ATWAP 2025
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This year’s topic for the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy will be Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia. Dates are tbc: watch this space for details!
News
Paolo Crivelli, Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2025
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Paolo Crivelli, who retired this year from the University of Geneva, will be coming to Toronto in the 2025 Winter semester (January to April) as CSAMP Distinguished Visiting Fellow. We very much look forward to having him with us!
Jon McGinnis moves to Toronto
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Congratulations to Jon McGinnis, who has been appointed Professor of Classical Islamic Philosophy, and joins us in the fall. We are very much looking forward to having him as part of CSAMP! Read more about the appointment here.
New postdoctoral fellow in ancient philosophy
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We are delighted to announce
that Ulysse Chantreuil will be coming to Toronto to work with Christian Pfeiffer as a Postdoctoral Fellow based at UTM. He will be with us for two years starting fall 2024. Welcome, Ulysse!
2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
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The program for the 2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy is now available here. It is open to all – come along!
Roberto Granieri from Leuven to Rome
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We are delighted to hear that Roberto Granieri (PhD Toronto 2021) has been appointed to a permanent position in the Philosophy Department at Roma Tre University. Roberto wrote his thesis at Toronto under the supervision of Lloyd Gerson, on Plato’s Sophist. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven. Congratulations, Roberto!
Wim Nijs wins Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Toronto
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Wim Nijs (currently working in Leuven, Belgium) has won a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, and will join the Department of Classics and CSAMP for two years in the fall. He will be working on the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, especially his thoughts on flattery, a subject to which Philodemus devoted a book of his work On Virtues and Vices.
ATWAP 2024 – programme available
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The program for the 2024 Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy is now available here. 
Come and join us in March!
Congratulations to Rachel Barney
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Rachel Barney is a winner of the Dean’s Research Excellence Award. Rachel is “internationally recognized as one of the world’s most innovative and creative researchers on ancient Greek philosophy” as the citation rightly says – read more about the award here!
Talk by Prof. Porro on Dec. 8 at 4pm
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Prof. Pasquale Porro (Turin) who is currently a visiting scholar at University of Toronto will give a talk this Friday (Dec. 8) at 4pm on “Do We Really Have a Natural Desire to Know God? Philosophy, Theology, and Faith, 1270–1320”
Further details can be found here: https://pims.ca/event/lecture-pasquale-porro/
Please note that booking is required.