Scott Appleby, professor of history and John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will lecture at the eighth annual Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture.
The lecture, titled "A Global Agenda for American Catholicism," will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 24 in the ballroom of the MSU Union. It is free and open to the public. Free parking will be available at the ramp on Grand River Avenue next to Olin Health Center.
Appleby examines the roots of religious violence and the potential of religious peace-building. He directs Contending Modernities, a multi-year project to examine the interaction among Catholic, Muslim and secular forces in the modern world.
The lecture is sponsored by the MSU College of Arts and Letters, St. John Church and Catholic Student Center and the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture.