The following is a list of Conferences and Colloquia:

“Practical Animal breeding and its Relationship to the Rise of genetics, 1750-2005”
A paper given at Huron University college, University of Western Ontario, March, 2008 

Chair and commentator for the panel “Man and Beast: Human Interactions with Animals in a Comparative Context”, at the European Social History conference in Lisbon, Portugal, February/March, 2008.

Guest speaker at Rare Breeds Canada meeting, April, 2007.

Chair and Commentator for the panel "Progress, Progeny, and Equality: Human Social Identity and Animal Hierarchy in Rural Communities" at the June 2006 conference of the Agricultural History Society, held at MIT.

"Purebred Animal Breeding: Pedigree standards as Tariffs in International Trade", paper given at the XXII International Congress of History of Science, Beijing, China, July, 2005.

"Purebred Breeding: Science and Culture in Animal Breeding", paper given at the Colloquia of the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, January, 2005.

"Modern Purebred Breeding: A Scientific or Cultural Method", paper given at the colloquia of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, September, 2004

"Canadian Cattle Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century and the International Problem of Animal Disease", Paper given at the Colloquia of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, October 2002.

"Pedigree Animal Breeding and 'Improvement': A Study of Science, Purity, and the International Market", Paper given at the Colloquia of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, December 2000.

"Farmers as Businessmen: Cattle Production in Ontario, 1870-1924", Paper given at the Fifth Canadian Business Conference, October 1998.

"Women and Cows: Gender in Ontario Dairying, 1890-1920", Paper given at the Canadian Historical Association Conference, June 1998.

"The Role of Purebred Breeder/Ordinary Farmer Conflict in the Rate of Herd Improvement - A Study of Cattle Farming in Ontario, 1870-1920", Paper given at the Association of Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums, June 1998.

"Women and Cows: Gender in Ontario Dairying, 1890-1920", Paper given to the Women's History Group, Department of History, University of Toronto, September 1997.