David Fekete

Seminar Presentations

Visiting Academic Fellow, Institute for Christian Studies and Society, January 29, 2018, Seminar Presentation, Concordia University, “Matters of Matter, Mater, and God: T. S. Eliot’s Poetic Prophesy of The Death of God, the Debasement of the Feminine, and the Desecration of Creation.” Edmonton, AB.

North American Interfaith Network 2017 “Connect” Conference, August 8, 2017. Seminar Presentation, “E Pluribus Unum: Plurality, not Sameness.” San Diego, CA.

Visiting Academic Fellow, Institute for Christian Studies and Society, October 26, 2016. Seminar Presentation, Concordia University, “Take a Trip with Swedenborg and Blake.” Edmonton, AB.

North American Interfaith Network 2016 “Connect” Conference, July 13, 2016. Seminar Presentation, “Toward a Spiritual Eco-Justice: James A. Nash and the Virtue of Frugality.” Guadalajara, Mexico.

Visiting Academic Fellow, Institute for Christian Studies and Society, February 23, 2016. Seminar Presentation, Concordia University, “Myth, Metaphor, and the Limits of Language.” Edmonton, AB.

Swedenborg Scholar-in-Residence, Urbana University, February 23-26, 2015. Lectured at London Correctional Institute and Urbana University on “And lo! Swedenborg Is the Angel Sitting at the Tomb: William Blake’s Complex Relationship with the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.” Met with Sociology courses on Minorities, Personal Philosophy course, Presented “Swedenborg 101.” Urbana, OH.

Swedenborg Scholar-in-Residence, Urbana University. “‘And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb’—William Blake’s Complex Relationship with the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.” February 23-26.

Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action.“Swedenborg’s Symbolism in the Poetry of William Blake.” March 10, 2014.

Swedenborg Scholar-in-Residence. Urbana University. “Robert Frost’s Critical Appropriation of Swedenborg’s Theology.” March 23-25, 2010. Lectured at London Correctional Institute and Urbana University. Met with staff, faculty, students, and members of the Swedenborgian Church.

American Academy of Religions Conference. “Gender Imagery as a Metaphor for God-Human Conjunction: A Comparison between Tantric Hindu Shakta Yoga and Emanuel Swedenbrg’s Theology of Mystical Marriage.” November 9, 2009.

Symposium on Religion and Place. University of Alberta. “The Modern City as a Place of Alienation from Creation and Creator in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot.” April 16, 2007.