UPCOMING EVENTS

“Adventism and Political Activism: A Symposium on the History of Adventist Social and Political Engagement,” Loma Linda University, April 12, 2025. LINK

“Sacred Entrpreneurship,” ASI Lake Union Spring Fellowship, South Bend, IN, April 25-26, 2025 https://asilakeunion.org/

“Dwell,” Light Bearers Convocation, Jasper, OR, June 25-28, 2025 https://lightbearers.org/convocation/dwell

“Adventist Identity,” Congress of the Moravian and Silesian Conference

Strážovice, Czech Republic, July 20-27, 2025

Eighth European Congress on World and Global History: Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions, Linnaus Universuty, Vaxjo, Sweden, September 10-12, 2025 https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/#

Discipleship Congress, Berlin, Germany, October 2-5

ARISE Finland, Koivikko Lifestyle Centre, Mikkeli, Finland, October 21-24

Coeur d'Alene SDA Church, Coeur d’Alene, ID, November 14-15

PAST EVENTS

“Adventism’s Contradictory Legacy: A Turn Off to Religious Bigots Yet an Allure to Atheists,” American Society of Church History (ASCH), Chicago, January 2025

“The Politics of Weaponizing the Controversy Between Good and Evil,” Adventist Society of Religious Studies, San Diego, 2023

“Revelation 13 and the Tension Between Apocalypticism and Political Engagement,” Institute of Adventist Studies Symposium, Friedensau Adventist University, April 26-27, 2021.

“Religious Anti-imperialism and the Vindication of the Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901, Cambridge American History Workshop, University of Cambridge, October 27, 2020.

“Apocalyptic Anti-Imperialism and the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902.” American Society of Church History (ASCH), Annual Winter Meeting, New York City, January 3-6, 2020.

“This ‘Lamb-like’ Nation Speaks as a Dragon: Leveraging Apocalypticism Against American Foreign Policy, 1898-1902.” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (AHA), University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2, 2019 (in absentia).

“National Apostasy in Jesus’ Name: Biblical Prophecy and Dissent Against American Empire, 1898-1902.” Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS), Annual Conference, Liverpool, June 12-14, 2019. 

“Adventism’s Two-Horned Hog and the Dilemma of War-Time Patriotism.” Triennial Conference of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians, Southwestern Adventist University, May 16-18, 2019.

“Religious Outsiders and the Political Implications of Revelation’s Subversive Imagery.” Pacific Northwest Conference of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Central Washington University, May 3-5, 2019.

“Negotiating Race, Missions, and Empire: The AME Church During the Philippine-American War.” Divinity Colloquium, Tenth Session, Yale University, April 2, 2018.