The Center for the Humanities invites you to join Professor Joelle Rollo-Koster (Department of History), one of the world’s leading experts on the papacy, for a timely talk that will demystify the papal conclave and how it works. In advance of the May 7 conclave to choose a successor to Pope Francis, Dr. Rollo-Koster will discuss why the conclave was created, what it meant for the history of the Catholic Church and the papacy, and how the upcoming conclave will work.