Upcoming & Recent Lectures
June 5, 2025: Sint-Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium
“Genetics, Molecular Discourse, and Performance: The New Testament as an Ontological Individual,” Philology’s Prism Conference
January 23, 2025: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
“U.S. Immigration as Apocalypse: Citizenship, Exclusion, and Religion,” A conversation with Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton
November 25, 2024: Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, California
“Numerologies of Exclusion: The 1924 Johnson-Reed Act and God's Chosen,” on the 100th anniversary of the Johnson-Reed Act
October 24-26, 2024: College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
“The Construction and Destruction of Fields of Knowledge,” Response to Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton, Politics of Knowledge and Disciplinary Challenges in Ancient Mediterranean Studies Conference, McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture
July 11-13, 2024: Yu-Shan Theological College & Seminary, Hualien, Taiwan
Panel on Creative Pedagogy, Society of Asian Biblical Scholars
May 12-15, 2024: Monte Verità, Switzerland
“Genes, Music, and the New Testament Text: On the Performance of Philology,” Opening Lecture of Metaphérein: Theories and Methods of Stemmatology (Studia Stemmatologica X)
April 11, 2024: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“Apocalyptic Exclusion: The Book of Revelation and US Narratives of Chinese Immigration,” Lecture presented with Russell Jeung, SF State, founder of Stop AAPI Hate, presenting “"Anti-Asian Hate, Collective Racial Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth"
March 1, 2024: Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey
“Heavenly Bureaucracy: Immigration and Naturalization in the US and the New Jerusalem,” Keynote Speaker, Koinonia Graduate Student Conference,
January 17-19, 2024: Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover Germany
“The Segregation of Biblical Studies,” Historical Contexts and Current Debates: The Future of New Testament Studies Workshop, hosted by the Volkswagen Foundation and Universität Göttingen
November 17-21, 2023: Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas
“‘Even Heaven Has A Wall Around It’: Borders and Walls in the US and the New Jerusalem,” Bible in America Session, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
August 22, 2023: Yale-National University of Singapore College, Singapore
“Apocalyptic Exclusion: The Book of Revelation and U.S. Exclusion of Chinese Immigrants,” Public lecture
February 23, 2023: Barnard College, New York City
“America: The New Jerusalem,” Religion Salon guest speaker
October 17, 2022: University of Edinburgh
“Music and the New Testament Text: The Possibilities of Creative Philology,” Kennedy-Wright Opening Lecture, Centre for the Study of Christian Origins
October 13, 2022: University of Glasgow
“Immigration and Apocalypse: The Revelation of John and the History of American Immigration,” Guest speaker for the Seminar at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
October 9, 2021: Chester Beatty museum & library, Dublin, Ireland
“Mining the Archive: The Lives of Chester Beatty and the Biblical Papyri,” Fresh Perspectives on the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Papyrology, and Communication in the Ancient World
October 6-7, 2020: College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
“Disease and the Ethnic Other,” Divided Worlds: Contexts of the New Testament, Then and Now, McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture