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On the 10th of May, 6-7.30 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host the Book Launch: "Harmony and Contrast - Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period", edited by Dr Anna Corrias and Dr Eva Del Soldato. The meeting will take place in the Faculty of Divinity, Lightfoot Room. -Plato and Aristotle were very much alive…

The Beierwaltes Seminars on Christian Platonism, hosted by the Cambridge Centre twice a year, revolve around key concepts of Platonism and their transformation in Christian philosophy from the Alexandrians Clement and Origen to the present day. After reading and discussing excerpts from the work of the eminent German scholar Werner Beierwaltes (tra…

THE RECEPTION OFGERMAN MYSTICISM INEARLY MODERN ENGLANDUniversity of CambridgeClare CollegeMcGill UniversityInternational Conference sponsored by theThe Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonismand the School of Religious Studies, McGill UniversityClare College, Cambridge, 6—8 April 2022PROGRAMMEWEDNESDAY, 6 April18h00                   Welcome D…

On the 16th of March, 10 am - 2.30 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host the Workshop "The Many Faces of Renaissance Thought in the Work of Ioan Petru Culianu". The lectures will take place on Zoom. -Organisers:Professor Douglas Hedley, University of CambridgeBogdan-Antoniu Deznan, University of Bucharest-Program:10.…

On the 7th of March at 5 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host Dr Paolo Livieri to deliver his talk, "The Good as an Idea. Notes on Hegel’s Definition of the Principle of Ethics". The meeting will take place on Zoom. -From an analysis of the closing paragraphs of Hegel’s Science of Logic, it seems that the notion of …

On the 21st of February at 5 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host Dr Anna Corrias to deliver her talk, "Longing for Sleep: Marsilio Ficino on the Soul's Descent into the Body". The meeting will take place at the Faculty of Divinity, in the Runcie Room. -Anna Corrias is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in…

Dr. Andreea-Maria Lemnaru holds a PhD in Philosophy of Paris Sorbonne University, co-directed in Religious Studies by the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She has published multiple studies on Neoplatonic metaphysics, cosmology and eschatology (especially in Iamblichus and Porphyry), religious experience as well as female metaphysical principles a…

On 7 February at 5 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host Maria Costantina Terss via Zoom to deliver her talk, "From Glory to Glory: Irradiating the Embodied Divine in the Byzantine Iconophile Pentecost Image.".Between the years of 726-787 CE and 815-843 CE, limitations on the expression of the divine through figural …

Harmony and Contrast - Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern PeriodPlato and Aristotle were very much alive between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The essays in this volume investigate the interaction, both in terms of harmony and contrast, between the two philosophers in early modernity, that is in a time when long-forgotten texts …

We are delighted to announce that Professor Charles Taliaferro is going to be a Scholar in Residence for the Centre for the Study of Platonism.Charles Taliaferro BA (Goddard College), MA (University of Rhode Island), Master of Theological Studies (Harvard Divinity School), MA, Ph.D. (Brown University) has been a professor at Sl. Olaf College for 36…

Maria Constantina Terss is a fifth year PhD Candidate in Stanford University’s Department of Art & Art History, under the supervision of Prof. Bissera Pentcheva. Her research focuses on Byzantine and Medieval art, and she is currently writing her doctoral dissertation, entitled, “The Synergistic Cosmos of the Liturgical Image. From Memory to Litur…

The present volume contains papers on Origen and the history of his reception which were presented at a series of workshops at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held at Oxford in August 2019. They provide multifarious insights into various aspects of Origen’s thought and his impact on different topics of theology, exegesi…

We are delighted to announce the news that a book, output of the ERC project, has just been published: Evan King's monograph on Berthold of Moosburg: "Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists". This publication is part of a new book series published with Brill. 

We are delighted to announce that Professor Charles Taliaferro is going to be a member of the Centre for the Study of Platonism.Charles Taliaferro BA (Goddard College), MA (University of Rhode Island), Master of Theological Studies (Harvard Divinity School), MA, Ph.D. (Brown University) has been a professor at Sl. Olaf College for 36 years where he…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Torrance Kirby has been awarded a visiting fellowship at Clare Hall. This is in order to pursue the joint grant held between the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and the McGill department of Religious Studies on German Mysticism in Cambridge Platonism.