Selected Presentations & Appearances
“The Subject of Modern Art: Spiritualizing Art, Secularizing Religion”
- Department of Religious Studies
· April 14, 2015
Invited Talk
Brown University,
“Framing Matter and Embodying Words: The Plasticity of Sacred Things in Shifting Taxonomies"
· February 24, 2015
Invited Talk
Rice University,
“Visual Riffing: The Circulation of Images in Modern Media” and “Teaching with the Visual Arts in the Religious Studies Classroom”
- Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion
· November 21, 2014
- 2014
Invited Talk
San Diego
The Likeness of Jesus
· November 3, 2014
Invited Talk
Lipscomb University, Nashville,
The Look of Things to Come
- 35th Arthur G. Keough Lectureship
· October 22, 2014
Invited Talk
Washington Adventist University, Tacoma Park, Maryland,
“The Subject of Modern Art: Spiritualizing Art, Secularizing Religion”
- Department of Religious Studies
· April 14, 2015
Invited Talk
Brown University,
“Framing Matter and Embodying Words: The Plasticity of Sacred Things in Shifting Taxonomies"
· February 24, 2015
Invited Talk
Rice University,
“Visual Riffing: The Circulation of Images in Modern Media” and “Teaching with the Visual Arts in the Religious Studies Classroom”
- Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion
· November 21, 2014
- 2014
Invited Talk
San Diego
The Likeness of Jesus
· November 3, 2014
Invited Talk
Lipscomb University, Nashville,
The Look of Things to Come
- 35th Arthur G. Keough Lectureship
· October 22, 2014
Invited Talk
Washington Adventist University, Tacoma Park, Maryland,
Matter on the Move: The Plasticity of Things in Shifting Taxonomies
- international conference on "Christianity and the Limits of Materiality"
· September 25, 2014
- September 26, 2014
Invited Talk
University of Turku, Finland,
Emotion and Imagination in Ritual Mediation
- International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture
· August 9, 2014
Invited Talk
University of Kent, Canterbury, England,
Phenomenology & Network Theory: A Collaborative Approach to the Study of Religion
· April 4, 2014
Lecture
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Religious Studies
Phenomenology and Network Theory: A Collaborative Model
- Boardman Lecture, and key note address for conference on “Religion and Material Culture”
· April 4, 2014
Invited Talk
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Religious Studies,
The Social Assemblage of Vision
· April 9, 2013
Lecture
Durham University, UK
Visual Culture Analysis and Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling
· November 17, 2012
Lecture
American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Chicago
Likeness and Iconicity in Modern Images of Jesus
· November 12, 2012
Lecture
2012 Bettman Lectures, Dept of Art History, Columbia University
Sacred Configurations: Visual Piety as Ways of Seeing
· October 26, 2012
Lecture
Connecticut College,
Reticulating Vision: Visuality and the Study of Religion
· October 18, 2012
Lecture
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Moralizing Matter: Landscape as the Emplacement of Spirit, Essence, Ethos, Nation, and Other Vague Notions
· September 13, 2012
Lecture
The Bible as Image in American Visual Culture
· September 10, 2012
Lecture
Duke University
Visual Studies and Embodiment
· May 9, 2012
Lecture
Edinburgh University, Scotland
Visual Piety and the Sacred: Networking Vision
· May 2, 2012
Lecture
Uppsala, Sweden
The Likeness of Jesus
· April 16, 2012
Lecture
University of Kansas
Visual Worlds. The 2012 Cadbury Lectures
· March 7, 2012
Lecture
University of Birmingham, England
Protestant Visual Media in the Marketplace of Culture
· March 1, 2012
Lecture
University of Chicago
Religious Visual Culture and the History of Sacred Economies
· October 8, 2011
Lecture
Religion and the Marketplace in the US, Heidelberg University
The Likeness of Christ in Art and Devotional Imagery
· September 25, 2011
Lecture
Symposium on Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art
Iconicity and Art in Modern Visual Media
· June 16, 2011
Lecture
Aura and Effect: The Media of Religions, IFK, Vienna, Austria
Recovering the Protestant Body
· March 23, 2011
Lecture
Distinguished Lecture, New York University
“Material Religion and the Sacred Gaze”
· November 18, 2010
Lecture
London, England
“Materiality and the Study of Religion”
· November 18, 2010
Lecture
London, England
“Sympathy, Empathy, Antipathy: The Visual Culture of Feeling in 19th Century America”
· November 18, 2010
Lecture
Accra, Ghana
“The Embodied Eye: Putting the Eyes Back in the Body”
· November 18, 2010
Lecture
Free University, Amsterdam
“Image and Apparition: Visualizing the Unseen”
· November 18, 2010
Lecture
Jyvaskyla, Finland
“Enchantment, Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment”
· November 18, 2010
Lecture
Toronto
Methods of the study of visual culture
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Bremen, Germany, Jacobs University
The Embodied Eye
· October 9, 2009
Lecture
George Washington University
Keynote address: "Image and Apparition: Visualizing the Unseen"
· September 17, 2009
Lecture
Univ of Jyvaskyla, Finland
The Look of Sympathy: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Social Life of Feeling
· July 25, 2009
Lecture
Berlin, Germany
Keynote address: "Seeing in Groups: American Protestants and New Visual Media"
· May 7, 2009
Lecture
Haverford College
Embodied Vision: The Look of the Sacred
· April 15, 2009
Lecture
Princeton University
The Look of the Sacred
· May 16, 2008
Lecture
Religion, Media, Culture: The Shape of the Field
· April 11, 2008
Lecture
“Religious Visual Culture and the Production of Visibility”
· March 28, 2008
Lecture
“Looking Beyond the Modern Bubble: Medieval Art and the Study of Modern Visual Culture”
· March 15, 2008
Lecture
Service to the Profession
Journal article evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Journal article evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Journal article evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Journal article evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Journal proposal evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation
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January 7, 2012
Editorial Activities
panel respondent : Member of the American Academy of Religion
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November 20, 2011
Other
San Francisco annual meeting
organizer : Catholicism and the Visual Study of Religion
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April 15, 2011
Event/Organization Administration
Dept of Religion
co-editor : Book series editor
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December 12, 2010
Other
Routledge, London
book manuscript evaluator : manuscript evaluation
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December 12, 2010
Editorial Activities
University of California Press
book manuscript evaluator : manuscript evaluation
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December 12, 2010
Editorial Activities
University of Chicago Press
member : Dissertation Committee
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November 18, 2010
Editorial Activities
committee member : Doctoral Exams
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2010
Editorial Activities
referee : Journal of Religion
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October 13, 2009
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Berg Publishers
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October 13, 2009
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Columbia University Press
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October 13, 2009
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Cambridge University Press
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October 13, 2009
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Palgrave/Macmillan
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October 13, 2009
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: University Press of Kansas
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October 13, 2009
Editorial Activities
book manuscript for University of Chicago Press
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November 30, 2008
Editorial Activities
book manuscript for Macmillan Press
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November 25, 2008
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Routledge, London
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October 13, 2008
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: University of Chicago Press
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October 13, 2008
Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Cornell University Press
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October 13, 2008
Editorial Activities
referee : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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October 13, 2008
Editorial Activities
convenor and organizer : What is Religion in the Study of Media, Religion, Culture
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August 16, 2008
Event/Organization Administration
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Member, International Advisory Board of VISOR
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2008
- 2011
Other
Editor, Material Religion
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2008
Other
Member, Editorial Board, "Religions in the Americas," Religion Compass
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2008
- May 2011
Other
Editor, Material Religion
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2008
Other