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 The Larkin-Stuart LecturesThe Larkin-Stuart Lectures, endowed in 1969, are co-sponsored by Trinity College and St. Thomas’s Anglican Church. Among the most prestigious given on the University of Toronto campus, the lectures vary in topic, but all are based broadly on the subject of theology. The list of lecturers is long and distinguished and includes Robertson Davies, Northrop Frye, P.D. James, Michael Ignatieff, Father Owen Lee, Burton Mack, Rabbi Dow Marmur, Atom Egoyan, Charles Taylor, Mark Kingwell, David Halton,and the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. March 13 & 14, 8:00 p.m. Lecture Title: "The Morning Star is the Evening Star" Subtitle: "Christian Writers And Liberal Readers"In this two part lecture series Mr. Gopnik will discuss how non-believing critics attempt to parse and appreciate the work of poets, mostly English -- Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and W.H. Auden in particular -- for whom Christian belief is essential.
The lectures are named for Gerald Larkin, the College’s most generous benefactor, who died in 1961, and Canon Cecil Stuart, longtime former Rector of St. Thomas’s Church, who died in 1966. The 2010/11 Series was held on Feb. 14 & 15 in the George Ignatieff Theatre. The honoured guest speaker was Erna Paris, winner of 10 national and international awards. She is the author of seven acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History won the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Canadian Jewish Book Award for History. Her lecture was titled "Justice, Justice, Shalt Thou Pursue: The International Criminal Court and the Return of Universal Law." Recent Larkin-Stuart Lectures
The complete list of Larkin-Stuart lecturers and lecture titles is also available online. |
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