Leah Sarat

International

• “El dios sin fronteras y el sueño mexicano:’ religión, espacio, y migración en El Alberto, Hidalgo.”  XIII Coloquio International sobre Otopames, Puebla, Mexico, October 29 (2011)
• “El ‘sueño mexicano’ y el ‘Dios sin fronteras’: dos visiones del viaje indocumentado en El Alberto, Hidalgo.”  53 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, July 19-24 (2009)
• “Prophecy, Predators, and Prayer: Ritual Dimensions of U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 27-June 3 (2006)

National

• "'Welcoming the Stranger' on Occupied Land: Migration, Metaphor, and the Decolonial Challenge to Faith-Based Border Activism," invited keynote speaker, 4th Annual Religion Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Florida, February 21, 2020 
• "The Word is Not Detained: Trauma and Transformation in an Immigrant Detention Facility," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, November 19, 2018
• "From Fragmentation to Wholeness: Envisioning Immigrant Detention in the United States," invited panelist, Religion and Media Workshop, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 18, 2016
• “I Lift up Mine Eyes to the North: Mexican Evangelicals and U.S. Migration.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, CA, May 23-26 (2012)   
•  “God Bless America: Undocumented Evangelicals in the Shadow of Arizona’s S.B. 1070.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 21 (2011)
• “Reinventing the Border: Religion, Tourism, and the U.S.-Mexico Frontier.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. October 31-Nov. 3 (2008)
•  “Simulated Border Crossing: On the Boundary of Ritual and Tourism in Mexico’s Parque EcoAlberto.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, April 17-19 (2008)

Local - Arizona State University  

• Invited Panelist, "Undoing Time: Art & Histories of Incarceration Convening," ASU Art Museum, January 9 (2020)
• Invited Speaker, "Captivity and Liberation: Religion and For-profit Immigrant Detention." 8th Annual Prison Education Conference of the ASU Prison Education Awareness Club, February 15 (2019)
• Participant, “Public Salon on Latino Religiosities,” with Felipe Hinojosa and Sujey Vega, October 19 (2015)
• Panelist, “Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?” with Damien Cave, Julian Limand Matthew Garcia, September 29 (2015)
• Organizer, “Beyond the Border: Understanding the Central American Refugee Crisis.” ASU School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Public Panel, Arizona State Univerity, September 3 (2014)
• Panelist, “Whose Nation Under God? Religious Identity and Belonging in the 2012 Presidential Election.” ASU School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Faculty Roundtable, Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ, October 17 (2012)
• Organizer, “Homegrown Nativism or Corporate Profits?  Culture, Detention, and the Politics of Immigration” with Robin Jacobson. Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State Univerisity, March 27 (2012)
•  Speaker, “A Cell Phone on her Pillow: Religion, Migration, and Those Who Stay   Behind.” Religious Studies Faculty Forum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, September 1 (2011)
• Panelist, “Crosses, Flags, and Fences: Religion on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Religion in Many Places Faculty Panel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 24 (2011)