Presentations
Like my writing, my speaking focuses on Medieval theology of the Sacraments and Holiness as well as contemporary applications of this thought.
I attend a variety of Academic Conferences, usually selecting those which focus on the theology of Sts. Thomas Aquinas and Albert the Great, or on more contemporary issues which can be enlightened by Medieval Systematic Thought.
Conference Presentations Since my Associate Portfolio
Invited Plenary Speaker for Reading Isaiah with Aquinas Conference, Mundelein University, November 7-9, 2025.
Invited Plenary Speaker for The New Ressourcement, for Word on Fire on November 19–21, 2024, in Rochester, Minnesota.
“Rejecting In Remedium Tantum: Albert and Aquinas on Marriage as a Source of Grace. Aquinas 800, Notre Dame, September 2024.
Invited Speaker “An Eschatological Horizon: The Eucharist and Consecrated Virginity,” Truth of Love Conference, Steubenville, June 21-23, 2024.
Invited Plenary Lecture “Looking through the Lattices: Albert (and Aquinas) on the Sacramental Signification of the Eucharist” Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival, The Aquinas Center and Thomistic Institute, Ave Maria University, Feb. 1-3 2024.
“Philosophical Questions in Albert’s Eucharistic Theology,” presentation to a graduate seminar at the University of Notre Dame, March 6, 2023.
“Sacramental Honesty in Aquinas,” at the Eleventh International Thomistic Congress
Sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic Institute Angelicum, September 19-22 2022.
“Sacramental Wisdom: Humilitatio, Eruditio, Exercitatio in the
Scholastics and Today,” at the Academy of Catholic Theology at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington DC, May 22-24, 2022.
“Humility, Instruction, and Exercise, from Hugh to Aquinas ,” at St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher Conference. Ave Maria University, February 10-12 2022.
“Food, Gift, Friendship: St. Albert on the Eucharist” for the St. Saviour’s Symposium, Dublin Ireland, March 24, 2022.
Conference Presentations: Since I began at UST
"Reading the Bread of Life discourse in Albert and Aquinas,” at "Interpretation of Scripture and Ecclesial Exegesis: The Search for an Integrated Theology Conference" at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, Rochester, NY September 17-19, 2021.
“A Sign of Hope: The Sacramental Causality of Christ’s Resurrection in Albert the Great,” at Hope and Death: Christian Responses, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Studies, Ave Maria University, February 13, 2021.
“Resurrection and Sacraments in the Systematic Theology of Albert the Great,” Quidam enim dicunt: Mendicant Theologies before Aquinas and Bonaventure Conference, St. Bonaventure University, July 15-18, 2019.
*I received a grant from the Franciscan Institute to present at this conference.
“Therese, Feminism and Eternity,” Invited Speaker to the Catholicism, Culture and Modernity Faculty Seminar at Columbia University, May 1, 2019.
“The Influence of Aquinas’s Theology on his Poetic Understanding,” Aquinas the Biblical Theologian Conference, Ave Maria University, Febrary 7-9, 2019.
“As Nimble as the Pen of a Scribe: The Mediating Tongue in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Psalms” at the Texas Medieval Association Conference, Oct. 18-20, 2019, at Texas State University.
“The Influence of Eucharistic Faith on Exegesis in St. Albert’s Biblical Theology,” Kalamazoo Medieval Conference, May 10-13 2018.
“St. Albert the Great's personal reactions to difficult questions about the Eucharist” at the Texas Medieval Association Conference. Sept. 29-30 2017, at Baylor University.
The Blessed Edmund Rice School for Pastoral Ministry, Jan 11, 2014.
Conference Presentations: Before I began at UST
“Hunger and Thirst: Catherine of Siena and Mother Teresa on Sharing Christ’s Suffering” presented at Mother Teresa and the Mystics: Towards a Renewal of Spiritual Theology by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University, Feb 10, 2017.
“Eucharistic Beauty in St. Albert” presented at You are Beauty Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference 2016.
“St. Thomas Aquinas’s Thought on Creation and Contemplation in Laudato Si” at the Leaven 2016 Conference for the Diocese of Venice, Feb 20, 2016. Powerpoint Slides from Presentation
“The Joy of Christ in Albert the Great’s De Corpore Domini” at the “Wisdom and the Renewal of Theology Conference” at Ave Maria University, Feb 7, 2015.
“Sapiential Parallels: Incarnation and Eucharistic Change in St. Albert’s De Corpore Domini” at the Ex Corde Ecclesiae Conference hosted by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University, student session, Feb 8, 2014.
“The Social Apostolate of Women Religious,” at the Famous Women in the Catholic Church Conference, at The Blessed Edmund Rice School for Pastoral Ministry, Jan 11, 2014.
