Professional conference and invited presentations:
“Neuroethics”, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 4/27/2010
“Feminist Bioethics”, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 4/27/2010
“Ethical Criticism of Genre Fiction: The Case of Romance”, American Popular Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 8, 2010.
Panelist: “Blood, Sex, and Love: Exploring Vampire Romance Novels and Their Impact on the Image of the Vampire”, American Popular Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 8, 2010.
Lead Organizer and Presenter, Clinical Ethics in Maine: Vital Conversations, Statewide day long conference on clinical ethics, 9/21/2009
“The Intersection of Romantic and Moral Identities in Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mystery series”, Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 8, 2009.
“Can Neuroimaging of Moral Judgment Improve Ethics Consultation?”, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 18, 2007.
“Addiction and Autonomy: The Ethics of Recruiting Addicts for Non-therapeutic Studies of Addictive Drugs”, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, annual meeting, Washington, DC, October 20, 2005.
“Feminist Values and Bioethics Practice: Strangers at the Bedside?”, The Ethics of Bioethics, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and Albany Medical College, Schenectady, NY April 8, 2005.
“The Other Side of Trust in Health Care: Prescribing Drugs with the Potential for Abuse”, American Philosophical Association’s Conference on Ethics and the Life Sciences, University of Delaware, October 23, 2004.
“Kant and Neo-Kantians on Trust in Moral Life”, Conference on Kantian Ethics: Interpretations and Critiques, University of San Diego, January 16, 2003.
“Toward a Feminist Moral Epistemology of Trust”, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, First International Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL, October 4-6, 2001.
“Moral Norms and Social Distrust”, Morality and Its Other(s): A National Conference on Moral Norms and Public Discourse, Albion College, November 9-11, 2000.
“A Critical Moral Ethnography of Social Distrust”, Sixteenth International Social Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, July 15-17, 1999.
“The Moral Value of Trust”, Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Value Inquiry, Central Missouri State University, April 22-24, 1999.
