2009 (forthcoming)
Visiting Expert by invitation, Presentation TBA, "J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The
Real and Imagined Middle Ages" INSTITUTE AT TEXAS A&M - COMMERCE, Commerce, TX, July (Date TBA)
2009 (forthcoming)
Guest Speaker by invitation, Presentation TBA, RAVENCON, Richmond, VA, April 24-26
2009 (forthcoming)
Keynote Speaker by invitation, Presentation TBA, "PANDORA'S BOX: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES," Third
Annual Symposium on English Studies, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, March 21
2008
"The Dystopian Tradition," BIG BROTHER, LITTLE SISTER: VOICES FILM SERIES, Hickory, NC, November 12 and
November 19
2008
Conference Director and Discussion Leader for "Liberty, Property,
and Native America" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, April 10-13
2008
“The H.P. Lovecraft-J.R.R.
Tolkien Connection,” THE ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION, Las
Vegas, NV, April 8
2008
Guest Speaker by invitation, "The Legacy of the Trail of Tears and Indian Removal," FIRST
AMERICAN: VOICES FILM SERIES, Sponsored by Lenoir-Rhyne College and the Women's Resource Center of Hickory, Hickory, NC, February
28
2007
Guest Speaker by invitation, "Teaching Archetypes through Science Fiction
and Fantasy," Teacher Continuing Education Program, BROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Broken Arrow, OK, January 31
2007
Guest Speaker by invitation, "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and 'Archetype
Soup'" and "Lovecraft, Tolkien, and the Problem of Modernity," BROKEN ARROW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Broken Arrow, OK, January
30 and 31
2007
Guest Speaker by invitation, "Harry Potter is a Hobbit? The Tolkien Solution
to the Rowling Problem," Broken Arrow Senior High School "EVENING WITH AN AUTHOR" Series, Broken Arrow, OK, January 30
2006
"Quest for The Magic Ring:
A Rediscovered Fairy Tale," "FAIRY TALES: TOLD AND RETOLD, REREAD AND REINTERPRETED": Fifth Annual Fall Humanities
Symposium, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, October 26
2006
Guest Speaker by invitation, "Rights Under Attack: The Captain Power Story,"
PHREAKNIC 10: TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE EXPOSITION, Nashville, TN, October 20
2006
Scholar Guest of Honor Keynote Address, "Native America and Fantasy:
Challenges for Scholars and Readers," MYTHCON XXXVII, Norman, OK, August 5
2006
Guest Faculty presentations, "Property Rights Among Native Americans" and
"Property and the Human Imagination," CATO UNIVERSITY, St. Pete's Beach, FL, July 28
2006
Scholarly Guest presentations, "The Magic Ring meets The Lord
of the Rings" and "Your Dwarves Don't Dance and Your Elves Don't Rock-n-Roll: A Tour of Tolkien-Inspired World
Music," THE GATHERING OF THE FELLOWSHIP 2006, Toronto, Canada, July 2 and 3
2006
Special Guest presentations, "You Say Hobbit, I Say Shoggoth:
The J.R.R. Tolkien-H.P. Lovecraft Connection" and "'A Loon Is He That Will Not Sing': Tolkienian Music Across the World,"
HYPERICON II, Nashville, TN, June 24
2006
"The Fouqué Influence: From The Magic Ring to The Lord of the
Rings," Lómelindi Smial of THE TOLKIEN SOCIETY, Nashville, TN, June 21
2006
“Government Failure as Obstacle
to Native American Market Success,” THE ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION 2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Las
Vegas, NV, April 3
2006
Special Guest presentation, "The Middle-Earth - Hogwarts Connection:
How J.R.R. Tolkien Answers the Harry Potter Question," ORC: THE ONE RING CELEBRATION, Pasadena, CA, January 21
2005
Conference Manager, "PAST WATCHFUL DRAGONS: Fantasy and Faith in the World
of C.S. Lewis," Belmont University, Nashville, TN, November 3-5
2005
"The Lost State of Franklin," "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S WORLD": Fourth Annual
Fall Humanities Symposium, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, October 27
2005
Special Guest presentation, "Still Big Brother After All These Years: Totalitarianism
in Science Fiction," PHREAKNIC: TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE EXPOSITION, Nashville, TN, October 22
2005
"On 'Past Watchful Dragons': Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis,"
New Student Family Day, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, September 17
2005
Special Guest presentations, "When Harry Met Faerie: Harry Potter as
