“Book Bloc: the tactical use of books in Occupy Wall Street and beyond.” How Class Works 2012, Conference of the Center for the Study of Working-Class Life, SUNY-Stony Brook, 9 June 2012.

“Everything is Connected: Syriana, the Oil Encounter, and the War on Terror.” Presented at the American Studies Association Annual meeting, October 20-23, 2011, Baltimore, MD.

“An ‘Invasion of Poets’: Allen Ginsberg and Literary Solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua.” Presented as part of a panel organized by the Beat Studies Association. American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, May 26-29, 2011.

“The Non-Universality of Form: Challenging and Reinscribing Cultural Images of War in Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson’s Bosnian Flat Dog.” Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation, 2010 Comparative Literature Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Sept. 2-4, 2010.

“Journalism and Modernism.” A videorecorded conversation with Professor James Miller for his Journalism and Modernism course, Hampshire College, March 9, 2010.

“If All the Writers of the World Get Together: Allen Ginsberg and a Writers’ International in Sandinista Nicaragua.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting: “Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice,” Albuquerque, NM, October 16-19, 2008.

“The Street Band Underground Today.” Invited speaker. The Philosophy of Honk! Street Bands, Civic Engagement, and Social Change. A symposium sponsored by the Department of Music, American Studies Program, and Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University, Medford, MA, October 5, 2007.

“Comics Perspectives: Joe Sacco in Bosnia.” Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD, October 27-29, 2006.

“Looking for the ‘Good Fight’: William T. Vollmann in Afghanistan.” Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing. Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO, September 28 – October 1, 2006.

“Hanoi Mary: Mary McCarthy and U.S. Peace Activists in North Vietnam.” American Comparative Literature Association 2005 Annual Meeting. Conference Theme: “Imperialisms—Temporal, Spatial, Formal.” Penn State, March 11-13, 2005.

“‘Another World is Possible’: Imagining New Globalisms.” Crossing the Boundaries X: The Politics of Imagination. SUNY-Binghamton, April 4-6, 2002.