conference papers, public talks, etc.

“Anthropology’s Secret Sharers: Considering Ethical and Political Responsibilities in Worlds of Known Watchers.” Paper presented at conference on: Collateral Publics Navigating the Unfolding of Anthropological Publics. Konstanz University, May 8-9, 2025.

“The CIA, The Asia Foundation, and Cold War Politics.” Public Lecture, Shanghai University. June 6, 2024.

“Reconsidering the Cold War Context of Modjokuto and Clifford Geertz’s Early Work,” Conference on Clifford Geertz and Cold War. Shanghai University, June 7, 2024.

“Shaping Research Agendas: How the CIA Covertly Molded Cold War Social Science.” Oregon State University Lecture Series, Corvallis, Oregon. February 9, 2024.

“Contextualizing Gregory Bateson’s Wartime Applied Anthropology Experiences.” Enacting Ecological Aesthetics Seminar, Hosted by Dulmini Perera, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Oct. 2, 2023.

“The Great COIN Con: Anthropologists’ Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Operations,” Session on War: Contested Landscapes, Unsettling Consequences. Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Seattle Washington, November 12, 2022.

“Contextualizing Old Patterns and New Shifts in American Surveillance.” Roundtable on War, Science, Technology, Death. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle, Washington November 11, 2022.

“Reconsidering John Embree in the Cold War.” Paper presented at symposium “Internal and External Views of Japanese Village: Attic Museum Society and John Embree.” Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan. December 14, 2019.

“Problems of Future Projections When Misunderstanding the Past.“ Paper presented in session on Artifacts of Engagement: A Critical Assessment of the National Academies Report on Social Science and National Security, Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, B.C., November 22, 2019.

“Militarizing Knowledge,” presentation in session on Militarization, Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, B.C., November 23, 2019.

“Using Purged and Un-Purged Archives and the Freedom of Information Act to Uncover Anthropology’s Cold War Past.” Paper presented at the series “Archival Connections: Research in the National Anthropological Archives.” Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. March 14, 2019.

“Re-Reinventing Anthropology” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California, November 15, 2018.

“On the Structural Limits of Squeaky Wheels: Limits of Structure and Meaningful Change.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California, November 16, 2018.

“Counter-Lineages Within the History of Anthropology: On Disciplinary Ancestors’ Activism.“ University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology Distinguished Lecture. September 24, 2018.

“Dire Threats to Academic Freedom: CIA Campus Incursions and Why Resistance Matters.” City University of New York, Baruch College, CIA Off-Campus Teach-In Keynote address. April 24, 2018.

“Parsing the Borders of Data: Transparency, Records, Replicability.” Transparency in Qualitative Social Sciences: Intention & Implementation, Workshop funded by the National Science Foundation. Reston, Virginial, March 15-16, 2018.

“Critiquing Media as Social Facts Mirror.” Paper presented in session on “The Media: Its Role in the Building and Derailing of Public Institutions and Public Trust. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 20, 2017.

“Taking the Long View of US Surveillance: Corporate State, Deep State, Shallows State, National Security State.” Paper presented in session on Sovereignty and Surveillance: Deconstructing the State and the Power of Presence. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. December 2, 2017.

"The CIA, Anthropology, and the Cold War: How State Interests Shaped Knowledge Production." Campus talk presented at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. April 7, 2017.

“Tracing Funds, Tracing Impacts: The CIA and American Anthropology.” Hardy Chair Lecture Series, Hartwick College. Oneonta, New York. March 22, 2017.

“Reframing the Impacts of Cold War Fronts: How the CIA Shaped Social Science at the pre-1968 Asia Foundation.” Paper presented at New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Lecture Series. Wenner-Gren Foundation. New York, NY. January 30, 2017.

“Rethinking the limits of Public Anthropology.” Paper presented in Invited Session on “Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology,” organized by Sindre Bangstad, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 18, 2016.

