Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

  • “Modeling a Born-Digital Factoid Prosopography using the TEI and Linked Data,” with Nathan Gibson and Katayoun Torabi, TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting 2021, “Next-Gen TEI,” virtual meeting due to COVID-19, October, 2021
  • “Modeling Cultural Heritage Information on the Medieval Middle East,” 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries, virtual meeting due to COVID-19, 20 July 2020
  • “Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations: A Linked Open Factoid-based Prosopography,” The Association of Digital Humanities Organizations, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2019, https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0875.html
  • “Leveraging Core Data for the Cultural Heritage of the Medieval Middle East,” part of the workshop on “Shaping Humanities Data: Use, Reuse, and Paths Toward Computationally Amenable Cultural Heritage Collections,” part of Association of Digital Humanities Organizations 2017, Montréal, Canada, August 2017
  • “SPEAR: Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations,” The International Syriac Symposium, Rome, Italy, August 2016
  • “Linked-Open Data and the Promise of a Syriac Prosopography,” The American Society of Church History/American Historical Association, New York, January 2015
  • “Networks beyond Borders: The Potential of a Syriac Prosopography,” The North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 2014
  • “Preaching with their Feet: Liturgical Procession as a Means of Lay Participation in Christianization,” The American Society of Church History/American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014
  • “Religious Violence and Care for the Poor in Jacob of Sarug’s On the Fall of the Idols,” International Syriac Studies Symposium: Syriac in its Multi-Cultural Context, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi, Mardin, Turkey, April 2012
  • “Teaching the Faith in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Catechetical Orations,” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, October, 2007
  • “Disciplina Arcani: Catechesis and the Revelation of the Christian Mysteries,” Workshop on Revelation, Literature & Community in Antiquity, Princeton, NJ, January 2007
  • “Catechesis and Conversion in Late Antiquity,” International Byzantine Congress, London, U.K., 21-26 August 2006
  • “Liturgy and Christian Paideia in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Catechetical Homilies,” Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, October 2005

Invited Talks

  • “Syriac Prosopography in the Digital Age,” Workshop on Late Antiquity, University of Texas, Austin, March 2023
  • “Digital Resources for the Study of Late Antiquity,” Workshop on Late Antiquity, University of Texas, Austin, March 2023
  • “From Text to Data and Back Again: Modeling Syriac Heritage with TEI and Linked Data,” Cultural Heritage at Scale: Encoding Cultural Heritage at Scale, Vanderbilt University Libraries, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2019
  • “Liturgical Ekphrasis in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Catechetical Homilies,” Medieval and Renaissance Transformations of Antiquity, Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, Italy, September 2013
  • “Coercion, Persuasion, and Belief: Understanding the Christianization of the Roman Empire” Late Roman Seminar, University of Oxford, 4 March, 2010

Session Chair or Commentator

  • Chair, “Disaster, Disunity, and Dispersion: Theological and Ecclesiastical Challenges from Byzantium to Central Asia,” American Society of Church History, 6 January, 2013
  • Moderator, “Politics, Religion, and Society,” Princeton University, 5-7 May, 2011