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)
“Dissident
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 a
Utopia”
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)
“Mermaids,
Swan Maidens and Serpent Women”
October 18,
1998
New York
Botanical Garden
“The Forest
in Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales”
October 22,
1998
Borders Books
and Music (White Plains, NY)
“The 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 Tales”
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,” broadcast on
the History Channel for Halloween 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 15,
2008
ISAZ
Conference
Toronto, Canada
“Witches and
their Familiars”
August 15, 2008
ISAZ
Conference
Toronto, Canada
“Teaching
Animal Studies Online: A Nature Narrative Approach”
November 7,
2008
Sloan-C
Conference
Orlando
Florida
“Having
Students Set Personal Goals in an Online Classroom”
April 7, 2009
State University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS/NILAS Event on “Animals in Myth”)
“The Legend of the Tower Ravens”