Lecture 2 – The Future is in Your Hands: Palmistry in Britain and the United States
In the waning years of the nineteenth century, a palmistry craze swept through Great Britain and the United States. On both sides of the Atlantic, people gazed at the lines in their hands and searched for clues about their future. Join Dr. Joan Navarre in a fascinating consideration of Palmistry—or Cheiromancy—the time-honoured art that seeks insight through consulting the hand. Could wealth be on your horizon? Romance? A long life? The Future is in Your Hands.
Bio
Joan Navarre, PhD, is the International Vice Chair of the Æ George Russell Society.
A tenured Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA, she has authored numerous articles on the subject of palmistry. Co-founder of the Oscar Wilde Society of America, she is currently completing a documentary on Oscar Wilde’s 1882 tour of the United States. Joan owns and operates Merrion Square Productions, a film company dedicated to researching, documenting, and interpreting stories central to the Irish Literary Renaissance.
Caption: Frontispiece from Edward Heron-Allen’s A Manual of Cheirosophy (1885). Public Domain.
Divining the Past, Present, and Future: Oracles, Series 2 – Four Lectures
Join us for Series Two as we journey once again into the histories and mysteries of divination. Delivered by leading scholars in the field
Curated & Hosted by
Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She lives in Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesvos.
Attendees will receive a recording of each lecture valid for 4 weeks.
