The Global Scholasticism Academic Network is devoted to fostering the exchange of ideas and interpretations concerning the global history of scholasticism across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
A collaborative initiative between the University of Messina (Italy), the University of Playa Ancha (Chile), and Sun Yat-sen University (China), the network – coordinated by Abel Aravena Zamora, Lu Jiang, and Nicola Polloni – organises events, supports research, and promotes dialogue on the global circulation and transformation of scholastic philosophy.
The network brings together researchers studying medieval and early modern scholastic traditions, as well as their receptions and reinterpretations in diverse intellectual cultures. Its activities are designed to encourage philosophical dialogue, facilitate the exchange of scholarship, and stimulate new research on the role of scholasticism in cross-cultural transmissions of knowledge.
In addition to conferences and workshops, Global Scholasticism supports collaborative projects, thematic clusters, and the sharing of teaching and research resources. The network’s website offers regular updates on ongoing activities, calls for papers, and recent publications by its members.
Open to all scholars engaged with the scholastic tradition and its global dimensions, Global Scholasticism welcomes participation irrespective of academic position or geographical location. Researchers interested in joining or collaborating are warmly invited to contact the network through its website.
Programme:
- 20 January 2026 CHENGSHEN SUN, 《观念的交织：17-18世纪西方自然哲学在中国的传播 (Eng: Interweaving of Ideas – The Transmission of Western Natural Philosophy in China between 17th and 18th Century)
- 13 February 2026 JENNY PELLETTIER, “Unity in the Plural: Mind and Action in the Fourteenth Century”
- 20 March 2026 FABRIZIO AMERINI, “Interpreting Aristotle: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and Gregory of Rimini on Matter”
- 10 April 2026 LYDIA DENI GAMBOA, “Lógica en el Colegio de San Juan de Puebla, México, en la primera mitad del siglo XVII”
- 4 May 2026 DANIEL HEIDER, “The Notion of Attention in Second Scholastic Philosophy and Theology”
- 26 June 2026 JOSÉ LUÍS EGÍO, “Las misiones y el comercio global, motores de innovación en la historia de la filosofía natural y la teología moral”
- 25 September 2026 MARCO AMBROSI, “Juan Bautista Aguirre: A Jesuit Moderniser of Scholasticism in Late Colonial Quito”
- October 2026 RYUTA ISHIDA, “Teleology as a Cross-Cultural Bridge: Reception of Aquinas’s quinta via in Early Modern Japan”
- November 2026 YU WANG, From Causation to Moral Imputation: Suárez on Human Action
- December 2026 ÁLVARO OJALVO PRESSAC, “Male Complexion and Virtute virile: Indigenous Male Bodies in the New World”