Upcoming lectures:

Tuesday, 23 February, 2010
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Margaret is delivering the 2010 Whelan Lecture:
"I Swear: Oaths, Curses, and Modernity"
Admission free - no tickets required

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Neatby Timlin Theatre 241 Arts
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
A book signing and reception will follow.

Friday, 26 February 2010
Toronto, Ontario
"The Eucharist — Gratitude and Transcendence"
Margaret Visser discusses the Eucharist as part of the Naming the Holy series.
This event is free of charge

Lecture: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Reception and book-signing: 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location: St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of Toronto
at the corner of St. George St. and Harbord St.
for more information contact Fr. Rob Allore at rob.allore@utoronto.ca

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The Gift of Thanks: The roots, persistence, and paradoxical meanings of a social ritual, has now been released in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.