All are welcome to join us on Zoom on a series of 4 Friday mornings (EST) in July and August 2020 for a series of presentations on 13th Century English Franciscans (and a few on the early Franciscan Summa Halensis), sponsored by the ERC Project on Early Franciscans at King's College London. Please register on Eventbrite in advance, so we can provide information and any updates to participants and send you the correct Zoom password for the meeting. Attendees can join for as much or as little as they are able.

24 July, 9-12am EST / 2-5pm UK time

31 July, 9-12am EST / 2-5pm UK time

7 August, 9-12am EST / 3-5pm UK time

14 August, 24 July, 9-12am EST / 3-5pm UK time

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

24 July

 9am: Nicola Polloni (Berlin): Roger Bacon on the Conceivability of Matter

10am: Simon Kopf: Providence in the Summa Halensis: Between Authority and Innovation

11am: Neil Lewis (Georgetown): The Debate over the Unicity of Truth in the early Oxford Franciscan School

31 July

9am: José Filipe Pereira da Silva (Helsinki): John Pecham on Human Cognition

10am: Riccardo Saccenti (Bergamo): The Form of the Body: John Peckham's Critique of Aquinas's Doctrine of the Soul and the Summa Halensis

11am: Martin Pickavé (Toronto): Roger Marston on Perception and Cognition

7 August

10am EDT: Fiorella Retucci (Cologne): Intersecting Wisdom in the Middle Ages: Thomas of York and His Sources 

11am EDT: Jeremiah Hackett (South Carolina): Roger Bacon’s Mathematical Theology: The Transition from the Method of the Schools to His New Method in Philosophy and Theology  

14 August

10am EDT: Giles Gasper (Durham): How to Teach the Franciscans: Robert Grosseteste and the Oxford Community of Franciscans c.1229-1235

11am EDT: Rega Wood (Stanford University): The Powers of the Soul and the Origins of the Formal Distinction