Sergi Castellà Martínez

Al tanto! "Las historias de la historia de Las mil y una noches", una conversa entre l'artista Chirine El Ansary, que l'ha representada durant dècades a l'Orient Mitjà i a Europa, i Margarida Castells, traductora (@EdKarwan)! 22.04 · 5pm · Aula 20.017 (Ciutadella) Amb baclaua!

Els compendis d'elogis de Llull ometen una frase clau del relat del caputxí: "que presque tous les doctes personnages de France tiennent pour Heretique, et pour moi ie ne l'ay tenu en guere meilleure estime": gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… p. 385 i ss.

[...] il avoit trouvé une medecine générale par l’or potable , avec laquelle il s’estoit conservé sain jusqu’à l’âge de cent quarante-cinq ans, auquel âge il fut martyrisé, et que cela ne devoit apporter aucun ternissement à la mémoire, au contraire la rehausser".

El missioner caputxí Pacifique de Provins torna de Pèrsia (1628) i s'atura a Mallorca, on també atura el seu relat per explicar una cosa "que j'ay curieusement notée [...] sur le sujet d'un saint personnage et des premiers hommes du monde": Ramon Llull, esclar.

🌆Al tanto! / Save the date!🌆 17.04.2026 · 4:00-7:00 p.m. Mapping Memory, Performing Solastalgia Workshop by Chirine El Ansary UPF Campus Ciutadella Info: upf.edu/web/cercca/ini…

‘Amada’ de Toni Morrison: la gran novel·la de l’esclavitud per primer cop en català @SegonaPeriferia Per @OriolReguSendrs elpais.com/quadern/litera…

Ahir, Diàleg Humanístic amb el Daniel Esparza. Una gran emoció i moltes cabòries! Llegir, menjar, beure. Literatura, mística, filosofia upf.edu/web/cercca/ini…

THE GEOMETRY OF CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATION Measure without Measure David ALBERTSON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, December 2025 global.oup.com/academic/produ… Abstract The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices? Do we do them justice by thinking of mysticism as interior and ineffable? Or can mystical experience intersect with the natural environment, and indeed the cosmos, which science calculates with precise quantities? David Albertson's The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure suggests a fresh approach to the history of mystical theology that is oriented toward exteriority more than interiority, and toward the measurable world outside more than the invisible world within. The ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus had taught contemplatives to close their eyes and withdraw into the soul. Most Christians followed his directions, but others dissented. In three critical episodes, an alternative model of Christian contemplation began to emerge: from Dionysius the Areopagite, to the Byzantine monks John of Damascus and Theodore the Studite, to eccentric humanists in medieval Paris. Together these episodes add up to a very different theological aesthetics, one that can enliven the modern study of mysticism and correct some of its imbalances. For in the centuries before the scientific revolution and the secularization of nature, Christians still saw God in the exterior world, not only the interior soul. God was not an ineffable and formless Absolute, immeasurable as the soul, but an infinite Measure who leaves behind geometrical traces in the figures of the world. The God who became a human body in the Incarnation not only entered time and matter, but also spatial extension, and with it the conditions of measure: points, lines, curves, shapes, planes, dimensions, and magnitudes. Today the wisdom of this counter-tradition can strengthen the study of mysticism, not only by supplementing our contemporary fascination with negative theology by redefining what it means to name God positively, but by suggesting a new connection between Christian mysticism and the hyper-measured, hyper-technologized world that surrounds us. Author David Albertson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he studies medieval Christianity and philosophy of religion and serves as Executive Director of the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. He is the author of Cusanus Today: Thinking with Nicholas of Cusa Between Philosophy and Theology (CUA, 2024), Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford, 2014), and Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology (Fordham, 2009). His research is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

There’s still time to pre-order my forthcoming book with @crossway: The Fountain of Life. This is a *very* short introductory book on God’s independent and full life written for the average Christian. You can pre-order it here: a.co/d/6KFiMne

"The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy" Edited by Stephen Howard & Jack Setter edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinb… Critical essays on topics and figures central to early modern and Enlightenment philosophy.

'The Mystery of Being' showcases the contributions of esteemed scholars in Heideggerian studies, delving into the inquiry of the mystical essence inherent in Heidegger's thought. Preview: bit.ly/4oNSXc2 Available now: bit.ly/48Uc9zc

'Weird Mysticism' identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/we…

Us presentem el programa d'activitats del Grup d'Estudis en Cultura Catalana (GECC) d'@HumanitatsUPF. Comencem demà amb una conferència d'Alejandra Rosenberg, de Brown University, sobre estudis visuals i metodologies feministes. Us hi esperem!

Gaudent brevitate moderni: longa enim solent sperni. Bernard de Lavinheta, ca. 1475-1530

19.12.2025 - 19:00h Dipòsit de les Aigües, UPF 🍓"Decreació" d'Anne Carson🍎 Mireia Calafell, Iria del Río, Elena Tarrats Festival Clàssics: Desig @CasaClassics 💆‍♀️💆‍♀️💆‍♀️ upf.edu/web/cercca/ini…

600th anniversary KU Leuven. On 9 December 1425, Pope Martin V authorised the establishment of a university in Leuven. This was recorded in a charter: the ‘foundation bull’ buff.ly/df4kyWo

"Cap feina no és, a darrera hora, inútil, quan el cor l'estimula" (Foix). Com podria ser inútil aquesta feina, si suma vida a la vida i possibilita l’existència d’una llibertat dirigida, orientada, en el si d’una llibertat absurda?