• November 2024, Panelist for "Toward an Embodied Cognitive Science of Religion: A Roundtable Discussion," Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego.


May 2023, Keynote at the Religion and the Mind Conference, Jagiellonian U, “Cognitive gadgets, religion and enaction: Integrating approaches to the study of religious minds”


• May 2022, "Reframing the natural, supernatural and human," 39th International Symposium for Eco-Ethica, University of Lille, France.


• September 2020, “The Concept of Life in Judaism,” Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.


• November 2019, “God, Data, and Michael Jordan: On the Border between Sport and Play,” with Vincent Biondo. American Academy of Religion, San Diego.


• October 2018, "Cognitive Science and the Humanities," Authoritative Texts and their Reception Conference, Trondheim.


• April 2017, “The Zohar’s new science of biblical exegesis,” Rhetoric and Linguistics in the Bible and the Qur'an, Norwegian Institute in Rome


• May 2016, “How not to study science and religion, consider life,” Life Sciences and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives International Workshop, Berlin.


• August 2015, “Can Fictional Superhuman Agents Have Mental States,” Conference for the International Association for the History of Religion, Erfurt.


• June 2015, “Information in the Sefer Yetzirah,” Workshop: How Jews Know Epistemologies of Jewish Knowledge, Freie Universität Berlin.


• “Intimate Measures,” The Self and the Social Conference at the Institute of Philosophy of Language (IFL), New University of Lisbon, Portugal. March 2014.


• “The Hermeneutics of Simplicity in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man.” Panel on the Coen Brothers’ films and Religion, at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. Baltimore, November 2013


• “The implications of anomalous monism for intimate selves,” The Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience Conference, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. May 2013.

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