“Crypto-Communities:  Secrecy and Skepticism in Conspiratological Activism”

87th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Nov. 2001.

“Secrecy-in-Action: Counterglobalization Politics and Crypto-activism.”

88th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, Nov. 2002.

“The Fog-machine of War: On Secrecy and Journalism”

53rd Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2003.

“Making Politics Reasonable: Rationality and Ideology in the Problematization of Paranoia”

Special Theme Session: Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality.

89th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Miami, Nov. 2003.

"Queereality:  Hybrids, Hegemony, and Reality TV"

Gaining Equality in Marriage Conference, Queer Student Caucus, Rutgers University. March 2004.

"Chemical and Biological Warfare" Media, Technology and Health: Current Trends, Future Possibilities. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Research Day, Rutgers University. March 2004.

"Communicating Publicity's Other: Secrecy, Public Relations, and the New Normal"

54th Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, May 2004.

“Amassing the Multitude”

(Poster Session)

Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Toronto, CA, August 2004.

"Problematizing the Audience"

90th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov. 2004

"Secreting Publics in the New Normal"

90th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov. 2004.