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CONFERENCE
AND SEMINAR
PAPERS
DELIVERED
The World of William Thomas, Glamorgan History
Society, Cardiff, Wales, May 1980
The Long Resistance: The
Enemies of Positivism 1890-1950, Delivered (on my behalf) to the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, Louisville, KY, March 1982
Traven and the Wobblies,
Conference on B. Traven, University Park, PA, October 1982
Miami and Liverpool Compared:
The New Pattern of Urban Riot (with Fred Hutchings). American Society of
Criminology, Toronto, November 1982
History and Myth in Organized
Crime (with Gary W. Potter). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago, IL,
March 1984
Correctional Issues and
Politics, Delivered (on my behalf) to the American Correctional Association,
San Antonio, TX, August 1984
The Invention of the Mafia
(with Gary W. Potter). Social History Colloquium, University Park, PA, October
1984
Organizing Crime in London and
Philadelphia (with Gary W. Potter). American Society of Criminology,
Cincinnati, OH, November 1984 (Also chaired panel)
Criminality and Genetics,
Behavior Genetics Association, University Park, PA, June 1985
I was an invited participant
in the conference on The Social World of Britain and America 1600-1800,
Institute for Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, September
1985
Capital Punishment in Early
Modern England, Delivered (on my behalf) to the American Society of
Criminology, San Diego, CA, November 1985
Beccaria's Influence in
England 1764-1830, American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies,
Williamsburg, VA, March 1986
G. K. Chesterton as
Criminologist, Chesterton Society, Toronto, Canada, September 1986
Benefit of Law: The Defense
of Legal Values During a Moral Panic (with Daniel Katkin). American Society of
Criminology, Montreal, November 1987
An American Epidemic? Myths
and Realities of Serial Murder, Geography Department Coffee Hour, Pennsylvania
State University, October 1988
The Assassination of Olof
Palme, American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 1988
Serial Murder in Progressive
Era America, American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 1988
The Politics of Organized
Crime in Australia, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Washington, DC, March
1989
Issues in Serial Murder
Research, Participant in round table at the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences, Washington, DC, March 1989
Group Serial Murder,
Delivered (on my behalf) to the American Society of Criminology, Reno, NV,
November 1989
`Occult Criminality': Myth
and Reality in a Contemporary Moral Panic (with Daniel Maier-Katkin). American
Society of Criminology, Baltimore, MD, November 1990. Also chaired a panel at
this meeting on Historical Perspectives on Crime and the Media
Narcotics Trafficking and the
American Mafia: The Myth of Abstention, Conference on The Drug War. University
Park, PA, May 1991
From Eye Witness to Private Eye: The Tradition of ExposŽ
Journalism, Chesterton Society Conference on G.K. Chesterton and Journalism, Toronto, Canada, September
1991
Bricks in the Wall,
International conference on The Wall: Reality and Symbol. University Park, PA,
October 1991
The Myth of Satanism: Legend
as Literary Artefact, Comparative Literature lunch seminar, Penn State
University, February 1992
Iraq and State Terrorism,
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1992
The Social Construction of a
Multiple Homicide Problem: The Case of Contemporary Britain, Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1992
A Historical Perspective on
Serial Murder: England, Germany and the USA, 1900-1940, International
Conference on Mass and Serial Murder: Theory, Research, Policy, University of
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, April 1992
African-Americans and Serial
Homicide, North-Eastern Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Newport, RI, June
1992
Using Murder: The Politics
and Rhetoric of Serial Murder, Eastern Communications Association, Rhetoric and
Public Interest Group, Fall Conference. Penn State Campus, Hazleton, PA,
October 1992
Anti-Semitic Stereotypes in
the Victorian Novel, Inaugural Conference of the Center for Research on
Antisemitism, University Park, PA, March 1993
The CTA Case: A Case-Study in
Political Corruption, Pennsylvania Political Science Association, University
Park, PA, April 1993
Racial Bias in the
Construction of Drug Panics, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice
Educators, Harrisburg, PA, April 1993
Peace with Justice?
Peacemaking and Reconciliation in Terrorist Crises, North-Eastern Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, Newport, RI, June 1993
Definition and Identity:
Political Culture in Seventeenth Century Wales, Trevelyan Fund Colloquium,
Cambridge, England, July 1993
The Anglican Church and the
Unity of Britain, Delivered (on my behalf) to the conference on Conquest and
Union: Forging a Multi-National British State 1485-1707, University College,
Galway, Ireland, September 1993
Public Disorder and Political
Stability in Europe 1968-1993, Conference on No Justice, No Peace? Crime,
Culture and Ethnic Conflict in Germany and the United States, (Max Kade
Foundation for Research in German-American Studies), University Park, PA,
September 1993
The Devil Rides In:
Charismatic Christians and the Depiction of a Satanic Menace in Contemporary
Great Britain Delivered (on my behalf) to the Eastern Regional Meeting of the
American Academy of Religion, Montreal, Canada, April 1994.
