Talks on Peer-Refereed Panels

• "Metrodorus, Chrysippus, and the Birth of Athena," Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, April 2009
• “Lucian’s Pregnant Moonmen,” refereed panel, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Austin, April 2002
• “Greek Childbirth Rituals:  Female and Male Versions,” Conference on Women’s Rituals in Context, University of Illinois, October 2002
• “The Early History of the Kouretes,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Knoxville, April 2000
• "A Male Pregnancy Ritual from Cypriot Amathous and the Strategies of Replacement," American Philological Association, Washington, DC, December 1998
• "Blepyros' Turd Child (Aristoph., Eccl. 369-71):  Male Pregnancy and the Rule of Women," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Claremont, CA, November 1998
• “Exclusion of the Agamoi from the Gymnopaidiai and the Politics of Viewing at Sparta,” American Philological Association, Chicago, December 1997
• “Homoerotic Titillation and Greek Rites of Passage,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Jose, November 1997
• “Theocritus 12 and the Diokleia,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Boulder, April 1997
• “Disguise and Festival in Greek Battle Narratives,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 1995, Omaha
• "(Re)birth from the Oxhide:  Sacrificial and Initiatory Motifs in the Myth of Orion," Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 1994, Atlanta
• "Transvestism in Greek Initiation," Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April, 1993, Iowa City

Invited Talks

• "'Lightness': Calvino Reading Lucretius, Ovid (and Plato)," Conference at Stanford University entitled "Will Literature Survive the 21st Century: A Colloquium Inspired by Italo Calvino's 'Six Memos for the Next Millennium," May 2014
• “Giving Birth to Thought: Prequel to Plato,” UC Berkeley Brown Bag Series in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, October 2007
• “Respondent’s Remarks,” Rituals in Ink:  Roman Religion and Literature, conference at Stanford University, February 2002
• “Adolescent Hair-Cutting Rituals in the Ancient Greek World:  a Sociological Approach,” Department of Classics, University of Chicago, March 2000
• “Male Pregnancy Rituals in the Ancient World,” Department of Classics, UCLA, February 2000
• "The Legend of the Sacred Band," for a Conference Entitled “Queer Republic:  Homosexuality in Greek Politics and Political Thought,” Department of Classics, University of Chicago, February 1999
• “Male Pregnancy in the Greco-Roman World,” Cornell University, October 1997
• “Male Pregnancy in the Greco-Roman World,” UC Berkeley, Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, October 1997
• “Ritual Male Accouchement in the Cult of Aphrodite at Cypriot Amathous,” Conference on Religion and Gender in the Ancient Mediterranean, Ohio State University, May 1997
• “Carnival History,” University of Mississippi, February 1995
• “The Passion of Hostius Quadra,” Miami University (Ohio), February 1995
• “Carnival History,” University of Minnesota, January 1995
• “Male Initiation in Classical and Hellenistic Crete,” Dartmouth College, January 1995
• “Carnival History:  Some Battle Legends in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1995
• “The Study of Adolescence in Ancient Greece,” Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, May 1994
• “Rites of Passage and the Classics,” Case Western Reserve University, March 1994
• “Male Initiation in Classical Crete:  Some Idioms of Transition,” Ohio State University, February 1994

Talks at San Francisco State

• "When Does Life Begin? Some Ancient Texts on Abortion," SFSU ORSP Research Symposium, June 2014
• “The Origin of Platonic Love,” SFSU Classics Student Association Lecture Series, April 4, 2012
• “Theorizing Male Pregnancy in Ancient Greece,” Classics Faculty Colloquium, SFSU, May 2009
• “Artemidorus on the Couch:  Some Sexual and Transsexual Dreams from the Second Century CE,” Classics Student Association Annual Lecture Series, San Francisco State University, May 2002
• "Anal Birth and Its Discontents," Graduate Literature Association, San Francisco State University, November 1998
• “Orpheus and the Third Sex:  Homosexual Ecstasy in some Orphic Cults?” Classics Student Association Lecture Series, San Francisco State University, March 1996
• “Carnival History,” San Francisco State University, February 1995