1. Environments, Resources, and Power in German Central Europe,” Seminar Participant, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October, 2019.
2. “Back from the Brink? Problems with the Reintroduction of a ‘Wild Horse,’” Annual Conference of the American Society of Environmental Historians, Washington, DC, March, 2015.
3. “Bar Sinister,” Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Dallas, Texas, October, 2014.
4. “Przewalski’s Horse Re-Introduction: A Case Study of How Concepts of Wildness and Wilderness Influence Re-introductions as a Conservation Strategy,” co-author with Catherine A. Christen and Peter Leimgruber, International Wild Equid Conference, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (not present at the conference), September, 2012.
5. “Island Life: Natural History in Nineteenth Century German New Guinea,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, California, January, 2010.
6. “The Rules of the Game,” Conference: Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2009.
7. “The Making of the Przewalski’s Horse: An Environmental History of Asia’s Most Prominent Wild Equid,” co-author with Catherine Ann Christen, 23rd Annual Meeting & 2009 International Congress for Conservation Biology. Beijing, China (not present at the conference), July, 2009.
8. “Remembering the Island,” Conference: Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), Victoria, BC, June, 2009.
9. “‘The Monotonous Recurrence’: Scenes of Hunting and Collecting in Mid Nineteenth-Century Ceylon,” Conference: Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, November, 2008.
10. “Touching,” 20th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, April, 2005.
11. “This Is a Trunk and This Is a Tale: Elephants, Science, and the Humanities,” Society for Literature and Science, Duke University, October, 2004.
12. “Killing Elephants,” Conference: North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Indiana, Bloomington, October, 2003.
13. “Sex and the Single Primate,” 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of California-Santa Cruz, March, 2003.
14. “Science in the Tierpark: Alexander Sokolowsky,” History of Science Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November, 2002.
15. “Animal Immersion: Examining the Zoological Paradise,” Conference: “Representing Animals,” Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April, 2000.
16. “Narrating Captivity,” Conference: “Thresholds of Identity in Human and Animal Relationships,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, March, 2000.
17. “Technology and Genocide: What the Internet Teaches about the Holocaust,” Conference: “Remembrance and Responsibility: Legacies of the Holocaust,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May, 1997.
18. “German Prehistory and German Identity: Social Darwinism in Weinland’s Rulaman,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, October, 1996.
19. Chair and Commentator, “The Cultural Body: Tattoos, Piercings, Beauties, and Freaks,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October, 1996.
20. Commentator, “The Zoo,” Conference at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, October, 1996.
21. “Electric Humanists: Virtual and Other Realities for Humanities Scholars at the End of the Century,” Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November, 1995.
22. “The Hagenbeck Völkerausstellungen and the Exhibition of Colonial Power,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European History, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April, 1994.
23. “Of Bars and Edens: The Commercial Origins of Paradise and the Modern Zoological Garden,” Department of the History of Science, History of Biology Workgroup, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March, 1994.