Activities and outcomes
Events
Events organised or co-organised by UnMaP
Events in synergy with other projects
15/04/2026 - Conference by Yoav Meyrav (Universität Hamburg), “From case study to reference corpus: what can we learn from Hebrew philosophical manuscripts?"
With the ERC StG “Polyphonic Philosophy” (PI: Caterina Tarlazzi)
Within the framework of the "Venice Lectures on Medieval Philosophy" of the Center for the Study of Medieval Thought "Sic et Non"
With the ERC StG “Polyphonic Philosophy” (PI: Caterina Tarlazzi)
Within the framework of the "Venice Lectures on Medieval Philosophy" of the Center for the Study of Medieval Thought "Sic et Non"
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9/12/2025 - Conference “Ideas on the move: Grammar, logic and the making of knowledge in the Abbasid Caliphate”
With the ERC StG “ALiDiM” (PI: Simona Olivieri) and Bishara Ebeid
Within the course "Classical Wisdom in Arabic" for the Bachelor’s degree programme “Ancient Civilizations for the Contemporary World”.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Milan.
With the ERC StG “ALiDiM” (PI: Simona Olivieri) and Bishara Ebeid
Within the course "Classical Wisdom in Arabic" for the Bachelor’s degree programme “Ancient Civilizations for the Contemporary World”.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Milan.
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23-24/10/2025 - Workshop “Words, Concepts, and Things: Problems and Methods in the Study of the Medieval Reception of Aristotle’s Categories in the Latin and Arabic Traditions”
With the ERC StG “Polyphonic Philosophy” (PI: Caterina Tarlazzi)
[“Parole, concetti e cose: problemi e metodi dello studio della ricezione medievale delle Categorie di Aristotele nelle tradizioni latina e araba”], organized with Caterina Tarlazzi.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage.
With the ERC StG “Polyphonic Philosophy” (PI: Caterina Tarlazzi)
[“Parole, concetti e cose: problemi e metodi dello studio della ricezione medievale delle Categorie di Aristotele nelle tradizioni latina e araba”], organized with Caterina Tarlazzi.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage.
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Outreach
Conferences and presentations
- 22-24/05/2026 - Giovanni Carrera and Silvia Di Vincenzo participate in the conference «Philosophy of Language in the Islamicate World: New Directions and Perspectives» at St John's College, University of Cambridge.
- Giovanni Carrera, «Inside the Lion's Den: On the Semantics of Generic Nouns».
- Silvia Di Vincenzo, «A God-Inspired yet Human Language? Avicenna on lafẓ and maʿnā».
- 10/04/2026 - Silvia Di Vincenzo’s presentation «The Burning Questions: The Category of Fire and Heat in Avicenna’s Short Treatises» – Séminaire “Le feu dans la tradition aristotélicienne grecque et arabe: philosophie, médecine, astronomie”, organized by David Lefebvre and Cristina Cerami, Sorbonne Université, Paris.
- 6/11/2025 - Silvia Di Vincenzo’s presentation «La résurgence d’un nouvel aristotélisme: Lire (et débattre) Avicenne dans l’école de Asʿad Ibn ʿAlī Ibn ʿUthmān al-Yānyawī (Yanyalı Esad Efendi, m. 1143H/1730)» – “Journée d’études-Autorités épistémiques et doctrinales entre falsafa et kalām”, organized by Ilyas Harifi and Yassir Mechelloukh, CNRS (SPHERE), Paris.
- 18/12/2024 - Silvia Di Vincenzo’s lecture “Philosophy at School: Intertwining Voices from the Margins of Arabic Philosophical Manuscripts” at the University of Hamburg, in collaboration with the HEPMASITE project. Video 18/12/2024.
Lectures and courses
- 5/05/2025 - “The Uncharted Margins of Philosophy: An AI-Enhanced Material History of Arabic Logic Across Time (12th-19th c.) and Frontiers (from Spain to India)” – Lecture held by Silvia Di Vincenzo within the “Digital History” Course held by Prof. Hasan Umut, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 24/10/2024 - PI’s presentation of the UnMaP Project within the framework of the Summer School 9th Annual Meeting for Reading Medieval Manuscripts, Cyprus, organized by Monica Brînzei.
Blogs and press review
- 27/05/2025 - Article in the section “Focus Ricerca” of Ca’ Foscari News: “Dai margini dei manoscritti all’intelligenza artificiale: l’ERC di Silvia Di Vincenzo che contribuisce a riscrivere la storia della filosofia araba” [ITA].
- September 2024 - Blog posts on “In medias PHIL: News and notes for the medieval philosophy community” ("A lot of news from September 2024") and “DailyNous” ("Philosophers Among ERC Starting Grant Recipients").
Publications
2026
- S. Di Vincenzo, «The “Avicennian Pandemic” in Context. Insights into the Spread of Avicenna’s Logic across the Islamicate World» in Frédérique Woerther and Jawdath Jabbour (eds.), “Persuading and Transmitting in Classical Arabic Philosophy”, Leiden: Brill, 2026: pp. 494-545.
- S. Di Vincenzo, «The Uncharted Margins of Arabic Philosophy: Challenges and Prospects in Surveying Philosophical Marginalia in Arabic Manuscripts» in Mario Meliadò (ed.), “Thinking in the Margins: Marginalia in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy”, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026: pp. 15-41.