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On Tuesday 24th October 2023, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Alexandra Roux, who will deliver a talk 'Science, nescience et dialectique chez le dernier Schelling: l’héritage de Platon'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room in the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The Zoom link can be found be…

On 23rd October 2023, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, who will deliver a talk 'Platon et la métaphysique'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room in the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The Zoom link can be found below:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592

On Tuesday 17th October, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Dr Matthew Nini, who will deliver a talk 'The Philosopher's Secret: Schelling's Platonic Doctrine of the Soul'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room in the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The Zoom link can be found below:https://us06web.zoom…

On Thursday 12th October, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will be holding a book launch for the new volume, An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists, edited by Douglas Hedley and Christian Hengstermann and published by Routledge. The event will take place in the Dean's Room (E3) at Clare College, University of Cambridge, beginning a…

On Saturday 28th of October 2023, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference dedicated to metaphysical feminine principles in Late Antiquity and beyond, in both paganism and Abrahamic religions. The event is organised by Dr Andreea-Maria Lemnaru (amaria.carrez@outlook.com) and Prof. Douglas Hedley (rdh26@cam.ac.uk). Plea…

On 25th September 2023, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference on the often neglected relationship between the thought of Owen Barfield and J.R.R. Tolkien, focusing on their understanding of the relationship between creativity and the divine. This event is organised by Douglas Hedley (rdh26@cam.ac.uk), Gareth Polmeer…

On 26th and 27th September 2023, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference to discuss the thought and poetry of Adam Mickiewicz, one of the great figures of Polish, and European, Romanticism. This event is organised by Douglas Hedley (rdh26@cam.ac.uk) and Mateusz Stróżyński (mateusz.strozynski@amu.edu.pl).Further detail…

On Monday 19th June, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference dedicated to panpsychism. The event is organised by Dr Anna Corrias (annacorrias_80@hotmail.com) and Prof. Douglas Hedley (rdh26@cam.ac.uk). Please see the conference programme (below) and contact them to sign up or for further details.This event can be join…

On Tuesday 20thJune, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Kevin Corrigan (Emory University), who will be launching his new book, A Less Familiar Plato: From Phaedo to Philebus, published by Cambridge University Press as the first in a new series, Religion and Platonism, edited by Prof. Douglas Hedley. In addition to Prof.…

The original role of the Forms was not to lead us to some attenuated elsewhere but to show us the real world. It is the dreamer in the Cave who is astray and elsewhere. Iris MurdochOn Wednesday 21st June, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, in partnership with Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and KU Leuven, will host a workshop 'The…

On Friday 10th March, the Centre hosted Prof. Charles Taliaferro, who delivered a talk 'Contemporary Philosophy on the Meaning of Life: A Cambridge Platonist Perspective'.This event has now passed, but a recording of Prof. Taliaferro's talk can be found on the Centre's YouTube channel here.

It is with great regret that the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism notes the death of Professor Michael J.B. Allen. A scholar of great distinction, Professor Allen made major contributions to the Study of Renaissance Neoplatonism, authoring important monographs on the thought of Marsilio Ficino.

On Friday 3rd March, Esmé Partridge delivered a talk, 'Platonism, Perennialism, Pluralism: What is King Charles III's Philosophy?' This event has now passed, but a recording of the talk can be found on the Centre's YouTube channel here.

On Monday 27th February, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted Benoît Castelnérac, who delivered a talk, 'The Rationale Behind Plato's Myth-Making'. This event has now passed, but a recording of the talk can be found on the Centre's YouTube channel here.

Dr Gareth Polmeer has been awarded a two-year Pearl Fellowship at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology to work on a project titled ‘Vision and the Invisible’. The project draws upon Plotinian ideas of likeness, image and form to explore relations between art, theology and philosophy in the digital age. Working from the tradition of contempla…