XIV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE SIEPM HOMO NATURA MUNDUS: HUMAN BEINGS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS Dear Members of the SIEPM, PORTO ALEGRE / BRAZIL, JULY 24 28, 2017 (e-mail: siepm2017@pucrs.br) The XIV International Congress of the Société will take place in Porto Alegre / Brazil, July 24-28, 2017, on the Central Campus of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS; http://www3.pucrs.br/portal/page/portal/pucrs/capa/). In this Second Circular, you can find further information on the following subjects: (I) Website of the Congress; (II) Procedures for Submitting Abstracts and Making the Registration in the Congress; (III) Languages for the Submission of Abstracts; (IV) New Deadlines of the Call for Papers and Registration; (V) Definite List of Plenary Speakers, with Provisional Lecture Titles; (VI) Information from the Bureau of the SIEPM. Again, we warmly invite you all to participate and to submit an abstract (1000-2000 characters, including name of the proponent, title, and description of the proposal). We kindly ask you to send the abstract to the following e-mail address: siepm2017@pucrs.br. The first deadline for sending us the abstract, as well as any proposal for an Ordinary or a Special Session, is September 20, 2016 (new deadline!). The second and definite deadline, with higher registration fees, is January 20, 2017. It will be a great pleasure to receive you in our country and to welcome you to Porto Alegre. Sincerely yours, and with our best wishes, Prof. Dr. Roberto Hofmeister Pich Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre RS / Brasil
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Santiago Culleton Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo RS / Brasil Prof. Dr. Alfredo Carlos Storck Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre RS / Brasil
XIV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE SIEPM HOMO NATURA MUNDUS: HUMAN BEINGS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS PORTO ALEGRE / BRAZIL, JULY 24 28, 2017 (e-mail: siepm2017@pucrs.br) I. Website of the Congress: Since the first week of August 2016, the website of the XIV Congress is open and working, in the following site: eventos.pucrs.br/siepm2017. All information contained in this (Second Circular) and in the previous circular (First Circular) can be found announced in the website of the event, which is set up both in English and in Portuguese. Please note that the registration in the XIV Congress can now be done, according to the categories of payment that were explained in the First Circular. II. Procedures for Submitting Abstracts and Making the Registration in the Congress: The process of registration in the XIV Congress, to be done online on the website of the event (eventos.pucrs.br/siepm2017). A confirmation message, sent by the organizers, acknowledging the acceptance of the abstract with its paper proposal will follow. These are the steps: (i) send the abstract to the organizers, with the paper proposal and further information; (ii) wait for an e-mail message by the organizers, expressing the acceptance of the abstract; (iii) access the website of the XIV Congress and to proceed with the registration, according to the due payment category, attaching the abstract; (iv) proceed with the payment of the registration, which, for the time being, can only be done via credit card. III. Languages for the Submission of Abstracts: Abstracts, lectures and communications may be formulated and done in any of the official languages of the SIEPM, for the purpose of participation in events reading papers and the publication of papers in proceedings or collective volumes based on them: Latin, French, Italian, English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.
IV. New Deadline of the Call for Papers and Registration For the convenience of the SIEPM members, the organizers have postponed the deadlines of the Call for Papers and registration in the XIV International Congress of the SIEPM: (i) The first deadline is September 30, 2016; (ii) The second and definite deadline is January 20, 2017. Payment conditions are proportional to the information given in the First Circular: basic fees for registrations paid until September 30, 2016, higher registration fees for registrations paid until January 20, 2017. V. Definite List of Plenary Speakers, with Provisional Titles of Lectures: Silvia Donati, Albertus-Magnus-Institut / Bonn, Germany: Human versus Animal and Vegetal Life. Some Medieval Views on the Scope and the Structure of the Science of the Soul, July 26, 2017. Rodrigo Guerizoli Teixeira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: How Human Beings Grasp Nature, July 25, 2017. Rafael Ramón Guerrero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain: Las relaciones de poder en la teoria política islámica, July 27, 2017. Steve Harvey, Bar-Ilan University, Israel: The Noble vita activa: The Philosopher s Relation to the Many, July 28, 2017. Katerina Ierodiakonou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: Byzantine Philosophers on the Sense of Vision, July 25, 2017. Fiorella Retucci, Università del Salento, Italy: Humanism in Great Britain: 13 th and 14 th Century, July 25, 2017. Jacob Schmutz, Université Paris Sorbonne, French: The Most Gentile Nation on Earth: Late-Medieval Theology and the Conquest of Brazil, July 28, 2017. Andreas Speer, Universität zu Köln, Germany: The Scientific View, 24 July, 2017. Jörg Tellkamp, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico: The Evolution of Rights in Iberian and Colonial Scholasticism: Ownership, Self-Ownership and the Court of Conscience, 27 July, 2017. Olga Weijers, Huygens Institute / The Hague, The Netherlands, Institut de Recherche et d'histoire des Textes, CNRS Paris / France: Human Relationships and Human Attitudes in the Medieval Universities, July 26, 2017.
VI. Information from the Bureau of the SIEPM: Due to its importance to the XIV International Congress of the SIEPM, we repeat here the information from the Bureau of the SIEPM, as seen in the First Circular: (1) To facilitate attendance at the International Congress, Brepols-SIEPM stipends are available for researchers under the age of 35 or from low-currency countries. The stipends are 500, or 750, if the journey is transcontinental. One need not to be a current member to apply for a stipend. Applications should be submitted via the online stipend form. The deadline for all applications is March 15, 2017. Conditions for the Brepols-SIEPM Stipends and the selection criteria are available at the SIEPM Website. (2) At its meeting in September 2016, the Bureau will fix a sum for Section-Stipends for which the Sections can apply. The Stipend Commission of the Bureau selects the stipendiaries from among the applicants. (3) Only SIEPM Members can present papers at the Congress. (4) The voting for the new Bureau will take place on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. For those members who cannot attend the Congress, proxy request-forms will be available on the SIEPM Website. (5) The SIEPM General Assembly will take place on Thursday, July 27, 2017.