Professor Angie Hobbs Featured at “The Good, The Beautiful and The True” in Oxford
BRUSSELS / OXFORD – On 2nd and 3rd May 2026, Professor Angie Hobbs joined a distinguished lineup of speakers at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, for the two-day event, The Good, The Beautiful and The True.
Hosted by Channel McGilchrist & The Scientific and Medical Network, the conference featured a keynote from Professor Hobbs titled “Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and a Good Life.” In her talk, Angie Hobbs discussed the role of harmony in Plato and considered how, when internalized in the psyche, it equates to virtue, mental health and flourishing. She argued that Plato’s thinking on proportion and harmony has its roots in the Pythagorean application of mathematics to musical theory and the cosmos as a whole, and showed how Plato developed their work and extended it to the human psyche and society, emphasising the vital importance of aesthetic education and early immersion in physical beauty.
See Professor Hobbs’s forthcoming public engagement events:
23rd-24th May 2026: hosting 2 debates at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in Hay-on-Wye: Sat 23rd 2pm ‘The God Debate’ with Rowan Williams and Michael Shermer and Sun 24th 1pm ‘The Age of Assassination’ with David Whelam and Sophie Duroy.
18th-20th June 2026: speaking in Athens at the World Human Forum Lyceum Project 2026.
20th-22nd August 2026: keynote speaker at the Pluartis Symposium 2026 in Pula, Croatia, discussing Platonic Ethics and Marcus Aurelius.
1st-5th October 2026: speaking at the Kardamyli Festival in the Peloponnese.