As part of our commitment to linguistic diversity, the programme features lectures and discussions delivered in several languages, including Spanish, Chinese, and English. English-language transcripts and supporting materials will be provided for all sessions not conducted in English.
Zoom link for all meetings: https://bit.ly/globschol2026
20 January 2026
4 pm Beijing | 9 am Brussels | 5 am Santiago del Chile – Zoom link
CHENGSHENG 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 During the 17th and 18th Centuries
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Bio: Sun Chengsheng is Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Tsinghua University. His research concerns the history of scientific exchanges between China and the West from the 17th to the 20th centuries, with particular focus on the dissemination of Western natural philosophy, scientific instruments, and geology in China. His publications include The Intercultural Weaving of Ideas: the Transmission and Transformation of Western Natural Philosophy in Late Ming and Early Qing China (2018), and Amadeus W. Grabau and Paleontology in China (2024). He was awarded the “Zhu Kezhen Junior Award” by the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM) in 2011.
13 February 2026
10 pm Beijing | 3 pm Brussels | 10 am Santiago del Chile – Zoom link
JENNY PELLETIER, “Unity in the Plural: Mind and Action in the Fourteenth Century”
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Bio: Originally from Canada, Jenny Pellettier is an assistant professor of philosophy at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Her area of expertise lies in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, and increasingly political and social philosophy in the thought of William of Ockham and the Franciscan tradition (13th-14th centuries).
20 March 2026
9.30 pm Beijing | 2.30 pm Brussels | 9.30 am Santiago del Chile – Zoom link
FABRIZIO AMERINI, “Interpreting Aristotle: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and Gregory of Rimini on Matter”
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Bio: Fabrizio Amerini is Associate Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Parma. His research focuses on medieval logic and metaphysics, with particular attention to fourteenth-century debates on universals, mereology, and intentionality, as well as to the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis. His recent publications include Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis: On Concepts and Intentional Objects (2026) and the edited volume Thinking and Calculating (2022).
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”
Global Scholasticism 