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INVITED
LECTURES
Organized Crime in
Philadelphia (with Gary W. Potter), Delaware Valley Crime Commission,
Philadelphia, January 1986
The Mob and the Mafia (with
Gary W. Potter), Italian-American Media Institute, New York, November 1986
The Concept of Revolutions in Criminological Theory,
Criminology Department at the University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1988.
Serial Murder in the Contemporary United States, Sociology
Department, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, April 13, 1989.
In May 1994, I was an invited
participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium held at Delavan, Wisconsin, on the
theme of Liberty, the Individual and the Family.
Teaching Religion and
Teaching About Religion, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 1996.
The Far Right in Philadelphia
Politics 1920-1960, History Department, St. JosephÕs University, Philadelphia,
PA, April 1997
Welsh Immigration to the
United States, Welsh Society of Philadelphia, October 1998.
The Wildest Frontier: The
Electronic Market in Child Pornography, University of California, Davis,
lecture in series on Disordering Globalization, February, 2000.
Nothing New Under the Sun: A
Historical Perspective on Social Problems, School of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, November 2000.
Child Pornography Online,
Sociology Department, Wellesley College, MA., February 2001.
The Politics of Ecstasy, Elon
College, North Carolina, April 2001.
Child Abuse and Moral Panics,
Keynote address for conference on childhood sexuality held at the Kinsey
Institute, Bloomington, IN, May 2001.
Futures of American Religion,
Netherlands American Studies Association. Middelburg, Netherlands, June 2001.
Globalization and the
Transformation of Christianity, Foreign Policy Research Institute,
Philadelphia, PA, September 2001.
The Competition for Converts
between Christianity and Islam, Harvard Academy, Seminar on Globalization and
Culture, Harvard University, March 2002.
Participant in panel at
conference on The Bible and the Ballot: Evangelicals and Third World Democracy,
Potomac, Maryland, June 2002
The New Christianity and the
Future of Global Politics, Toward an Understanding of Religion and Political
Conflict, meeting organized by Ethics and Public Policy Center, Key West, FL,
December 2002.
Islam in The American Experience, History
Day lecture, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 2003. This
paper was circulated in FPRIÕs Watch on the West 4(4)(2003). It was also
reprinted in The WorldPaper, at http://www.worldpaper.com/enewsletters/080703.html
Invited speaker and panelist at Religious
Freedom: The Missing Dimension of Security, Brandywine Forum 2003, held at
Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, May , 2003.
The ChurchÕs Role in Africa, Trinity National
Leadership Round Table, Washington DC, June 2003.
Islam and Christianity: Cooperation and Conflict,
Witherspoon Fellowship, Washington DC, July 2003.
Faith and Secularism in the US and Worldwide,
keynote address, Conference on Faith and Secularism, Princeton University,
October 2003.
Apocalyptic Terrorism in the United States, New York
University, October 2003.
My book The Next Christendom was the subject
of a panel discussion at the Academy of American Religion meeting in Atlanta,
GA, November 2003. It was also the subject of a separate panel at the
Evangelical Theological Society, also meeting in Atlanta. I participated in
both events.
In February 2004, I was the William Belden Noble
lecturer at Harvard University, delivering three lectures on the theme of
Emerging Christianities
Ethiopia Shall Lift Up Her Hands, Society of
Pentecostal Studies, Milwaukee, WI, March 2004.
In March 2004, I gave the Albert Cardinal
Meyer lectures at the University of St. Mary of the Lake (Mundelein Seminary),
in Illinois.
In April 2004, I gave the keynote lecture
at the conference on The Future of the Church in a Globalized World, held at
the Center for Christian Study, in Charlottesville, VA.
Truthful Reporting on Religion and
Culture, Gegrapha Conference on Journalism in Asia, held at Subic Bay,
Philippines, November 2004.
Colliding Diasporas: Immigrant
Christianity in the New Europe, Institute of European Studies, University of
California, Berkeley, December 2004.
The Da Vinci Code and the Quest
for Hidden Gospels, Missouri Baptist University, St Louis, MO, June 2005.
Colliding Diasporas: How
Global Christianity and Global Islam Encounter Each Other In Europe, Series on Religion, Political Economy and Society
Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,
December 2005.
Informed Sources: The Construction of
Terrorism, University of Ottawa, March 2006.
The Global Context,
Conference on The New Evangelization, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit,
March 2006.
Decade of Nightmares,
Carnegie Institute on Ethics and International Affairs, New York City, April
2006; I also spoke on this topic at the Cooper Union, New York City.
In May 2006, I was the
Commencement speaker for Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry, Pittsburgh, PA
Believing the Bible in the
Global South, Convocation Address, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA,
September 2006
The New Faces of
Christianity, Erasmus Lecture, New York City, October 2006. I also spoke on
this topic at the Carnegie Institute on Ethics and International Affairs.
Global Schism: Is the
Anglican Communion Rift the First Stage in a Wider Christian Split? Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
Key West, FL, May 2007: http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=145
In June 2007, I spoke at the
Conference on Islam and Muslims in the World Today, organized by the British
government, and held in Lancaster House, London: http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/cip/islam-conference.php
GodÕs Continent: EuropeÕs Religious
Crisis, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC, October 2007
Religion and Science, Christian Worldview
Conference, Princeton, NJ, November 2007
Now That Faith Has Come, Plenary address,
Evangelical Theological Society, San Diego, November 2007
In December 2007, I delivered
the paper ŌBlack GangsÕ: The Perils of Counter-Subversion, to the colloque on Mimicry in Civil Wars:
The Strategic Use of Identity Signals, held at the College de France, Paris.
