Religion in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Idolatries, Transformations (keynote), 17 May 2015, Rachel Carson Centre, Munich.
‘On Failing and Mourning: the Lost Arts of Humanism?’ 18-20 September, Re-Imagining Human. International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Religions, Environments and Popular Culture: Interdisciplinary Postgraduate conference, The University of Manchester, 26 September 2014.
Paul Amongst the Activists: Messianic Time and Environmental Crisis’, Memorial Conference for Oliver Smith, University of St. Andrews, 3rd May 2014
‘Zizek, Buddha and Christ: Postsecular Controversies’ Religion and Politics seminar, University of Leeds, 28th January
‘Why We Disagree About Apocalypse: On Activism and Untimely Prophecies’, Risk and Rapture: Apocalyptic Imagination in Late Modernity, Chester University, September 11, 2013.
‘Apocalypse and Weather Forecasts’, Symposium on Secularisation in Theory and Practice, University of Leeds, 17 May 2013
Radio 4 debate: Beyond Belief: Apocalyptic prophecies, 31 December 2012. Listen Again Here
‘Kant’s Apocalypse: On the Persistence, Despite Everything, of the Modern Myth of Progress’, Theology and Religious Studies Research seminar, The University of Leeds, 26th November, 2012
‘There is No God and We Are His Prophets: The Ambiguity of Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, day conference on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Cultures of Climate Change series, Cambridge University, 6th May 2009.
‘A Theology of Extinction? Tipping Points, Climate Change and Political Culture’, Religion in Dangerous Environmental and Climate Change, Trondheim, October 2008.
‘Approaching the Tipping Point: Climate Risks, Faith and Political Action’, EcoThee, Crete June 2008.
‘What is Rescue! History?’, panel presentation at Rescue! History: Climate Change, the Past and the Future, Birmigham University, April 2008.
‘Resisting a Politics of Fear in the War on Terror’, at Theology, Religion and Practice Research Seminar, Durham University (December 6, 2006)
‘Terror and Utopia: Apocalyptic Desire, Resistance, and the War on Terror’, at Alternative Futures and Protest Cultures (19–21 April 2006, Manchester Metropolitan University).
‘Theology and Global Protest Movements’, at A World for All? The Ethics of Global Civil Society, (4-7 September 2005, Edinburgh University).
‘Utopia and Dystopia: Performance as Contestation of a Politics of Fear’, at Performance and Possibility: Theatre for Social Change in the 21st Century, (17-18 September 2005, Hope University, Liverpool).
‘Creation Eschatology and the Rhetoric of Global Crisis’, Society for the Study of Theology annual conference, Thinking through faith: the places of reason in theology, (April 2005, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra).
‘Politics of Fear’, at University of Manchester / Lancaster University day conference, Religion and Political Life, (6 March 2003, University of Manchester).
