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• Stowe, John. Fratelli Tutti, Brothers and Sisters All: Pope Francis and Thomas Merton on Universal Fraternity, presented for the 19th Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture, taped live February 25, 2025 at Bellarmine University.
• Carr, Raymond - Thelonious and the Monk: The Musicality of Thomas Merton and its Meaning for our Moment, presented for the 18th Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture, taped live February 20, 2024 at Bellarmine University.
• Craig A. Ford, Jr. - Thomas Merton’s Letters to a White Liberal, In A Black Queer Key, presented for the 17th Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture, taped live February 21, 2023 at Bellarmine University.
• Fr. Flavian Burns, O.C.S.O., Presentation on Dan Walsh, August 28, 1976.
• In Commemoration of Thomas Merton's 60th Birthday, January 31, 1975.
• John Howard Griffin, Question and Answer session for "The Meaning of Thomas Merton," Oberlin College, Ohio, recorded November 13, 1972, Merton Festival of Northern Ohio.
• Sr. Elena Malits, CSC, a 2019 interview by Jonathan Montaldo
  In 2019, Jonathan Montaldo interviewed Sr. M. Elena Malits, CSC. Sr. Elena passed away on March 10, 2022. She was professor emerita in Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and was teaching a course on film to students at the time of recording in 2019. In the area of Thomas Merton studies, she is well-known for her book The Solitary Explorer: Thomas Merton's Transforming Journey. At the time of recording of the interview, the 2021 biennial conference of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) was planned for Saint Mary's College and titled, "Thou Inward Stranger." The 2021 conference was held online due to COVID-19. (The 2023 conference, "Sophia Comes Forth, Reaching," will be held at Saint Mary's June 22-25, 2023: merton.org/2023.)
• John Howard Griffin, "The Meaning of Thomas Merton," Oberlin College, Ohio, recorded November 13, 1972, Merton Festival of Northern Ohio.
  The recording is of a lecture by John Howard Griffin. The photograph of Griffin is by Fr. George Curtsinger.
• The (Almost) Final days of Thomas Merton: a conversation with Harold Talbott with an interview conducted by Bonnie B. Thurston.
  This is a conversation with Harold Talbott, moderated by Dr. Bonnie Thurston. The audio is taken from a video recording. It took place on December 7, 2000 in Louisville, KY, marking the 32nd anniversary of Merton's death. "Talbott shared with the audience details of his interaction with Merton in India, the differences between the Merton he had first met in 1958 and the man he encountered a decade later, and the significance of Merton's views on the relationship between Buddhism and Christianity" [container].
• "The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 28, 2019, by Robert Ellsberg.
  Robert Ellsberg is the Publisher of Orbis Books and the author, most recently, of A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives. His other award-winning books include Blessed Among Us: Saintly Lives for Every Day, All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, and The Saints’ Guide to Happiness. He served as managing editor of The Catholic Worker for two years during the last years of Dorothy Day, and he has dedicated himself to editing her work and promoting her mission. He has edited Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, and All the Way to Heaven: Selected Letters of Dorothy Day. In addition he has edited anthologies of Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Flannery O’Connor, Charles de Foucauld, and Pope Francis. For the past four years he has written a daily entry on saints for Give Us This Day.