J.R.R. Tolkien's Fairy-Story" and "Sexy Nerds: The Evolution of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama," HYPERICON: A
Speculative Fiction Convention, Nashville, TN, June 17 and 18
2005
Special Guest presentations, "J.K. Rowling's Problem, J.R.R. Tolkien's Solution"
and "Middle-Earth Writings: Tolkien Fan Fiction as a Case Study," XANADU 8/DEEPSOUTHCON 43, Nashville, TN, April 9
2005
Special Guest presentation, "Computers and "Sexy Nerds": How Technology
Changed the Cerebral Hero in SF/F Television," MIDSOUTHCON 23, Memphis, TN, April 2
2005
"Reimagining Rosie: Portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in 21st-Century
Fan Fiction," Academic Lecture Convocation Program, Students for the Advancement of Gender Equality, Belmont University, Nashville,
TN, March 30
2005
"The Problem of Native America" and "Cultural Optimism," "FREE YOUR
MIND" SEMINAR, Duke University with the Institute for Humane Studies, Durham, N.C., February 4 and 5
2004
Guest Speaker by invitation, "The BIA: An Institutional Overview," FOCUS
HONORS SERIES, Duke University, Durham, N.C., November 11
2004
Special Guest presentations, "The King of SF's Golden Age: How
Robert A. Heinlein Earned the Crown" and "Sexy Nerds: Computers and the Development of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama,"
PHREAKNIC 8: TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE EXPOSITION, Nashville, TN, October 22 and 23
2004
"The Problem of Native America," "FREE YOUR MIND" SEMINAR, The Political
Theory Project at Brown University with the Institute for Humane Studies, Providence, R.I., October 16
2004
"For Whom Does the Hogwarts Bell Toll?: Rowling's Problem, Tolkien's Solution," MYTHCON XXXV, The Mythopoeic Society,
Ann Arbor, MI, July 30
2004
Special Guest presentation, "Middle-earth in Music: Forty Years of World Sounds"
at XANADU 7, Nashville, TN, May 8
2004
Special Guest presentations, "Your Dwarves Don't Dance and Your Elves Don't
Rock-n-Roll: Middle-earth in Music" and "Harry Potter is a Hobbit: How J.R.R. Tolkien Put the Adult in Children's Literature"
at MIDSOUTHCON 22/DEEPSOUTHCON 42, Memphis, TN, March 26 and 28
2004
Participant by invitation in "The Lord of
the Rings as Christian Literature," Faith Development Convocation Event, Belmont Honors Council, Belmont University, Nashville,
TN, March 1
2004
Guest Speaker by invitation, "Why Read J.R.R. Tolkien?" CROFT LIBRARY SERIES, Croft Middle School,
Nashville Metro Public Schools, Nashville, TN, January 28
2003
Guest of Honor keynote speech, "Harry Potter is
a Hobbit: How J.R.R. Tolkien Put the Adult in Children's Literature," THE GATHERING OF THE FELLOWSHIP International "Bag End"
Scholarly Program, Toronto, Ontario, December 16
*Nominated and Shortlisted for the international One Ring Celebration
(ORC) Awards as "Best Tolkien Based Lecture or Paper Presented at an Academic Function" in 2003-2004
2003
"J.R.R. Tolkien's Fairy-Stories: 'A Higher Form of Art'" Premiere Presentation of The University College Lecture Series,
Belmont University, Nashville, TN, December 11
2003
"Harry Potter is a Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling,"
Academic Lecture Convocation Presentation, Belmont English Club, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, November 7
2003
Guest Speaker by invitation, "The History of Science Fiction," PHREAKNIC 7: TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE EXPOSITION, Nashville,
TN, October 25
2003
"Reimagining Rose: Portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction,"
MYTHCON XXXIV, The Mythopoeic Society, Nashville, TN, July 25
2002
Keynote speech, "Women in Power in Native America,"
Women's History Month Program, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, March 13
2001
"Retaining Amerindian Traditions
in the Arena of Modern Education," current research presentation, SCHOLARSHIP AND THE FREE SOCIETY, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA, June 10
1998
"'Fly For Your Lives': The Contested Cherokee Press in the Era of Removal,"
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ETHNOHISTORY, Minneapolis, MN, November 14
1998
"The Sword in the Starship: The Arthuriana
of STAR TREK," 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVALISM, Rochester, NY, October 8
1998
"The Phaser As Excalibur:
STAR TREK, Federation Guns, and Arthurian Myth," Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot! Film, Television, Guns Conference, MEDIA STUDIES
