"Philosemitism and Its Paradoxes," Seminar organizer, 45th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA (Dec. 2013)
“Monotheism and Its Discontents,” Panel organizer, 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA (Dec. 2009)
“Exodus: ‘Where We’re Goin’/Where We’re From’”
10th Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA): “Arrivals and Departures,” Long Beach, CA (Apr. 2008)
9th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Long Beach, CA (Nov. 2007)
Freud’s Foreskin: A Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Most Suggestive Circumcision in History
Four short presentations at the intersection of psychoanalysis, Jewish identity and minor surgery
Annual Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture, New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Dorot Jewish Division, NY, NY (May 2006)
“Modernism and its Mysterious Transmissions”
7th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Chicago, IL (Nov. 2005)
“Racial Science and Ideology, 1930s-1950s”
Annual Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Guelph, Ontario, Canada (July 2005)