Billy Sunday, George Wesley Bellows, linograph on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
The Political Theologies of Populism: the Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905-1930 is finally out! If you didn’t preorder a copy then you can order one now. As excited as I am about the book I am even more excited about the UK book launch. It will be at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford on May 25th at 5:15 p.m. (11:15 a.m. Central). You don’t have to fly over to England to join me. The college will be live streaming. To get a link register here and then drop me a note via chat and I will send you further instructions.
It is going to be a great event. It will feature a roundtable with three preeminent intellectuals responding to my work: James Chiriyankandath, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law and Corpus Christi College; and Vincent Lloyd, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. I’m looking forward to hearing what they have to say!
While I am in England I’ll be part of four other public events:
May 27th, Chapel Service, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, 5:45 p.m.
May 29th, Book Talk: The Political Theologies of Populism (in conversation with Liz Slade, Chief Officer of the Unitarian movement in Britain), Essex Hall, 1–6 Essex Street, London WC2R 3HY, 7:00 p.m.
May 31st, Sunday Service, The Manchester College Oxford Chapel Society, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, 11:00 a.m.
June 2nd, In Conversation with…Markéta Luskačová, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, 11:00 a.m. (5:00 a.m. Central)
Unfortunately, the only one of these events will be live streamed is the conversation with Marketa. It is a difficult time for people in the United States. Still, I think it is going to be an incredible event and well worth setting an early alarm for. Marketa is one of the preeminent British and Czech photographers of last several decades. I have known her almost my entire life and I anticipate that this will be one of her last public events.
