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)

Loyola University - Chicago

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?