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On 24 October 2019 Prof. Predrag Cicovacki presented his a talk entitled 'Tolstoy and Platonism' to the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism.

On 28 October 2019 Dr Alan Cardew delivered a talk to the Centre, entitled 'Divine Games: Nicholas of Cusa The Game of Spheres and Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game'.

Colloquium Adamantianum is a workshop hosted by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism twice a year. Each of the Colloquia revolves around the research of one pre-eminent contemporary scholar on Origen and the Alexandrian tradition, exploring the Platonist origins of Christian metaphysics. On 12 October 2019, the Centre hosted Prof. Mark E…

Many people today fear that there will be no future for our planet and all the living beings which live on it without a radical evolution of our current world. This cannot happen without changing our way of bringing up and educating children, of relating to our natural and cultural environment, and of conceiving of theory and culture. Two contribut…

Beierwaltes Seminar VThe One, the principle of all being and thought and as such, famously, “beyond” both “in rank and power”, cannot be the object of discursive thought and hence defies all attempt at conceptual definition. However, the soul can become one with it in rare insights described with great imaginative vigour in Plato and Plotinus as we…

Beierwaltes Lecture

Beierwaltes LectureThe Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted Prof. John Rist for his Beierwaltes Lecture, entitled 'Popper's Plato Revisited', on 10 June. The lecture was followed by a second talk on 11 June.

ConferenceThe Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism was well represented at the Jacob Boehme in Britain conference 23rd-25th of May 2019 in Coventry, hosted by Centre fellow Dr. Cecilia Muratori. Centre members Dr James Bryson and Dr Christian Hengstermann both presented papers.

Conference in Rome, 1-3 June.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism was well represented at the Foro Di Studi Avanzati in Rome at Santa Lucia Filippini from 1-3 June. In attendance were Centre Director, Prof. Douglas Hedley, Centre Members Prof. Stephen Gersh and Prof. Jean-Marc Narbonne, and Centre Members Dr. James Bryson, Dr. Isidoros K…

Featuring a key note address by Simon May, author of 'Love A History', and a panel discussion between Sir Roger Scruton, John Cottingham, Simon May, and Douglas Hedley.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism collaborated with CRAASH, from whom Centre fellow Dr. James Bryson was awarded conference funding, to host the  'The Ontology of Love'…

Workshop about the works of Joseph Beaumont and Henry More.On the 2nd of May the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted a workshop on the controversy surrounding Henry More’s Grand Mystery of Godliness, spearheaded by High Churchmen like Joseph Beaumont, Master of Peterhouse, who attacked More for his doctrine of the pre-existence of th…

Workshop devoted to the Latin works of Henry More.From the 10 to 11th of May the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, together with the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, held its third  conference on the Opera Omnia (1679) of Henry More in Bochum. The event was organised by Benedikt Goecke, Christian Hengstermann and Douglas Hedley. The conference …

£225,973.27 awarded to the Centre as part of Dr Corrias' Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism has been awarded £225,973.27 as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. The Primary Investigator is Professor Douglas Hedley, and the grant will fund Dr Anna Corrias' research from 1 September 2019 until 31 August 20…

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science has awarded a multi-year grant "Living Ideas: Dynamic Philosophies of Life and Matter, 1650–1850", which the Centre is collaborating in.The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is awarding a multi-year grant to "Living Ideas: Dynamic Philosophies of Life and Matter, 1650–1850", an international p…

A British Academy funded conference devoted to the sources, reception, and thought of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth.Centre Fellow Dr. Adrian Mihai hosted the conference 'Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity', 11 March 2019, with funds won as part of his post-doctoral fellowship from The British Academy. The Conference, which coinc…