Aakhus, M. (2005, November). Communication Design: Understanding the Unintended and Unanticipated  Shaping of Decisions, Disputes, and Learning through Communication. Presented at the  Compendium Institute Workshop, Washington, DC. 

Aakhus, M. & Weger, H. (2005, November). Turning fallacies around. Presented at the National  Communication Association’s annual convention, Boston, MA.  

Aakhus, M. & Vasileyeva, A. (2006, June). Making, challenging, and defending a proposal: The emergence and evolution of disagreement space in a multi-party deliberation. Presented at the 6th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam. 

Aakhus, M. (2007, May). Attending to web pragmatics. Presented at the Language and Social Interaction Preconference at the International Communication Association’s annual convention, San Francisco. 

Weger, H., Aakhus, M., & Polcar, L. (2007, August). An exploratory study of responses to fallacies in public debates: Audience perceptions of reasonableness and effectiveness. Paper presented at the  NCA/AFA summer conference on argumentation, Alta, UT. 

Aakhus, M. (2007, August). The experiences of policy professionals in designing deliberation. Presented at the NCA/AFA summer conference on argumentation, Alta, UT.  

Bzdak, M. & Aakhus, M. (2007, September). Corporate social responsibility in communication theory and practice. Presented at the 6th annual colloquium of the European Academy for Business in Society, Barcelona.  

Aakhus, M. (2007, October). Exploring the gap between interaction and institutional orders in Pragmatic Web design. Presented at the 2cd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, Tilburg, The  Netherlands.  

Aakhus, M. & Anderson, D. (2007, November). Communication work. Presented at the Organizational Communication Preconference on “The Meaning(s) of Work Across Time, Cultures, & Systems: Exploring Work's Meaning(fulness) for Organizational Communication Research and Practice” at the  National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago. 

Aakhus, M. & Grushina, Y. (2008, May). Realizing organizational agency through innovations in organizational accountability. Presented at the International Communication Association’s  Preconference:  What is an organization? Materiality, agency, and discourse, Montreal, Quebec.