American Historical Association, New York, New York, January 2009: Roundtable participant, "At the Show: Changes in 20th Century Fan Communities, Audiences, Gendered Spectatorship and Media in a Global Context." (refereed)

Duke University Latin American Labor History Conference, Durham, North Carolina, October 2009: "The Lives of the Artists."

Berkshire Congress on Women's History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2008: Roundtable participant, " Fan Communities, Porn Wars, and Gendered Spectatorship: Historians (and others) Rethinking the Relationship Between Women and Mass Media" (refereed.)

Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, September 2008: "Transgender, Transnational, Transgressive: Zulma as Immigrant, Sex Worker, and Autobiographer." (refereed.)

Toronto International Comics Festival, Toronto, Ontario, August 2007: Roundtable participant, "Comics in the Academy."

Conference on Latin American Comic Books, Georgia State University (Atlanta), April 2005: "Comic Book Studies in Translation" (keynote address.)

American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 2005: "Going to the Movies in Mexico: Men, women and children in public spaces, 1920-1970." (refereed.)

Berkshire Congress on Women's History, Claremont, California, June 2005: "Good Mexicans, Good Catholics, Good Women: Fans and Censors at the Movies, 1940-1960." (refereed.)

Third Conference on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2005: "The Naked Starlet in the Wax Museum's Bathtub: Scandal, Memory, and Mexican Moviegoers." (refereed.)

Popular Culture Association, Tucson, Arizona, April 2005: "Transnational, Transgender: Reading Zulma in Historical Perspective." (refereed.)

American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 2005: Special Session of the Mexican Studies Committee, "Transnationalism and Gender in New Histories of Mexico."

Tepoztlán Institute for the Study of Transnational History, Morelos, Mexico, July 2004: "Moviemaking and moviegoing as transnational processes: Two case studies."

Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American History, Santa Fe, March 2004: "Theaters of Masculinity: Mexicans at the movies, 1917-1950." (refereed.)

Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, April 2003: “Not Playing in Chichicastenango: Tarzan versus the Maya, 1934” (refereed.)

Conference on The Body and the Body Politic, History Center, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2003: “Spectacular Behavior and the Body Politic: Going to the Movies in Mexico, 1920 – 1940” (refereed.)

Graduate Student Latin American Studies Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, February 2003: Keynote address: “Sports, Movies, and the New Woman: On the Politics of Feminine Representation in Revolutionary Mexico.”

XI Meeting of Historians of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2003: “The War on las Pelonas: Gender and the Revolutionary State in Mexico City, 1924” (refereed.)

Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002: "Las pelonas, las futbolistas, and the Spectacle of Female Masculinity in 1920s Mexico" (refereed.)

Critical Studies of Culture Program, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2002: "Las pelonas, Las futbolistas, and their Sisters: Mexican Women and Transnational Modernity, 1920-1940."

Graduate Student History Conference, York University, Toronto, March 2002: Keynote address: "Spherical Cows, or, Why not be a physicist? and other epistemological quandaries ."

Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Portland, Oregon, April 2002: "The Vogue for Athletic Women and the Spectacle of Feminine Modernity in 1920s Mexico" (refereed.)

Susman Memorial Conference for Graduate Students of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April, 2002: Keynote address, "What counts? On becoming an authority."

Foro Hispanico, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 2001: "Comic Book Censors, Country-Club Ladies, and Some Other Surprising Mexicans of the Twentieth Century."

Conference on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2001: "How Las futbolistas became Mexican: Historical Memory and the Revolutionary Female Body" (refereed.)

Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American History, Tucson, Arizona, March 2001: "On the Historical Uses of Queer Theory, or, Why Were Those Men Parking in the Plaza Garibaldi?" (refereed.)

Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, September 2001: "Revolutionary Bodies, Nationalist Gymnastics, and the Mexican State: Mass Patriotic Performance and its Audiences, 1920-1940" (refereed.)

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, Latin American Studies Center, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2000: "Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and the New Cultural History of Mexico."

Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 2000: "Bodies, Cities, Cinema: Pedro Infante's Funeral as a Political Protest" (refereed.)

Symposium of Washington Area Historians of Latin America, Howard University, Washington DC, November 2000: "Las futbolistas and Their Sisters: State Mobilizations of Women's Bodies in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (refereed.)

History Department Lecture Series, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, November 2000: "Revolutionizing Women's Bodies in 1920s Mexico."

Seminar on Surrealism, Institute for the Fine Arts, New York University, November, 2000:"Surrealism in Mexican Film: Questions of Production and Reception."

Seminario sobre las nuevas perspectivas norteamericanas en la historiografia de America Latina, San Marcos University, Lima, Peru, December 1999: "Apuntes para un diálogo entre la nueva historia y la nueva antropología de México" (refereed.)

Popular Culture Association Conference, Puebla, Mexico, October 1999: "Infante, Negrete, and the Ideal (Dead) Man on Film" (refereed.)

Society for Cinema Studies, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 1999: "Migration, Modernity, and Two Mexican Funerals: Public Responses to the Deaths of Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante" (refereed.)

X Meeting of Historians of Mexico, Canada, and the United States, Fort Worth, Texas, November 1999: "Pedro Infante's Funeral and the Death of Public Space in Mexico" (refereed.)

International Comic Arts Festival, Washington, DC, September 1999: "What Mexican Censors Can Teach Us." (Plenary Address.)

Humanities Center, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, November 1998: "How the Lombardini Brothers Stayed Out of Jail: Pornography, Censorship, and Political Corporatism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico."

Canadian Association for Latin American Studies Conference, Vancouver. March 1998: "Machismo as a Counter-Revolutionary Gesture: The Life and Death of Pedro Infante" (refereed.)

Symposium on the Politics of Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico, Washington, D.C. November 1997 (Conference organizer and paper presentation): "Mediated Styles of Masculinity in the Post-Revolutionary Imagination, or, El Santo's Strange Career" (refereed)

Society for Cinema Studies, Ottawa, Canada. May, 1997: "The Strange Career of El Santo: A Real Wrestler's Life in the Mexican Imaginary" (refereed.)

Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association, New York. January, 1997: "Who Picks the Battles in a Culture War?: Conservative Responses to Sex Education in Mexico, 1934-1950" (refereed.)

American Historical Association Conference, Chicago. January, 1995: "How to Not Read Donald Duck: Cultural Imperialism as a Bad Idea" (refereed.)

IX Meeting of Historians of Mexico, Canada, and the United States, Mexico City, October 1994: "Conservative Protest, Pornography, and the Boundaries of Expression in Mexico, 1952-1976" (refereed.)