"Ideological Imperialism: The Danger of a Neoconservative State," Artful Strategies and Necessary Risks, Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, CSU, Sacramento, spring 2008 "Remaking the 'Giddy Multitude': Twenty-first Century Immigration and the Politics of Fear," National Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Spring 2007. "'Paranoid Rhetoric' in the New Millennium: From Barry Goldwater to George W. Bush," Visiting Scholar Lecture Series, Arizona State University, West, Spring 2006. "'An Experiment in Filming the Truth': Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad," Summer Olympics Film Series, The Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, CSU, Sacramento Library, Summer 2004. "The Art of the Political: Leni Riefenstahl and the Making of Olympia," Summer Olympics Film Series, The Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, CSU, Sacramento Library, Summer 2004. "Gods, Guts and Glory: Recreating the Homeric War Hero in American Film," International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, Spring 2004. "The Dark Place of the Unredeemed: Fritz Lange's M and the Origins of Film Noir," Arizona State, West, Fall 2003. "Revisioning Civilization and Savagery: Turner's Thesis and the Myth of the American Frontier in Film Westerns," Western Regional Meeting of the California American Studies Association, Spring 2002. "Undercurrents in American Social and Intellectual History," National Meeting of the Association of Popular Culture, Spring 2001. "The Parasitic Quality of Writing and Desire," U.C., Berkeley Summer Research Seminar, Summer 1999. "Global Politics and the Problem of Colonialism," Visiting Lecturer Series in the Social Sciences, Manchester University, Manchester England, Fall 1998. "The Disruption of Space and Time in Modern Art," Delivered at the Annual Student Conference on Cultural Diversities, CSU, Sacramento, Spring 1998. "Socrates the Sophist," Annual Faculty Lecture Series in the Arts and Letters, CSU, Sacramento, Fall 1997. "Otherness and Contemporary Cargo Cults," Western Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1996. "Freud and the Narcissistic Subject," Annual Address at The Professional School of Psychology, Fall 1995. "Writing and the Pharmakon," Arizona State University, West, Spring 1995. "Desiring Theology: Psychoanalytic Anteriors," Eastern Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1995. "Lacan, Derrida and Poststructuralism," Western Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1994. "Tropological Discourses: Rethinking Religion and Literature," Western Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1994. "The Failure of Paul Ricoeur's Phenomenology," National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Fall 1993. "Reading Ricoeur Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics," Western Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1993. "Feminism Without Women in a Postfeminist Age," Western Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1993. "Textual Heterologies," Eastern Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1992. "Commodification and Otherness: Race, Gender, and Power," CSU, Los Angeles, Spring 1990. "The Role of Representation in the Work of Poe, Freud, and Kierkegaard," CSU, Los Angeles, Spring 1989.

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