Pedagogical Practice

Lectures and Keynote Addresses

2020   “Skin Boats + Paying Attention: Aesthetic Intersubjectivity in Precarious Times," Full Professor Inaugural Lecture, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia. Lecture Introduction, Full Lecture
     
2015   "Salt Water Skin Boats: Attentiveness and Art in the Anthropocene," Verge Conference, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
     
2014   "Re/Search Praxis in the Academy: Enacted/Experienced/Embodied (Re/Searching the Soul)," Verge Conference, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
2014   "Re-Searching the Arts," SAMC Faculty Mediated Conversation, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
     
2013   "Cognitive Complexity in the Visual Art Studio," Faculty PD Presentation, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
2013   "Art-making + Releasing the Power of Narrative," Faculty Retreat Talk, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
     
2008   "Made Flesh: Embodiment and Materiality" (Lecture 1), "Post-Ironic Search for Meaning: Beauty and Affliction" (Lecture 2), "Silence" (Lecture 3), Art, the Incarnation and the Way of Unknowing, Winter Lecture Series, Canadian Memorial University.
     
2007   "A Rage of Love," co-presented with Lynn Szabo, Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime Conference, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
     
2006   "Beauty, Terror and the Transcendent," Verge Conference, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.
     
2005   "Art, Embodiment and Materiality," Invited Speaker, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia.
     
2004   "Embodiment, Material and the Post-Ironic Search for Meaning," Kwantlen University College, British Columbia.
     
2003   "Art and Transcendence," The Schoenel Invited Lecturer, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington.
2003   "Beauty and Affliction: Reflections on Art and Embodiment," Invited Lecturer, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario.
2003   "Beauty and Affliction: Reflections on Art , the Incarnation and Embodiment," Keynote Address, Wesleyan Institute, Sydney, Australia.
     
2002   "Imagining the Sacred: The Fruitful Alliance Between Gospel and Art, or Outsider Art in an Age of Irony," The 24th Nash Memorial Lecture, Campion College at University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan.
2002   "Listening and the Way of Unknowing," Gordon College Invited Lecturer, Wenham, Massachusetts.
     
2001   "Vocation: The Hard Work of Listening," The Glenn Conference, St. John College, Santa Fe, New Mexico.