• 2005, US-Iran Relations Conference: Regional & Global Dynamics. Invited paper: An Axis of Evil or Paradise? Musings on Contemporary Iran. Salt Lake City, Utah. Sept. 9th - 10th.
• 2005, The 2005 Middle East & Central Asia: Politics, Economics, and Society Conference: Authoritarianism & Democracy in the Age of Globalization. Invited paper: An Axis of Evil or Paradise? Musings on Contemporary Iran. Salt Lake City, Utah. Sept. 8th - 10th.
• 2004,.The 2004 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society International Conference: Inequality in the 21st century. Studies in Gendered Nationalisms. Salt Lake City, Utah. Chair of the panel. Sept. 9-11. 
• 2004, The 2004 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society International Conference: Inequality in the 21st century. Investigating The Sources and Solutions of Ethnic Conflicts.  Salt Lake City, Utah. Chair of the panel. Sept. 9-11. 
• 2004, Kyrgyzstan: The Last Song of Manas? Invited paper for international conference on “Present State and Perspectives of Nomadism in a Globalizing World.”  Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 9-14, 2004.
• 2004, Manas: A beloved, controversial, and contradictory hero of Kyrgyzstan. Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central Asia. Seattle, Washington. May.
• 2003, The 2003 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society International Conference: Contemporary Affairs & Future Prospects. Mysticism, Culture, and Art in Eurasia. Salt Lake City, Utah. Chair of the panel. Oct. 16-18.
• 2003, Phoenicians in Tunesia. Tunesia workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  Nov. 15.
• 2003, From Ancient Mesopotamia to a Modern basement: Cuneiform tablets and the origins of writing. Cultural connections workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  Oct. 25.
• 2003, Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East. Inside the Middle East workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  Jan. 11.
• 2002, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Along the Banks of the Nile workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  Oct. 26.
• 2001, Central Asian Republics: Who and what they are. The Silk Road workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  June 13.
• 2001, Archaeology of Mesopotamia. Alexander the Great Workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  Oct. 27.
• 1998, Understanding Ancient Egypt. Archaeology: Can you dig it? Egypt all wrapped up workshop for Utah educators. Organized and sponsored by the Middle East Center Outreach Program. Salt Lake City, Utah.  Oct. 24.
• 1995, In Search of Parallels: The second millennium B.C. rock sanctuaries of Yazilikaya (Anatolia) and Tamgaly (Kazakhstan). Invited paper presented during 42e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Leuven, Belgium. July 3-7. 
• 1994, The Past and the Present: The power of heroic epics and of oral tradition. Invited paper presented during the Celebrations of 1000 years of Manas, the Kyrgyz national hero. Sponsored by UNESCO and the Kyrgyz government. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Aug. 26-Aug. 29. 
• 1994, Indiana Jones and The Real Story of Ancient Civilizations. Invited workshop for the Expanding Your Horizons Conference. Utah Math Science Network. Ogden, Utah.
• 1994, Rediscovering Anthropology: There is life after a Ph.D. Society for Applied Anthropology. April. Cancun, Mexico.
• 1993, Indiana Jones and The Real Story of Ancient Civilizations. Invited workshop for the Expanding Your Horizons Conference. Utah Math Science Network. Ogden, Utah.
• 1992, Symbols and Unconscious Systems. Panel discussion associated with the "Reassemblages. An Installation by Frank McEntire Using Discarded Religious Objects." Salt Lake Art Center. Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 1992, Ritual and Art Making. Invited keynote address.  Art Therapy Conference. Expanding the Boundaries: Art and Mental Health.  Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 1991, A New Interpretation of a Blue Sacral Place in Beycesultan, Anatolia. The Annual Meeting of the American School of Oriental Research. Kansas City.
• 1990, Archaeology of Religion of Prehistoric Societies: the Search for the Impossible? The Annual Meeting of the American School of Oriental Research. New Orleans.
• 1989, Colors and Sacral Architecture of Prehistoric Anatolia. The Annual Meeting of the American School of Oriental Research. Anaheim.
• 1989, To Be or Not to Be a Temple? Possible Identification of a Banesh Period Temple at Tall-i Malyan, Iran. The 36e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Gent, Belgium.
• 1989, Archaeology of Religion. Colors as the Symbolic Markers Dividing Sacred from Profane. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Atlanta.
• 1987, A New Look at the Sacral Architecture of Anatolia during the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. The 34e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Istanbul, Turkey.
• 1982, Some Remarks on Anatolian Temples in the 3rd millennium B.C. The International Symposium on the Temples and Shrines in the Ancient Middle East. Uppsala, Sweden.

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