“Anthropologists and the CIA During the Cold War.” Campus talk, Whitman College. Walla Walla, Washington, November 2, 2016.

"Counterinsurgent dreams of hacking culture." ("Los sueños contrainsurgentes de hackear la cultura.") Conference inaugural address, Simposio internacional: Secretos de Estado, La inteligencia politica entre la guerra y la paz; 50 aǹos del proyecto Camelot. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. October 19, 2016.

“Project Man in Space: An Applied Anthropology Space Oddity.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, B.C., April 2, 2016.

“WikiLeaks, Anthropology, and Seeing Like a State Department.” Paper presented in a session on “Naiveté, Hope, and Skepticism: Encounters with Diplomatic, Military and Intelligence Agencies,” at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, Colorado. November 21, 2015.

“American Social Science, Torture and Interrogation: Critiquing the American Psychological Association’s Role in CIA Interrogations.” Public Forum, American University Paris. Paris, France. October 12, 2015.

“Creeping Backflow: Questioning Whether Post 9-11 Military-Intelligence Academic Links Will Improve or Narrow Our Knowledge.” Campus wide talk, University of Nevada, Reno. September 28, 2015.

“How CIA and Pentagon Funding Has Shaped Anthropological Research: A Brief History of Dual Use Anthropology.” Talk presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno. September 28, 2015.

“Questioning Our Agency Inside Agencies: Rethinking the Possibility of Scholars’ Critical Contributions to Security Agencies.” Keynote Address, Conference on Understanding Conflict: Research, Ideas, and Responses to Security Studies. University of Bath, Institute for Policy Research, Department of Social and Policy Sciences. Bath, UK. June 10, 2015.

“Post 9/11 Militarization of American Universities and Structural Attacks on Academic Freedom.” Panel on “Challenges on the ‘War on Terror’: Islamophobia, Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom. Conference on Understanding Conflict: Research, Ideas, and Responses to Security Studies. University of Bath, Institute for Policy Research, Department of Social and Policy Sciences. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Bath, UK. June 8, 2015.

“Contextualizing Cold War Anthropology: How Political Economy Impacts Anthropological Research.” Marvin Harris Memorial Lecture. University of Florida, Department of Anthropology. March 20, 2015.

“Contextualizing Congressional Anti-Science Campaigns, Up, Down and Sideways.” Paper presented in a session on “Studying Up, Down and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power,” annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 5, 2014.

“Anthropology and the Recent Growth of Military and Intelligence Programs in the United States.” Paper presented at University of Bergen, Bergen Norway, May 21, 2014.

“Anthropology and the ‘War on Terror.’” Presentation with Sindre Bangstad and Bjørn Bertelsen; introduced by Michael Seltzer, at the Litteraturhuset. Oslo, Norway, May 20,2014.

“Anthropology and the Latest Afghan War.” Talk at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Oslo, Norway. May 20, 2014.

“Using Ethics to Avoid Politics: On the Problems Arising When Anthropologists Use Professional Ethics to Address Political Problems of HTS and other Security Sector Projects.” Engaged Scholarship Workshop: “Embedded! Archaeologists and Anthropologists in Modern Landscapes of Conflict.” Brown University, May 1, 2014.

“Anthropology’s Post War Anti-Colonial Moment: Jack Harris, Raymond Kennedy, John Embree, and the Transitory Rise and Temporary Fall of Anti-Colonial Anthropology.” Paper presented in a session on Producing Ethnographic Knowledge: Jack Sargent Harris’s Career in and out of the Academy from Chicago to the Cold War, at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 22, 2013.

“Dual Use Anthropology: Ignored Uses of American Anthropology by Intelligence Agencies During the Cold War.” George Mason University Cultural Studies Colloquium, October 10, 2013.

“On The Dual Use Nature of Cold War Anthropology: Historical Interactions with the CIA and Pentagon.” Department of Anthropology, Anthropology Tan Sack Lecture Series, Oregon State University. May 17, 2013.

