SELECTED LECTURES & PANELS
Dr. Jacobs has given talks across the country focusing on issues of gender, feminism, relationships, and sexuality in the context of Catholic theology.
2026: “Women in the Bible, Women Reading the Bible” Lecture at Saint Cecelia Parish, Boston, MA.
2026: “Dream the World as It Ought To Be: Visions of Joy and Justice from Decades of Intersectional Feminist Discourse” Annual Women and Gender Studies Lecture at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ.
2026: “Sex, Gender, and the Catholic Theological Tradition” Lecture at the Church of Saint Francis Cabrini Parish in Minneapolis, MN.
2025: “Love in the Age of Chatbots: AI, Faith, and Relationships” Panelist for the Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law Tech Ethics Symposium at Duquesne University, Pittsburg, PA.
2025: “Gendered Orders: What Makes the Priesthood Masculine?” Lecture for the Center for Catholic Studies Conference on Gender and Catholicism, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
2025: “Habemus Papem: What Now?” Panelist for FutureChurch on the election of Pope Leo XIV. Zoom.
2025: “Midpoints: Gender Complementarity” Lecture for the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
2024: “Holy Body” Book Talk at Emmanuel College, Boston MA.
2022: “The Invisible Labor of Women in the Roman Catholic Church,” Lecture for the Conference Young Adults in the 21st Century: A Conversation on Faith, Religion & Culture at Sacred Heart University, CT.
2021: “Bodies and History in the Technocratic Paradigm” Lecture for the Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University, Pittsburg, PA.
2020: Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story, Panelist for the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, MA.
2019: “Gender Flourishing in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition,” Lecture for the Cassandra Voss Center at St. Norbert College, WI.
