‘Denialism, Post-Denialism and the Boundaries of the Speakable’, at CRASSH, Cambridge University, 11 June 2018. Watch video of talk here.
‘Multiculturalism and the British Jewish community today’ at Muslims and Jews: Citizenship, Identity and Prejudice in Europe, the US and Israel. Workshop at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, 23 February, 2012. Recording available here.
‘One the significance of music stands: religious popular music between the transcedent and the instrumental’, Keynote lecture at 1st UskoMus Seminar: ‘Music and Transcendence’, Sibelius Museum, Turku, Finland.
‘Researching intangible spaces: locating the social’ Guest lecture and workshop at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research postgraduate seminar, December 8 2009.
‘The Colour of Metal: ‘Whiteness’, ‘Blackness’ and the Roots of Heavy Metal in 1960s Rock’. Guest lecture at Texas A&M University, 14 April 2009.
‘Do We Need Jewish Metal? On Popular Music, Diversity and Inclusion’ at ‘Popular Music Studies: Problems, Disputes, Questions’, University of Glasgow, 12-14 September 2008.
Member of panel on religion and popular music at ‘Theology, Religion and Popular Culture’ conference at Regent’s Park, College, Oxford, April 2006.
‘Understanding Jewish Rap: Pastiche and Syncretism’. Presented at ‘The Local, the Regional and the Global in the Emergence of Popular Music Cultures’, Copenhagen University, October 2005 and at a seminar at Gothenburg University, March 2005.
‘The Status of the Musical Text in Religious Popular Music: Some Conceptual Difficulties’. Presented at the April 2003 conference of the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group, Oxford.
‘An Orphaned Land?: Israel and the Extreme Metal Scene’. Presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Birmingham University, June 2000 and at The Popular Musician: Performance, Poetics, Power, biennial conference of the UK branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Surrey, July 2000.
‘Representations and Experiences of the Body in Death Metal Music and the Challenge of Formulating a Critical Response’. Presented at the British Sociological Association conference, Edinburgh University, 1998 and at seminars at the Universities of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Liverpool, 1998.
‘Roots?: The Relationship Between the Global and the Local Within the Extreme Metal Scene’. Presented at Popular Music: Intercultural Interpretations, biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Kanazawa, Japan, 1997 and at Music Studies and Cultural Difference, Open University, 1997.
‘Constructing Death: Discourse Analysis and the Interview Talk of Four Death Metal Fans’. Presented at Vox Pop, annual conference of the Oral History Society, London, 1997.