Friday, April 28

9:00 Welcome Addresses

Session 1: Imago Dei

9:15 Isabelle Moulin (University of Strasbourg): Le vestige comme l’“autre” image chez Albert le Grand

9:45 Sebastien Milazzo (University of Strasbourg): L’imago Dei dans le traité De angelorum creatione

10:15 Discussion

10:45 Break

Session 2: The Limits of Nature

11:00 Fabio de Gregorio (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): Albert the Great’s Physics of the Human Soul in Judah Romano’s Commentary on Genesis 1,1–2,4 (1330)

11:30 Amos Bertolacci (Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca): Strategies of Human Divinization: Avicenna and Albert the Great

12:00 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Session 3: Platonic Themes

15:00 Alessandra Beccarisi (Università degli Studi di Foggia): Neoplatonic Theories in Albert the Great’s Gospel of Matthew

15:30 Dominic Dold (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): Albert the Great on Meno’s Paradox

16:00 Discussion

16:30 Break

Session 4: Epistemology

16:45 Paul D. Hellmeier (LMU, Munich): Of Bats and Eagles. What they See and what they Do Not See: Two Key Metaphors for Human Knowledge in Albertus Magnus

17:15 Thérèse Scarpelli Cory (Univ. of Notre Dame, USA): The Self-knowing Soul in Albert the Great

17:45 Discussion

18:30 End of Day 1

Saturday, April 29

Session 5: Empirical Knowledge

9:00 Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): Albert and Scientific Experience

9:30 Paloma Hernández Rubio (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico): Grasping the Naked Individual: Albert the Great on Common Sensation in De homine

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Break

Session 6: The Social Animal

11:00 Hans-Joachim Schmidt (University of Fribourg): Social Cohesion and the Defense of Private Life

11:30 Bernhard Blankenhorn (University of Fribourg): L’homme comme être social et ecclésial selon Albert le Grand

12:00 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Session 7: Virtue and Perfection

14:45 Tobias Hoffmann (Sorbonne, Paris): Albert the Great’s Early Account of Prudence

15:15 Tracy Wietecha (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): Becoming a Moral Subject: civilitas in Albert the Great’s Ethical Commentaries

15:45 Discussion

16:15 Break

Session 8: God and Human Knowledge

16:30 Franklin Harkins (Boston College): Divine Providence and Human Knowledge in Albert’s Super Iob

17:00 Meghan Duke (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.): God’s Infinitude in Albert’s Thought on the Beatific Vision

17:30 Discussion

18:00 Concluding Remarks and Discussion of Future Steps

18:30 End of the Colloquium