Chad Pevateaux, PhD
Empowering People to Collaborate for the Common Good
Presentations
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