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Category: Lecture

Autumn Salon: Sufism & Platonism

| Afternoon tea | 3pm Saturday, 18 May | in Doncaster | RSVP essential for attendance |

UPDATE: Recording of Bruce Xu’s talk (unedited)

Sufism: Light in the Cave
In the first few centuries following the Islam conquest, Eastern mystics called “Sufi” gathered huge followings, and some attained great political influence. Where did Sufism come from? There is so much more to early Sufism than the poetry of Rumi and the ecstatic dance of the Dervish, but it’s mystical teachings always present striking sympathies with Platonism. Bruce Xu will introduce us to Sufism and consider its historical roots in late antique neo-Platonism.
| Students, old and new, family and friends are all welcome. | Numbers strictly limited | RSVP essential via eventbrite |

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Eric Timewell Memorial Lecture

“The Geometry of Harmony” | Bernie Lewin & Achilles Yiangoulli | 4 pm, Saturday, 2 December 2023 | Kathleen Syme Centre | Free (donations accepted) | All welcome | RSVP necessary for attendance |

UPDATE: WATCH ONLINE VIA THIS ZOOM LINK
from 3.55pm Melbourne time

In 2023 the Academy decided to institute an annual public lecture on topics of interest that are outside the normal scope of its courses.

This first lecture will be exceptional. Eric Timewell had often discussed ideas for a stand-alone presentation on Pythagorean harmony. We asked whether this could be our inaugural annual lecture. Eric never said no. It seemed appropriate that this, our first “Eric Timewell” Annual Lecture, should be inspired by Eric’s previous talks on beauty and harmony and by some further developments for the new presentation that he never had time to deliver.

UPDATE: This lecture is not in place of a planned memorial gathering to celebrate Eric’s life. That occasion is still to be announced.

Winter Salon

| Afternoon tea | 3pm Saturday, 22 July 2023 | in Brunswick | a combined event with the Independent School of Philosophy |RSVP essential for attendance |

Our celebratation of the end of the Winter Term will begin with a talk by Martin Black and a brief response by Bernie Lewin. Martin’s talk, “Sun, line and cave: Plato’s images of the relation between image and reality,” will present an understanding of the famous allegorical section of Plato’s Republic (p. 504-521).

Members, students, past students, family and friends are all welcome. RSVP essential for attendance.