WORKING GROUP, Toronto, Ontario, May 16
1998
"The 'Middle Ground' of Homicide: Eighteenth Century Colonial Carolina
and Cherokee Clan Law," ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS, Indianapolis, IN, April 4
1997
"The 1820s Reinvention
of the Cherokee Language: The New Nationalism," "LANGUAGES AND VOICES IN THE AMERICAS" International Conference, University
of Versailles at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, October 17
1996
"James Adair's
Tradition of Ethnography: Millenarians, Rabbis, and the Jewish Indian Theory," SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN
REPUBLIC, Nashville, TN, July 20
1996
"The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism," SECOND
ANNUAL PROBASCO CHAIR SECONDARY EDUCATION CONFERENCE ON CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga,
TN, June 12
1996
"'Charged With Republican Notions': Early Politics and Compacts in Tennessee Country," The Tennessee
Historical Society Bicentennial Lecture Series "EDEN OF THE WEST," Nashville, TN, May 7
1996
"Classifying the
'Other' In the New World: Native American Culture and the Jewish Indian Theory," TENNESSEE-KENTUCKY CHAPTER, AMERICAN STUDIES
ASSOCIATION, American Studies Association, Murfreesboro, TN, April 20
1995
"Essex and the People: Chivalry, Patriotism,
and the Image of the Rebel Earl," CAROLINAS SYMPOSIUM ON BRITISH STUDIES, Boone, NC, October 7
*Awarded "Best Graduate
Student Paper of 1995" by Carolinas Symposium on British Studies
1995
"The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism," FIRST
ANNUAL PROBASCO CHAIR SECONDARY EDUCATION CONFERENCE ON CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga,
TN, June 14
1995
"Early Political Compacts," interviewed
for televised documentary 200 YEARS OF TENNESSEE HISTORY, Coleman Teleproductions, June 1
1995
"Transylvania,
Franklin, Tennessee: The Procedural and Substantive Innovations of the Three Tennessee Constitutions," TENNESSEE POLITICAL
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Dickson, TN, April 7
1995
"The Transylvania Colony and the State of Frankland: The National
Impacts of Two Bids For Independence," TENNESSEE-KENTUCKY CHAPTER, AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Harrodsburg, KY, March 31
Panel Presentations and Scholarly Roundtables Including AHS
Guest Author panelist by invitation, Panels TBA, CONCAROLINAS 2009, Charlotte, NC, May 29-31
2009 (forthcoming)
Guest Author panelist by invitation, Panels TBA, RAVENCON, Richmond, VA, April
24-26
2009 (forthcoming)
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Liberty and the Social Gospel
Movement" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Tucson, AZ, February 12-15
2008
Co-Discussion Leader by invitation in "Liberty and Responsibility
in Adam Smith" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Holland, MI, August 1-7
2008
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Externalities, Public Goods,
and Common Property" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, June 19-22
2008
Guest Author panelist, "The Best Books You've Never Heard Of," "The Hobbit: The
Motion Picture," "Harry Potter: The Aftermath," "Where No One Has Gone Before?," "The Rise of Goth," and "Where's My Personal
Jetpack?" at CONCAROLINAS 2008, Charlotte, NC, May 30-June 1
2008
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Natural Law, Liberty, and
Order in Jacques Maritain and Christopher Dawson" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Cleveland, OH, April 24-27
2007
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Socratic Leadership Seminar
I" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, October 5-7
2007
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Benjamin Constant's Principles of Politics" Colloquium,
Liberty Fund, Inc., Montreal, Canada, September 20-23
2007
Discussion Leader by invitation in "Liberty and Responsibility in
the Literature of Frontiers: Westerns and Sagas" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Tucson, AZ, May 3-6
2007
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Secession, Local Autonomy,
and Liberty" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., New Castle Island, NH, April 3-6
2007
Roundtable participant by invitation in
"Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Economic Development" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Tucson, AZ, February 15-18
2006
Co-Discussion Leader by invitation in "Literature and Politics"
