Papers Presented :

November 2005 Panel participant in “Future projects and proposals: Discussion.” Notes from the Field: Prospects and Challenges for Canadian Research in Middle East and Islamic Studies post 9/11. SSHRC funded conference, organized by Jens Hanssen, Amal Ghazal, and Thomas Kuhn. University of Toronto.

November 2005 “Jewish Yoga: Syncretism and embodiment.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Session chair; session organizer (“New Age Judaism”) with Dr. Anne Vallely.

August 2005 “Gender, Popular Religion, and Civil Society.” Dartmouth Summer Institute on Gender Studies in Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies. Participation funded by the Ford Foundation.

April 2005 Discussant for the panel “Healing and Religion: The Construction of Authenticity and Negotiation of Identity.” Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Vancouver, British Columbia.

December 2004 “Jewish Healing: Magic, science, or religion?” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta , Georgia.

May 2004 “The Jewish Healing Project: An ethnographic examination.” Paper presented at the Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, London, Ontario. Session chair.

November 2003 “The spirit of the place: Rethinking the public and the private in a Palestinian village.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. 

November 2002 “Illness, healing, and spirit possession in the Palestinian West Bank.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana .

November 2000 “Muslim and Palestinian in Toronto: Constructing new communities, maintaining old ties.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

March 1999 “The Palestinian community of Toronto.” Paper presented at the Rockefeller Guest Lecture Series. Department of Religion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

December 1998 “The jinn and infertility inPalestine .” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Session chair.

June 1998   “The case of Fida: Where the personal and political collude.” Paper presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Ottawa, Ontario.

May 1998 “A new look at the Palestinian extended family” and “The West Bank-Jordan family connection.”  Papers presented at the 1998 Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

April 1998 “Palestinian village women and the discourse of spirit possession.” Paper presented at The Fifth Annual Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley, California.

November 1997 “The Jews, the jinn, and the Jewish jinn: Exploring spirit possession in the case of a Palestinian woman.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

June 1997 “Hilma and Louise: Searching for the roots of anthropology in Artas.” Paper presented at the 1997 Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

April 1997 “Defining reflexivity: A feminist approach to doing fieldwork.” Paper presented at North Eastern Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Montebello, Quebec.