2013

Reading Essential Texts Seminars

Selected Sonnets of Shakespeare
Leader Dr Joseph Milne
17 April – 3 July, Wednesdays, 12 weekly sessions
Time 3-4.30pm
Venue The School of Economic Science
Course cost
£72 or £60 Members / Concessions

The Sonnets of Shakespeare remain unparalleled in subtlety and beauty. They embody the English renaissance at its height, drawing from classical myth, Platonic philosophy, and Christian mystical theology. Yet they do not stand alone but were born out of the work of Shakespeare’s immediate predecessors, such as Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Walter Raleigh, and especially Philip Sidney. It was they who discovered the lyrical possibilities of the English language after experimenting with imitating the Latin and Italian poets in English. This is how the English sonnet form was born, and perfected by Shakespeare.

While concentrating on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, we shall take occasional glimpses at some of these poets, especially the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney.

Recommended books: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Arden edition), Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century, edited by Gerald Bullet (Everyman Library).

Lectures & Study Days

A meeting to launch
The Temenos Academy Foundation Course in the Perennial Philosophy
VALENTIN GERLIER, PROF. GREVEL LINDOP,
DR JOSEPH MILNE, DR JEREMY NAYDLER
15 April
Venue The Lincoln Centre
Doors open 6.15pm (refreshments)
Presentations begin at 7pm
Concludes 8.15pm
Admission free
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A one-day symposium
on the work of Temenos Academy Fellow John Michell (1933-2009)
Dancing with Plato & Fort: Crop Circles, Cosmology & Ancient Metrology
1 June
Venue The Art Workers Guild
10am – 5pm
Speakers: Allan Brown, Grevel Lindop (introduction), John Martineau, John Neal, John Nicholson, Christine Rhone
Chair: Christine Rhone
Guest of Honour: Prof. Keith Critchlow
Admission
£45 or £40 Members / Concessions
Note: advance booking recommended
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The Perennial Philosophy
PROF. ARTHUR VERSLUIS
13 June
Venue The Essex Unitarian Church
Doors open 6.30pm
Lecture at 7pm
Concludes 8.30pm
Chair: Dr Joseph Milne
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members / Concessions
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The Cloud of Unknowing and the Yoga Sutras
An evening with PROF. RAVI RAVINDRA
24 June
Venue The Royal Asiatic Society
Doors open 6.30pm
Lecture at 7pm
Concludes 9.30pm
Chair: Dr Stephen Cross
Admission
£10 or £8 Members / Concessions (includes refreshments)
Note: advance booking recommended
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A one-day symposium
What is Truth?
What is the common central truth of Christianity, Hinduism and Sufism and what truth does the contemporary human Psyche – secular or otherwise – hold in answer to this question?
6 July
Venue The Window, London N1
9.45am – 5pm
Speakers: Br. John Martin Kuvurapu, Sir Nicholas Pearson, Dr Faouzi Skali
Admission
£50 or £45 Members / Concessions (includes a vegetarian lunch)
Note: advance booking recommended
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Ancient Springs: the Arts, the Imagination and Our World
a conference at St Hilda’s College, Oxford
13-15 September
with
Prof. Jonathan Bate, Jules Cashford, Prof. Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble, Warren Kenton, Prof. Peter Kingsley, Dr Joseph Milne, Prof. Roger Scruton, Dr Rowan Williams
A concert of music by Joseph Phibbs, with Nigel Foster and Jeffrey Huw Williams
An exhibition of work by Gaynor Goffe and Tom Perkins
And the participation of many Temenos Fellows and lecturers
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Schopenhauer, Christianity & Indian Thought
a lecture and book launch
DR STEPHEN CROSS
26 September
Venue The Lincoln Centre
Doors open 6.15pm (refreshments)
Lecture at 7pm
Concludes 8.15pm
Chair: Ian Skelly
Admission free

Kathleen Raine Poetry Celebration
At Girton College, Cambridge
12 October

The 2013 Temenos Academy Thetis Blacker Lecture
Mythical Beasts
JANE DWIGHT
29 October
Venue The Royal Asiatic Society
Doors open 6.30pm
Lecture at 7pm
Concludes 8.30pm
Chair: Emma Clark
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members / Concessions

More lectures, seminars and events will be added

Information about our venues is available here

The Temenos Academy
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