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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – College Year in Athens and the Princeton Club of Greece, on Wednesday, April 13, 12 PM EDT / 7 PM Athens, co-host a virtual lecture on philosophical interpretations and views on arguably the most fundamental inquiry asked by humankind: the existence of the divine being. The event, titled Between Pascal and Spinoza? Faith, Reason, and the Cambridge Platonists, features guest speaker Douglas Hedley, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of Divinity and Director of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, on key questions directly touching religion.
Facilitating the discussion will be Stelios Virvidakis (Princeton ‘84), Professor of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and member of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Philosophiques Steering Committee (International Federation of Philosophical Societies), the highest non-governmental world organization for philosophy.
Register online: https://bit.ly/3x5WUBD.
After registration, you will receive a Zoom confirmation email to join the webinar. You may ask questions through the Chatbox or Q&A feature on Zoom. If you cannot attend the “live” event but would like to receive a recording of the lecture, please register and it will be sent to you 1-2 days after the event.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
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