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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, 3 months13 May 2025 ago
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Spring Salon : Baghdad’s House of Wisdom

| 3pm Sat 21 September in Parkville Brunswick | Guest Speaker: Dr Muhammad Kamal | Bookings essential | Donations accepted | At the end of the 8th century, while Western Europe remained struggling in decline, scholarship was revived in Bagdad, where the great translation project got underway. But how did Read more

By Bernie Lewin, 12 months4 September 2024 ago
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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 Read more

By The Platonic Academy, 1 year10 May 2024 ago

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