Conference Presentations:

Chair, "Film and Video Within the Gallery Walls," Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago, IL (March 2007)

Chair, "Beyond the Passion and the Fury: The 'Everyday Sacred' on Screen", Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver (March 2006)

"Border Crossings: The Child's Gaze and the Sacred Screen," Conference on Trans/national Film and Literature: Cultural Production and the Claims of History, Florida State University (Jan. 2005)

"A Fine Romance: Pearl Harbor and the Denial of History," Society for Cinema Studies, 2002

"Landscape Architecture and Film," Society for Cinema Studies, 1997

"Film Journeys: Japanese Cinema & the Idea of Pilgrimage," Japan Anthropology Workshop, Santiago de Compostela, Spain , 1996

"New Resources for Teaching about Asia," National Endowment for the Humanities Roundtable, Association for Asian Studies, 1995

"Japanese Visual Artists and Filmmakers Discover the `Outside World,' European Association of Japanese Studies, Copenhagen, 1994.

Chair of panels on representations of childhood on film, the "everyday sacred" on film, Asian animation, Asian theatre and cinema.

More detailed list available on Resume page.