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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. 

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…