March 2021         “What Did Race Taste Like? / “Global/Premodern/Race,” University of California at Santa Barbara

February 2019     “Religion’s Aftertastes: On the Physiotheology of Milk in Juan de Pineda’s Diálogos familiares de la  agricultura cristiana” / “Race and Religion in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Worlds,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, Spain)

June 2017             “Life is Good: Acts of Faith, for Gilles Deleuze” / “Das Gute Leben / The Good Life: Fifth Salzburg Institute Symposium,” University of Salzburg

Sept. 2015           “Bacon’s Hysteria—Deleuze’s Faith” / “Religious Ideas and Scientific Thought,” McGill University

May 2013             “Lovers’ Tongues: On Kitmān al-sirr and Telling Stories in Ṭawq al-ḥamāma” / “Secrets and Discovery in the Middle Ages: Fifth European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales,” University of Porto

May 2012            “Ibn Ḥazm’s Ethics of Secrecy: Rereading Ṭawq al-ḥamāma”/ “Making Sense of Islam: Sensuality and Affect in the Muslim Humanities,” Duke University