UPCOMING PUBLIC LECTURES
Picking Popes: Brookdale Community College Center for Lifelong Learning: Fri, June 13, 2025: 10-noon
Jewish and Christian History, Art, and Scripture with Rabbi Brooks Susman: Brookdale Community College Center for Lifelong Learning: TWTh Aug. 5-7, 2025: 10-noon
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES
The Young and the Elderly in the Synodal Journey: Vatican City/Rome
Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue
University of Calgary (webinar)
University of Galway History Research Seminar (webinar)
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT
University of Illinois--Chicago
Humanities North Dakota: webinar
Princeton Public Library: webinar
Sarum College, UK: webinar
Seton Hall University
Montville Twp NJ Public Library
Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo MI
Fulbright New Zealand Alumni seminar: Wellington NZ: webinar
Humility vs. Clericalism: Juan de Avila and Pope Francis on Spiritual Formation and Reform
Annual Irish Theological Quarterly lecture, St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland,
Humility and Learned Ignorance in the Middle Ages: International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology, Annual Winter Lecture 2024: webinar
OTHER TOPICS offered at universities, public libraries, community groups, centers for lifelong learning...
Ancient Greece 101 Ancient Rome 101 Middle Ages 101 Reformations 101
Crusades 101 Medieval Black Death: Lessons for Today Making Saints
Picking Popes The Middle Ages in the Modern World: A Dangerous Combination?
Medieval England 101 The Library that Healed a City: Christchurch, New Zealand
History and Legend: Cleopatra Trojan War Inquisition Pope Joan King Arthur
Joan of Arc Socrates' Trial Alexander the Great
Pope Francis: Where is he taking the Catholic church--and will he get there?
Reforming a Challenged Church: Six Lessons from Church History
Ageless Wisdom: Lifetime Lessons from the Bible
Pope Benedict XVI’s Resignation: Historical Reflections, Future Considerations
Papal Apologies: The Church Examines Her Conscience
With Rabbi Brooks Susman
Judaism and Christianity: Sacred Texts
Catholics and Jews: Changing the Conversation
Chanukah and Christmas: What do those traditions mean?
Passover and Easter: A Shared Heritage
Religion and Violence: (Im)Perfect Together?