October 24, 2017, Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, “Assessing the War on Terror: Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives.”

September 21, 2017, Orange, CA: Chapman University’s International Day of Peace Symposium: An Age of Global Crisis, “Lessons from the Syrian Conflict.”

February 24, 2017, West Palm Beach, FL: Temple Beth El, “The Islamic Awakening, the Syrian Conflict, and Implications for Israel.”

February 22, 2016, Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, “The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent.”

November 23,2014, Washington, DC.: Annual Meetings of the Middle East Studies Association. Paper title: “Marginalization, Extreme Uncertainty, and the Syrian Civil War."

March 27, 2014, Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, “The Syrian Civil War in Historical Perspectives: Implication for the Arab Israeli Conflict.”

March 30, 2011. Cambridge: Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Paper title: “Religious Identity,

Informal Institutions and the Nation-States of the Near East.”

May 5, 2007. Santa Barbara: University of California: 8^th Annual Conference of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Paper title: “Al Jazeera and the Counter Movement to Globalization.”

April 21, 2006. Prague. University of Economics: Prague Conference on the Political Economy of Freedom. Paper title: “Identity as a Psychological Foundation for Social Conflict.”

November 6, 1999. Prague, Charles University: The Annual Meetings of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy. Paper title: “Identity-Sharing Groups and Informal Economies.”

January 4, 1999. New York: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Transformation Economics. Paper title: “A Decade of Conflicts in Czech Economic Transformation.”

January 5, 1999. New York: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Development Theory. Paper title: “Social Conflict and Economic Development in the Middle East.”

April 27, 1998. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Center for International Studies. Paper title: “Political Entrepreneurs and the Economics of Civil War.”

January 4, 1998. Chicago: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Examining the Capitalist Restoration. Paper title: “Mafianomics: Game Theory Models Capturing the Dynamics of Mob Entrepreneurship in Post Soviet States.”

April 3, 1997. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar. Paper title: “The Relativist Fallacy of Impossibility of Value-Neutral Inquiry in Political Economy: A Case Study of the Causes and Consequences of Self-Regulating Markets.”

January 6, 1997. New Orleans: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Making War, Making Peace. Paper title: “An alternative Explanation to the Economic Roots of War: A Game Theoretic Model of Ethnic Cleansing.”

January 7, 1995. Washington, D. C.: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Comparing Theoretical Paradigms. Paper title: “Incommensurable Paradigms or Impatient Economists: Knowledge and Monetary Theory.”

July 17, 1994. Jouy-en-Josas, France: Groupe Hautes Études Commerciales, The Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics. Session title: Theories on Political Economy. Paper title: “The Logical Foundations of the Schism Between Classical and Reform Liberalism.”

June 11, 1994. Wellesley, MA: Babson College. The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society. Session title: Methodological Individualism and Holism. Paper title: “A Synthesis of Methodological Individualist and Holist Criteria for Economic Explanation.”

June 12, 1994. Wellesley, MA: Babson College. The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society. Session title: Evaluating Schumpeter's “Great Gap” Thesis, part II. Paper title: “Principles of Economics in Al-Maqrizi: Rising Out of Scholasticism.”

May 19, 1994. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar. Paper title: “Reconstructing Austrian and Marxian Criteria for Economic Explanation.”

March 19, 1994. Boston, MA: The Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association. Session title: Methods. Paper title: “Realist Criteria for Economic Explanation.”

January 4, 1994. Boston, MA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Issues in the Understanding of Economic Theory. Paper title: “Realist vs. Empiricist Criteria for Economic Explanation: Are They Incompatible?” (Read by Laurence S. Moss).

June 29, 1993. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University, The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society. Session title: Reexamining Familiar Hypotheses I. Paper title: “Incommensurable Paradigms or Impatient Economists: Knowledge and Monetary Theory.”

January 7, 1993. Anaheim, CA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Markets, Values, and Society. Paper title: “Market Versus Non-Market Mechanisms: A Differentiation and an Evaluation.”

January 6, 1993. Anaheim, CA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Monetary Theory and Practice. Paper title: “The Postmodernist Fallacy of the Incommensurability of Economic Theories: A Case Study in Monetary Theory.”

September 17, 1992. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar. Paper title: “The Postmodernist Fallacy of the Incommensurability of Economic Theories: A Case Study in Monetary Theory.”

June 2, 1992. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society. Session Title: Monetary Theory. Paper title: “Should Rival Interpretations of Money and Credit Continue to Survive: An Exercise in Theory Evaluation”

January 5, 1992. New Orleans, LA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. Session title: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on Money and Capital. Paper title: “Does Metaphysics Shape Marx's Theory of Money?”

September 19, 1991. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar. Paper title: “The Epistemological and Methodological Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Theory of Neutral Money.”