Designer Drugs: Sitting Out
the War on Drugs? Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators,
Harrisburg, PA, April 1994
The Next Panic? Predicting
the Social Fears of the New Century, North-Eastern Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences, Newport, RI, June 1994
Feminism, or ChestertonÕs
Mistake About Women, Chesterton Society, Toronto, Canada, September 1994
Fascist and Ultra-Right
Movements in Pennsylvania 1934-1942, Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Lebanon, PA, October 1994
The Legal Dimension in
Constructing Social Problems, Pennsylvania Sociological Society, State College,
PA, October 1994
The Anglican Church and the
Making of Welsh Identity 1630-1720, Midwestern Conference on British Studies,
Toronto, Canada, October 1994
Trends and Directions in
European Terrorism, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, MA., March
1995
Border Crossers: Material and
Symbolic Boundaries in the Cultural Construction of Serial Murder, Popular
Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 1995
PennsylvaniaÕs
Terrorist Crisis 1938-1942, Penn State Harrisburg, May 1995
Riot at the YMCA: or, Things
We CanÕt Say About Pennsylvania History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission, Harrisburg PA, June 1995.
Designer Drugs, North-Eastern
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Roger Williams Law School, Bristol, RI,
June 1995
Constructing Aggression: The
Demonization of the Serbs in the Balkan Conflict, Symposium on the Balkan War:
Yugoslavia - Past and Present. Sponsored by the International Strategic Studies
Association: Chicago, IL, August 1995
Interfaith Cooperation in
Modern Urban America: A Philadelphia Story, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of
the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, March 1996
I moderated a panel at a
conference on Violence in the Workplace held at University Park, PA, March 1996
New Directions in
Counter-Terrorism, North-Eastern Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Roger
Williams Law School, Bristol, RI, June 1996
Armies of God: John Brown and
the American Terrorist Tradition, Symposium on John Brown, at the Mont Alto
campus of the Pennsylvania State University, July 1996. I also chaired a panel
at this meeting on John Brown: Politics and Law
The Social Construction of
Gay Teen Suicide, Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City,
August 15, 1996
Libertines and Homophobes:
The Paradox of Anticlerical Pornography, Conference on Early Modern Culture,
organized by the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Pittsburgh PA,
September 27, 1996
Silver Shirts Among the
Brown: The Silver Legion in Pennsylvania 1934-1942 Pennsylvania Historical
Association, State College, PA, October 1996
Spousal Abuse Laws, World
Congress of Families, Prague, Czech Republic, March 1997
Confronting Hate: Urban
Churches and the Christian Front, Conference on The Church and the City,
Cleveland, OH, April 1997
Teaching the History of
Criminal Justice, North-Eastern Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Roger
Williams Law School, Bristol, RI, June 1997
Serial Murder Fiction, second
Landscapes of Mystery Conference, held at Penn State University, June 1997
Patriots, Militias and the
Common Law Courts, American Association of Law Librarians, Baltimore, MD., July
1997
A Self-Limiting Cycle? The
Historical Construction of Sex Crime Problems, American Sociological
Association, Toronto, August 1997
Constructing the Beast:
Catholic Anti-Communism in Pennsylvania 1945-1960, Pennsylvania Historical
Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 1997
The Geography of Urban
Fascism, Geography Department Coffee Hour, Pennsylvania State University,
December 12, 1997
Intended Consequences? Covert
Moral Agendas and Crime Control Rhetoric, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences,
Albuquerque, NM, March 1998
The Struggle for
PennsylvaniaÕs Ethnic Organizations, 1940-1954, Faculty Seminar, Balch
Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 1998.
