Activities and outcomes
Timeline of activities
2024
- April: Pietro Podolak teaches the course “Textual editing” (30 hours) at the DEEM 2023-2024.
- January - March: Sofia Orsino is Visiting Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge.
2023
- November - December: Timothy Tambassi is Visiting Scholar at the University of Cork
- April: Timothy Tambassi joins the project as postdoctoral researcher expert in digital humanities and ontologies.
- February: The Data Management Plan has been prepared by Pietro Podolak and Caterina Tarlazzi, in association with the other team members.
- February: This website has been created and launched by Caterina Tarlazzi, Sofia Orsino, and Ca’ Foscari ASIT support.
2022
- December: Launch of a selection process for a Digital Humanities expert to join the project.
- September - December: We have the pleasure of collaborating with Eileen Sweeney (Boston College), visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari for these months.
- September: Start of the project, with Caterina Tarlazzi (PI), Eugenia Delanay (Project Manager), and postdoctoral researchers Sofia Orsino, Pietro Podolak and Charles Girard.
- June - July: Selection for three research positions in the project.
Events
Events organised or co-organised by Polyphonic Philosophy
2024
- June: a workshop concerning the description of complex manuscripts is co-organised by Sofia Orsino, member of the project, and Irene Ceccherini [ITA], PI of the PRIN 2022 "Books of Science. Vernacular Mathematics and Medicine Books in Fourteenth-Century Italy"
2023
- October: a workshop concerning the edition of the C8 complex of commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories is organized at Ca’ Foscari University, with Heine Hansen, Enrico Donato and Boaz Schuman, members of the project “Exploring Twelfth-Century Philosophy: Alberic of Paris and his School”.
- May: informal seminar with Micol Long around research on 12th-century education and learning at Ca’ Foscari University.
- April: Caterina Tarlazzi, Sofia Orsino, Pietro Podolak and Charles Girard contribute to the event “The Renaissance Before the Renaissance”, organised by Irene Binini and Magdalena Bieniak, with the collaboration of Polyphonic Philosophy.
2022
- November: Pietro Podolak and Charles Girard contribute to the Informal seminar of the project with Eileen Sweeney.
- October: Polyphonic Philosophy hosts the international, kick-off conference, “Peter Abelard’s Logic and Its Network”, followed by the Venice Lecture on Medieval Philosophy by Sten Ebbesen.
Events to which team members have contributed
2024
- October: Timothy Tambassi contributes to the conference "Methodological Trends and Challenges in Contemporary Philosophy" at the University of Ljubljana
- May: Pietro Podolak contributes to the conference "Parole per dire Dio. Il linguaggio teologico nell’antichità cristiana" at the Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome
- May: Sofia Orsino contributes to the conference "Manoscritti, scritture, scriventi. Incontri di studio e ricerche in corso” [ITA] at Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
- February: Timothy Trambassi presented a paper at the Advanced Research Seminar (University College Cork)
2023
- November: Timothy Tambassi contributes to the conference “Nuovo pensiero italiano: riflessioni sull’etica della tecnologia e dell’informazione [ITA]” at Università degli Studi di Fiume & Consolato Generale di Italia a Fiume
- October: Timothy Tambassi contributes to the conference “La descrizione del patrimonio culturale nel paradigma digitale: strumenti, metodi e sfide [ITA]” at Ca’ Foscari University
- September: Caterina Tarlazzi, Pietro Podolak and Charles Girard contribute to the conference on 12th-century thought [ITA] organised by the Società Italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (SISPM) in Rome
- September: Sofia Orsino contributes to the 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) in Basel
- June: Team members of Polyphonic Philosophy contribute to a conference on Alberic of Paris and his context organised in Copenhagen by Heine Hansen
- May: Sofia Orsino contributes to the III Congresso Internacional De Paleografia E Diplomática [POR] organised by the University of Évora, Centro Interdisciplinar de Hístoria, Cultura e Sociedades
- May: Timothy Tambassi presents a slam presentation entitled “Thinking Polyphonic Philosophy Digitally: Some Preliminary Considerations” at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) at Ca’ Foscari University and contribute to the conference “uAnalytiCon-2023: Integration Challenge” at the Ural Federal University of Ekaterinburg.
- May: Sofia Orsino and Caterina Tarlazzi contribute to a seminar on logical manuscripts organised in Hamburg by the ERC-STG project HEPMASITE (PI: Yoav Meyrav).
- April: Timothy Tambassi contributes to the Workshop on Philosophy in Technology “The Philosophical Challenges for Technology from Various Points of View” at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology
2022
- September: Caterina Tarlazzi gives a presentation on “Pure Universals in the 12th century” at the University of Copenhagen.
Outcomes
Publications
- Timothy Tambassi, “On What There Is Not. XML and Rules for Making Inferences”, in «Logic and Logical Philosophy» (2025), pp. 1-15 (DOI: 10.12775/LLP.2025.007 – CC BY)
- Timothy Tambassi, “Is Extensible Markup Language Perspectivist?”, in «Organon F» 31(4) (2024), pp. 399-410 (DOI: 10.31577/orgf.2024.3140x – CC BY)
- Timothy Tambassi, “For the Sake of Simplicity. Applying Software Design’s Parsimony to Information System Ontologies”, in «Philosophical Problems in Science» 75, (2023), pp. 135-155 (DOI: 10.59203/zfn.75.635 – CC BY)
- Pietro Podolak, “Schemata Isagogica. Osservazioni sui prologhi di alcuni commenti logici del XII secolo a Isagoge e Categorie”, in «Noctua», 11 (2024), pp. 504-566 (ISSN 2284-1180; DOI DOI: 10.14640/NoctuaXI13 – CC BY)
- Pietro Podolak, “Sankt Gallen ms. 134 and the Unpublished Additionsto Pseudo-Rabanus super Porphyrium (P3): An Edition of the Text with a Study", in «Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin», 93 (2024), pp. 127-237
Other outcomes
- 2024: Podolak, P. review of “Long M. Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180, Leiden-Boston, Brill («Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance», 58) 2022”, accepted for publication in Cahiers de Civilisation médiévale 2024
- 2023: Girard, Ch. “Venezia: Peter Abelard’s Logic and Its Network”’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 65 (2023), 443-450