“Counterinsurgency by Other Names: Complicating Humanitarian Applied Anthropology in Current, Former, and Future Warzones.” opening keynote address, annual conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association 'Anthropological Engagements' 26 April 2013 in Uppsala, Sweden.

“Open Secrets, Hidden Agendas and Ignored Outcomes: The Dual Use Nature of Cold War Anthropology.” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. March 4, 2013.

“Raymond Kennedy: Unanswered and Ignored Questions of Early Cold War Ethnography.” Council on Southeast Asia Studies Seminar Series, MacMillan Center, Yale University. February 13, 2013.

“The Militarization of Anthropological Knowledge: Elizabeth Bacon’s Revelations of CIA Efforts to Recruit Anthropologists.” Session on Understanding Militarism: Critical Anthropological Perspectives, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 16, 2012.

“The Overt and Covert Return of the Military-Intelligence Complex to Campus: Why Universities Should be Very Afraid.” Hostler Institute on World Affairs Lecture Series, San Diego State University. October 10, 2012.

“Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State.“ Eighth Annual Anthropology Lecture, Linfield College. April 24, 2012.

“Connecting Wartime Anthropology’s Trajectories with the Birth of Area Studies.” Paper presented at Columbia University’s Heyman Center Conference on, “OSS, Intelligence, and Knowledge of the World.” April 13, 2012.

“The CIA, the Asia Foundation, and the AAA: How the AAA Linked Asian Anthropologists to a CIA Funding Front.” Paper in a session on “Anthropologies of the Covert” at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada. November 19, 2011.

Panelist in a session on “Anthropological Research with ‘Terrorist’ Groups: Responding to the Criminalization of Research,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 18, 2011.

“The Love of Unlearning: Playing with Restoring Inquiry after Twelve-Plus Years of Assessment-Driven Education,” Paper presented in Keynote session at “Love of Learning” conference, Saint Martin’s University. October 7, 2011.

“Ethics, Politics, and Theoretical Issues of Anthropological Counterinsurgency” Presentation and panel discussion, The University and National Security after 9/11 Symposium. Case Western University Law School, September 23, 2011.

“Anthropology’s Dissidents.” Keynote Panel with Roberto Gonzales, John Kelly and John Allison, Counter-Counterinsurgency Convergence Conference, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, April 9, 2011.

“Dual-Use Anthropology: Documenting How the CIA and Pentagon Harnessed Anthropological Research During the Cold War.” Paper presented to the Culture, Power, Boundaries Seminar, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., April 4, 2011.

“The Legacy of McCarthyism on American Anthropology.” February 18, 2011. University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology. February 18, 2011.

“How the CIA and Pentagon Harnessed Anthropological Research During the Cold War with Little Notice.” Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture, University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology. February 17, 2011.

“Ethical Issues Raised in Refugee and Internment Work.” AAA Ethics Committee Roundtable, “Ethical Issues in Research with Refugees, Displaced Persons, and in Conflict Situations.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. November 19, 2010.

“Anthropology and the Dangers of Soft and Hard Counterinsurgency.“ Invited Roundtable on Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. November 18, 2010.

Roundtable Panel Discussion in Counterinsurgency and Humanism Forum, University of California, Irvine. International Studies Public Forum, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Center for Ethnography. Irvine, California. October 7, 2010.

"Anthropology and Counterinsurgency: the Problems of Harnessing Anthropology for Counterinsurgent Conquests." University of Waterloo public speaker series, Waterloo, Ontario. March 18, 2010.

“Problems with Using Anthropology for Counterinsurgency Campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Olympia World Affairs Council, Olympia, Washington. January 21, 2010.

Panelist in ethics casebook session on “Professional Ethics and the Security Sector: A Dialogue with the Larger Anthropological Community.” Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia. December 6, 2009.

