CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

• The First Balkan War and the Liberation of Macedonia. Conference organized at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, October 27, 2012.

• Bob Dylan and Greece: Immigrants, Wanderers, Exiles and Hard Travelersin the Poems, Songs and Culture of Ancient Greece and Modern America. Conference held at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, March 19, 2011.

• From Athens to Beijing: West meets East in the Olympic Games. Series of three conferences held at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (April 2007), Sports University-Beijing (August 2007), and International Olympic Academy -Ancient Olympia (May 2008); co-organized with Susan Brownell.  For the published proceedings click HERE

• Her Art: Greek Women in the Arts.  Conference held at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 16 April 2005.  For the published proceedings click HERE

• Achilles in Iraq: War Mentalities and Realities in Ancient Greece and Modern America (University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2004).  For the published proceedings click HERE

• The Olympic Games: Past, Present, and Future (University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2003)

• The Parthenon and its Sculptures (University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2002).  For the published proceedings click HERE

• IX International Conference on Boiotian Studies (University of Manitoba, 1998; co-organizer)

• International Congress on “Heinrich Schliemann – 100 years”, Athens, April 20-24, 1990 (member of scientific committee)

ASSESSOR FOR GRANT APPLICATIONS/MEMBER OF ADJUDICATION COMMITTEES AND PANELS FOR THE

National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

READER OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR VARIOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CLASSICS JOURNALS