Dear all,
You are very welcome to our final seminar of the academic year in a few weeks’ time, and a discussion event beforehand:
Monday 4th July
South Room (AG21), Leeds Trinity University
4:30-5:30
Roundtable discussion on ‘Victorian history-writing practices’
with
Ian Hesketh (University of Queensland)
Barbara Gribling (Durham University)
Geoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester)
Efram Sera-Shriar (Leeds Trinity University)
Rosemary Mitchell (Leeds Trinity University)
Helen Kingstone (Leeds Trinity University)
and others
6:00-7:00
Presentation and Q&A
Ian Hesketh (University of Queensland)
‘Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)’
7:30
Meal at a local restaurant
Dr Ian Hesketh, Senior
Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(University of Queensland, Australia), researches the relationship
between history, science, and religion in nineteenth-century Britain. In
this talk, he will be showcasing a controversy that hit Victorian
literary society in the 1860s: the publication of an essay depicting
Christ as human rather than divine, and as the founder of a theocratic
state. Ian Hesketh's talk will centre on the debate about the anonymous
author's identity and will unpack how that identity was discovered.
There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion, along with refreshments.
When?
4:30-5:30 and/or 6pm on Monday 4 July. You are welcome to come to one or both parts of the event.
Where?
South Room (AG21), Leeds Trinity University
How to book?
All are welcome to these free events; please email [log in to unmask] to confirm your attendance, so we can ensure adequate refreshments are available.
Best wishes,
Efram
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