(2011) Whither qur’anic ethics? Presented at Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7.
(2010) Know your enemy: Non-Muslims and the crisis of qur’anic meaning. Presented at American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1.
(2010) The ethics of torture: A perspective from Islamic law. Paper presented at Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics annual meeting, San Jose, California, January 8.
(2009) Children of another God: Abraham in the Qur’ān. Presented at American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Montréal, Quebec, November 9.
(2009) The burdens of the naẓm theory of the Qur’ān. Presented at International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, Virginia, July 27.
(2009) Resistance to oncofertility in Muslim thought. Presented at Oncofertility Consortium, Evanston, Illinois, July 23.
(2008) To forgive is human, to slay divine: Muḥammad’s response to an imperative to “slay them wherever you find them” (Q. 9:5). Presented at American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 1.
(2007) War and the text: Reasoning through scripture on war, injustice, and the limits of the law. Presented at American Academy of Religion annual meeting, San Diego, California, November 20.
(2007) Theological criticism in 11th-century source law. Presented at Wesleyan University forum on Islamic thought, Middletown, Connecticut, November 8.
(2007) Poverty, debt-relief, teaching, and learning. Presented at Opening of the Tutu Center for Reconciliation, New York, New York, September 22.
