Temenos Academy Newsletter April 2023
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NEWSLETTER APRIL 2023
SUMMER TERM PROGRAMME
READING ESSENTIAL TEXTS SEMINARS Shakespeare’s
Julius Caesar Continuing from last term 26 April – 28 June, 2.30 – 4pm (Wednesdays, 10 meetings) Venue The School of Philosophy and Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ. Nearest Underground Bond Street. Cost £100 or £75 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions. Full-time students and Temenos Academy Young Scholars, £40. Those attending must be 18 or over
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience Dr Susanne Sklar Does Innocence change when accompanied by Experience? How do Innocence and Experience interrelate? How do ecology and theology coalesce? Can compassion transform society? In this six-week course we will have the luxury of carefully reading each poem in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. We will read each poem aloud and, with the help of the Blake Archive, compare different versions of selected poems. Blake’s illuminated poems may seem simple, but they contain layers of meaning and allusion. Preferred texts (i) the Dover Publications facsimile of the 1789 Songs of Innocence and of Experience (available second-hand or as an e-book from the Dover Publications website); (ii) the Oxford University Press facsimile of Blake's 1826 illuminated printing of the Songs. DR SUSANNE SKLAR has taught Blake in Russia, China, and Sweden as well as in the USA (Northwestern University, Carthage College) and the UK (Oxford). She is the author of Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’ As Visionary Theatre (OUP, 2011). Susanne has a DPhil in theology and writes about biblical women as well as William Blake. 1 June – 6 July, 6.30 for 6.45 – 8.30pm (Thursdays, 6 meetings) Venue First Floor Conference Room, Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT. Nearest Underground Baker Street. Cost £60 or £45 Members of the Temenos Academy
/ Concessions.
Advance booking only please
LECTURES & STUDY DAYS
Kathleen Raine, Architect of Paradise The Transforming Power of Love in Islamic Mystical Thought YOUNG SCHOLARS DAY A Surprised Whole, Loving the Dust of the Universe THE FIFTH JOHN MICHELL SYMPOSIUM Shakespeare and Astrology: How Spiritual Philosophy and Esoteric
Thought Illuminate Shakespeare’s Plays
The Lion & the Nightingale: A Defence of Romantic Love A Quest for Wisdom – how do we craft a philosophy for life?
FOUNDATION
COURSE IN THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
The new Study Year gives students the opportunity to further their studies by committing to produce a much more substantial body of work than the six short essays written during the 2-year course. Study Year students will write a dissertation of between 15,000 and 20,000 words under the guidance of one of the Foundation Course tutors. To proceed to the Study Year, prospective students will be required to have successfully completed the 2-year Foundation Course. Detailed information about the course and its cost is available on request, or from our website https://temenosacademy.org/study-year/ Applications are open for the coming year, start dates may be flexible.
MA POETICS OF IMAGINATION The MA Poetics of Imagination course explores orality, myth and the imagination, examining how we have conjured stories from the earliest times to the present day. Led by Dr Valentin Gerlier with mythologist Dr Martin Shaw and poet Alice Oswald, the course tracks the persistence of motifs and practices from oral traditions, examining the work of ancient to contemporary storytellers, writers and artists. We will explore a wide range of materials from ancient myths, great storytellers such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Blake, stories and texts from Arthurian and Celtic traditions, up to figures such as W B Yeats, James Joyce and Ted Hughes. From physically tracking folktales across the wilds of Dartmoor to three-day tellings of myths that form much of the crucible of modernity, this course asks the question: what does it mean to think in story, and what stories are trying to be told right now? For more information and to apply, please refer to https://campus.dartington.org/poetics-of-imagination/
WEBSITE ARCHIVE The website Archive hosts many audio and video recordings of lectures, digital versions of all thirteen issues of the journal TEMENOS, and the texts of seventy articles from Temenos Academy Review. New material is added regularly. https://temenosacademy.org/main-lecture-archive https://temenosacademy.org/temenos-journal-archive https://temenosacademy.org/temenos-academy-review-archive
Many of our audio recordings are available as PODCASTS.
PAYPAL GIVING FUND UK The Temenos Academy is registered with PayPal Giving Fund UK. When using PayPal if you choose you may also make a donation in support of the Temenos Academy. Thank you.
FURTHER INFORMATION Telephone 07513 883 335 Email temenos...@myfastmail.com
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