Manny has delivered lectures or participated on panels on art, architecture, gardening or oriental rugs at these venues:
- Lecture on Oriental Rugs, Officer’s Wives Club, Otis Air Force Base, 1960
- Hingham Garden Club and many other garden clubs in MA and IL
- Worcester Art Museum
- Restoration of the Tomek House, Frederick Law Olmsted Society, Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio and other venues
- American College of Surgeons, Social Program, 1976
- American College of Surgeons, 1979
- Lecture series Riverside 1983
- International SAH conference Boston, 1984, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Art Glass
- International Association of Art Critics/Universities Art Association of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 1985
- Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ
- Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, CA
- Architectural Conferences in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Architectural Conference at John G. Blank Center, Michigan City, IN. Moderator
- The Art Institute of Chicago, April 9, 1985, Getting to Know Oriental Rugs
- The Art Institute of Chicago, March 3, 1986, The Wright Way
- The Art Institute of Chicago, April 2, 1987, Rugs in Bloom
- The Art Institute of Chicago, October 1995, Space and Light: The Prairie Ethos
- The Art Institute of Chicago, March 6, 1991, The Art Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Art Institute of Chicago, December 1995, Down to Earth, an Insider’s View of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House, in Rubloff Auditorium
- Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Conference: Easements and Tax Freezes 1995
- Chicago Architectural Foundation, Trials, Tribulations and Joys of Owning a Wright House
- Chicago Architectural Foundation, F. L. Wright’s Tomek House landscape: The Wright Garden
- Graham Foundation: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House, April 2, 1996
- The Arts Club of Chicago, Down to Earth, an Insider’s View of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House, June 10, 1996
- The Cliff Dwellers Gallery, A Portrait of the Tomek House, July 20, 1999
- Fernwood Botanical Gardens, “Portraits of Gardens”, Aug 5, 2002 and at other venues