SELECTIVE RECORD OF SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
Boria Sax, Ph.D.
December 2001
Not included are events
prior to 1984, for which I have few records. Also generally unnoted are purely
local events on topics of limited general interest.
May 22, 1984: Commission on
Security and Cooperation of the United States Congress (Washington,
DC)
“Independent peace movements
in Eastern Europe”
Feb. 9, 1985: Speak Easy
(NYC)
Poetry
Reading
August 11, 1985: Opus 40
(Saugerties, NY)
Poetry Reading with Robert
Kelly
June 22, 1985: Polish
Community Center of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
“ADissident Literature of Eastern
Europe”
Summer 1986: (exact date
uncertain): Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT) “Dissidence in Eastern
Germany.”
JAN. 29, 1987: Religion in
Communist Dominated Areas (RCDA) Conference (Interchurch Center,
NYC)
“Independent Peace Movements
in Eastern Europe.”
May 25, 1988: Empire State
College (Kingston, NY)
“Animals and Human
Society”
Spring 1989: (exact date
uncertain): Mid-Hudson MLA Conference (Marist College: Poughkeepsie,
NY)
“Protest and Conformity in
the Prose of Christa Wolf”
April 7, 1989: Staten Island
Zoo
“The Zoo as an Idealized
World”
Jan. 10, 1990: National
Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington,
DC)
“Animal Fables and Fairy
Tales from Aesop and Grimm to the Present” (televised)
March 24, 1990: Conference
on Folklore and Fantasy (Pace U. /White Plains
NY)
“Elves and the Managed
Woodland: The Forest in German Literature”
March 3, 1991: Rockwell
Museum (Corning, NY)
“Animals and Human
Society”
April 27, 1991: Conference
on Fantastic Beasts (Pace U.: White Plains, NY)
“The Basilisk: A European
Monster Comes to America”
April 25, 1992: Conference
on Imaginary Worlds (Pace U. /White Plains NY)
“Ishmael”
(story)
Feb. 25, 1993: Lehman
College (Bronx, NY)
“The Zoo: Prison or
Paradise?”
March 24, 1993: Border’s
Books & Music (White Plains, NY)
“The Parliament of
Animals”
October 2, 1993: Scarsdale
Audubon Society (Scarsdale, NY)
“The Zoo as a Representation
of Utopia”
June 5, 1995: New York
Botanical Garden
“The Blue Rose: Legends of
Enchanted Gardens”
June 23, 1996: Spark Eyes
Conference (SUNY Oneonta: Oneonta, NY)
“The Animal Bride in
Literature and Folklore”
April 12, 1996: Second
Mid-Atlantic Environmental Conference (Ramapo, NY)
“Nature Protection in the
Third Reich”
August, 1996: (exact date
uncertain): Opus 40 (Saugerties, NY)
Poetry Reading with David
Slavitt
Oct. 19, 1997: Duke
University (Durham, NC)
“The Forgotten Science of
Kulturbiologie”
Oct. 20, 1997: Duke
University (Durham, NC)
“The Cult of the Predator in
Nietzsche, Spengler and the Third Reich”
Oct. 26, 1997: New York
Botanical Garden
“The Forest in Legends and
Fairy Tales”
Feb. 4, 1998: SUNY
Oneonta
“Animal Brides and
Grooms”
Feb. 24, 1998: Rutgers
University at Camden
“Animals in Literature and
the Arts”
April 17, 1998: Mercy
College at Dobbs Ferry
“The Animal Bride in
Literature and Folklore”
October 8,
1997
Mercy College, Bronx
Campus
“The Tree of
Knowledge”
October 14,
1998
Westchester Community
College (Enquiring Minds Program)
AMermaids, Swan Maidens and Serpent Women@
October 18,
1998
New York Botanical
Garden
AThe Forest in Myths, Legends and Fairy
Tales@
October 22,
1998
Borders Books and Music
(White Plains, NY)
AThe Animal Bride in Literature and
Folklore@
December
1998
Pulse of the Planet Radio
Program
(produced by the American
Museum of Natural History)
Two programs on spinning in
folklore, broadcast on over 200 radio stations
March 2,
1999
Evenings with Eva
(http://www.women-2-women.com)
Online Interview on
Folkloric Themes
April 21,
1999
Museum of the Hudson
Highlands (Beacon, NY)
“The Animal Bride in
Literature and Folklore”
August 6-8,
1999
Bright Hill Farm (Treadwell,
NY)
A series of poetry readings,
talks and panels as featured writer at the “Speaking the Words 99
Festival”
October 18,
1999
White Plains Library (White
Plains, NY)
“From Goddess to Serpent
Woman: The Animal Bride in Folklore”
May 16,
2000
Barnes & Noble Bookstore
(Bronx, NY)
Reading from The Serpent
and the Swan and Book Signing
September
2000
“Rustling
Leaves”
Presentation for Pulse of
the Planet, broadcast on over 200 radio stations.
April 6,
2001
Barnes & Noble Bookstore
(Bronx, NY)
“Animals in Nazi
Germany”
Summer
2001
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry,
NY
Taping of Interviews for
television program entitled “Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,” later broadcast
on Nova (Channel 13) on February 5, 2002 and available online at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/fami_sax.html.
October 14, 2001
New York Botanical
Garden
“The Forest in Myths,
Legends and Fairy Tale”
March 20,
2002
MEC 2002 Conference on
Online Education
“New Roles for Tutors in the
Online Campus”
May 18,
2002
Yale University Conference
on the Chicken (New Haven, CT)
“The Fighting Cock and the
Brooding Hen: Chickens and Symbols of Gender”
(Powerpoint presentation
followed by participation in a panel)
June 20,
2002
Apartment in Northern
Westchester
Interviewed on stories of
the Hudson Valley by Kate Lucarno, as part of a television program to be
broadcast on local stations in late 2002
June 24,
2002
History Channel Studio, New
York City
Interviewed as part of a
television program entitled “Bugs, Bats, and Rats,” to be broadcast on the
History Channel early in 2003
Sept 21,
2002
Second Annual Putnam
Storytelling Festival, Brewster, New York
“The Oldest Story in the
World”
October 12,
2002
Massachusetts Center for
Renaissance Studies
Amherst,
MASS
“Creatures of the Sea in the
Culture of the Renaissance”
March 16,
2003
Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry,
NY
“Changing Ideas of
Plagiarism in Oral, Print, and Digital Media”
July 15,
2003
State University of Illinois
at Springfield
Springfield,
IL
“The Wizards Program at
Mercy College”
October 10-11,
2003
Mercy
College
Dobbs Ferry, New
York
Reading from Memoir entitled
“Stealing Fire” and workshop on revising manuscripts.
Nov. 15,
2004
Sloan-C Conference on Online
Learning
Orlando,
Florida
“H-OEH - Fostering Online
Education in the Humanities and Liberal Arts”
March 30,
2005
University of Wisconsin at
Whitewater
“Animals in
War”
Nov. 18,
2005
Sloan-C Conference on Online
Learning
Orlando,
Florida
Moderator of Panel Discussion - “The Challenges and
Opportunities of Faculty Training for Online Teaching.”
Nov. 18,
2005
Sloan-C Conference on Online
Learning
Orlando,
Florida
“The Sloan-C Special
Interest Group on Online Faculty Training”
February 8,
2006
Whitechapel
Gallery
London,
England
“Crows in Human Culture”
August 12,
2006
Philosophy and Computing Conference
Rensalaer Polytechnical
Institute
Troy,
NY
“Knowledge and Wisdom in the
Academy”