Chaire Théodore Verhaegen 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Université libre de Bruxelles, « The Anderson Constitutions, 1723-2023 »

Chaire Théodore Verhaegen 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Université libre de Bruxelles, « The Anderson Constitutions, 1723-2023 »

Registration : CHAIRE THÉODORE VERHAEGEN (office.com)

• • Opening Lecture: 14 February 2023, 8 PM (Aula QA, VUB): « The Genesis of the 1723 Constitutions of the Free-Masons » by Andrew Prescott (Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow).

• • Closing Lecture: 27 April 2023, 6.30 PM (Salle Dupréel, ULB): « ‘Our Learned Author’: James Anderson of the Constitutions of the Free-Masons, and his other lives » by Susan Mitchell Sommers (Professor of History, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe (PA), USA).

• • Lessons : Main room CIERL (17, avenue Fr. D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels)
    • Lesson 1: Andrew Prescott: « James Anderson as historian and fabulist » (15 February 2023, 6PM).
    • Lesson 2: Andrew Prescott: « The Idea of the Constitution in the Eighteenth Century » (22 February 2023, 6PM).
    • Lesson 3: Susan Mitchell Sommers: « Bringing Microhistory to Esoteric Biography: The Strange Case of Ebenezer Sibly » (19 April 2023, 6PM).
    • Lesson 4: Susan Mitchell Sommers: « Too Good to be True: Masonic Mythology and the life of Thomas Dunckerley » (26 April 2023, 6PM).