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Philosophy Classes

Platonic Love starting soon

There are still places available for our Winter Term course Platonic Love starting Monday 7 July (in Carlton and online). Perhaps your caught the stage play version of the Symposium last year. Now you can read the original. We will also be reading another of Plato’s most vivid dialogues, the Phaedrus. While this Read more…

By Bernie Lewin, 1 week30 June 2025 ago
Lecture

Winter Term bookings open

| Platonic Love from Mon 7 July | Eric Timewell Memorial Lecture Sat 12 July | Signifying Nothing: the invention of zero and the perils of saying what can’t be said The 3rd Annual Eric Timewell Memorial Lecture is a free public lecture at 4pm, 12 July, in the Greek Read more…

By Bernie Lewin, 1 month31 May 2025 ago
History

Autumn Salon: Raphael’s Platonic Vision for the Vatican

| 3pm Saturday 31 May 2025 | in Brunswick | Speakers: Martin Leckey & John Bigelow | Bookings Essential [BOOKED OUT] | Donations Accepted | UPDATE: WATCH RECORDING | Raphael represented ancient Greek cosmology in one of the most famous paintings of the High Renaissance at the Vatican in Rome. We show how Raphael uses Read more…

By Bernie Lewin, 2 months13 May 2025 ago

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