Colloquium, Institution for Humane Studies and Liberty Fund, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, December 8-10
2006
Panelist by invitation, "Tolkien Fan Fiction" and "Why Tolkien?," THE GATHERING
OF THE FELLOWSHIP 2006, Toronto, Canada, July 2 and 3
2006
Panelist by invitation, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Books vs. Movies," "Saturday
Morning Flashback," "The C.S. Lewis-J.R.R. Tolkien Connection," "J.R.R.Tolkien Literary Panel," and "Space: New Frontier Themes
in Science Fiction," MIDSOUTHCON 24, Memphis, TN, March 24-26
2006
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Liberty and the American
West in the Films of John Ford" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., San Francisco, CA, March 9-12
2006
Roundtable participant
by invitation in "Understanding Liberty and Responsibility on the Frontier: Economics, History, and Literature” Colloquium,
Liberty Fund, Inc., La Jolla, CA, February 2-5
2006
Panelist by invitation, "The Stewardship of the Valar," "The 'Gift
of Men': A Blessing or Curse? How the various people of Middle-earth view and handle death," and "Tolkien and the Fates: A
Discussion of Free Will and Predestination in The Lord of the Rings," ORC: The One Ring Celebration, Pasadena, CA, January
21-22
2005
Panelist by invitation, "Cult TV," HYPERICON: A Speculative Fiction Convention,
Nashville, TN, June 18
2005
Panelist by invitation, "Roddenberry, Lucas, Straczynski, Carter, and Whedon:
Whose Mythology Best Defines the Late 20th Century?," "Freedom and Subjugation in SF," "Tolkien in the Humanities Classroom,"
"The Science of Tolkien's Middle-Earth," and "Tolkien Literary Panel," MIDSOUTHCON 23, Memphis, TN, April 1-3
2005
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Liberty and Authority in the Thought
of George Orwell" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., La Jolla, CA, March 17-20
2004
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Mars As The New Utopia"
Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., La Jolla, CA, November 4-7
2004
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Property Rights and Liberty"
Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Bozeman, MT, October 7-9
2004
Panelist by invitation, "Between Youth and Wisdom," MYTHCON XXXV, The Mythopoeic
Society, Ann Arbor, MI, July 31
2004
Panelist, "The Hero's Journey and Genre Fiction" and "Women in
Middle-Earth" at XANADU 7, Nashville, TN, May 8
2004
Panelist by invitation, "Is Media SF Hurting Education?,"
"Tolkien Literary Panel," "Going to School in an SF Environment," and "Women in Middle-Earth" at MIDSOUTHCON 22/DEEPSOUTHCON
42, Memphis, TN, March 27 and 28
2004
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Liberty and Responsibility
in the Literature of Frontiers: Sagas and Westerns" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Tucson, AZ, February 26-29
2003
Guest of Honor panelist by invitation, "Teaching Tolkien at the University
Level," "The Women in Middle-Earth," and "The Lord of the Rings: The Books vs. the Films," THE GATHERING OF THE FELLOWSHIP
International "Bag End" Scholarly Program, Toronto, Ontario, December 15-17
2003
Panelist by invitation, "Teaching
Tolkien: A Panel Discussion," MYTHCON XXXIV, The Mythopoeic Society, Nashville, TN, July 26
2003
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Fantasies of Freedom: Liberty
and Utopianism in Swift and Butler" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Key West, FL, June 5-8
2002
Roundtable participant by invitation in "The Writings of Robert A.
Heinlein" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Tucson, AZ, December 5-8
2001
Panelist by invitation representing Native American Issues, U.S.
Department of State International Visitor Program ROUNDTABLE ON GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, November
1
2000
Co-presenter with Beth Hewett and Christa Ehmann. "Taking Wing:
Distance Training for OWL Tutors," NATIONAL WRITING CENTERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, Baltimore, MD, November 2
1998
Roundtable participant by invitation in "Nationalism: A Threat to Liberty?" Colloquium, Liberty
Fund, Inc., Warrenton, VA, October 22-25
1994
Roundtable participant by invitation in "The Moral Foundations of
a Free Society" Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Fairfax, VA, April 29-May 1
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