“The Jewel in the Crown: MOCA, Bunker Hill, and the Ideology of Urban Redevelopment,” Critical Theory Symposium, University of California, Irvine, 1988

 

“The Jewel in the Crown: MOCA, Bunker Hill, and Urban Redevelopment,” accepted for Conference on Urban Ethics, University of Long Island, Brooklyn Campus, 1990

 

“The Jewel in the Crown: MOCA, Bunker Hill and Urban Redevelopment,” University of California, Berkeley, Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representation, 1990

 

“Hygienic Eroticism: MOCA and Downtown Los Angeles,” Washington, D.C. Annual Meeting of the College Art Association. Participated in session: “The Gender Politics of American Art and Culture,” February, 1991

 

“MOCA and the Body of Marilyn,” Cultural Studies Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1991

 

“Representing the Border: The Centro Cultural de la Raza and San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art,” California American Studies Association Conference, Sacramento, May, 1995

 

“The Border Arts Workshop: Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border,” California American Studies Association Conference, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, April, 1996

 

“Las Comadres: A Women’s Collective in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region of San Diego/Tijuana,” National Women’s Studies Association 17th Annual Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, June, 1996

 

“Exilic Regeneration at the Border:  A Model for Cultural Identity,” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, New York, February, 1997

 

“Las Comadres:  A Feminist Collective Negotiates a New Paradigm for Women at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Conference of the Association of Border Scholars (under the umbrella of the Western Social Sciences association), Albuquerque, 1997

 

“Las Comadres and the Border Art Workshop,” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, New York, February, 1998. (Title of panel: “Crossing Borders”)

 

“Chicano Park and After,” Working panel for MIXED FEELINGS, presentation to artists and writers selected for the exhibition, MIXED FEELINGS. The panel session was held at the Getty Center, Los Angeles. This was the second stage in the peer-review process for the scholarly book to accompany MIXED FEELINGS, mentioned above. Presentations were in Spring, 2001

 

 “Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York as a Work of Modern Jewish Literature,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, 2008, Panel on Concepts of Ethnicity and Home in Modern Jewish Literature.

 

                     “Claudia Roden’s Book of Middle Eastern Food: Remembrance of a Lost Egyptian                              Childhood,” Annual Meeting for the Association of Jewish Studies, 2010, Panel on Jews                    in Twentieth Century Egypt.