2025    “How Do You Solve the Problem In Front Of You?”: Teenage/Adult Collaboration in High Schools,” PLENARY PRESENTATION, American Society for Theatre Research, Denver, CO. 

2025    “Anybody Have a Map? Teenage/Adult Collaboration in High School Musicals,” Song Stage and Screen Conference, Chicago, IL

2024    Award Winners Panel for Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Atlanta, GA

2023   “Queering Broadway in the 2010s: Jagged Little Pill and Trans Representation.” Popular Culture Association Conference

2020    “New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s,” Mid-America Theatre Conference

  * Winner of the Robert A. Shanke Theatre Research Award

2019    “Casting as Public Practice” working group participant, ASTR

2019    Convener and presenter, “The Next Act: Approaches to the Problem of the Undergraduate Canon, ATHE
2019    Convener and presenter, “Vying for the Iron Throne: Gender, Death, Performance, and Power in Game of Thrones,” ATHE

2018    Convener, “Protest in the Classroom: Revolutionary Pedagogical Strategies,” ATHE
Convener, “Staging Revolutions: Planning and Directing the Mainstage Production Season,” ATHE

2017    Co-Convener with Matthew Moore of working group entitled “Rituals of the Dead: Extraordinary Acts of Embodiment,” ASTR

2016    Roundtable: Performance in a Militarized Culture, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, ATHE

2014    “Instrumentalizing Activism: The Transformation of Activist into Object,” ASTR
Working Group: Doing Something: Divergent Visions of What Activism Performs

2014    “The Paradox of ‘Hearts and Minds,’” ATHE
Panel Convener: “Performing War, Dreaming of Peace”

2013    “War as Performance: Battling for the Audience in the Hunger Games Trilogy,” ATHE
Panel Convener: “War Games: Battling for Pleasure, Performing for Pain”

2013    “Crisis as Opportunity, Crisis as Excuse: Betrayed, Affect, and the Abdication of Responsibility,” Northern California Performance Studies Platform, Plenary

2012    “Reality and Representation: Personal Experience, Activism, and Betrayed,” ATHE
Panel convener: “The Personal as Activist: Public Action in Anti-War Performance”

2011    “Home is Where the War is: Participatory Performance of the Long War,” Performance Studies international 17 (PSi), Utrecht, The Netherlands, praxis session

2010    “The Ontology of Trial Representation: The Reenactment Videos of Perry v. Schwarzenegger,” ATHE

2010    “Eat This: Nourishment, Politics, Culture, Health,” Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed