14th September 2021 marked the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri.
We will be marking this occasion in the Autumn term with a talk by Mark Vernon entitled
Dante and Spiritual Intelligence on Tuesday 19th October 2021. Details on the PROGRAMME page.
Also in our Archive is a series of 21 recorded lectures entitled
The Pilgrim Way according to Dante Alighieri given by John Allitt in 2001-2.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 2nd July 2021 of Dr Stephen Cross, Fellow of the Academy and member of its Academic Board until 2019.
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The Extended Archive has been updated with all of the lectures given to the Academy by
the late Professor Suheil Bushrui and the late Jack Herbert.
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A page has been created in memory of our late President Emeritus, Professor Keith Critchlow
Please see New on the Website – Tribute page
In addition, many of his lecture recordings have been placed in our Extended Lecture Archive.
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We are very pleased to announce that the winners of the 2021 Thetis Blacker Award are
NIA & AGUS ISMOYO of Yogyakarta, Indonesia with their proposal
to create a film script derived from an ancient Javanese text on batik – the Suluk Ambatik.
We wish them well in this valuable endeavour.
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Please see the Programme for an up-to-date list of papers and other events.
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A rare film about the late Temenos Fellow Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, entitled The Paradox of Art, has been uploaded onto our Extended Lecture Archive.
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A Message of Support from our Patron (Click ABOUT tab above)
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Image credit: Chartres Labyrinth (Copper and gold on khadi paper, Daniel Docherty, March 2021)
In Memoriam, Professor Keith Critchlow
