March 9, 2010
"Gossip and Gender"
Women's Center
Host: California State University, Fullerton

March 15, 2009
"The Role of 'Dreams' in Yucatán Maya Culture"
Mesoamerican Network Conference
Host: California State University, Fullerton

December 1, 2005
Co-Chair/Co-Organizer of Panel: "Rabelaisian Cultural Practices: Bakhtin in Mesoamerica"
Talk: "Were-Animals, Rape Fantasies, and the Gendered Morality of Space in Cobá, Quintana Roo, México: Rabelaisian Themes in a Maya Village"
104th Annual American Anthropological Association Meeting

March 25, 2005
"Were-Animals, Rape Fantasies, and the Gendered Morality of Space in Cobá, Quintana Roo, México"
Graduate Anthropology Colloquium Series
University of Pennsylvania

December 11, 2003
"Trust, Shame, and the Maya Self"
SAnECH (Social Anthropology, Ethnology and Culture History) Seminar Series
University of Aberdeen

November 16, 2000
"Face-Maintenance, Role-Ambiguity, and the Sad Plight of Academic Insight in a Commercial Setting"
Panel: "Giving Something Back? How Our Subjects Evaluate Our Anthropological Knowledge"
99th Annual American Anthropological Association Meeting

October 21, 2000
"'Truth' in Advertising: When Is It Okay to Say 'High'?"
Third Annual Graduate Student Symposium ("Voice of Authority")
University of Pennsylvania

April 28, 2000
"'Your Bank Account is a Car': Generic Constraints on Creativity in the Development of an Advertising Concept"
Graduate Anthropology Colloquium Series
University of Pennsylvania

April 18, 1997
"The Liberty Bell: From Commodity to Sacred Object"*
Graduate Anthropology Colloquium Series
University of Pennsylvania

March 29, 1996
Discussant for "Regimes of Value and Capitalist Expansions"
John and Jean Comaroff
Scholar for a Day
African Studies Center
University of Pennsylvania

* This talk began as a paper for Nancy Farriss's "History and Culture" course and finished up as a published article.  The reference and abstract for that article can be found here.