Papers
2008 “Luther’s Wedding: Eating Back to a Convivial Culture.” Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual Conference, University of Heidelberg.
2008 “Ritual, Torture and the War on Terror.” Presentation given to the Ritual, Media and Conflict Research Project, University of Heidelberg.
2008 Moving Images & Media Rituals. Workshop presentation, Summer School of the Ritual Dynamics Research Group, University of Heidelberg.
2007 “Ritual Agency, Destabalizing Fields.” Ritual Studies Group, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA.
2007 “Ritual, Ritual Studies and the Mimetic Faculty.” Spring symposium of the Sonderforschungsbereich Ritualdynamik, University of Heidelberg
2006 “Sensory Overload in Wittenberg’s Reformation Festivals.” Senses of Religion, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2006 “Luther Festivals.” Kitchener Public Library Series, Kitchener, Ontario.
2005 “Public Ritual and Civil Religion in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.” Ritual Studies Group, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, Penn.
2005 “Fieldwork Forays.” Religious Studies Field Research Group, Wilfrid Laurier University.
2005 “Lutherland, Fatherland, Disneyland: The Faces and Places of Martin Luther.” Religion and Public Life Series, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.
2004 “Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha: Restoring the work and author to their Pietist Roots.” 12th Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2004 “Narrative Identity and the Demands of Bildung in Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game.” Narrative Matters 2004. St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB.
2003 “White Spirituality, Native Religion and Being Close to Nature.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Ethnicity: Place, Space, Banff, AB.
2002 “Freud, Greene and the Quixotic.” Religious Studies Department Colloquium, University of Calgary.
2000 “Koans and Satori: From Psyche to Text to Body.” Buddhism Group, Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Edmonton, AB.