Readings, Workshops, Keynotes

Following is a partial list of organizations to which Thomas Lynch has made presentations.

PBS/Bill Moyers Series “On Our Own Terms”

Livonia Town Hall Series

The Arvon Foundation UK (1999, 2002, 2005, 2007)

Hospice & Palliative Care Manitoba

Michigan Counselors Association (2000, 2005)

Michigan Association of Suicidology Conference

National Funeral Directors Association Leadership Conference (1998, 2001, 2006)

National Funeral Directors Association Annual Convention (2000, 2007)

Turner Geriatric Clinic, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arbor Hospice

Last Acts Campaign Northeast Regional Workshop

Last Acts Campaign National Leadership Conference

Queens University Belfast

Detroit Women Writers

North Dakota Funeral Directors Association

Montana Funeral Directors Association (1998, 2001)

The University of Michigan

Virginia Hospice Association

North Memorial Health Care/Hospice Conference

Appalachia Hospice Conference

Irish American Heritage Center – Chicago

North Point Congregation Israel -- Chicago

North Carolina Funeral Directors Association

Ontario Funeral Directors Association (2000, 2005)

Michigan Library Association (2000, 2005)

Lannan Foundation

Library of Congress

Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association (1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)

Kansas Funeral Directors Association

Minnesota Funeral Directors Association

Florida Funeral Directors Association

American Book Association

Central Michigan University

University of Maine

New Hampshire University

Connecticut Funeral Directors Association

Kings College Center (Ontario) Conference on Death and Bereavement

Michigan Funeral Directors Association

Illinois Funeral Directors Association  (2000, 2006)

Missouri Funeral Directors Association

Mississippi Funeral Directors Association

Ohio Funeral Directors Association (2001, 2008)

Arkansas Funeral Directors Association

Central Illinois Community Palliative Care Initiative

Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association

New Jersey Hospice and Palliative Care Association

University of Maine at Farmington

Beloit College

Washington State Funeral Directors Association

New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association (1998, 2001, 2007)

Oregon Funeral Directors Association

The Order of the Golden Rule (1998, 2000, 2003)

National Book Foundation

Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association

Hillsdale College

University of Glasgow

Edinburgh University

Edinburgh Book Festival (2000, 2005)

Oakland University

University of Wales

Florida International University

College of Charleston

College of William and Mary

Ohio State University

Ohio University

California Funeral Directors Association

Irish Association of Funeral Directors (2001, 2005, 2009)

Indiana Funeral Directors Association  (1998, 2007)

Winona State University

University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

Pontiac Oakland Town Hall

Kentucky Funeral Directors Association

Chautauqua Institution  (1998, 2007)

New York State Citizens Committee on Health Care Decisions

School Craft College

Duke University

University of Arkansas

Blue Metro Writers Conference, Montreal  (1998, 2006)

Cuirt Festival, Galway

Cranbrook Institute of Arts

Poetry International Rotterdam

University of Dundee, Scotland

Cheltenham Festival, England

Brunell University, England

Poetry Society, London

Trinity Preparatory Winter Park, FL

Temple Emanu-El, New York, NY

The Adelaide Festival, Australia

The Wellington Festival, New Zealand

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Poetry Center

South Carolina Funeral Directors Association (2002, 2004)

Hospice Care of New Mexico

Hospice Care of Cleveland

Project Compassion, Chapel Hill, NC

University of Texas Medical Branch Institute of Medical Humanities

University of Michigan School of Art and Design

International Cemetery and Funeral Association (2002, 2007)

The Blue Metro Festival of Literature, Montreal (2001, 2005)

The International Festival of Writers of the Americas, Quebec

The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 9-11 Anniversary Conference Keynote

Hospice of the Piedmont, Charlottesville, VA

The Miller Center for Public Policy, Charlottesville, VA

Hospice of Minnesota

Angela Hospice

Alma College

Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing (2004, 2006)

Calvin Seminary Grand Rapids

Exeter University UK

Boston College

Yale Divinity School

Dublin Writers Festival (2000, 2006, 2008)

Image Conference, Houston

The Presidents Council on Bio-Ethics, Washington, D.C.

Aquinas College, Grand Rapids

Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2001, 2008)

Bennington College

Carnegie Hall (“The Old Burying Ground” with The University of Michigan Symphony)

Eastern Washington University

Seattle Pacific University

King College, Bristol, TN Buechner Institute

University of Michigan Museum of Art

All Saints Episcopal Church, East Lansing

William Woods University

St. Theresa's Church Westchester, NY

Poetry Ireland (2009)

Michael Hartnett Festival, Newcastle West, Limerick (2009, with Carol Ann Duffy)

Erie-Niagara Funeral Directors Association

The Christian Century Workshop Chicago 2009 (With Thomas Long)

Traverse City Film Festival with Cathal Black

Independent Funeral Directors of Virginia Annual Conference

Select and Independent Funeral Directors International Conference (Dublin, 2008)

House of Hope Presbyterian Church Festival of Faith and Writing, St. Paul 2009

Bethel College, St. Paul

The Metropolitan Jewish Hospice & Palliative Care Inaugural Conference, NYC 2009

Michigan State University Poetry Center