Goodbye Heythrop, Farewell Kensington Square - Dr Peter Vardy

Dr Peter Vardy - Reading the Signs of the Times
Heythrop Association of Alumni and Staff Conference
Saturday 5th May 2018

[@Pumpernickellll]

Wow, that was absolutely fabulous.

[@goldsburypeter116]

I spent a few years in the Jesuits, but I did not go to Heythrop. Instead, I was sent to France, to study at the Jesuit philosophate at Chantilly. I had a very brief acquaintance with Heythrop just before leaving the order altogether. At that time, it did not seem to have a good reputation and my own path was marked out as novitiate (at Harlaxton), philosophy (in France), degree (Campion Hall, Oxford), regency (probably Stonyhurst), theology (Gregorian in Rome), tertianship (at St Beuno's in Wales). After leaving, I started my Ph.D at Harvard and finished it at University College London. UCL was the place where a brilliant professor (Myles Burnyeat) had moved to after a temporary lectureship at Harvard. He later moved to All Soul's Oxford and I finished my Ph.D with Richard Sorabji at King's College London. I moved to Japan and spent many years as a professor at Hiroshima University. My areas were Aristotle and Wittgenstein and two of my favorite teachers were Anscombe and Geach.