American Immigration History and American Religious History

Boisi Center for the Study of Religion and American Public Life, Boston College. June 16, 2005.

A Blessing and a Curse? Modern Flushing and Pluralism

1st Global Conference on Critical Issues in Pluralism, Mansfield College, Oxford University (UK), September 20, 2003.

“Consecrating ‘a National Shrine to Religious Freedom’: Bowne House and the Tercentenary of Vlissingen (Flushing) in 1945

Researching NY Conference: Perspectives on Empire State History, SUNY-Albany, November 22, 2002.

Neighborhood Narratives in the City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism on Bowne Street in Flushing, New York

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society, The American Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 7, 2001. Organizer of session.

Intra-and Extra-Religioethnic Encounters: Responses to Plurality Among Hindu Temples on Bowne Street in Flushing, New York

The American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA, November 20, 1999. Organizer of session.

Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam of Flushing, New York

International Conference on the Hindu Diaspora, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, August 22-23, 1997.