(Partial list)
 | "Avoiding 24/7: Learning How to Say 'No'," Didactic to CPE students: The Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, part of The Healthcare Chaplaincy Inc, NYC NY, November 12, 13, 2002 |
| "The 'Fictional' American Rabbi," the Association of Jewish Libraries national conference, Denver, CO, June 24, 2002. |
| "Jewish Views of the Afterlife," Didactic to CPE students: The Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, part of The Healthcare Chaplaincy Inc, NYC NY, June 11, 12, 2002 |
| "Chaplaincy in Long-Term Care (And Prison) Settings" Didactic to CPE students: The Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, part of The Healthcare Chaplaincy Inc, NYC NY, November 7, 2001 |
| "The Passover Festival: A Table in the Wilderness" at American Comparative Literature Association, national conference, Boulder, CO, April 20, 2001 |
| "Chaplaincy in the Context of the Prison," Didactic to CPE students: The Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, part of The Healthcare Chaplaincy Inc, NYC NY, October 14, 18, 1999 |
| "Responsibility and Response-ability: No Small Gift," World Council of Jewish Communal Service Quadrennial Conference, Jerusalem, November 16, 1998 |
| "Women Rabbis: In Fiction, In Fact" at "Women's Challenges: Our Lives, Our World", The Desert-Mountain Region of Hadassah and the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver, May 3, 1998 |
| "The Rabbi as Detective: Murder, Mayhem and Religion" at Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, Denver Seminary, Denver, April 26, 1996 |
| "Sacred and Female: Women Rabbis in Anglo-American Jewish Fiction" at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 19, 1995 |
| "In Search of the Fictional Rabbi" at "Charting the Horizons: Islamic and Judaic Values and Traditions in Dialogue, Contact and Contrast" November 6, 1995, International Conference of the Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies, University of Denver. |
| "Bernard Malamud, N. Scott Momaday and the Search for Redemption" at Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, April 1995 |
| "Mutual Witness, Shared Witness, Mission?" Panelist at 14th National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations, Tulsa, November 8, 1994 |
| "Rabbis, Counseling and Sexual Boundaries Violations: An Analysis of Recent Literature" at Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association national meeting, Albuquerque, November 5, 1994 |
| "Images of the Woman Rabbi and Rebbitzen in Contemporary Anglo-American Jewish Fiction" at Women, Families, and Children in Islamic and Judaic Traditions University of Denver, October 24, 1994 |
| "Jews in American Prisons: The Jew as Anti-Hero" at Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 22, 1994 |
| "A Shameful Secret? Jews in American Prisons" Seventh Annual World Issues Forum, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO, April 14, 1994 |
| "Inside/Insight: Rereading Genesis 27" at Western/Pacific Coast Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, University of Santa Clara, California, March 24, 1994 |
| "Roth, Rushdie and Rage: Religious Reactions to Portnoy and The Verses" at Muslims and Jews in North America: Past, Present and Future University of Denver, October 25, 1993 |
| "Jews in Jails: Prison Piety and Judaism" at Muslims and Jews in North America: Past, Present and Future University of Denver, October 25, 1993 |
| "The 'Sacrifice' of Abraham's son(s) in Jewish and Islamic Sources" at Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies Faculty Fellows Forum, University of Denver, January 19, 1993 |
| "Abraham, Isaac and Malamud" at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 23, 1992 |
| "Jonah Revisited: A Case of Rabbinic Revisionism" at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 22, 1992 |
| "Japan and America: Religion's Differing Impacts on Society" National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations, Pittsburgh, PA, November 9, 1992 |
| "Midrash in Modern American Jewish Literature" at American Academy of Religion Western Region meeting, Santa Clara University, March 27, 1992 |
| "Recreating Jonah: A Rabbinic Renovation" at National Association of Professors of Hebrew Western Chapter, Santa Clara University, March 27, 1992 |
| "Religion, Freedom and Oppression: A Jewish Response" at 1991 (Fourteenth Annual) Interfaith Conference, Institute for Interfaith Studies and Social Concerns, Denver, Colorado. February 13, 1991 |
| "Jesus and Jeremiah" at Central States SBL/ASOR/AAR Regional Meeting, Springfield, MO, April 11, 1988 |
| "Radical Religious Fanaticism in the Middle East" at "A Region in Crisis", Drury College, Springfield, MO, February 11, 1987 |
| "A Perspective on Black-Jewish Relations" at the Alabama Conference on Jewish-Christian Relations, Birmingham, AL, September 23, 1982 |