The Place of Renaissance Humanism in the History of Philosophy 
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 
13, 14 and 15 June, 2013

Keynote Speakers: Michael Allen, Luca Bianchi, Christopher Celenza, Brian P. Copenhaver, James Hankins, Jill Kraye, David Lines, Peter Mack, John Monfasani, Lodi Nauta, Jan Papy, Andrea A. Robiglio

The organizing committee welcomes papers on themes such as the following:

• philosophical ideas in humanist texts
• the interplay between scholastic and humanist modes of thought and writing
• philosophical assumptions of humanist techniques in reading, writing and commenting
• the humanists’ contribution to the development of thought from the late middle ages to the late Renaissance
• the historiography of Renaissance humanism in modern scholarship 

We would in particular like to invite speakers to reflect on what they see as the philosophical dimension of humanism or what they see as important contributions of the humanists to the development of Western philosophy (which we take in a broader sense than the academic discipline of today). Speakers may also choose to discuss one of more case studies or a discipline (grammar, rhetoric, ethics, natural philosophy, methodology of reading and writing, humanist scholarship, and so on) on the basis of which something can be said about the place of Renaissance humanism in the broader narrative of Western thought.

Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a brief CV (max. 1 page) plus list of publications or lectures (if any) to renaissance-humanism@rug.nl no later than Dec. 1st, 2012. You will hear from the organizers in Jan. 2013 whether your paper has been accepted.

Announcements will also be made at our website: www.renaissance-humanism.nl.

Please send your enquiries to renaissance-humanism@rug.nl.

View this CFP online here.