Lectures and Presentations

MEDIA APPEARANCES

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) “Bulgaria Muslims,” Pre-recorded five-minute interview with Lisa Mullins for radio show The World, broadcast October 6, 2006.

Dialogue Radio and Television/MHZ Networks, “The Red Riviera,” Pre-recorded 30-minute interview with George Liston Seay for the cable television show, Dialogue (#1105), broadcast March, 2006.

INVITED TALKS

2008:

Islam and Communism in Bulgaria, Roundtable on Post-Communism, Indiana University– Bloomington, March 27-28, 2008.

2007:

“Headscarves and Hotpants: Islam, Secularism and Women’s Fashion in the New Europe,” UCLA, November 8, 2007

“Headscarves and Hotpants: Islam, Secularism and Women’s Fashion in the New Europe,” UC Berkeley, November 9, 2007

“Headscarves and Hotpants: Islam, Secularism and Women’s Fashion in the New Europe,” Duke University, October 15, 2007.

“Religious Freedoms versus Islamic Revivalism: Some Contradictions in American Foreign Policy in Southeast Europe,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 16, 2007

“Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe,” Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, February 15, 2007

“The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea,” International Studies Book Talks, UCLA, February 15, 2007“The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea,” International Studies Book Talks, UCLA, February 15, 2007

“Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe,” Anthropology, Princeton University, February 13, 2007

“Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe,” Women’s Studies, UC Irvine, February 8, 2007

2006:

“Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism in the New EU,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, November 9, 2006
“Examining ‘Eastern Aid’ – Gender and Islamic NGOs in Southeastern Europe” Center for Civil Society, London School of Economics, March 24, 2006

2005:

“The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea” Public lecture given for Book Launch at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., December 7, 2005
“The Miniskirt or the Veil: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe.” Indiana University, Department of Gender Studies, December 6, 2005
“And if the Shoe Doesn’t Fit? (Wear it Anyway?): Economic Transformation and Western Paradigms of ‘Women in Development’ in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe,” McGill University, Department of Sociology, October 21, 2005
“Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism, and Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria” New York University Center for European Studies and the Network of East-West Women, Gender in Transition: Women in Europe Workshop, April 22, 2005

2004:

“The Armageddon of Big Ideas: Historical Materialism, Post Modernism and the Triumph of Dystopias.” Bowdoin College, Faculty Encore Common Hour, April 30, 2004“The Miniskirt or the Veil? Moderate Muslim Women Resisting Islamic Fundamentalism in Post-Communist Bulgaria.” University of California, Berkeley, Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 18, 2004

“The Armageddon of Big Ideas: Historical Materialism, Post Modernism and the Triumph of Dystopias.” Bowdoin College, Faculty Encore Common Hour, April 30, 2004

PRESENTATIONS TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • “Gender and Islam in the Contemporary Balkans,” American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 2007
  • “Military Maquiladoras: Discourses of geo-strategic advantage, the neo-liberalization of the U.S. Military and the privatization of imperialism,” Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, October 2007
  • “Gender and Islam in Bulgaria,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2007
  • “Islam and Postsocialism,” Chair and participant on Soyuz Sponsored Roundtable, 2006 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 2006
  • “Getting your Ph.D., Getting a Job, and doing Caribbean Studies,” Roundtable Organizer and Participant at the Caribbean Studies Association, Trinidad and Tobago, May 2006
  • “Gender and Religion,” discussant, European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March 2006
  • “Potions, Lotions and Lipstick: The Gendered Consumption of Cosmetics and Perfumery in Communist and Postcommunist Bulgaria,” 2005 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 2005
  • “Examining Eastern Aid: Islamic Revivalism in Postsocialist Bulgaria,” 2005 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, November 2005
  • “Potions, Lotions and Lipstick: The Gendered Consumption of Cosmetics and Perfumery in Communist and Postcommunist Bulgaria,” 2005 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, November 2005
  • "A Little Income Inequality Goes a Long Way: Gender, Class, and Political Apathy in Bulgaria,” 2005 meeting of the International Council on Central and Eastern European Studies, Berlin, Germany, July 2005
  • “The Return of the King: Voting Publics, Partisan Politics and Women in the Post-Communist Bulgarian Parliament” 2005 meeting of the Soyuz Postsocialist Cultural Studies Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 2005
  • “Contestations, Co-optations and Connotations: Gender(ed) Conversations in the Post-Communist World,” Roundtable participant, 2004 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, December 2004
  • “Caribbean Coloniality vs. Euro-Communism: Enlightenment, Modernity and Contradictory Outcomes" 2004 Meeting of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Kitts and Nevis, June 2004
  • “Red Nostalgia: Reconstructing Memory in Postcommunist Bulgaria.” 2004 meeting of the Soyuz Postsocialist Cultural Studies Symposium, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, February 2004
  • “Exporting American-Dreamism: Neoliberalism and Women’s NGOs in Postcommunist Bulgaria” 2003 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, November 2003
  • “Exporting American-Dreamism: Neoliberalism and Women’s NGOs in Postcommunist Bulgaria” 2003 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2003
  • “Day Care, the Red Scare and Neoliberal Fare: Feminism and Socialism in the Classroom,” 2003 meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, New Orleans, June 2003
  • “Getting your Ph.D., Getting a Job, and doing Caribbean Studies,” Roundtable Organizer and Participant at the Caribbean Studies Association, Belize, May 2003
  • “And If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit? (Wear It Anyway): Economic Transformation and Western Paradigms of “Women in Development” in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe” ” 2003 meeting of the Soyuz Postsocialist Studies Symposium, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, February 2003
  • “Sun, Sand and Socialism: Women, Economic Transformation and Tourism Employment in Post-Communist Bulgaria” 2002 meeting of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 2002
  • “Human Trafficking, Sex Slaves, Brain Drain and Immigration: Conflicting Discourses of Mobility in Bulgaria and the European Union” 2002 meeting of the Soyuz Postsocialist Cultural Studies Symposium, University of Michigan - Ann Arbour, February 2002
  • “Human Trafficking, Sex Slaves, Brain Drain and Immigration: Conflicting Discourses of Mobility in Bulgaria and the European Union” Conference on the Eastward Expansion of the European Union, University of Toronto, Munk Center, February 2002
  • “Selling Sun: Race and Gender in Tourism Advertising.” Caribbean Studies Association, St. Maarten, May 2001
  • “From Ski Resorts to Beaches: Post-Socialism, Labor Migration and the Bulgarian Tourism Sector” 2001 meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. San Francisco, April 2001
  • “Women, Employment and Tourism in Post-Totalitarian Bulgaria.” IREX Black Sea Regional Policy Symposium, Washington D.C., March 2001
  • “International Organizations, Women and Civil Society in Post-Socialist Bulgaria.” Third Annual Graduate Student Workshop of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, February 2001
  • “Globalization and Tourism in Post-Socialist Bulgaria” Third Biennial Fulbright Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2000
  • “Women and Tourism in Post-COMECON Economies: A Comparative Study of Bulgaria and Cuba.” 1999 meeting of the Caribbean Studies Association, Panama City, Panama, May 1999
  • “The Role of the International Aid Community on Women’s Civil Organization in Post-Communist Bulgaria.” Women Transforming the Public Conference, UC Santa Barbara, April 1999