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If interspirituality and multiple religious belonging were centered in Interreligious Studies, what might be different about the field?
American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting
San Diego CA, United States
23-26 November 2024
The Future of Religious Studies
Keynote lecture
Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society
Radboud University Nijmegen
17 October 2024
Buddhism and the Anthropocene
Paper presentation at the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) – 21st Annual Conference
Gothenburg, Sweden
19-23 August 2024 (20 August)
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychedelics
Lecture at the Summer School Psychedelic Research
UMCG / Open Foundation / University of Groningen
Groningen, the Netherlands
8-12 July 2024 (11 July)
Towards a New Materialism in Psychedelics Research – Deleuze and Guattari and the Psychedelic Revival
Paper presentation at the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference
TUDelft / Architecture Philosophy and Theory
Delft, the Netherlands
8-10 July 2024 (8 July)
On Psychedelic Humanities: Interdisciplinary Challenges to an Emerging Field
Presentation at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR)
Haarlem, Netherlands
6-8 June 2024
Confronting the Mystical in Psychedelics
Public Talk at The Psychedelic Assembly
New York City, U.S.
19 May 2024
On Psychedelic Humanities
Talk at The Psychedelic Humanities Lab at The New School
New York City, U.S.
16 May 2024
Conflict, Interreligious Dialogue, and the Ethics of Affirmation
Paper at the Conference of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS)
Tartu, Estonia
8-11 May 2024 (9 May)
On manipulation from an philosophical perspective
Lecture at Alcmaeon Congress
Utrecht, the Netherlands
29 April 2024
Introduction to Buddhism
Lecture at the University for Humanistic Studies
Protestant Diaconie
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
19 April 2024
Religious mixedness: belonging, normativity, and homemaking in context
Paper at Expert Meeting – Exploring Mixedness in Postcolonial Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
20-22 March 2024 (22 March)
Deleuze and Guattari and the Psychedelic Revival
Public Talk at SPUI25
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
23 January 2024
Rhizomatic Religious Belonging as Dynamic Belonging
Paper presentation at NGG Conference
Religion in Motion – Between Borders and Belonging
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
1-3 November 2023 (1 November)
Hoe het Chinese denken de wereld wil veroveren
Lecture at Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
26 October 2023
Rhizomatic Religious Belonging in Times of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR), 20th Annual Conference
Vilnius, Lithuania
4-8 September 2023
Religious Diversity and the Secular University
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH)
Cambridge, UK
2-12 July 2023
Wat de Tong Beweegt
Lecture-performance
Ruigoord, Amsterdam
29 May 2024
Psychedelic Humanities: How Fungi, Cacti, Ayahuasca and LSD are Changing Culture
Amsterdam Psychedelic Research Association (APRA)
VU Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
24 May 2023
Posthuman Psychedelics: How to Move Beyond Health and Capital
Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR)
Haarlem, Netherlands
4-6 June 2022
Posthuman Religion
American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Contemplative Studies Unit
Denver CO, United States
19-22 November 2022
Trans-religious Communities, Conspirituality, and Protest
East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (EASSSR), Annual Conference
Taipei, Taiwan (online)
13-14 August 2022
Trans-religious Communities, Conspirituality, and Protest
European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), International Congress: Sacred Protest: Religion, Power, and Resistance in an Era of Upheaval
Bonn, Germany
23-26 March 2022 (24 March)
Religion, spirituality, and ideology. On the rapid development of China
Lecture at Huis van de Wijk Buitenveldert
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
27 February 2022
Buddhism and the Anthropocene
European Academy for the Study of Religion (EASR)
Pisa, Italy (online)
30 August – 3 September 2021 (31 August)
Buddhism and the Anthropocene
East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (EASSSR) Annual conference
Jeju, Korea (online)
17-19 August 2021 (18 August)
Network for European Humanities in the 21st Century
European Humanities Conference
Lisbon, Portugal (online)
5-7 May 2021
Dierenwelzijn in het daoïsme, boeddhisme, en confucianisme
Lezing voor studievereniging Aladdin
Utrecht, the Netherlands
8 maart 2021
Rhizomatic Belonging: Rethinking Hybrid Religious Belongings and Multiple Religious Belonging
American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Interfaith and Interreligious Studies Unit
Boston, United States (online)
8 December 2020
Towards a New Materialism in Psychedelics Studies
Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands (online)
26 September 2020
On the Emergence and Convergence of the New Humanities
Postdoctoral seminar on the future of the humanities, Utrecht University
Utrecht, the Netherlands
20-21 January 2020
Buddhism and the Anthropocene
Presentation at The Asian Sphere Program’s Graduate Student Conference: Interactions, Connections and Collisions within the Asian Sphere
