Seth Emmanuel Gaiters

Religiosity and Attitudes Towards Pluralism in Turbulent Times: Black Social Movements and Activism

2025 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) Public Fellows Convening. Washington, D.C.

Black Literary/Visual Art and Black Religious Thought in Social Justice Art Education

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Arts-Based Pedagogy Roundtable Fellowship (Lilly Endowment Inc.), “Antiracist Pedagogy and Practice: How to Engage, Disrupt, and Transform with Care,” Atlanta, GA.

Black Religion Michael Brown: Silence and the Sacred, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Gaiters, S. E. (2024, February 23). Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University.

Black Study of Religion and An Anarchic ‘I’ of Black Life Writing: A Response to J Kameron Carter’s Anarchy of Black Religion

Author Meets Critic: J. Kameron Carter's The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song, 2024 American Academy of Religion, Philosophy of Religion Unit.

Book Project Presentation, “#BlackLivesMatter and Religion in the Street: Revival of Religion in the Public Sphere

Young Scholars in American Religion Program. Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis.

Ferguson, Black Twitter, and Religious Word Frequencies: Python Programming for Humanists

Fundamentals of Programming for Human(s/ists) Unit, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Conference. Victoria, BC, Quebec: University of Victoria.

Life-Narrative and Contemporary Considerations of Black Religion and Black Movement, Colloquium on Narrative and Belief

Classics Department and Center for the Study of Religion. Ohio State University.

New Visions & Political Theology: The Unnoticed Convergence of King ‘the apostle of nonviolence’ & Fanon ‘the apostle of violence,’

New Visions & Political Theology: The Unnoticed Convergence of King ‘the apostle of nonviolence’ & Fanon ‘the apostle of violence,’ If Not This, Then What? Possibilities of Otherwise beyond Incarceration and the Dominance of Man, 2024 American Academy of Religion, Theology and Religious Reflection Unit.

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: Testimony & Justice From Ferguson to the Classroom

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: Testimony & Justice From Ferguson to the Classroom. Wabash Center Journal on Teaching (JoT), 5(1).

Ferguson, #BlackLivesMatter, and Revival of the Sacred in the Public Sphere” (a conversation with Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan and Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson)

Gaiters, S. E. (2023, July).

Political Theology and Race: Religious Racism and Religious Anti-Racism

1898: Legacies and Futures Curriculum Development Workshop. Presented at the 1898: Legacies and Futures Curriculum Development Workshop, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC.

Re-membering Michael Brown: Religion, Silent Refusals and Die-In Rituals of Grieving

2023 Annual American Academy of Religion, Theology and Religious Reflection Unit. San Antonio, TX.

Sanctified Spirit Poured Out on All Black Flesh -- Pentecostalism, Aesthetics, Activism, Forms of Solidarity

American Studies Association Conference 2022, The Roof is on Fire. Presented at the American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Teaching at the End of the World

2023 Annual American Academy of Religion, Teaching Religion Unit. San Antonio, TX.

Blackpentecostalism in Black Religion: Spiritual Heterogeneity and Doxological Transcendence

2022 Annual American Academy of Religion, Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit, and Religion and the Social Sciences Unit. in Denver, CO.

Choosing Separatism and Letting It Burn

American Studies Association Conference 2022, The Roof is on Fire. Presented at the American Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Deviant Letters, Deviant Sacrality, and Black Political Organizing

MLA Conference 2022, Race, Religion, & Justice in the Archives. Washington, D.C.

Ferguson Foundations and Black (Religio)Digital Networks of Uprising

2022 Annual American Academy of Religion, Co-Sponsored Session: Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit, and Religion and the Social Sciences Unit. Denver, CO.

Jazz and Improvisation: Shaping Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN.

Lezley McSpadden—Re-membering Michael Brown: Religion & Die-In Rituals of Grieving

Lezley McSpadden—Re-membering Michael Brown: Religion & Die-In Rituals of Grieving. UNCW Material Culture. University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Public Scholarship on Religion and Catastrophe

2022 Annual American Academy of Religion, with the Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion (CPUR). Denver, CO.

Rev. Fannie Elizabeth Burgin Harris: Healing Hands in Black Religion

In J. T. Roane & M. Harris (Eds.), Out There: Perspectives on the Significance of Black Metaphysical Religion. Immanent Frame.

