National Conferences
“Mediating the Pan-Erotic: John Neumeier’s Choreography of Mahler’s Third Symphony”
North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, June 2025
“Nijinska’s Ballet Étude: Assessing Existing Evidence”
Music and Dance Study Group, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society
Participant in a session on Bronislava Nijinska, AMS, Chicago, Illinois, 2024
“Religion, Music, and AI: Why Battlestar Galactica is Still Relevant” [invited]
Annual Meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music
Participant in a 3-paper session, “Music and Religion in Battlestar Galactica” on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the series; Wheaton College, Illinois, March 2024
Panel Discussion and Book Presentation: “Redefining Sacred Music in the 19th Century” [invited]
Annual conference of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music
Panel discussion surrounding the publication of my co-edited book, Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall.
Panelists: Jeremy Begbie (Duke Divinity School), Eftychia Papanikolaou (Bowling Green State University), Markus Rathey (Yale University); Duke University, March 2023.
“Uwe Scholz’s Große Messe”
Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2014
“The Religious Impulse in Schumann’s Scenen aus Goethes Faust”
Annual Meeting of Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
Boston University, 2010
“Spontini and the City: Bach and Musical Politics in Berlin”
33rd Annual Conference, German Studies Association
Participant in the session “Mendelssohn’s Milieu: Music, the Sacred, and the Secular in the Nineteenth Century”; Washington DC, 2009
“Doctrine and Teleology in Schubert’s Mass in E flat”
Annual Meeting of Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 2009
“Apollo’s Arrow and Orpheus’s Lyre: Music in Battlestar Galactica”
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference
Session on Science Fiction and Fantasy; Boston, 2007
“Religion and Nationalism in Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Coronation Mass”
Annual Meeting of Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2007
“Elements of Subversion in the Music of the Two Armored Men in Mozart’s Zauberflöte”
Conference on Mozart and Die Zauberflöte
Sponsored by the Mozart Society of America and the Santa Fe Opera (50th anniversary of the founding of the Santa Fe Opera); Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006