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Archive of posts published in the tag: Fall 2016

Film screening of Many Beautiful Things: The Life and Vision of Lilias Trotter

Friday, Nov.  11   3:30pm-5:00pm Film screening of Many Beautiful Things: The Life and Vision of Lilias Trotter This 2015 documentary about Lilias Trotter and Ruskin is produced by Hisao Kurosawa (Ran) and features voicing by Michelle Dockery and John Rhys-Davies

Jerry Eisley: “Lost in Translation: The Challenge of John Ruskin and Lilias Trotter to Art & Culture in the 21st Century”

Thursday, Nov. 10   3:30pm-4:30pm Each generation seeks to translate transcendence and define sacred space for itself. John Ruskin and Lilias Trotter sought beauty and truth in their own time. The Washington Arts Group (WAG) does the same today. WAG is a non-profit…

Dr. Chris Ferguson-“Learned Tailor or Literary Man? James Carter in the Rise of Modern Britain”

Friday, Sept. 16th, 2016 Dr. Chris Ferguson (History, Auburn) will present “Learned Tailor or Literary Man? James Carter in the Rise of Modern Britain.” The London tailor James Carter published an autobiography, three other books, and fifty works of poetry. Yet contemporary reviewers,…

Dr. Adam Potkay: “Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era”

Thursday, Oct. 20th Dr. Adam Potkay (English, William and Mary) will present, “Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era.” His argument is this: hope, once a theological virtue and potential secular vice, features in the eighteenth century as…