"A Definition of Religion that Works: The Religious Group and the Database of Religious History,¡± to be delivered at the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion,¡± San Antonio, November 2016.
¡°Huari (dpa' ris / dpa' re): The Gateway between Mongolia and Tibet,¡± paper to be delivered at the international conference ¡°Interactions within Buddhist Traditions in China and Tibet: Xianmi Combinations and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism,¡± Renmin University, Beijing, July 2016 (invited participant).
¡°Innovators and Imitators of Monastic Culture in Amdo and Inner Mongolia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,¡± paper to be delivered at the Fourteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bergen, Norway, June 2016.
¡°The Database of Religious History,¡± co-delivered at the Workshop on Religion, Ritual, Conflict, and Cooperation: Archaeological and Historical Approaches, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, April 2016 (invited participant).
¡°The Beautiful Path of Practice: Ritual Orthopraxy and Sectarian Coherence from Tibet to Mongolia,¡± paper delivered at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2016.
¡°The Religious Group: Demarcating the Unit of Analysis in the Database of Religious History,¡± part of panel at the XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, Germany, August 2015 (paper author; panel co-organizer).
¡°Orthopraxy and Ordering Monks from Central Tibet to Amdo,¡± Tibetan Buddhist Networking in the 18th century: Lives and Letters, Columbia University (organized by Gray Tuttle and Lauran Hartley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies), March 2015 (invited workshop participant).
¡°It¡¯s Not the Destination, It¡¯s the Journey (to Rich People¡¯s Houses): Or, Why Wutai Shan is Not That Special,¡± 17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, August 2014.
¡°A Large Database Approach to Cultural History,¡± Digital Humanities Annual Conference, University of Lausanne and ?cole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne, July 2014 (lead author; with Edward Slingerland, Michael Muthukrishna, Fred Tappenden, and Carson Logan).
¡°The Database of Religious History,¡± Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, June 2014 (Unconference Session presentation).
¡°Enhancing Traditional Humanities Research,¡± Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 2014 (part of panel organized with colleagues at the University of British Columbia, ¡°New Digital Humanities Approaches to Asian Studies¡±).
¡°Dazhong siyuan zhi jil¨¹¡± ´óÖÚËÂÔºÖ®¼ÍÂÉ (Disciplining Masses of Monks), Qinghai Academy of Social Sciences, Xining, China, August 2013 (invited speaker).
¡°Disciplining Masses of Monks,¡± Vinaya Texts and Transmission History: New Perspectives and New Methods, Yongfu Monastery, Hangzhou, China, August 2013 (invited speaker).
¡°Chan Buddhism, Apparitions of Ma?ju?r¨©, and the Sacred Mount Wutai: A Translation from the Chan Baizhang qinggui zhengyi ji,¡± The Space That Is More Than Space: New Perspectives on Buddhist Sacred Sites in East Asia, University of British Columbia, August 2013 (invited speaker).
¡°Sacred Sites, Politics, and Society,¡± The Space That Is More Than Space: New Perspectives on Buddhist Sacred Sites in East Asia, University of British Columbia, August 2013 (panel discussant).
¡°The Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet,¡± Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium First Plenary Meeting, University of British Columbia, May 2013 (poster presentation).
¡°Regulating Monastic Allegiance: The Imperial System of Monastic Regulation in Eighteenth-Century Amdo,¡± American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2012 (panel organizer).
¡°Menggu¡¯er yu Menggu guanxi: Youning si de Wang Fo xitong he Neimeng qizhang¡± ÃɹŶûÓëÃɹŹØϵ£ºÓÓÄþ˵ÄÍõ·ðϵͳºÍÄÚÃÉÆ쳤 (Monguor-Mongol Relations: G?nlung Monastery¡¯s Wang Incarnation Lineage and the Zasag of Inner Mongolia), Second Annual Hebei Chan Culture Conference: Northern Chinese Buddhism of the Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, in Xingtai, Hebei Province, China, May 2012 (invited speaker).
¡°Tibetan Monastic Customaries (bca¡¯ yig) in the Growth of Mass Monasticism in Amdo,¡± University of Virginia Buddhist Studies Forum, September 2011 (invited speaker).
¡°Zangchuan fojiao de sigui yu gelu pai zai Anduo diqu zhi fazhan¡± ²Ø´«·ð½ÌµÄ˹æÓë¸ñ³ÅÉÔÚ°²¶àµØÇøÖ®·¢Õ¹ (Tibetan Monastic Customaries and the Growth of the Geluk Sect in Amdo), Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, June 2011 (invited speaker).
¡°Tibetan Monastic Customaries (bca¡¯ yig) in the Growth of Mass Monasticism in Amdo,¡± 16th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan, June 2011.
¡°Tibetan Buddhist Blueprints for Reviving Chinese Buddhism: Fazun¡¯s (1901-1980) Xizang minzu zhengjiao shi (Political and Religious History of the Tibetan People),¡± American Academy of Religion 2009 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, November, 2009.
¡°Tibetan Models for Resurrecting Chinese Buddhism: Early Chinese Accounts of Tibetan Buddhism,¡± North American Graduate Student Conference in Buddhist Studies, University of California-Berkeley, April 2009.
