2014
- Sustainable Pluralism: Linguistic and Cultural Resilience in Multiethnic Societies
- Talking Towards the End of Life: Language and Interaction in Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care
- Rethinking the Ballad: A Symposium with Richard Firth Green & Friends
- Decentering Power: The Art of (Everyday) Subversion: A collaborative student conference on folklore and ethnomusicology
2013
- Publics and Networks: Discourse Circulation, and Power: A collaborative student conference on folklore and ethnomusicology
- Locating Language: A Symposium on the Linguistics of Place
2012
- Talking Smack/Talking Sweet: Sociolinguistics and the Study of Everyday Language
- (re)Framing & (un)Mapping: A collaborative student conference on folklore and ethnomusicology
- Good Works in Central America: A Conference Interrogating North American Voluntary Service
- Tales of Trickery and Endurance: Gender, Performance, and Politics in the Islamic World and Beyond, A Conference in Honor of Margaret Mills
2011
- Persian Mythology, Folklore, and Popular Culture History
2010
- Folklore, History, and Memory: Ireland and Beyond A workshop and symposium featuring Guy Beiner
2009
- Mirrors and Compasses: An 85th Birthday Symposium for Erika Bourguignon
- Workshop: The Form of Value in Globalized Traditions
- The Race in Culture : 20th Century Ethnology and Empire in Comparative Perspective
2008
- Urban Party Mix: Performing the Americas in the Metropole
2007
- Culture Archives and the State: Between Nationalism, Socialism, and the Global Market
2006
- Colonization and Narrative Migrations: Legends of Occupation from the Mediterranean to the Americas Spring Colloquium of the Center for Folklore Studies
Legends of Occupation from the Mediterranean to the Americas Spring Colloquium of the Center for Folklore Studies.
2001
- Ethnicity, Migration, and Heritage Seminar
The Ethnicity/Heritage/Migration interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the cultural, economic, and political implication of the production of new cultural identities by people who live in transplanted communities, whether as immigrants, refugees, or in forced repatriation.
2000
- Convivencia Conference
Performance and Democracy in Plural Societies
1999
- Going Native Conference
Recruitment, Conversion, and Identification in Cultural Research.