“Discursive Complexes as a Tool to Systematize the Study of Contemporary Esotericism”. 2013 CESNUR Conference: Changing Religious Movements in a Changing World. June 21-24, 2013. Dalarna University, Sweden.
“Popular Culture as Esoteric Mediation: The Case of Occult Metal”. 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. November 17-20, 2012. McCormick Place Convention Center. Chicago, USA.
“Esotericism and Sociology”. With Egil Asprem. EASR 2012. August 23-26, 2012. Södertörn University, Sweden.
Presentation and Discussion on the research of Christopher Partridge and the Concept of Re-Enchantment. En dag om återförtrollning [interdisciplinary symposium on re-enchantment]. May 3, 2012. Stockholm University, Sweden.
”Det esoteriska och populärkulturens ’oftentliga rum’: Postsekulära utvecklingar på det religiösa fältet”. Nordisk konferens om forskning om nyreligiositet [Nordic Conference on New Religiosity]. October 27-28, 2011. Sigtunastiftelsen, Sweden.
“The Finnish Theosophical Satanist and anti-Semite Pekka Siitoini”. Satanism in Western Culture. September 25-26, 2011. Stockholm University, Sweden.
“Visual Popular Culture and the Esoteric”. ESSWE 3: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism. July 6-10, 2011. University of Szeged, Hungary.
Respondent. Meeting of the Nordic Research Network for the Mediatization of Religion and Culture: Perspectives on Mediatization and Religious Change. October 25-27, 2010. Sigtunastiftelsen, Sweden.
“Western Esoteric Currents: A Discourse Analytical Approach”. XXth IAHR Quinquennial World Congress. August 15-21, 2010. University of Toronto, Canada.
“What’s in a Name: Theoretical and Methodological Musings on the Scholarly use of the term Satanism”. Satanism in the Modern World. November 19-20, 2009. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
“Locating the West: Problematizing the ‘Western’ in Western Esotericism”. ESSWE2: Capitals of European Esotericism and Transcultural Dialogue. July 2-4, 2009. University of Strasbourg, France.
“Grant Morrison and the Practice of Magic Through the Comic Book Medium”. 2009 National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference. April 8-11, 2009. New Orleans Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, USA.
“The Mass-Appeal of the Occult”. Media, Spiritualities and Social Change. June 4-7, 2008. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
“Contemporary Magic and Approaches to Nature”. ASE Conference 2008: Esotericism, Religion, and Nature. May 29-June 1, 2008. College of Charleston, USA.
“Neo-Pagan Rune Magic or Rune Magic with Pagan Influences? The Rune-Gild and Scholarly Definitions of Neo-Paganism”. EASR 2007. September 23–27, 2007. University of Bremen, Germany.
“Post-Secular Esotericism? Some Reflections on the Transformation of Esotericism”. The Donner Institute 2007 Symposium on Western Esotericism. August 15–17, 2007. Linnasmäki Conference Centre, Åbo, Finland.
“The Left-Hand Path: Sociological Perspectives on Late Modern Esotericism”. 29th ISSR/SISR Conference: Secularity and Religious Vitality. July 23–27, 2007. University of Leipzig/Alma Mater Lipsiensis, Germany.
“Non-hierarchical Hierarchy: Initiatory Degree Systems in Left-Hand Path Magic Orders”. Inaugural Conference of the ESSWE: Constructing Tradition: Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism. July 19–22, 2007. University of Tübingen, Germany.
“’The Prince of Darkness on the Move’: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Esotericism”. 2007 CESNUR International Conference: The Globalization of Religious Movements. June 7–9, 2007. Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, France.
“The Left-Hand Path: Sociological Perspectives on Late Modern Esotericism”. Religion on the Borders: New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion. April 19–22, 2007. Södertörn University College, Sweden.
“Subversion eller underkastelse. Häxflickan i populärkultur”. Populärkultur – reality, text och scen. Joint seminar by the departments for Comparative Religion and Nordic Folkloristics at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. November 6–7, 2006.
“The Left-Hand Path”. FINYAR 2006. October 20, 2006. University of Stockholm, Sweden.
“Occultism for the Teenaged Viewer: The Case of the Witch-Girl in Popular Media”. 2006 CESNUR International Conference: Religion, Globalization and Conflict: International Perspectives. July 13–16, 2006. San Diego State University, USA.
“Subversion or Submission? The Case of the Witch Girl in Popular Media”. Fifth International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture: Mediating Religion in the Context of Multicultural Tension. July 6–9, 2006, Sigtunastiftelsen, Sweden.
“Symbolic Death and Rebirth in the Left Hand Path”. FINYAR 2005. April 23–24, 2005, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
“Den vänstra handens väg och moraliska val” [The Left-Hand Path and Moral Choices]. Våld och Aggression Symposium [Symposium on violence and agression]. Fall of 2004. Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
“Feminine Symbolism and the Left Hand Path”. ASANAS Second International Conference. May 21, 2004, University of Wolverhampton, England.
“Dark Magic and Strategies of Epistemology”. CESNUR 2002 International conference: Minority Religions, Social Change, and Freedom of Conscience. June 20–23, 2002, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
“Dragon Rouge – A Spiritual Organization in Opposition to the Society and the Church?” CESNUR/INFORM 2001 International conference: The Spiritual Supermarket: Religious Pluralism and Globalisation in the 21st Century: The Expanding European Union and Beyond. April 19–22, 2001. London School of Economics, England.
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