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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…

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 …