Islam and the Future of Europe (with George Weigel),
Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC, February 2008
Islamic Europe or Euro-Islam? Workshop on
Institutionalization and Representation of Religion, Berlin, Germany, June 2008
I have spoken frequently on
aspects of global Christianity, and the expansion of Christianity in the global
South. My recent presentations on this theme include invited lectures at:
Carnegie Institute on Ethics
and International Affairs, New York City, April 2002
Westminster Theological
Seminary, Philadelphia, PA September 2002
John Randolph Club, Rockford,
IL, October 2002
Baylor University, Waco, TX,
November 2002
St. Vincent's College,
Latrobe, PA, November 2002
Anglican Congress, Atlanta,
GA, December 2002
Anglican Mission in America,
convention, PawleyÕs Island, SC, January 2003
Episcopal Diocese of
Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral, Washington DC, February 2003
St. AnneÕs Church, Annapolis,
MD, February 2003
Siena College, Albany, NY,
February 2003
Shawnee State University,
Portsmouth, OH, March 2003
St. Thomas University, St
Paul, MN, March 2003
Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL, April 2003
Gonzaga University, Spokane,
WA (Bellarmine Lecture), April 2003
Evangelical Christian
Publishers Association, Orlando, FL, July 2003
Juniata College, PA,
September 2003
University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK, September 2003
Catholic University of
America, Washington DC, October 2003
Messiah
College, Grantham, PA, October 2003
Mother
Church of Christian Science, Boston, MA, October 2003
University
of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, November 2003
Overseas
Missionary Study Center, New Haven, CT, December 2003
University
of San Francisco (Paul Wattson Lecture), January 2004
Cathedral
Church of the Advent (Episcopal), Birmingham, AL, February 2004
St. MaryÕs
University, San Antonio, TX, February 2004
National
Association of Evangelicals, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2004
Hanover
College, Hanover, IN, March 2004
SUNY
Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, April 2004
Chicago Center for Global
Ministries, April 2004
Pallium Lecture,
Archdiocese of Milwaukee, May 2004
Capitol Hill Campus (Mercatus
Center), Washington DC, May 2004
Virginia Baptist Missionary
Board, Richmond, VA, September 2004
Dickinson College, Carlisle,
PA, September 2004
Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT, September 2004
Heritage Foundation,
Washington DC, October 2004
Missions Conference, San
Antonio, TX, October 2004
Association of Adventist
Forums, Hueston Woods, OH, October 2004
Grace Presbytery, Dallas, TX,
November 2004
La Sierra University,
Riverside, CA (Paul Landa lecture), February 2005
Dominican University,
Chicago, February 2005
North Central University,
Minneapolis, March 2005
Lebanon Valley College,
Annville, PA, March 2005
Gordon College,
Massachusetts, April 2005
Columbia Union College,
Takoma Park, MD, April 2005
St MichaelÕs College,
Burlington, VT (Sutherland lecture), April 2005
Wheaton College, IL, April
2005
Northern Seminary (Chicago)
April 2005
Association of Vineyard
Churches, Columbus, OH, May 2005
Council on Foreign Relations,
Washington DC, May 2005
The Gathering, San Antonio,
TX, October 2005
Radboud University, Nijmegen,
Netherlands, October 2005
Calvin College (January
Series), January 2006
Walla Walla College, Walla Walla, WA, February 2006
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, February 2006
Houghton College, Houghton, NY, March 2006
Missions Congress, Freising, Germany, May 2006
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2006
University of Aarhus, Denmark, May 2006
Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, PA, September 2006
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 2006
St. Vincent's College,
Latrobe, PA, November 2006
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ, November 2006
Boston College (Candlemas
lecture), February 2007
Abilene Christian
University, Abilene, TX, March 2007
Church of the Incarnation
(Episcopal), Dallas, TX, March 2007
Union College, Barbourville,
KY, March 2007
Asbury Seminary, Wilmore,
KY, March 2007
Institute on Religion and
Democracy, Rosslyn, VA, March 2007
Nebraska Wesleyan
University, Lincoln, Neb., April 2007
Wycliffe Bible Translators,
Orlando, FL, June 2007
Rochester College,
Rochester, Mich., June 2007
Ablaze Conference –
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Houston TX, July 2007
National Conference on
Innovation, Columbus, Ohio, September 2007
Villanova University,
Villanova, PA, October 2007
Fox Leadership Program,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, November 2007.
Loyola University, Baltimore
MD, January 2008
Eastern University,
Philadelphia PA, February 2008
Board of Trustees, Centre
for Theological Inquiry, Princeton NJ, February 2008
House of Hope Presbyterian
Church, St Paul, MN, February 2008
Beeson Divinity School,
Birmingham AL, March 2008
Centre for Theological
Inquiry, Princeton NJ, April 2008
Baylor University, Waco TX,
April 2008
Niagara University, Lewiston
NY, April 2008
Mormon History Association
(Tanner Lecture), Sacramento, CA, May 2008
I have also
spoken regularly on The New Anti-Catholicism, including presentations at:
St. Vincent's College,
Latrobe, PA, September 2003
Seton Hall University, South
Orange, NJ (Archbishop Gerety lecture) March 2004
Boston College, March 2004
Canisius College, Buffalo,
NY, April 2004
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, September 2004
St. Louis University (De Lubac Lecture), January 2005