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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…

On Friday 24th February, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host John Rist and Anna Rist, who will be launching their new book, Confusion in the West: Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World, published by Cambridge University Press. The event will take place in the Faculty of Divinity Runcie Room, 5-7pm.

Workshop: The Rational Theology of the Cambridge PlatonistsCambridge University Divinity Faculty28th and 29th July 2022Organised by the Cambridge Platonist Research Caucus and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of PlatonismThursday, 28th July, 5.00: Beierwaltes Lecture Thomas Hanke, Münster: “Aspects of the ‘inner Christ’: rational soteriology as …

On the 23of May, 5-6.30 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host Professor Dominique Poirel, who will hold the seminar: "Pseudo-Dionysius and the West. The stages and effects of his reception on medieval Latin thinkers". The meeting will be on zoom.Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96518124617?pwd=TGx3R0x4UVk1K2E1b…

Thursday 19th May, 6 PMThe Cambridge Center for the Study of Platonism Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9BSZoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96303164461?pwd=cDU5bVlTT3MyR3V5VDJDd1dhelgzUT09A long debate about the nature and causes of forms has been going on at least since the time of ancient Greece, an…

Making Forms. Matter, Life, and Plastic Natures from Classical Antiquity to Romanticism19th and 20th of May 2022 Organised by Anna Corrias (University of Cambridge) and Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge)Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, Sidgwick Site, West Road Cambridge CB3 9BS Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91785948199?pwd=b2hFRm1…

On the 9th of May, 5-6.30 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host Professor Jean-Marc Narbonne, who will hold the seminar: "Religion, Rhetoric and Politics in Sophocles‘ Antigone: some reflections". The meeting will be in hybrid mode and will take place in the Faculty of Divinity, Lightfoot Room. -Is Sophocles’ Antigon…