Dr Katie Cross - Chalmers Lecturers 2024

The lectures in this series will address the scarcity of hope in the world today, and the way that trauma in particular challenges our ability to hope. They will begin with the cross and the way it has been interpreted both as a place of trauma and of hope. The second lecture will consider the practice of witness, particularly in the Easter story. Finally, this will be drawn together in the final lecture, which will consider how to generate hope in a traumatised world. In this series, hope will be presented not as a passive set of emotions but as an active and collaborative practice, one which draws on community, protest, and politics.