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On Tuesday 11th March 2025, the Centre will host Prof. Sean McGrath, who will give a talk, 'The Soul of Nature: Boehme / Schelling / Jung'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time).The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592

This event has now passed; recordings of talks given can be found here---On Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th June 2025, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference on the theme of 'Theosis'. As this year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, this event will explore this crucial aspect of theology and ph…

On Tuesday 4th March 2025, the Centre will host Dr John Vervaeke, who will give a talk, 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the faculty of Divinity, from 1-3pm (UK time). The talk can be joined via this Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592

On Monday 3rd March 2025, the Centre will host Dr Robert Wallace, who will give a talk, 'The God of the Philosophers: How transcendence is everywhere'. This event will take place online, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined via this Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592The text of the talk can be found here:

On Monday 10th February 2025, the Centre will host Dr Martin Shaw, who will give a talk, 'Beauty & Eternity'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592

On Monday 3rd February 2025, the Centre will host Revd Dr Aidan Nichols, who will give a talk, 'Acheiropoietai: Images made without hands'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592

On Monday 27th January 2025, the Centre will host Dr Catherine Dromelet, who will give a talk, 'The Language of Transcendence: David Hartley's moral psychology of self-annihilation '. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link:https://us06w…

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism is proud to announce the publication of a new volume exploring the philosophical history of the concept of participation from antiquity to modernity: Participation in the Divine, edited by Prof. Douglas Hedley and Dr Daniel J. Tolan. The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence i…

On Tuesday 28th January 2025, the Centre will host a launch event for Mateusz Stróżyński's new volume, Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect.This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5:30pm. It can be joined remotely via the following link: https…

This term, the Centre's Neoplatonism reading seminar will study Ennead I.8, in which Plotinus discusses the nature and origin of evils.This seminar will take place on Thursdays, 9-10:30 (UK time). For more information and how to join, please contact Ben Davidson (bcd31@cam.ac.uk). 

The Phenomenology of Spirit is perhaps the most decisive text in the history of German idealism. It was in this text that Hegel achieved, albeit in a provisional form, the structure of his mature thought that has come to be known as Absolute Idealism. It was this Absolute Idealism that furnished a point of critique for various 19th-century authors …

On Monday 14th October, the Centre will host a launch event for Prof. Anthony O'Hear's new volume, The Prism of Truth: Reflections on Myth. Further details of the volume can be found here: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666781014/the-prism-of-truth/#:~:text=After%20considering%20the%20limitations%20of,to%20taking%20religious%20mythologies%20seriously…

On Thursday 24th October 2024, the Centre will host a workshop entitled 'Cambridge Cabbalism', exploring the interactions of the seventeeth-century Cambridge Platonists with the Cabbalistic tradition.This event will take place in the Runcie Room. The programme is here: Participants will be able to join remotely via the following Zoom link:https://u…

On Monday 18th November 2024, the Centre will host Dr Curtis White, who will give a talk, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa: Two Writers Divided by a Common Faith'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link:https://u…

On Monday 4th November 2024, the Centre will host Dr Philippe Barthelet, who will give a talk, 'Ralph Cudworth's Hermeticism'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592In addition, on Tuesday 5th Novem…