In celebration of Irish Heritage, Clare Carroll, Professor of the Comparative Literature Department and former Director of Irish Studies (1997-2011) at Queens College offered the lecture, Exiles in a Global City: The Irish in 17th Century Rome, on Monday, March 18.

Shortly after Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to become the next Pope, a producer from WNBC called St. Francis History Professor and Franciscan Brother Geoffrey Clement to ask him to talk about the historic event.

The St. Francis College Institute for Peace and Justice was profiled this weekend along with Catholic Charities for their Day of Service at the Northside Senior Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The Haitian Revolution may have succeeded in giving Haiti independence from France, but it also laid the groundwork for many of the problems that have plagued Haiti over the past 200 years, said former Haitian Ambassador to the United States Raymond Joseph at a talk at St. Francis College on March 4

As Pope Benedict XVI concluded his final day as worldwide leader of the Catholic Church, Bro. Geoffrey Clement appeared on WNBC Nonstop to talk about the pending conclave. He discussed the process for selecting the new Pope as well as significant past conclaves.

St. Francis College marked Black History Month with a look at Race and South African Theater, Past and Present, featuring a discussion of the impact of music and theater on Apartheid by Jacqueline Castledine and Megan Lewis, both from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

With an acute awareness of the place his movies hold in the larger film industry, Director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Doll House, Happiness) came to St. Francis College to screen and talk about his latest work, Dark Horse on February 14.

A visit to West Point will uncover very little about one of it's most famous alumni; no statues, plaques or commemorative busts. It's an indifference that Ulysses S. Grant redirected back at his alma mater, says Todd Brewster, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Oral History at the United States Military Academy at West Point during the talk, Lincoln, General Grant and the Civil War, on February 25.

St. Francis College History Professor Bro. Geoffrey Clement, OSF appeared on WNBC New York Nonstop February 11 to talk about the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

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