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14/9/2019

Here's a quick round-up of some upcoming talks:

On 25th September I’ll be speaking at the annual conference of the German Society for Ancient Philosophy in Frankfurt (VI. Kongress der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie). My title is ‘The Unthinking Sage: Marcus Aurelius on Spontaneous Ethical Action’. Further details here.
On 5th October I’ll be speaking at Stoicon in Athens, also on Marcus Aurelius. My title is ‘For the Benefit of All: On Being a Social Stoic’. Tickets available here.
On 12th October I’ll be hosting Stoicon-x London and running a wrokshop session called ‘What Matters? Stoic Views about Value’. Tickets available here.
On 16th October I'll be speaking at Stoicon-x University of Sussex. Tickets here.
On 20th October I’ll be ‘in conversation’ at the Ilkley Literature Festival, in Yorkshire, talking about my new book Lessons in Stoicism. Tickets available here.
On 19th November I’ll be talking to the Renaissance research group at the University of Warwick about ‘Philosophical Lives in the Renaissance’. Further details here.

Looking further ahead, in March 2020 I’ll be visiting the University of East Anglia to talk about Modern Stoicism and in April 2020 I’ll be speaking at a conference in Lyon on Epictetus.

This week sees the publication of my new book, Lessons in Stoicism. You can find further details here and at the Penguin website. There have been a couple of nice advance reviews, such as this one at Five Books and one in the Evening Standard.

You can read an extract from the Prologue at the Foyles blog.

SOME UPDATES:

A review at In Common
A thorough overview by Donald Robertson on Medium
A feature in the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine
A review in The Scotsman
A review in The Guardian

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