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David Morgan

Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
Department of Religious Studies, Durham, NC 27708

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 · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Journal article evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Journal article evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Journal article evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Journal proposal evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
Book manuscript evaluation · January 7, 2012 Editorial Activities
panel respondent : Member of the American Academy of Religion · November 20, 2011 Other San Francisco annual meeting
organizer : Catholicism and the Visual Study of Religion · April 15, 2011 Event/Organization Administration Dept of Religion
co-editor : Book series editor · December 12, 2010 Other Routledge, London
book manuscript evaluator : manuscript evaluation · December 12, 2010 Editorial Activities University of California Press
book manuscript evaluator : manuscript evaluation · December 12, 2010 Editorial Activities University of Chicago Press
member : Dissertation Committee · November 18, 2010 Editorial Activities
committee member : Doctoral Exams · 2010 Editorial Activities
referee : Journal of Religion · October 13, 2009 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Berg Publishers · October 13, 2009 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Columbia University Press · October 13, 2009 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Cambridge University Press · October 13, 2009 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Palgrave/Macmillan · October 13, 2009 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: University Press of Kansas · October 13, 2009 Editorial Activities
book manuscript for University of Chicago Press · November 30, 2008 Editorial Activities
book manuscript for Macmillan Press · November 25, 2008 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Routledge, London · October 13, 2008 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: University of Chicago Press · October 13, 2008 Editorial Activities
referee : Book manuscript: Cornell University Press · October 13, 2008 Editorial Activities
referee : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · October 13, 2008 Editorial Activities
convenor and organizer : What is Religion in the Study of Media, Religion, Culture · August 16, 2008 Event/Organization Administration Sao Paolo, Brazil
Member, International Advisory Board of VISOR · 2008 - 2011 Other
Editor, Material Religion · 2008 Other
Member, Editorial Board, "Religions in the Americas," Religion Compass · 2008 - May 2011 Other
Editor, Material Religion · 2008 Other