CONFERENCES
2020
- “The Religion of the Heart: ‘Spirituality’ in Late Modernity,” Worldviews 2020: Relations with Nature, Others, and the Spiritual World, Third Age Learning Lakehead (TALL) (March 12, 2020).
2019
- “The Commensurability of Anthropology and Theology After the Ontological Turn,” Politics of Religious Knowledge and Ignorance: Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Victoria College, University of Toronto (May 22, 2019).
- “The Religion of the Heart: The Spirit of Late Modernity,” Religion, Faith and Society Research Group Workshop hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University, UK (March 20, 2019).
- "The Rise of the 'Spiritual but not Religious' in a Secular Age," Research Seminar at the Woolf Institute, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK (March 7, 2019).
- “Religion, Science, and Disenchantment in Late Modernity,” Annual Meeting of the Epiphany Philosophers, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, UK (January 9, 2019).
2018
- “A Global Ethic Without Guidance: ‘Spiritual but not Religious’ Millennials and the Search for Justice”, 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON (November 6, 2018).
- “Spirituality and Discipline: (Re)producing and Challenging the (Neo)liberal Order”, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference, Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (October 27, 2018).
- “The Gender Puzzle Revisited: Contemporary Spirituality and the Rise of the Feminine”, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre, ON (July 16, 2018).
- “Millennials, Higher Education, and the 'Spiritual but not Religious'”, Religion and Education: British Sociological Association - Sociology of Religion study group (Socrel), University of Strathclyde, UK (July 11, 2018).
- “The ‘Religious’ and ‘Secular’ Nature of Self-Spirituality: Insights from the Field”, Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity, and Nonreligion: NSRN Conference, King’s College London, UK (July 6, 2018).
- “The Gender Puzzle Revisited: Contemporary Spirituality and the Rise of the Feminine”, Congress 2018: Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, University of Regina, ON (May 27, 2018).
- “‘Spiritual but not Religious’ Millennials in Canada: Liberal Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community”, Globalization and its Critics in the 21st Century: The 6th Annual University of Toronto Centre for Ethics Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, ON (May 11, 2018).
- “Disney and Self-Spirituality: A Match Made in Hollywood Heaven”, International Conference on Religion & Film, University of Toronto, ON (May 4, 2018).
- “‘Spiritual but not Religious’ and the Antinomies of Contemporary Liberalism”, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, Northumbria University, UK (April 11, 2018).
- A Respondent on the “Social Networks” Panel, Planetary Humanities, Cosmopolitan Philosophies, Social Networks: Perspectives from China and the West – Public Workshop, Duke University, North Carolina, US (March 26, 2018).
2017
- “A Quite New Predicament – The Rise of the ‘Spiritual but not Religious’ in a Secular Age”, Problematizing Religious Diversity in a Secular Age, McGill CREOR Graduate Student Conference, QC (September 16, 2017).
- “Rethinking the Social Study of Spirituality”, British Sociological Association - Sociology of Religion study group (Socrel), University of Leeds, UK (July 13, 2017).
- “Spirituality and Social Justice Among Canadian Millennials”, Religion, Cooperation and Conflict in Diverse Societies: International Society for the Sociology of Religion, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (July 7, 2017).
- “The Politics of Self-Spirituality: A Canadian Case Study”, Congress 2017: Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Ryerson University, ON (May 30, 2017).
- “A Spiritual Pedagogy for the Twenty-First Century”, Philosophy of Education 2017: Tradition and Revolution: Interrogating Canadian Higher Education in Canada’s 150th year, George Brown College, ON (May 26, 2017).
- “Finding the Spiritual in Nature: So What?”, Unravelling Religion 4, Queen’s University School of Religion, ON (May 13, 2017).
- “Social Inquiry on the Brink: Why the Ecological Crisis Requires Us to Rethink How and Why We Study Spirituality”, Enabling Constraints: A Symposium on the Demands of Frameworks and Data in the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Department for the Study of Religion, ON (April 27, 2017).
- “The Politics of Self-Spirituality: A Canadian Case Study”, Seventh International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, Imperial College London, London, UK (April 17, 2017).
- “Spirituality, Identity, and Modernity”, UnDisciplined, Queen’s University Cultural Studies Graduate Program, ON (March 31, 2017).
- “Spirituality, Identity, and Modernity”, Work in Progress, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of the University of Ottawa, ON (February 10, 2017).
2016
- “Addiction, Spirituality and the Search for Meaning”, The British Association for the Study of Spirituality Fourth Biennial Conference, Manchester, UK (May 25, 2016).
- “On the Politics of Spirituality: Moving Beyond Consumptive Capitalism”, Unravelling Religion 3, Queen’s University School of Religion, ON (May 14, 2016).
- “Addiction, Spirituality and the Search for Meaning”, Les représentations du religious dans les sociétiés plurielles contemporaines, Université De Sherbrooke, QC (April 29, 2016).
- “Addiction, Spirituality and the Search for Meaning”, UnDisciplined, Queen’s University Cultural Studies Graduate Program, ON (April 1, 2016).
2014/2015
- “On the Lived Nature of Contemporary Spirituality”, Unravelling Religion 2, Queen’s University School of Religion, ON (March 7, 2015).
- “On the Lived Nature of Contemporary Spirituality”, UnDisciplined, Queen’s University Cultural Studies Graduate Program, ON (March 28, 2015).
- “Equality: A Reasonable Limit for the Restriction of Pornography”, I@Q Undergraduate conference, Queen’s University, ON (March 6, 2014).