In March, the Institute of Philosophy will welcome the American medievalist Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D., Professor of History at Kean University in New Jersey. Bellitto specializes in medieval history, church history, and reform thought. He is the author of ten books and more than thirty studies and book chapters published in the United States and Europe, including Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue (2023), The General Councils, and Renewing Christianity. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the series Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and as an editor at Paulist Press.
Christopher Bellitto is an experienced university teacher and a prominent voice in public debate on church history and contemporary Catholicism. Each year, he gives numerous public lectures, collaborates with the media, and has repeatedly received support from the American grant agency National Endowment for the Humanities. In the past, he also served as a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary.
During his March stay in Prague and other cities, he will offer a program for both specialist audiences and the wider public. He will appear, for example, as part of the inter-institutional research seminar Quaestiones Pragenses at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, at a workshop focused on professional development and academic publishing at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, deliver public lectures at Café Na Boršově in Prague, and take part in scholarly events organized by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In his presentations, he will address, among other topics, the relationship between politics and religion in the Middle Ages and today, figures of medieval reformers, the history of myths and the representation of women in faith and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as church reform.
Admission to the lectures is free.
For details, see the Events Calendar.
