Great Books Reading Group

About

We are delighted to invite you to join us for a Great Books study day on Dante's Inferno. The first of his three-part Divina Commedia, Dante's Inferno is a fourteenth-century masterpiece that showcases the profound depths to which humans can fall, but also the great heights to which human compassion and love aspire.

The poem’s vivid imagery as well as its ideas on justice and divine retribution have made this work a classic of Western literature. If you’ve been intrigued about this text and have wanted to explore why it has proven to be such an influential classic, we would love you to join facilitator Dr James A. T. Lancaster, Lecturer in Studies in Western Religious Traditions at The University of Queensland’s Centre for Western Civilisation for a day of lectures and close readings of the text.

Event details

Date: Saturday 26 October
Time: 9.30am – 2pm
Location: UQ St Lucia Campus

About the facilitator

Dr James A. T. Lancaster is Lecturer in Studies in Western Religious Traditions at The University of Queensland’s Centre for Western Civilisation.

Dr Lancaster specialises in the teaching of western religious texts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

A graduate of The Warburg Institute and University of Toronto, he has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London and The University of Queensland.

Expression of Interest

As capacity for this event is limited, we ask that you register your interest to attend. Participants will be notified on their acceptance closer to the date.

UQ’s Centre for Western Civilisation is grateful to The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation for the financial support to run events that both support student learning and leadership and that bring the Great Books to the community.

Please register your interest here by Sunday 6 October.

Resources for Dante's Inferno

A copy of Dante's Inferno will be posted to final participants.