‘Freemasonry and Colonial Power in British India’

    

Sometimes I think I’m psychic. On Sunday, I revved my favorite search engine to see if there had been an announcement of the next Sankey Lecture, which is silly because they do it in the spring. Unsurprisingly, I found nothing. Today, the organizers of the Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture Series in Masonic Studies announced the upcoming program. From the publicity:

2025 Sankey Lecture

Sunday, March 30 at 3 p.m.

Sean O’Sullivan Theatre

Brock University, Ontario

Lecturer: Professor Dr. Simon Deschamps of the University of Toulouse, France.

This annual lecture series is named in honor of R.W. Bro. Charles A. Sankey (1905-2009) and is part of the partnership between the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario and Brock University. The partnership established between the Grand Lodge and Brock University, St. Catharines, has proven most productive and mutually beneficial to both educational institutions. Its beginning was with the initiative of Heritage Lodge 730 to support and maintain the Masonic collection in the James A. Gibson Library, and continuing with the posting on line of the Proceedings of Grand Lodge from 1855 to 2010.

Dr. Sankey served as Chancellor of Brock University from 1969 to 1974. A renowned Masonic scholar, he was active in all the concordant bodies of Masonry including the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, the Royal Order of Scotland, and Royal Arch Masons. His extensive collection of rare Masonic books and papers is in the Special Collections of the James Gibson Library at Brock, providing a rich resource for research scholars and students.

Professor Deschamps has been researching and writing about Freemasonry in British history, with a focus on India and the East, for more than a decade, and has presented at lecterns of Masonic conferences you may have attended.

I’m looking forward to this. My psychic abilities notwithstanding, I don’t know what he will say.