- “Priests, Paddies, and Pigs in the Parlor: The Odor of Ireland in the English Imagination.” Presentation to the Winter Conference of Research Group V, at the Philosophy Department of Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland, March 2008
- “ Clergy, Odors and Embourgeoisement.” Presentation to NEACIS, University of Massachusetts, Boston, November 2007
- “Names and Origins in the Soccer Jungle.” Paper read to the First Conference of the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association. Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2007
- “How to Read the Wake.” Panel organizer, International James Joyce Foundation Conference, Austin, University of Texas, June, 2007.
- “Flexing the Muscles of the National Will.” Presentation to the American Conference of Irish Studies, New York, April, 2007
- “Scottish Moral Hygiene and Irish Mental Gymnastics.” Presentation to California Celtic Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March, 2007
- Moral Manliness.” Presentation to BC Irish Studies Colloquium, April, 2007
- “Changing Ireland.” Roundtable chair, NEACIS Annual Conference. U. of Connecticut, October, 2006
- “Irish Homiletic Practices.” Presentation to the First Irish Conference on Orality, National University of Ireland, Galway, June, 2006
- “Múineadh na Gaeilge.” Roundtable address, ACIS Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame, April, 2005
