‘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.

     

‘Freemasonry: the Daughter of the Enlightenment’

    

It’s not on their website yet, but the 2024 Charles A. Sankey Lecturer will be Professor Cécile Révauger. That’s both in person and online, to wit:

2024 Charles A. Sankey Lecture

in Masonic Studies

Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m.

Sean O’Sullivan Theatre

Brock University

Professor Cécile Révauger,

Professor Emerita of English

at Bordeaux University, France

on “Freemasonry, the Daughter

of the Enlightenment:

from Religious Tolerance

to Universalism”

Generously sponsored by the Grand Lodge of AF&AM of Canada in the Province of Ontario. To attend in person at BrockU, please reserve your ticket(s) online here and clicking on the tickets link. Tickets are free.

There will also be a livestream for those who cannot attend. Click here.

     

‘Skeletons in the Lodge Hall’

     

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If you think I know where Freemasonry’s skeletons are buried, wait until you hear from Heather! The perfect choice for the Sankey Lecture, Heather Calloway is the Executive Director of Indiana University’s Center for Fraternal Collections and Research.

She’s got a million stories. Attend the lecture in person or online. Don’t cost nothin’.

     

‘Sankey Lecture next month’

    

Ontario Freemasonry has the kind of relationship with Brock University that I wish grand lodges in the United States would cultivate with academia. (Like this.) Since 2009, the brethren there have the Sankey Centre for Masonic Studies at Brock.

The center drives research into Freemasonry’s importance in Canadian society and in the world. Specifically, its purposes include hosting Masonic scholars for lectures. Charles Sankey was a leader in Masonic education during the last century. His personal Masonic book collection and papers are found in one of Brock’s libraries. The inaugural Charles A. Sankey Lecture was hosted in 2010 (check out 2012’s), and the next one will take place April 10.

     

‘Jacob is ’21 Sankey Lecturer’

     

The prestigious annual Sankey Lecture in Ontario is reverting to its customary schedule this spring with a highly promising event to be streamed live.

Professor Margaret Jacob, who deserves a fair share of the credit for the 21st century revival of interest in Freemasonry, will take to the lectern four weeks from today.

Jacob is the author of The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (1981); Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (1991); The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions (2005); and others.

The graphic above has the particulars. Click here to attend.

     

Sankey Lecture on Sunday

     

I just learned the 2020 Sankey Lecture, postponed in March, is rescheduled for...Sunday! Free and online.

Professor Cécile Révauger, University of Bordeaux, on “Enlightenment, Gender and Race: Personal Reflections on Leading Issues in Masonic Studies.”

‘Cécile Révauger to present Sankey Lecture’

     

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One of these years I will travel to Ontario to visit the fine lodges there and to attend a Sankey Lecture, but I won’t be able to do it this time.

That’s a shame because the lecturer for the 11th annual Sankey Lecture will be Professor Cécile Révauger, of the University of Bordeaux, who will present “Enlightenment, Gender, and Race: Personal Reflections on Leading Issues in Masonic Studies.”

The lecture is scheduled for Sunday, March 22 (note the new date) at 3 p.m., and will take place again inside the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre at Brock University, located at 500 Glenridge Avenue in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Admission is free, and there is a limit of five tickets per request. Click here.
     

‘Sankey in September’

     
The 2018 Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture has been rescheduled for Sunday, September 9.

Hosted by the History Department of Brock University in Ontario, in cooperation with the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, the annual affair will host William D. Moore, who will present “Catechism, Spectacle, Burlesque: American Fraternal Ritual Performance, 1733-1933.”

Moore is director of the American and New England Studies Program, and is associate professor of American Material Culture of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University.

The event will take place in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre at Brock University. All are welcome, and tickets are available here.
     

‘Sankey Lecture postponed’

     
Thanks to the vicissitudes and inclemencies of this cold spring season, the Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture, that would have taken place today, has been postponed. Look for a September or October rescheduled date to hear William Moore. From the publicity:

Charles Sankey

This annual lecture series is named in honor of RW 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 Masonry. 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 continues with the posting online of the Proceedings of Grand Lodge from 1855 to 2010.