Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Time: 6:30PM - 7:30PM

Location: Boston College, Gasson Hall 100

140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

This speaker series, started in March 2021, serves to honor the memory and legacy of Brother Thomas Bezanson. It is hosted by Boston College as part of their interdisciplinary Perspectives Program, in consultation with the Philosophy Department and interested faculty members in Art, Art History, and Film, Music, Theology, and other appropriate units within the university. This 2nd lecture at BC (the 6th in the series overall) is scheduled for Tuesday, 10 March 2026 with Dr. Pamela Fletcher as the keynote speaker. Dr. Fletcher is the Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of the History and Criticism of Art at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. She specializes in the history of British art. Her work centers on Victorian and Edwardian painting, with a focus on questions of narrative, sentiment, and play in the context of 19-century exhibition culture. Her most recent book The Victorian Painting of Modern Life (Routledge 2025) tells the story of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings in the mid-19th century. For more information on Dr. Pamela Fletcher, please click here.

For more information on the ceramic work of Brother Thomas, please click here.