Roundtable Discussion Panelist in session on: “War and Counter-Counterinsurgency: Demilitarizing Anthropology and U.S. Society” Roundtable Discussion Panelist, Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia. December 5, 2009.

“Anthropological Engagements with Military and Intelligence Agencies: History, Ethics, Politics and Structural Limits.” Syracuse University, Department of Anthropology Speaker Series. Syracuse, New York, October 1, 2009.

“Problems with Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory: or, by the Time a Military Relies on Counterinsurgency For a Foreign Military Victory it has Already Lost.” University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology Conference: Reconsidering American Power. Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 2009.

“Anthropology’s Third Rail: Counterinsurgency, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Political Uses of Militarized Anthropology.” Paper presented at School for Advanced Research Plenary Session on Military Imaginaries, Ethnographic Realities. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 19, 2009.

“War is a Force that Gives Anthropology Ethics: History, Warfare and Anthropologists’ Conflicting Duties.” Pitzer College public lecture series on “Interpreting War and Conflict,” February 9, 2009.

“Pushing Back at the Militarization of Anthropology.” Keynote Address, War and Social Sciences Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson. January 24, 2009.

“Reconsidering the Political Economy of Anthropology’s Production and Consumption of Knowledge: Moving Beyond Postmodernist Rejections of Metanarratives of Power.” University of Arizona Department of Anthropology Colloquium. University of Arizona, Tucson. January 23, 2009.

Participant in “Exploratory Workshop with the Commission on Anthropology’s Engagement with US Security and Intelligence Community” at United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C. January 6, 2009.

“Welcome to Negativland: On Identifying the Empty Spaces Marking What Isn’t Being Said.” Remarks made as discussant in Invited Session, sponsored by the AAA Executive Program Committee on “Anthropology, the Military and War.” Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 22, 2008.

Panelist in AAA workshop on” “Examinations and Perspectives on Revising the AAA Code of Ethics,” Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 21, 2008.

Organizer and Chair of Presidential Invited Session on “Collaboration Against Military Engagements: Reconsidering Anthropologists for Radical Political Action 35 Years After the Fact,” and a paper presented on: “Limiting Democracy and Reigning-In ARPA at the Annual Business Meeting: Or, Rules for Radicals (as Interpreted and Enforced by the Old Guard”. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 20, 2008.

“Anthropology’s Third Rail: Counterinsurgency, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Political Uses of Militarized Anthropology.” Paper presented at School for Advanced Research seminar on “Scholars, Security and Citizenship,” July 24-25, 2008. Santa Fe.

“Anthropology, Critical Analysis, McCarthyism and Academic Freedom.” Open Institute of International Education. Hong Kong. May 22, 2008.

“On the Uses and Abuses of Anthropology and History in Wartime: From the Second World War to Contemporary Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Talk presented at Dean’s public forum, The Evergreen State College. May 8, 2008.

“Soft Power, Hard Power and the Anthropological ‘Leveraging’ of Cultural ‘Assets’: Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency.” Plenary paper presented at conference on “Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology. April 27, 2008.

“Anthropology in a World of War: History, Ethics and Conflicting Responsibilities.” Amherst College, sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Lamont Lecture Fund and the Anthropology-Sociology Department. April 9, 2008.

Panel and public presentation on the findings of the Anthropological Association’s Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the U. S. Security & Intelligence Communities. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 29, 2007.

Attended commission deliberations of the American Anthropological Association’s Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the U. S. Security & Intelligence Communities. Washington, D.C., July 31, 2007.

“Anthropology, the Second World War, and Strategies of Professional Denial.” Paper presented to the New York Academy of Sciences, New York City. March 26, 2007.

Participant in SAR seminar on: “The Anthropology of Military and National Security Organizations.” School for American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. February 26-27, 2007.

Discussant in session on invited session organized by Les Sponsel on, “Ethical Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California. November 18, 2006.

