On April 24th and 25th, Belk Library and Information Commons will host two lectures on British History.
“Working Texts: The Religious Dialogue as Literary Fiction and Historical Artifact in Early Modern England”
Ambrose Fisher’s The Defence of the Liturgie of the Church of England
Wednesday, April 24th at 2:00pm in Belk Library and Information Commons Room 421
Dr. Joshua Rodda, Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellow, will lecture on how early modern English religious dialogue works were intended to be utilized and handled by contemporary readers, based on the research that he has conducted in the 2018–2019 Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellow in British History. His lecture will include a period for viewing relevant and related selections from the Bill and Maureen Rhineheart Rare Book Collection on British History.
“Exile and Refuge in Postwar, Late-Empire London”
Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash
Thursday, April 25th at 7:00pm in Belk Library and Information Commons Room 114
Dr. Susan Dabney Pennybacker, Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will lecture on political exiles who arrived in London after the Second World War and their contribution to the British political culture. She will discuss London as a shifting and elusive host city, the seat of Cold War intrigue and persistent imperial ambition while at the same time a place of cosmopolitan opportunity and social-democratic aspiration. This lecture is sponsered by the Department of History, The Center of Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, University Libraries, and Bill Rhinehart.
For more information, contact Greta Browning by email browningge@appstate.edu or by phone 828–262–7702.
Written by Liv Winnicki, former Rare Books and Archives Reference Student Assistant
London Photo by Jamie Street
