Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

October, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky (national meeting)

"Reflections of Childhood Punishment in Religious Narrative and Salvation Theology"

International Psychohistorical Association

June, 2008, New York City (national meeting)

"Mapping the Patriarchal Family onto a Religious Cosmos"

Center for Inquiry (Public Lecture)

February, 2008, Amherst, New York

Topic: impact of painful childhood experience on Christian belief and origins.

Society of Biblical Literature

Nov., 2007, San Diego (national meeting), invited respondent

Psychology and Biblical Studies unit, session on:
"Emotional Transference and Transformation in the Bible"

Society for the History of Children and Youth

June, 2007, Norrkoping, Sweden (international biennial)

"The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Christianity, and Childhood"

Human Behavior and Evolution Society

May, 2007, Williamsburg, Virginia (national meeting)

"Religions Metaphorically Reflect Normative Patterns of Childhood Punishment"

American Historical Association

Jan., 2007, Atlanta (national meeting); session organizer and presenter

Session organized:
"Religion and the Coercion of Children within the Context of Patriarchy"

Presentation:
"Reflections of Patriarchal Coercion of Children within Core Christian Narratives and Belief Structures"

Society of Biblical Literature

Nov., 2006, Washington, DC (national meeting), two papers

Bible and Cultural Studies unit:
"Symbolic Images of Endemic Childhood Trauma Embedded in New Testament Writings: Cultural Functions and Implications"

Psychology and Biblical Studies unit:
"Culturally Endemic Patterns of Childhood Trauma Reflected in New Testament Narrative and Theology: Implications for New Testament Origins"