CONFERENCE  PANELS CHAIRED Radical Philosophy Association at the American Philosophy Association, Washington DC. “The End of Tolerance?”. December 2006. North East Modern Language Association, Baltimore MD. “The End Of Tolerance?” March 2007. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta GA. “The End Of Tolerance?”  November 2007. Radical Philosophy Association at the American Philosophy Association, Baltimore MD., “Leaps of Faith: Mania and Modernity”. December 2007.   CONFERENCE  PRESENTATIONS International Philosophers for Peace: “Theocracy and the New Prison Discourse”.  May 2004. Radical Philosophy Association: “The New Religious War and the Ark of Civilization”. November 2004. Southern Humanities Council: “War Dames”. February 2005. Elon College Conference on Colonization and Globalization: “Walking on the Moon: the last Settler State and the ‘Disappearing’ of the Palestinians”. March 2005. (Invited) Conference on Politics and Ethics: “Jessica Lynch: Simulacrum”. March 2005 Southern Appalachian Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina, Asheville: “The Suicide Bomber and the Leap of Faith”. April 2005. Global Studies Association/North America Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “Welcome to the Meat Factory”. May 2005 Université de Provence, Aix-Marseilles (France), Conference on War Sermons: “Mister Bush’s Sermon: Sermonic Discourse in the War on Terror”.  November 2005. (Invited) The Kierkegaard Society of Japan, Annual Conference. “The Suicide Bomber and the Leap of Faith”.  December 2005. (Invited) 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. “Jessica Lynch, Simulacrum”.January 2006. (Invited) Southern Humanities Council. “Army of Lovers: The Invention of Love and the Speech of Alcibiades.” Feburary 2006. Cultures of Evil and the Attractions of Villainy. “The Suicide Bomber and the Leap of Faith.” February 2006. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia PA. “Land of Taboo: The Case of Ward Churchill”.  March 2006. “Human Rights: A Growing World Without Them.” Interdisciplinary Conference, JamesMadison University.Harrisonburg, VA. “Against Tolerance.”  March 2006 American Culture Association Annual Conference, Atlanta GA."Cultural Conflict and Women" April 2006. (Invited)  Russian Academy of Sciences Fourth International Conference on Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. “Against Tolerance”. June 2006.  Engaging Baudrillard interdisciplinary conference, Swansea (UK). “Jessica Lynch: Simulacrum” September 2006. (Invited)  “Images of War – War of Images” conference at l’Université de Nice. “’Charlie Don’t Surf!’ Kurtz,McNamara, and the Only Real Freedom” March 2007. Global Studies Association/North America Conference,  New York NY: "The Last Settlers and the 'Disappearing' of the Palestinians" June 2008.