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Presentations

Presentations: List

Whence and Whither Sex and Gender?

Heeding the Past to Help Form a Better Future

Panel Moderator, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2022

Religion and the Public Sphere through the Lens of Contemplative Practice

Roundtable Discussion

Presider and Participant, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2022

The Skills of an Interfaith Leader

Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collaborative research panel presentation with four of my students for University Community Conference, Texas Wesleyan, April 2021

The Skills of a Compassionately Critical Thinker

Doing Good for All

Collaborative research panel presentation with four of my students for University Community Conference, Texas Wesleyan, April 2021

Celebrating International Women's Day

Panel Participant

Discussion among Dallas-Fort Worth area scholars, health practitioners, and community leaders hosted by MTO Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism, March 2021

The Academy in Crisis

Roundtable Discussion

Panel Moderator, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2021

Contemplating Vulnerability

Invited Talk

Presentation on my teaching, research, and personal practice for TCU's Contemplative Studies Meditation Group, December 2020

The Varieties of Vulnerable Experience

A Study in Human Nature, More or Less

Paper presentation for Religion, Gender and Sexuality Section, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Conference, Dallas Texas, March 2020

Panel Moderator, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2019

Contemplative Studies in the Southwest

Roundtable Discussion

Panel Participant, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, February 2020

Contemplative Studies Programs in the Southwest

Roundtable Discussion

Religion, Medicine, and Health

Roundtable Discussion

Panel Participant, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, American Academy of Religion-Southwest Region / Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2019

How the Story of Job May Help Us All Get Along

Paper Presentation

For conference, “Intersections: Faith, Church, and the Academy,” hosted by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, Nashville, TN, March 2018

On Jeffrey J. Kripal's Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms

Roundtable Discussion

Panel participant on creative pedagogy for teaching introductory religion classes, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2018

On Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality

Roundtable Discussion

Discussion Participant, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 2017

How Mystical Eco-Ethics May Help Save the World (and Us)

Paper Presentation

Mitchell-Reed Lecture, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, November 2016

Whence and Whither Gender?

Presentation

Invited talk for the Gay-Straight Alliance at Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, October 2016

On Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy

Roundtable Discussion

Discussion Participant, Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, March 2016

Ethical and Spiritual, But Not Religious

How "Nones" Are the Future, With a Long History

Paper presentation for invitation-only special symposium conference on the Spiritual But Not Religious movements, Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 2016

More Radical

From Empiricism to Enactivism and Posthumanism in the Study of Mysticism

Paper presentation at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2014

Mystery Matters

Howard Thurman’s Pulse of Infinite Worth and Langston Hughes’s Beat of the Earth

Paper presentation at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2012

More Perfect Unions

The Darkness of Unknowing, Desire, and Democracy

Paper presentation for conference, “Medieval Voices and Postmodern Theory,” University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2011

Giving an Account of Sacred States

Positive Biopolitics and Negative Zootheology

Paper presentation for conference, “Biopolitics and the Humanities: States of Subjectivity,” Rice University, Houston, Texas, September 2010

Hidden Sacrifice

Women Mystics, Religion Without Religion, and God(s) Without God(s)

Paper presentation for Medieval Christianity section at Rockwell Symposium, “Hidden Histories, Hidden God,” Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 2010

Unknowing Gender

Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and the Dionysian Heritage of Mystical Theology

Paper presentation for History of Christianity Section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 2010

How To Speak With Ghosts

Marx, Derrida, and the Scholar of the Future

Paper presentation for Philosophy of Religion and Theology section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 2010

Comparative Buddha Sightings

Eckel, Gimello, and French Theory on Presence/Absence, Idol/Icon, and Image/Text in Buddhist Meditation

Paper presentation for Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 2010

The World Is Upside Down and Our Backs Are Against the Wall

Race, Space, and a Theology of Flesh in Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, and Langston Hughes

Paper presentation for conference, “Shifting Spatialities: The Dynamic Boundaries of Place and Space,” Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 2009

The Altered States of Allen Ginsberg

Paper Presentation

For conference, “Secret States: Western Esotericism and Altered States of Consciousness,” Esalen Center for Theory and Research, Big Sur, California, May 2007

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