1989, Co-Director of Grant awarded by the Connecticut Humanities Council to fund a conference on "The Changing Nature of Poverty in Southern Connecticut", sponsored by Women's Studies, Stamford Regional Campus.
"Structures of the 'Unsaid"', Theory, Culture and Society (1994) Vol. 11 (4), pp. 127-160
"Charting the Logical Geography of the Concept of '"Cease-fire". (1992) Human Studies: A Journ'alfor Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Vol. 15 (2), pp. 265-290
"'News Speak' About the Lebanon War", Journal of Palestine Studies (1984) Vol. 14, Num. 1, (53), pp. 16-35
"Categorization and Beliefs: News Accounts of Haitian and Cuban Refugees" (1989) in David T. Helrn, W. Tim Anderson, A. Jay Meehan, and Anne Rawls (Eds.), The Interactional Order: Vew Directions in the Studv ofsocial Order, New York: Irvington Publishers Inc., pp. 231-48
"Some Constructs for Analvzing News" (1983) in Howard Davis and Paul Walton (Eds.)-Language, Image, Media, London: Basil Blackwell Publishers, pp. 282-99
"Critique and Analysis in Media Studies: Media Criticism as Practical Action", presented at the conference ETHNOMETHODOLOGY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, Waltham, MA, August 1992.
"Is There a 'Cease-fire'or Isn't There?", presented at the international conference on Media and Crisis, Quebec city, Canada, October, 1990.
"Charting the Logical Geography of the Concept of 'Cease-fire"', presented at the Sixth Annual Northeast Communication Conference, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, April 1989.
"Categorization and Blame: Logical and Sequential Features of Responsibility Ascription in News Media", presented at the Eighth International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, North Andover, MA, August 1987.
"Blame Categorization: Dimensions of Culpability in Television Network News", presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society , Boston, MA, May 1987.
"Some Theoretical and Methodological Concerns in Explicating Meaning-Options in Media Presentations", presented at the Third Annual Northeast Communication Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 1986. "' Doublespeak' in the Media: Some Analytical Comments", presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA, March 1984.
"Categorization and Beliefs: News Accounts of Haitian and Cuban Refugees", presented the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore MD, March 1983.
"Membership Categorization and Ideological Displavs in News Media Productions". presented at the Fifth International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Boston MA August 1980.
Discussant for "Freedom and Folk Identity in Modem Life" by Joseph Hraba and Eric Hoiberg, presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston MA August 1979.