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Lectures

Summer term 2009 Programme

Full details and notes for this programme available in acrobat file at bottom of page.

Reading Essential Texts
Afternoon Seminars
The study of key texts in small seminar groups

Macbeth
by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Leader Dr Joseph Milne
Text the Arden edition
29 April – 1 July Wednesdays, 10 sessions
Time 3 – 4.30pm. Please arrive promptly.
Venue The School of Economic Science
A study and close reading of Shakespeare’s play: the concluding sessions, continued from last term. To be followed from June 3rd by Anthony & Cleopatra.

Course cost
£60 or £50 Members of the Temenos Academy / Concessions
single seminars pro rata
Booking
Please reserve your place in advance and pay the course fee at the first meeting

Reading Essential Texts
Evening Seminars
The study of key texts in small seminar groups

Duino Elegies
by RAINER MARIA RILKE
Leader Jack Herbert
Text will be provided
12 May – 2 June Tuesdays, 4 sessions
Time 7 – 8.30pm. Please arrive promptly.
Venue The Essex Unitarian Church

Course cost
£25 or £20 Members of the Temenos Academy / Concessions
single seminars pro rata
Booking Please reserve your place in advance and pay the course fee at the first meeting

Lectures

Seekers of the Stone: Egypt’s Hermetic Art
DR ALISON ROBERTS
Thursday 7 May
Chair Dr Jeremy Naydler
Venue The Lincoln Centre
Doors open at 6.15pm
Lecture begins promptly at 7pm
Questions 8pm
Concludes 8.15pm promptly
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy / Concessions

Economic & Environmental Recovery:
From Downturn to Steady State

In association with Resurgence Magazine & Schumacher College

Creating a better world to recover from the credit crunch and the nature crunch
A day conference
FRITJOF CAPRA
ANN PETTIFOR
SATISH KUMAR

Saturday 30 May
Venue Cecil Sharp House
Doors open at 11am
Concludes 5pm
Admission
£25 or £15 Concessions
Tickets will be on sale at the door. Places may be reserved through Peter Lang, Resurgence Events Director:

peterlang@resurgence.org
Telephone 0208 809 2391

Providence and Natural Law
Four lectures by
DR JOSEPH MILNE

Lecture 1: The Ancient Conception of Eternal Law
Monday 1 June

Lecture 2: The Providential Order of the Universe
Monday 8 June

Lecture 3: Natural Law and Human Society
Monday 15 June

Lecture 4: Natural Law and the Mystical Destiny of Creation
Monday 22 June

Venue The Royal Asiatic Society
Doors open at 6.30pm
Lectures begin promptly at 7pm
Conclude 8.30pm
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions per lecture

The Universe of John Scottus Eriugena
PROF. PETER DRONKE
Thursday 4 June
Chair Dr John Carey
Venue The Lincoln Centre
Doors open at 6.15pm
Lecture begins promptly at 7pm
Concludes 8.15pm promptly
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions

The Sacred in Literature
PROF. SUHEIL BUSHRUI
Tuesday 9 June
Chairman Ian Skelly
Venue The Royal Asiatic Society
Doors open at 6.30pm
Lecture begins promptly at 7pm
Concludes 8.30pm
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions

The 2009 Kathleen Raine Lecture
Two Sides or One? Poetry as a Guide to Truth
A lecture in Memory of Kathleen Raine and L. M. Singhvi

DR WILLIAM RADICE
Friday 12 June
Chairman Prof. Grevel Lindop
Venue The Nehru Centre
Doors open at 6pm
Lecture begins promptly at 6.45pm
Admission free

Gardening as a Sacred Art
DR JEREMY NAYDLER
Thursday 2 July
Chair Julia Cleave
Venue The Lincoln Centre
Doors open at 6.15pm
Lecture begins promptly at 7pm
Questions 8pm
Concludes 8.15pm promptly
Admission
£5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy / Concessions


Advance Notice

Love in the Bhagavad Gita and St. John’s Gospel
A study day with Dr Ravi Ravindra

In association with EnlightenNext
Saturday 5 September 2009, in London


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Summer Term Programme 2009

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