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The Chicago Humanities Forum presented a public event at the Gleacher Center on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, from 5:15 to 6:00 PM by Elaine Hadley entitled “A Matter of Opinion: Why Victorian Liberalism Lingers.” Hadley is Chair and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College. Her current projects concern war, war literature, and war journalism in the Victorian period. Her latest book, Living Liberalism, addresses Victorian political culture through political theory, theories of embodiment, and the material practices of citizenship.

Sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Humanities Forum is a series of free public lectures conducted by University of Chicago faculty.

For more information on the Franke Institute for the Humanities, please see franke.uchicago.edu.