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
30 April 2019
Voorbij Identiteit: Identiteit in het comparatief model van Ulrich Libbrecht en het hedendaagse identiteitsdebat
Lecture at School voor Comparatieve Filosofie Antwerpen
Antwerp, Belgium
8 June 2019
Religious Belonging and Chinese Religion
International Youth Forum on Confucianism, Zoucheng, PRC
14-16 September 2018
Spinoza, Daoism, and the Mind-Body Problem
World Congress of Philosophy 2018
China National Convention Centre, Panel: Comparative Philosophy
Beijing, PRC
13-21 August 2018 (15 August)
Chinese Religiosities: Accelerated
Lecture Performance at Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (ULLENS) / Long March Gallery
Beijing, PRC
11 August 2018
Buddhist, Daoist, and Other Religious Belongings in the Global East
The Fourth International Conference on the Wutai Cult
Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove
Mount Wutai, PRC
3-12 July 2018 (10 July)
Towards a Critical Disentanglement of the ‘Religion’ Nexus in the Global East
East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Singapore Management University
Singapore
3-6 July 2018 (3 July)
Multiple Religious Belonging and Religious Belonging in China
Confucius Institute New Sinology Program PhD Forum
Renmin University of China, School of Chinese Classics
Beijing, PRC
7-8 June 2018 (7 June)
Daoism, Belonging, and Multiplicity
International Conference on Daoist Studies
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, PRC
1-4 June 2018 (2 June)
Religious Belonging in Question: The Belonging of Multiple Religious Belonging
Winter Program Buddhism and East Asian Cultures
Young Scholars Forum, DILA Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Taiwan
Response by Teng Wen Ren 鄧偉仁
New Taipei City, Taiwan
19 January 2018, 13:30 – 13:45
Challenges of using “ethical” concepts across borders: on the concept of “energy” from a comparative perspective
Symposium Energy and World Ethics, TU/Eindhoven
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
4-5 December 2017
Religious Belonging in Question: The Belonging of Multiple Religious Belonging
Religious Minorities’ Self-Representations: Claims of Difference and Sameness in the Politics of Belonging
Utrecht University
Utrecht, the Netherlands
11 October 2017, 14:30 – 16:00
Religieuze diversiteit in China: Nieuwe perspectieven op multiple religious belonging in Nederland
Presentation at the Symposium Vereniging van Geestelijke Verzorgers (VGVZ)
Pastorie Dominicus Amsterdam, Spuistraat 12
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
25 September 2017, 13:30 – 14:00
Multiple religious belonging
Lecture at Bijspijkerdagen Theologie en religiestudies
Dominicanenklooster Huissen
Huissen, the Netherlands
2 September 2017, 9:00 – 10:30
Multiple religious belonging from the perspective of critical religion
Paper presentation at the Conference of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), Münster, Germany
27 April 2017
Hermeneutical explorations of multiple religious belonging
Netherlands School for Theology and Religious Studies (NOSTER), Spring Conference, Kontakt der Kontinenten
Soesterberg, Netherlands
10 April 2017
Nietzsche’s Levenskunst
Lecture at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Brussels, Belgium
21 February 2017, 10:00 – 12:00
Immanente en transcendente emotionaliteit in het denken van Ulrich Libbrecht
Lecture at School voor Comparatieve Filosofie Antwerpen
Antwerp, Belgium
18 February 2017, 10:00 – 16:30
De Dood van het Zelf, Holy Motors
Presentation at De Balie, Amsterdam
17 January 2017, 19:00 – 21:00
The deconstruction of “religion” and multiple religious belonging
Presentation at Expert meeting Deconstructing “religion” – so what?
VU University Amsterdam, Filmzaal PThU
Amsterdam, Netherlands
8 December 2016, 14:00 – 16:30
Multiple religious belonging from feminist and post-colonial perspectives
Paper presentation at the International Association for Religion and Gender (IARG)
Turin, Italy
11 November 2016
Towards a New Materialism in the Philosophy of Psychedelics
Presentation at Beyond Psychedelics
Prague, Czechia
1-2 October 2016
Multiple Religious Belonging
UCSIA Summer School
Antwerp, Belgium
29 August – 3 September (29 August 2016)
Religiöse hybridität oder multiple religious belonging? Untersuchungen aus theologischer und religionswissenschaftlicher Sicht
Seminar for Kulturelle und religiöse Vielfalt in Europa: Identitätsdiskurs, social media, Hybridisierung des Religiösen und die Konsequenzen für den interreligiösen Dialog
Akademie der Weltreligionen, Universität Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
10 May 2016, 12:00 – 14:00
What can the West learn from Chinese Buddhism?
Longquan Monastery
Utrecht, the Netherlands
2015
Hermeneutical explorations on multiple religious belonging
International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
Erfurt, Germany
2015
Multiple religious belonging
Chinese Thought and Contemporary China, Beijing Normal University
Beijing, PRC
2015
Multiple religious belonging
Intensive Study Program Christianity in Asia
Münster, Germany
2014
Spinoza, Daoism and the Mind-body Problem
Philosophers’ Rally
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2012
Nietzsche and the Love for Artistry
Philosophers’ Rally
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010
Nietzsche and Comparative Philosophy
Philosophers’ Rally
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010

