aqua et terra | al-māʾ wa-l-arḍ. Interactions of Aristotelian Elements in Medieval Philosophy, from the Bible to Dante’ (org. A. Bertolacci, M. Signori), Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca, 26-27 May 2023

Malak wa-falak. Noetic and Angelic Terminology in al-Ġazālī’s Maqāṣid and Tahāfut al-falāsifa | Conference ‘30 Years After Richard M. Frank. Al-Ghazālī and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam’ (org. A. Alfataftah, M. Lessman) | Yale University, Macmillan Center. Council on Middle East Studies, New Haven (ct), 28-29 April 2023

The Fleeting Flash of Prophetic Vision from al-Ġazālī to Dante | Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium ‘Dante and Arabic Philosophy’ (org. A. Kumar, P.M. Tommasino) | Columbia University (European Institute) & University of California Berkeley, online (Zoom), 13 April 2023 | Respondent: Sarah R. bin Tyeer (Columbia University)

Nomi e piaceri angelici in al-Ġazālī e nei suoi lettori | Giornata di studi ‘Filosofie dell’angelo tra medioevo e prima modernità’ (org. A. Rodolfi) | Università degli studi di Firenze, Firenze, 25 October 2022 

Ciechi e non vedenti. Inserti persiani nella letteratura filosofica araba su privazione e negazione | VI Convegno Bolognese di Iranistica (CoBIran) ‘Scienze, filosofia e letteratura nel mondo iranico, da Gundishapur ai giorni nostri’ (org. C. Saccone, A. Bertolacci) | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 20-21 October 2022

Avicennan Fevers. Imperceptible Illness in the Latin Avicenna and Algazel, and Their Readers | Conference ‘From Toledo to Gotha. New Perspectives on the Impact of Avicenna upon Sciences and Philosophy in Europe’ (org. C. Bonmariage, S. Moureau, N. Polloni, A.A. Robiglio) – Leuven, 14-15 October 2022

Chartula brevis. L'anima intellettuale come libro e come luogo tra Algazel e la Summa Theologiae di Alberto Magno | Conference ‘Da Baghdad a Firenze. Itinerari del sapere sulle orme di Alberto Magno’ (org. A. Bertolacci) | Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca, 6-7 May 2022

On the Origins of the Term coaequaevus in Medieval Thought. Between Latin Platonism and Arabic Philosophy | atew (Advanced Topics in East and West) series of research seminars (org. A. Bertolacci) | Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca – 11 February 2022

Towards a Philology of Scientific Illustrations in Medieval Writings. The Case of al-Ġazālī’s Philosophical Summa | lynx Research Unit Seminar | Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca – 9 February 2022

Ut limpidius hoc clarescat. Noteworthy Aspects of the Reception of al-Ġazālī in Albert the Great | International Graduate Workshop on Arabic Philosophy – musaφ (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy), München - 18-19 October 2019

At the Crossroads of Philosophy and Revelation. What Was al-Ġazālī's Real Aim in «The Aims of the Philosophers»? | Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Work In-Progress seminar – UCL, London, 14 November 2018

Why Didn’t al-Ġazālī Do His Math? On the Structure and Scope of the «Maqāṣid al-falāsifa» | Workshop européen sur la philosophie arabe – École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, 4 October 2018

Angels and Intellects. On the Link Between Philosophy and Revelation in al-Ġazālī's «Maqāṣid al-falāsifa» | International Graduate Workshop on Arabic Philosophy «Falsafa between φιλοσοφία and philosophia» – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 6-7 October 2017