“Thoughts on the Globalizaton of the Academy and Future Prospects for Biblical Studies.” 

Plenary Presidential Panel for the Society of Biblical Literature, New England and Eastern Canada Regional Meeting, convened by regional president Laura Nasrallah. March 6, 2020.

Later published as “Introduction,” Pages xi-xxxvi in Experiencing Presence in the Second Temple Period: Revised and Updated Essays. Contributions. to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 111 (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2022). 

” ‘I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart’ — Paul’s Grief in 2 Cor in the Context of Second Temple Prayers.” 

Joint session of the Bible and Emotion and the Prayer in Antiquity Program Units of the Society of Biblical Literature. November 30, 2020.

Later published as “Sticky Emotions from Second Temple Prayers: A Study of Paul’s Grief in 2 Corinthians.” Pages 159-83 in Experiencing Presence in the Second Temple Period: Revised and Updated Essays. CBET 111 (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2022).

Discussant for Book Panel, Giovanni Bazzana, Having the Spirit of Christ: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups. Yale University Press, Oct 7, 2020. 

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/10/26/video-having-spirit-christ-spirit-possession-and-exorcism-early-christ-groups 

Book Review Panelist for Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press, 2020. Society of Biblical Literature. November 2020.

Respondent to Kelley Coblentz Bautch, “Are Evil Human or Superhuman Figures a Necessary and Functional Part of the Earliest Expressions of Evil or did they Develop Later?” 

Enoch Seminar Online Conference titled, “The Origins. ofEvil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity.” June 30.