I chaired a panel on Liberty,
Identity and the State: Comparing American Extremists, at the meeting of the
Organization of American Historians in Indianapolis, IN, April 1998
Where Mystery Ends and Horror
Begins, Third Landscapes of Mystery Conference, Penn State University, June
19-21, 1998
Keystone Defenders: The
Politics of Civil Defense in Pennsylvania 1940-1960. Second International
Conference on the Cold War, Los Alamos, NM, August 1998
The Mullen Case and the
Limits of McCarthyism. Pennsylvania Labor History Society, Pittsburgh, PA,
September 1998
Teaching Americanism:
Anti-Communist Purges in the Pennsylvania Schools 1950-54, Pennsylvania
Historical Association, Allentown, PA, October 1998
The Media and Satanic Ritual
Abuse: Credulity and Criticism, and The CAT Epidemic: A 1990s Drug Panic, both
presented to the American Society of Criminology, Washington DC, November 1998
Popular Apocalyptic:
Anti-Communism in Catholic Popular Culture 1940-1960, Popular Culture Association,
San Diego, CA, April 1999
Terror on the Web,
Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators, Altoona, PA, April 1999
I served as discussant on a
panel on Making Warriors: Indoctrinating American Soldiers in WWII and the Cold
War, Society of Military History, State College, PA, April 1999
The Great Anti-Cult Scare
1925-1945, CESNUR Conference on New Religions, Bryn Athyn, PA, June 1999
Amphetamine Drugs on the
Pacific Rim, Conference on Crime and Public Policy on the Pacific Rim, San Francisco,
August 1999
The First New Age, Conference
on The Inner Light, organized by St. Thomas University, Houston, TX, October
1999
The Old New Panic: The
Amphetamine Drugs, American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 1999
To What Green Altar? The Myth
of American Paganism 1920-1945, South-West/Texas Popular Culture Association,
Albuquerque, NM, February 2000
The Wildest Frontier: The
Electronic Market in Child Pornography, University of California, Davis,
lecture in series on Disordering Globalization, February, 2000
The First American Satanism
Scare 1920-1940, Mid-Atlantic regional meetings of the American Academy of
Religion, Glen Mills PA, March 2000
The Outer Edges: Horror and
the Media in the Late 1940s Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, April
2000
The New Age in Black and
White, Western Social Sciences Association, San Diego, CA., April 2000
Terrorism and Tourism:
Packaging the Molly Maguires, Conference on Packaging Places, American History
Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, September 2000
Philip Dru - Administrator: Progressive Utopias and
Collectivist Nightmares, Utopian Studies Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
October 2000
Disease and Racial Frontiers in Charles
Brockden BrownÕs Philadelphia, Charles Brockden Brown Society, Las Vegas, NV,
October 2000
Patterns of Violence in
Twentieth Century Pennsylvania, Conference on Violence in America, Millersville
University, PA, November 2000
The Hidden Gospels in Popular Culture,
Far Western Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV, February 2001
Anti-Catholicism in Nineties Cinema: Real
and Imagined, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association, Albuquerque, NM, March 2001
California Cults and
Crackpots: Explaining a Subculture of Extreme Religious Dissidence, Western
Social Sciences Association, Reno NV, April 2001
Mis-Remembering America's
Industrial Heritage: The Molly Maguires, American Historical Association: The
Pacific Coast Branch, Vancouver, Canada, August 2001
Panelist for symposium on
issues relating to Internet crime, Lycoming College. Williamsport, PA, October
2001
Pennsylvania - The Awful
Warning, Keynote Address, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Johnstown, PA,
October 2001
Go and Sin No More: Therapy
and Exorcism in the Rhetoric of Deviance, American Society of Criminology,
Atlanta, November, 2001
I was the subject of an
Author meets Critics session on Philip Jenkins as Social Constructionist, at
the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2001
New Images of the Serial Killer in
Popular Culture, Far Western Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV,
February 2002.
The Rhetoric of Generational Threat,
Conference on the Reagan Presidency, University of California at Santa Barbara,
March 2002
Participant in Jihad For
Knowledge, panel on interfaith relations, sponsored by the Cathedral Heritage
Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, April 2002
Participant in panel on The
Three Kingdoms and the New British History, Keough Institute for Irish Studies,
Notre Dame University, May 2002
After Father Geoghan: The
Lessons of the Clergy Abuse Cases, Invited lecture to Conference on
Victimization of Children and Youth, University of New Hampshire, Portsmouth,
NH, August 2002
Writing the New Global Christianity:
Beyond The Missionary Myth, Comparative Literature
Lunch, Penn State University, September 2002
The Missionary Myth in Popular Culture,
Far Western Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV, February 2003
Frank Waters and the
Reinvention of Native American Spirituality, Comparative Literature Lunch, Penn
State University, October 2003
Dream Catchers, Religious
Studies Departmental Lecture Series, Penn State, November 2004
Consenting Adults: Morality
Campaigns as Generational Warfare, Society for the Study of Social Problems,
Philadelphia, August 2005
Panelist, author meets critic
session, discussing Paul Freston's book Protestant Political Parties, Association for the
Sociology of Religion, Philadelphia, August 2005
Respondent to Bas Van Os, on
Mathematical Models of Early Christianity, Society of Biblical Literature,
Washington DC, November 2006
Women Reading the Bible in
the Global South, Comparative Literature Lunch, Penn State University, December
2006
The Religious Agendas of the
Da Vinci Code, Medieval Conference on The Grail, the Quest, and the World of
King Arthur, University Park, PA, March 2007
Discussant for panel on ÒWar
on the Home FrontÓ, Society for Military History, Frederick MD, April 2007
Failure To Launch: Why Some
Social Issues Fail To Generate Moral Panics. American Sociological Association,
New York City, August, 2007
ÔBlack GangsÕ: The Perils of Counter-Subversion, Colloque on Mimicry in Civil Wars:
The Strategic Use of Identity Signals, College de France, Paris: December 2007