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Public Lecture with Joseph Pearce - Sunday 11th May

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT - Shakespeare & Tolkien: Literary Giants & Why The Great Books Matter

With the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, we are delighted to invite you to a free public lecture with renowned Catholic author and international speaker Joseph Pearce, on Sunday 11th May in the Mary Immaculate Catholic Church Parish Hall.


Joseph is a prolific author, biographer and academic. With an inspiring conversion story, Joseph has published over 30 books on the spirituality, lives and imagination of some of the West's great literary giants, from Shakespeare to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and beyond.


Drawing on some of his best loved works, Joseph will be exploring the importance of these and other literary giants, and the essential role the Great Books play in both a classical education and our lives of faith.

Details are as follows:


Date:  Sunday 11th May

Time:  5.30pm, doors open 5pm.

Venue:  Mary Immaculate Catholic Church Parish Hall, 616 Ipswich Road, Annerley Queensland 4103

Registration:  FREE, please register here


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There will be an opportunity for Q & A with Joseph at the end.


Parking is available in the Parish car parks off Ipswich Road and Ferndale Street.

Who is Joseph Pearce?              

An English-born writer, Joseph currently resides in the USA. He is one of the most acclaimed literary biographers of today, with best-selling works such as Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Quest for Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, and Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile. Amazingly, Joseph is one of only a handful of Western authors to have met and personally interviewed Solzhenitsyn, whose seminal work The Gulag Archipelago is arguably one of the most compelling and comprehensive accounts of the Soviet regime.


Joseph has an incredible conversion story, which he recently discussed with Matt Fradd on the Pints With Aquinas podcast. You can hear him talk about this, and so much more, on the podcast here.


“Joseph Pearce is an amazing, insightful, and entertaining speaker. You’ll want to arrange or rearrange your schedule to hear him”

– Mark Brumley, President/CEO, Ignatius Press


“Joseph Pearce offers the most accessible introduction to the Catholic literary tradition of anyone alive today”

- George A. Harne, Ph.D. President, Christendom College


We are grateful to Hartford College, Sydney, for organising Joseph Pearce's first Tour of Australia. You can see the full list of Joseph's Tour Dates on their website here.

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