“Critiquing Silence: On the Ethical Impropriety of Secret Research and Covert Ties to Intelligence Agencies.” Paper presented in AAA presidential invited session on, "Debating Anthropological Practice and National Security: Past, Present and Across Borders " at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California. November 17, 2006.

“Learning Self-Censorship: How Past and Present National Security Crises Damage American Social Science.” Public Lecture Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, October 30, 2006.

“On the FBI’s Surveillance of David Aberle” Paper presented in SFAA Plenary Session on “Celebrating David Aberle’s Contributions,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. March 30, 2006.

“Using the Freedom of Information Act to Understand Government Surveillance and Repression,” Presentation at Arizona State University’s School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Tempe, Arizona. February 21, 2006.

“The Means and Meaning of the FBI’s Surveillance of Edward Said.” Paper presented at 2006 Evergreen State College Arab Film Festival screening of Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said. February 1, 2006.

“Anthropology as Weapon: The Uses and Abuses of Anthropology at the OSS's Research & Analysis Division,” Paper presented in organized session on, "World War Two Anthropology: Reconsidering the War's Past in the Present" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. December 2, 2005.

Discussant for papers presented in organized session on, “Multiculturalism and ‘Intellectual Diversity’? The Hidden Agenda of current calls for Academic Freedom,” Selected by the Council on Anthropology and Education at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. December 1, 2005.

“Co-opting Anthropology for Reasons of Empire.” American University Department of Anthropology, Washington, D.C., November 30, 2005.

“Rethinking Anthropology and Activism: Models of Self-Censorship.” Anthropology Department Colloquium, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, November 7, 2005.

“Threatening Academic Freedom Under McCarthyism and the Patriot Act.” Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Chicago Alumni Association, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington. October 26, 2005.

"The FBI's Monitoring of Activist Anthropologists." Campus talk sponsored by the International Education Department, Pierce College, Tacoma, Washington. March 11, 2005.

"Anthropology Under Fire: McCarthyism and the FBI's Assault on Academic Freedom." University of Washington’s Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, January 24, 2005, Seattle, Washington.

“McCarthyism and Academia: Can It Happen Again?” Portland State University Artists and Authors Series, December 4, 2004. Portland, Oregon.

"Weaponizing Anthropology: American Anthropologists at the Office of War Information During the Pacific War.” Paper presented at the 3rd annual East Asian Anthropology and Japanese Colonialism Conference held at Seoul National University, November 13-14, 2004. Seoul, South Korea.

"The FBI's Historic Role in Suppressing American Anthropologists' Academic Freedom." Public lecture presented at Seoul National University, November 12, 2004. Seoul, South Korea.

“The Intersection of Science and Activism: Earle Reynolds as Cold War Dissident” Paper presented in organized session on, “Cold War Legacies and the Anthropology of Trouble” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, Washington, February 16, 2004.

“Paul Radin: Dodging McCarthyism One Step Ahead of Hoover” paper presented in session on “Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War,” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 22, 2003.

“The Dangers of Promoting Peace During Times of [Cold] War: Gene Weltfish, the FBI, and the 1949 Waldorf Conference for World Peace.” Paper presented at Invited Session on “Anthropologists, Promoters of War or Peace?” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 20, 2003.

“Academic Freedom Downtime” Paper presented in session on “Safeguarding Academic Freedom” at the Second Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Olympia, Washington, October 10, 2003.

"Applied Anthropologist as Cold War Dissident: Earle Reynolds, An Informed Protester of Conscience" Paper presented at Invited Session on “Legacies of the Cold War: Anthropological Efforts to Document Abuse and Seek Meaningful Remedy,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, Oregon, March 21, 2003.

“The FBI, McCarthyism, Infrastructure and Patterns of Racism in America.” Invited Session: Culture, People and Nature: The Role of Marvin Harris in Anthropological Theory and Praxis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21, 2002.

