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​Speaking Engagements and Special Presentations

UPCOMING
Panel presenter at NecronomiCon, "Religion in Call of Cthulhu." Providence, RI. 14 Aug.
Panel presenter at AHRC Agora, "Does Psyche Matter? Jung and the Unconscious in 2026." Online Public Panel Discussion, Acid Horizon Research Commons. 30 Aug.

PREVIOUS
2026

Featured presenter for Transcendence in the Age of Spielberg's A.I. Weirdosphere online learning platform, 25 Jun.
Featured reader at Orbital Studies Issue № 0 Launch Party. Standard Time, Toronto, Ontario. 6 May.
Panel presenter at Weird Academia symposium. Indiana University, Bloomington. 27-29 Jan. 
Panel presenter at 2026 MLA Convention, "Gothic Now: Podcasting and Other Public Humanities." University of Toronto. 9 Jan.

2025
Annual Winter Solstice event with Pierre-Yves Martel and Phil Ford. Weirdosphere online learning platform, 21 Dec.
Speaker at "Back to Haunt Us: From the Supernatural to the Paranormal" symposium. Verdurin, London, 8 Nov.
Speaker at "Can Beauty Save the World?" symposium. Thomson House at McGill University, Montreal, 24-25 Oct.
Respondent to Patrick Curry at Reenchanting the World Conference. Toronto Metropolitan University, 16-18 Oct.
Presenter at the book launch of Gianni Rodari's The Grammer of Fantasy. Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, 1 Oct.
"What Is 'Idiology'?" Weirdosphere online learning platform, 23 May.

2024
In-person panel event with Patrick Bringley for New York Encounter. Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City, 16-18 Feb.
Presenter at Brno University of Technology Fine Arts Seminar. 6 Mar.
"'Tis the Season to be Ghostly" with Phil Ford and Pierre-Yves Martel. Weirdosphere online learning platform, 19 Dec.

2023
"Reclaiming Art." In-person presentation at Galloway School, Atlanta, 19-20 Jan.
"Towards a Philosophy of Magic: Late Modernity and the Reckoning with Mystery." Online talk. Viktor Wynd Museum, 31 Jan.
In-person presentation at Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI). St Andrews, Scotland, 2-7 July
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