THE LOGIC OF THE HOLOCAUST: Why the Nazis Killed. Keynote Lecture, Holocaust Education Week, Toronto, Canada, November 2, 2004.

POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, GENOCIDE, AND TERRORISM. Plenary Address at Western Social Science Association's Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 22, 2004.

WAR AND SELF-DESTRUCTION: Saddam Hussein and the Nightmare of History. Artist and Lecture Series, presented at Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington, April 20, 2004.

DYING FOR THE COUNTRY: The Logic of War and Genocide. Presented at the City University of New York Graduate Center, February 13, 2004.

DYING AND KILLING FOR NATIONS: The Psychology of War and Genocide. Presented at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, January 13, 2004.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

AWAKENING FROM THE NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY: War as Sacrifice. Plenary lecture, Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Purdue University, West Lafayette, June 3, 2002.

JEWISH DISEASE WITHIN THE GERMAN BODY POLITIC: Genocide as an Immunological Fantasy. Annual Conference on the Holocaust, Millersville University, April 1, 2001.

HUMAN BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC: Metaphor and the Psychosomatic Source of the Nation-State. Featured Speaker, International Social Theory Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, May 12, 2000.

NAZI IDEOLOGY AND GENOCIDE. Plenary panel, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Albuquerque, September 21, 1999.

SACRIFICIAL MEANING OF THE HOLOCAUST. Plenary lecture, Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, June 4, 1999.

PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION OF WAR AND CONFLICT. All-day seminar of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, January 9, 1998, with Barbara Ehrenreich.

LOGIC OF THE HOLOCAUST: WHY THE NAZIS KILLED THE JEWS. Plenary Panel with James Glass and Alex Hinton. Annual Conference on the Holocaust, Millersville University, April 1, 1997.

ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR: FUNDAMENTAL METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 19th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Vancouver, July 3, 1996.

NAZISM AS AN IMMUNOLOGICAL FANTASY. 64th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, March 17, 1994.

NAZISM AS A BODILY FANTASY: THE INTERPRETATION OF A SHARED DREAM. Presented at the William Alanson White Institute, New York, October 20, 1992.

DYING FOR ONE'S COUNTRY. Symposium with Jean Bethke Elshtain on the Social Psychology of Nationalism, 13th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, July 13, 1990.