
Chantal Noa
transdisciplinary scholar, storyteller, and educator
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
2023 Presentations
2022 Presentations
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice Book Roundtable
Panel Participant
Harvard Divinity School, Ecological Spirituality, April
Reclaiming Spiritual Identity in Native Place - Indigenous food sovereignty and the ontology of dwelling in GATHER
Presenter
American Academy of Religion, Western Region, March
Grace, Mercy, and Atonement: Exploring Artistic, Ritual, and Social Action through Forgiveness
Unit Chair, Religion, Literature, and Film
Forests and Priests, a story of land-based reconciliation between humans and trees in Ethiopia
Presenter
East-West Psychology Metamorphosis Lecture Series, California Institute of Integral Studies January
Lecturer
American Academy of Religion, Western Region, March
Civil Rights, Religion and Responsibility: What is the Role Religion Plays in Civil Rights Discourses in 2022 and Beyond?
Unit Chair, Religion, Literature, and Film
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, February
“Rewilding’s Radical Roots and Uncertain Future”
Panel Participant
2021 Presentations
Decolonizing Research Academic Conference, California Institute of Integral Studies/Deep Water Initiative, April
Alternative Research Methodologies in Academic Institutions
Co-creator and Coordinator
4th Religion and Ecology Summit, California Institute of Integral Studies, March
Sacred Sites and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Around the World
Panel Participant
American Academy of Religion, Western Region, March
Spiritual Emergence during the Global COVID Pandemic
Unit Co-chair, Religion, Literature, and Film
Reclaiming Spiritual Identity in Native Place - Indigenous food sovereignty and the ontology of dwelling in GATHER
Presenter
The Emergence of Spiritual Ecology in My Octopus Teacher
Panel Chair
2020 Presentations
Deep Water Initiative, Online Academic Panel, Decolonizing Research, October
Indigenous Research Methodologies in Western Academic Institutions
Co-creator and Coordinator
Deep Water Initiative, Online Academic Panel, September
Co-creator and Coordinator
American Academy of Religion, Western Region, March
The Chasing Hunt: transcendence, immanence and the zone of proximity in the Kalahari Desert
Presenter
Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Forum, California Institute of Integral Studies, March
Indigenous Storytelling in Film as a new form of Subtle Activism
Presenter
Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Forum, California Institute of Integral Studies, February
Becoming-Animal as Primal Theology in Primal Religions
Presenter
4th Yale Graduate Conference on Religion & Ecology, February
Becoming-Animal as Primal Theology in Primal Religions
Presenter
2017-2019 Presentations
5th World-Ecology Research Network Conference, Department of Anthropology and Social Change, CIIS, May 2019
Kalahari Dystopia’s and the Utopia of Becoming-Bushmen as Ecological Model
Organizer and Presenter
Religion and Ecology Film Festival at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Deep Water Initiative, March 2019
Co-creator and Organizer
Deep Water Initiative Film Series, 2019
Co-creator and Organizer
Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Symposium, California Institute of Integral Studies, November 2017
A.I. & Agriculture, a more than Human Approach
Presenter