“Religion and the 2012 Election,” Reed House, Bowdoin College, November 5, 2012.
“Marriage Equality and the Constitution,” Bowdoin College, October 30, 2012.
“John Locke’s Fashionable Religion,” paper presented to the Religion and Critical Theory Colloquium,Brown University, October 4, 2012.
“The Politics of a Catholic ‘Culture of Life’,” International Political Science Association's XXIInd World Congress of Political Science, Reshaping Power, Shifting Boundaries, Madrid, Spain, July 8-12, 2012.
“The Secular Body,” Commun(icat)ing Bodies: The Body & Religion Conference, University of Graz, Austria, February 15-17, 2012.
Respondent, “Atheism and Secularism,” panel at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting(Montreal, Canada, November 7-10, 2009)
“The Meaning and End of ‘Religion’ in a Faith-Based America,” Law, Literature, and Religion Conference, Villanova University School of Law and Department of English, (Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2009).
Panelist, Public Colloquium on “Faith, Belief and Reason,” Bowdoin College, November 7, 2008.
“Liberalism’s Theology of Consent” Presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting(Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008).
“Locke’s Political Theology” Presented at the Association for Political Theory Annual Conference(Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, October 9-12, 2008).
“Liberal Agency and Global Inequalities” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Boston, MA, August 28-31, 2008).
“Forced Religion: John Locke, Toleration and Consent” Presented at The Politics of Religion-MakingConference (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, October 2007).
“Gender and Religion in Migration” Presented at the Mobilities in Transit: Rethinking the Artefacts, Images and Surroundings of Human Motion and Movability Conference (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, June 2006).
“Don’t Be Afraid of the F-Word: Feminism, Fun and the Future” Presented at the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Teaching for Change Conference (Cambridge, MA, June 2005).
“Agency and Religion” paper accepted for presentation at the Second Annual Christina Conference, entitled “Gender, Religion and Theory in Dialogue” (University of Helsinki, Finland, March 2005).
“Surrender Your Gender: Religious Subjectivity in William James’s Varieties of Religious
Experience” Presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Toronto, November 2002).
“Religion: The Body of Evidence” Presented at Bowdoin College Common Hour (Brunswick, ME, November 2001).
“Make it or Break it?: The Body of Belief in Poststructuralism and Theism,” Presented at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, February 2001).
“Bodies That Matter: Consent and Coercion in Feminist Theory of Religion”
Presented at Duke University (Durham, NC, February 2001).
“The Matter of Consent in Feminist Religious Reflection.”
Presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Boston, November 1999).
“Feminist Publishing: A Mandate for the Millennium.”
Presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Boston, November 1999).
“Translating Theodor W. Adorno’s Theology: Negative or Inverse?”
Presented at Harvard University Divinity School (Cambridge, MA, April 1998).
“Way Out West: Women’s Development and the Discourse of Mobility.”
Presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (Saratoga, NY, June 1996).
“A Rhetoric of Failure? Negative Theology and Theodor W. Adorno.”
Presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (New Orleans, November 1996).
Religion in Public: Locke’s Political Theology (Stanford University Press, 2013)