Scholarly Engagement

Conference Papers

“Lessons from Decolonial and Mediation Studies Literature: A Proposal for Revisioning the Praxis of Synodality Moving Forward.” Presentation at the 70th Annual Convention of the College Theological Society, Regis University, Denver, CO, U.S.A., May 30-June 2, 2024. [In-Person].

“Toward Living Systems as Legal Bodies: The Soteriological Necessity of Re-Figuring the Relationship among Christian Salvation, Creation, and Human Co-Operation in Light of the Anthropocene.” Presentation at the 8th Annual Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., February 23, 2024. [Virtual].

“Toward a Kairos for a Contextually-Based Universality: On the Prospects of Ubuntu as an Ethical-Ecclesiological Principle for Enacting Catholic Synodality.” Presentation at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Mission Studies Fellowship, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A., November 4, 2023. [In-Person].

“Ummah and Ecclesia in Comparative Study: On the Dialogic Possibilities of Islamic ‘Communio’ for Catholic Understandings of Synodal Ecclesiology.” Presentation at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Missiology, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A., June 17-19, 2022. [In-Person].

“The Cry of a Million Voices: A Model for Reimagining Church in Rwanda Post- Genocide.” Presentation at the 1st Annual Critical Global Issues Symposium at the School for International Training, School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A, May 14-16, 2021. [Cancelled due to COVID-19].

“Complicity and Pre-Genocidal Identity Narrative.” Presentation at the 5th International Conference on Genocide, California State University—Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A., November 1-3, 2018. [In-Person].

Invited Participant

“Philosophical Foundations of Liberty Symposium.” Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A., November 11, 2017. [Sponsored by the Institute for Human Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, U.S.A.].