Professor Stewart Hoover and Associate Professor Nabil Echchaibi appeared at the following conferences, lectures and seminars:

  • "(Hyper-) Mediated Religion," presentation to the The Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia, November 29, 2016. Watch Presentation >>
  • “The Third Spaces of Digital Religion,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November 22, 2015.
  • “Strategic Confession: Pragmatic Religion and Spirituality in the Post-Secret Community,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Newport Beach, CA, October 24, 2015.
  • “Religious Authority in the Media Age,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, San Juan, June 7, 2015.
  • “Reality Media and the Amish Experience,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 23, 2014.
  • “Roundtable Response,” presentation to the Media, Religion, and Culture Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 23, 2014.
  • “The Third Spaces of Digital Religion,” paper presented to the biennial meeting, The International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture, Canterbury, UK, August 6, 2014.
  • “The Amish in the Media Panopticon: Lessons for the Rest of Us,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Seattle, May 25, 2014
  • “Religion and the Mediation of Public Culture in Ghana,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Seattle, May 25, 2014
  • “Religion, Media and Masculinity,” (co-authored with Curtis Coats) paper presented to the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 23, 2013
  • “The Third Spaces of Digital Religion,” round-table presentation, Association of Internet Researchers, Denver, October 25, 2013.
  • The Eighth Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Eskisehir, Turkey, July, 2012.
  • The Seminar of the Nordic Network on the mediatization of religion, Oslo, Norway, February, 2012.
  • Special Seminar on digital religion, Helsinki, Finland, January, 2012.
  • Lectures and consultations, US Consulate General, Barcelona, Spain, January, 2012.
  • CMRC Conference on Digital Religion, Boulder, January, 2012.
  • American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November, 2011.
  • Doha International Conference on Interreligious Dialogue, November, 2011.
  • Directed Porticus Global Seminar on Media and Religion, Hyderabad, India, August, 2011.
  • Seminar, CRESC network on religious transnationalism, London, June, 2011.
  • International Communication Association, Boston, May, 2011.
  • Advisor, research on religion and media in Britain, University of Leeds, January 26, 2009.
  • Featured Speaker, “Author Meets the Critics” session on Religion in the Media Age, October 31, 2008.
  • Colloquium Presentation, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, September 29, 2008.
  • Closing Plenary, Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 14, 2008.
  • Keynote Address: Conference on Media and Religious Transformation in Africa, Abuja, Nigeria, July 10, 2008.

  • Keynote speaker “Muslim Media Producers and Religious Identities” at the “Re-Scripting Islam: Muslims and the Media: A conversation between media professionals and scholars” Indiana University, Bloomington, March 23-24, 2011.
  • Scholar In Residence Program at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Islam, Multiculturalism and the Media. January 1-10, 2011.
  • Keynote address “Formations of the Modern Muslim: New Media, Islam and Alternative Modernity” at the seminar of the Nordic Research Network on the Mediatization of Religion and Culture. Sigtuna, Sweden, Oct. 23-24, 2010.
  • Public Lecture“On Mosques and Quran Burning: Islam as a Media Spectacle” Colorado Foothills World Affairs Council Speaker Series, Golden, CO. October 20, 2010.
  • “Formations of the Muslim Modern: Islam, Media and Alternative Modernities” presented at the re-Scripting Islam Conference. Bloomington, Indiana. March 22-24, 2011
  • “Building Religious Authority in the Media Age: The New Muslim Media Personality” (co-authored with Rianne Subijanto) presented at the International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture in Toronto, Canada. August 9-13, 2010.
  • “Transnational Masculinities in Muslim Televangelist Cultures” presented at the International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture in Toronto, Canada. August 9-13, 2010.
  • “On Mosques and Quran Burning: Islam as a Media Spectacle” Denver World Affairs Council Speaker Series. Denver, CO. October 20, 2010.
  • “A Mosque Near GroundZero or a Mosque on the Prairie” Colorado Global Studies Symposium, Denver, CO. October 4, 2010.
  • “Regulation and Authority in Islam” presented at the Academy of American Religion conference in Montreal, Canada. October 30- November 1, 2009.
  • “From Audiotapes to Videoblogs: the Delocalization of Authority in Islam” presented at the International Communication Conference in Chicago. May 21-25, 2009.
  • “From Audiotapes to Videoblogs: the Delocalization of Authority in Islam” presented at the Second Global Studies Conference in Dubai May 30 to June 1, 2009.
  • “Hyper-Islamism: Islamic Media and Alternative Modernities” presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference in Kansas City. April 16-18, 2009.