"(Extra)Ecclesial Dissent in Anti-Racist Activism,” Dissenting Church: Exploring the Theological Power of Conflict and Disagreement

Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology XIII. Presented at the Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology XIII, KU Leuven, Belgium.

#BlackLivesMatter and Sacred Politics

In C. Keller, A. White, & C. Crockett (Eds.), Political Theology on Edge (pp. 237–253).

Beyond Hashtags: Religio-Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks

Annual American Academy of Religion, The Religion, Media, and Culture Unit. in Houston, Texas.

Black Lives Matter and Sacred Politics

Divinity School Essay Contest on Race and Religion. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago.

Black Sacred Politics: (Extra)Ecclesial Eruptions in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

(Ph.D. Dissertation). The Ohio State University.

Symposium Introduction

Symposium on Ruth Braunstein’s Prophets and Patriots. https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/prophets-and-patriots/

Beyond Hashtags: Religio-Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks

Annual American Academy of Religion, The Religion, Media, and Culture Unit. Boston, Massachusetts.

Digital Archives and the Preservation of Sacred Stories

Religion in the Digital Age Conference. Harvard University.

Let’s Talk About Race & Faith: From Conversation to Action

Let’s Talk About Race & Faith: From Conversation to Action. University Interfaith Council. Ohio State University.

Sacred Reflections: Death and Life in Black Activism

“Racism and Supremacism” Unit, Council for World Mission (CWM) - 4th Discernment and Radical Engagement (DARE) Global Forum. Accra, Ghana.

#BlackLivesMatter and Sacred Politics: Promiscuous Solidarities Conjuring Justice

Annual American Academy of Religion, Religion and Politics Unit. in San Diego, CA.

Political Theology, Race, & Sovereignty Introduction

Gaiters, S. E. (2019, July). Political Theology, Race, & Sovereignty Introduction (S. Gaiters, Ed.). https://politicaltheology.com/symposium/ptn-pedagogy-and-reading-list-initiative/

Political Theology: Concerning (Non)Violence, ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’

Ashland Center for Nonviolence Fifth Annual John D. Stratton Conference on ‘The Future of Nonviolence.’ Ashland University.

A Queer Baptism of Fire: Black Lives Matter, The Spirit of Resistance, and Pentecostal-Type Clergy Solidarity During Ferguson

Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Unit, 2018 Annual American Academy of Religion. Denver, CO.

King and Fanon: A Black Sacred Politics and A Sacred Humanism

Annual American Academy of Religion, Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unit. Denver, CO.

Martin Luther King, Jr. & Frantz Fanon: Can ‘The Apostle of Nonviolence’ & ‘The Apostle of Violence’ Meet?

Martin Luther King, Jr. & Frantz Fanon: Can ‘The Apostle of Nonviolence’ & ‘The Apostle of Violence’ Meet? Comparative Studies Colloquium Lecture, Comparative Studies Department. The Ohio State University.

Political Theology, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frantz Fanon, and Politics of Resistance

Midwest Region American Academy of Religion, Religion and Culture Unit. Munice, IN.

Prophetic Witness and the Abrahamic Religions

In Children of Abraham. http://www.ohiohumanities.org/children-of-abraham/.

Sacred Politics: Political Theology, Race, and Black Social Movements

Political Theology Network Conference. Presented at the Political Theology Network Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

#BlackLivesMatter, Black Millennials, Resistance, and Spiritual Transgressions

The Black Graduate Student Association, Northwestern University. Chicago, IL.

Black Cultural Production: An Excess of Spiritual Forces

2017 Florida State University Religious Studies Graduate Student Symposium. Tallahassee, Florida.

Black Life & Sacredness: Transgressing Modern Binaries

Black Life & Sacredness: Transgressing Modern Binaries. Midwest Region American Academy of Religion, Religion and Culture Unit. Munice, IN.

Black Religion, Civil Rights, and Anti-Colonialism

40th National Council of Black Studies. Houston, TX.

Critical Complexities: Multiculturalism, Secularism, and Antiblackness

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Religion and Politics Unit. Boston, Massachusetts.

Disruptions of Black Life: Rethinking the Sacred and the Secular

40th National Council of Black Studies. Houston, TX.

Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina (new edition): Richard Brent Turner

[Review of Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina (new edition), by R. B. Turner]. Journal of African American Studies, 21(2), 290–292.

Social Performances: Religion, Secularism, and #BlackLivesMatter

Comparative Studies Colloquium Lecture. The Ohio State University.