“Cold War Echoes in the ‘Post-Cold War’ Era.” Paper presented in session on “Rethinking the ‘Post-Cold War’ Era,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 20, 2002.

“Secrecy, Betrayal and Past, Present & Future Uses of Anthropology” Discussant Remarks on issues raised in the papers of Felix Moos, Robert Rubinstein & Hugh Gusterson. Invited Session: “Defending the Nation? Ethics and Anthropology After 9/11” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 23, 2002.

Moderator for The Evergreen State College, and Gannett Newspaper sponsored First Amendment Conference. The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, April 29, 2002.

Panel member in moderated forum on “World War and the Fourth World.” Forum broadcast on Pacifica Radio and sponsored by the Center for World Indigenous Studies and the Washington Commission for the Humanities. March 11, 2002, Olympia, Washington.

“Home Front As Battlefield: Confronting FBI & CIA Attacks on Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties” Lecture Sponsored by the Consortium on Peace Research, Education & Development (COPRED) & The Peace Studies Association (PSA), The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. December 6, 2001.

“The Requirements of Freedom of Information Act Research in a Functioning Democracy“ Presentation to the University of Washington School of Library Science, April 19, 2001.

“Our Private Lives: Hoover’s FBI and the War on Descent.” Invited lecture for Panorama City’s Minds on the Millennium Lecture Series. May 11, 2000.

“A Secret Face of Anthropology: The CIA, the AAA and the Comprehensive Roster of 1952” Paper presented at special Presidential Panel the annual business meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 16, 2000.

“The FBI and Oscar Lewis: Political Surveillance and the Culture of Poverty” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November, 18 1999.

“Using the Cold War Research to Teach the History of Anthropology” Faculty Focus Colloquium, St. Martin’s College, Lacey WA, October 26, 1999.

“Cross-Cultural Variations in Considerations of ‘Medical Futility’” Lecture Presented to the Group Health Cooperative Medical Ethic’s Board (South Sound Region), Tacoma, Washington, September 20, 1999.

“Rites of Passage and the Limits of Limenal Experiences” Keynote Address, Johns Hopkins University’s Academic Talent Search Awards Ceremony, Lacey, Washington, May 16, 1999.

“Population Models, Development Anthropology and Cold War Funding,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December, 1998.

“DARE to Inform on Your Parents: The Classroom as the Police State’s Foyer” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, November 19, 1998.

“The Wartime Roots of Applied Anthropology in America” Paper presented at a session on “The Uses of Anthropological Research” at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 8, 1997, Seattle, Washington.

“Anthropologists on Trial: The Lessons of McCarthyism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November, 1997.

“The Relationship Between Power and Position in Irrigation Networks in Egypt’s Fayoum Oasis“ Paper presented at a session on “The Distribution of Productive Resources & It’s Impact on the Third World“, at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, March 21, 1996, Seattle, WA, co-authored with Devon Brewer.

“Cold War Anthropology: Collaborators and Victims of the National Security State” Paper presented in an Invited Session on “Anthropology and the National Security State” at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 1995, Washington, D.C.

Panel discussant member at colloquium featuring Daniel Quinn on the topic of World Population and Food Production, at St. Martin’s College, October 17, 1995.

“The Effects of Conveyance Loss on Gravity-Fed Irrigation Systems“ Paper presented in a session on “Economic Anthropology” at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1994, Atlanta, GA.

“Irrigation and Ethnoarchaeology: Recent Evidence from the Egyptian Fayoum” Paper given to the Archaeology colloquium at Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology. April 1993.

“Yemen and the Hydroagricultural Distinction” Paper presented at the University of Florida Department of Anthropology Colloquium. April 14, 1989.

“Nuer Expansion: Materialist Considerations” Paper presented in a session on “Studies in Historical Anthropology” at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 20, 1988, Phoenix, AZ, co-authored with Daniel McGee, Diego Hay, Thomas Abel and Paul Goldsmith.