Conference papers and public talks

I have only begun keeping a record of these in the last decade.

‘The Apocalyptic Littoral: Conceptualising Christadelphianism’, Stockholm University, Högre seminariet i religionshistoria, 27 January 2026.

‘“Babilon’s ‬‭Bastards‬‭[sic]”‬‭ and ‬‭the‬‭ End ‬‭of ‬‭Hell: ‬‭Apocalyptic,‬‭ Alterity,‬ and ‬‭Abolitionism‬‭ in‬‭ Benjamin ‬‭Lay’s‬‭ All ‬‭Slave-Keepers‬‭. ‬‭Apostates‬‭’, Stockholm University, Högre seminariet i religionshistoria, 17 December 2024.

‘“Babilons Bastards” [sic] and the End of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s Antislavery Exegesis of Revelation’, University of Cambridge, Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, 26 November 2024.

‘”Babilons Bastards” [sic] and the end of Hell: Benjamin Lay’s antislavery exegesis of Revelation’, British New Testament Society, University of Glasgow, 23 August 2024.

‘George Fox and Islam: A Neglected Legacy’, Lancaster University, 23 June 2024.

‘Rethinking Germantown: Mediterranean Slavery and the Origins of Atlantic Abolitionism’, History of Christianity Seminar, University of Cambridge, 31 January 2024.

‘Babilons Bastards’ [sic] and the end of Hell: apocalypse, slavery and Benjamin Lay’, British Association for the Study of Religion, Cambridge. 12 September 2023.

‘“Sound and fury, signifying nothing?”: a prolegomenon to the study of apocalyptic and terrorism’, Violence in the Name of God: From Apocalyptic Expectations to Violence, Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, 30 May 2023.

‘Putting the apocalyptic Jesus to the sword’, Stockholm University, Stockholm-Cambridge Mutability of Apocalyptic Seminar, 2 December 2022

‘Violence and the Historical Jesus’, Teologiska Högskolan Stockholm, University College Stockholm, Stockholm, 13 May 2022.

‘From a different place: radical dissent and the reception of Islam among early Quakers and Unitarians’, Seminar in Inter-religious Relations, University of Cambridge, 22 May 2020

‘Lamb in November: reason, dissent and magic’, Magic and Divination from Antiquity to Early Modern Times Workshop, Stockholm University, 6 May 2020 (Cancelled)

‘Radical dissent and the Barbary origins of Atlantic abolitionism’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2 April 2020 (Cancelled)

‘From a different place: radical dissent and the reception of Islam among early Quakers and Unitarians’, Joint Religious Studies and Christian-Muslim Studies Seminar, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 20 November 2019.

‘Religion and Terrorism’, The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St. Andrews, 7 November 2019.

‘Rethinking early anti-slavery: North Africa and beginnings of Atlantic abolitionism’, Festival of Ideas, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 22 October 2019.

‘The Problem of ‘Apocalyptic Terrorism’, The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements Conference, University of Bedfordshire, 27 June 2019.

Discussant at launch of the Norman Cohn Trust, British Academy, London 27 March 2019.

‘The Problem of “Apocalyptic Terrorism”’, Stockholm University, Högre seminariet i religionshistoria, 11 December 11 2018.

‘Apocalyptic Terrorism: Taming the Pale Horse’, Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge, 20 October 2018.

‘Barbary origins of Atlantic abolitionism: “Is this better done, as Turks doe?”, On Belonging: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550 – 1700, University of Liverpool, 29 July 2018.

‘Losing books in a scriptural universe’, The Scriptural Universe of Late Antiquity Workshop, Stockholm University, 12 April 2018.

‘Early Unitarians and Islam: radical dissent and its consequences’, Unitarian Theology Conference, Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, 16 October 2017.

‘“Apocalyptic Terrorism”: Unveiling a Contested Concept’, Violence and Millenarian Movements Conference, Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, 6 April 2017.

‘Early Quakers, Islam and Slavery’, Seminar, School of History, University of East Anglia, 23 March 2017.

‘The challenge of non-existence: rejecting the historicity of Jesus from antiquity to the twenty-first century’, Stockholm University, Högre seminariet i religionshistoria, 22 November 2016.

‘More ingenious than learned’? The quest for the non-historical Jesus and its implications for contemporary New Testament scholarship’, Durham University New Testament Research Seminar, 14 November 2016.

‘More ingenious than learned’? The quest for the non-historical Jesus and its implications for contemporary New Testament scholarship’, New Testament Senior Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 8 November 2016.

‘The challenge of non-existence: rejecting the historicity of Jesus from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first’, British New Testament Conference, University of Chester, 2 September 2, 2016.

‘Radical Christians and Islam in the Early Modern World’, Waterford Philosophical Society, Waterford, Republic of Ireland, 2 November 2015.