Category: Promotion of Philosophy
Lecture: ‘Get to know the Philosophers: An evening with Pythagoras’ (Boston, USA)
The wisdom of Pythagoras on virtue and happiness was presented at New Acropolis Boston first as a talk and then as a short humoristic skit available on YouTube for anyone […]
Annual Plato Reading Day (Miami, USA)
New Acropolis of Miami held their 6th Annual Plato Reading Day which brought people together to honor the great philosopher. Participants read dialogues, thought about them and discussed their perspectives, and […]
Lecture ‘How to deal with aging and death?’ (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
Lecture entitled ‘How to deal with aging and death?’ at New Acropolis Florianopolis presented by Prof. Helenice Vieira Piovezan, who presented perspectives from ancient philosophy viewing aging and death as natural cycles of […]
Life with philosophical meaning (Samara, Central Russia)
Probably every one of us at some moment in life has asked the questions Why am I here?, What should I do?, What is the meaning of life?. ‘Life with Meaning’ […]
Librarian Day at Oradea University Library (Romania)
Oradea University Library, in cooperation with the Librarians Association of Romania – Bihor branch, celebrated Librarian Day through a program that included presentations on literature, book value, the meaning of […]
New Acropolis participates in Vegan Mania 2015 (Chicago, USA)
New Acropolis once again this year participated in Vegan Mania 2015 with an interactive booth and Wheel of Virtues. Throughout the course of the day featuring non-profit organizations, eco-conscious merchants, […]
New Acropolis participated again in the festival ‘Sofia Breathes’ (Bulgaria)
New Acropolis Bulgaria participated once again in the annual festival ‘Sofia Breathes’. This time we prepared a workshop of archaeological reproductions for the children, and participants got to spin our […]
‘If you were a tree, which one would you be?’ (Stuttgart, Germany)
Prof. Harry Costin guided participants in his ‘tree workshop’ toward interesting knowledge about their own lives. Carrying out this activity in the middle of a beautiful park of the city of […]
Lecture for students of the Baccalaureate State School (São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil)
New Acropolis São Leopoldo presented a lecture to students of the Olindo Flores Baccalaureate State School entitled ‘How to live in difficult times without losing our values?’ Deise Oliveira, educational counselor, invited […]
Lecture on ‘The art of happiness’ according to the famous book by the Dalai Lama (Haifa, Israel)
A lecture by Elad Proter was held at the Haifa branch of New Acropolis Israel, on this always relevant topic, attended by a diverse crowd of young and young-at-heart people. […]
