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We are delighted to announce that one of the most active fellows of the Centre and Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, Isidoros Katsos, has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the project “Christian Human Rights: Ancient and Postmodern” at the University of Oxford.

The reception of German mysticism in early modern England, International Conference sponsored by the School of Religious Studies, McGill University and the Centre for the Study of Platonism, Cambridge University Montreal (via Zoom), 19–21 June 2021.The project consists in establishing the fundamental influence of German or Rhenish mysticism on Engl…

Lecture delivered via ZoomOn 17 May at 5 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the StudyofPlatonism will host Prof. Dragos Calma via Zoom to deliver his talk, "Pseudo-Proclus and not Aristotle. What Neoplatonism in the Latin West?". Often described(by some medieval and many contemporary authors) as merely a ‘compilation’ or a‘summary’ of Proclus’ …

Book launch | rescheduledThe launch of the book "The History of Religious Imagination in Christian Platonism. Exploring the Philosophy of Douglas Hedley" by Christian Hengstermann has been rescheduled for the 10th of May, 4-5.30 pm (UK time) on Zoom.This essay collection, edited by Centre fellow Christian Hengstermann (Wuppertal), provides an in-de…

Fellow of the Centre appointed as Assistant Professor of Theology and PhilosophyJonathan Lyonhart has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Lincoln Christian University, in Lincoln, Illinois. Role starting June 1, 2021. Jonathan Lyonhart was previously appointed as a Research Assistant as part of 'The Reception of Germ…

Lecture delivered via ZoomOn 12 April at 5 pm (UK time), the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Michele Abbate via Zoom to deliver his talk, "The absolute foundation of Beauty: from Plato to Neoplatonism".Prof. Michele Abbate is a Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Salerno, Italy. He deals with Platonic an…

Lecture delivered via ZoomOn 29 March, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Michael Chase via Zoom to deliver his talk, "Experience and Knowledge among the Greeks: from the Presocratics to Galen". Michael Chase (PhD EPHE, Ve Section, Paris-Sorbonne, 2000) is Senior Researcher at the Centre Jean Pépin (UMR 8230-École norma…

Lecture delivered via ZoomOn 22 March, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Charles M. Stang via Zoom to deliver his talk, "Henry Corbin, Platonism, and the Divine Double". Prof. Stang is Professor of Early Christian Thought at the University of Harvard. In 2017, he became the director of the Center for the Study of World…

Presentation by Douglas Hedley and Christian Hengtermann at the Cambridge Centre for Greek StudiesProf. Douglas Hedley and Dr Christian Hengstermann gave a presentation on their current edition project at the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies. The presentation, which was the second in the Greek Dialogues Online series, is now accessible on YouTube…

Advisory Board Meeting | 12.30 (UK time), 14th January 2021"The Latin Works of Henry More", The Advisory Board Meeting will take place on Zoom on the 14th of January, 12.30 (UK time). Anyone interested can ask for the zoom link.The schedule can be found down below

Book announcement | Former Scholar in Residence at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism Karen Felter Vaucanson has successfully defended her thesis on the Cambridge Platonist, Anne Conway, at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.Former Scholar in Residence at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism Karen Felter …

Zoom conference "Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders", organised on behalf of Tabah Foundation, and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism at the University of Cambridge.This is the recording of the Zoom conference "Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders", organised on behalf of Tabah Foundation…

New collection of essays, edited by Christian Hengstermann.This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings. Featuring Hedley's inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 2018, the boo…

On October 19 (2020), Dr. Stróżyński held a Zoom conference for the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. Dr. Stróżyński (University of Poznań, Poland) holds the zoom conference "The One as Giver in Plotinus - Metaphysical and Spiritual Implications" for the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. [October 19, 2020]Here below is the you…

Presentation of Cecilia Muratori's new monographCecilia Muratori is Research Fellow at the Queen Mary University, and Tutor of Philosophy at the Institute of Continued Education, University of Cambridge.She just published her second monograph, Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry's 'On Abstinence' (Cambridge: Legenda,…