"Harold Temperley:  An Academic Interloper in Public Affairs" presented to the Western Conference on British Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, October, 1983.
 
Commentator for session on "Alliances and Coalitions in British Politics" held at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Charleston, South Carolina, November, 1983.
 
Chair for session on "Comparative Perspectives on Irish Republicanism, 1790-1840" at the 98th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco, California, December, 1983.
 
Chair for session on "The Literature of Conscience" at the annual meeting of the Carolinas Symposium on British Studies in Boone, North Carolina, October, 1984.
 
"From Liberal to Conservative:  The Flight of the Liberal Unionists after 1886," presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Toronto, Ontario, October, 1984.
 
Chair for session on "British Politics in the Twentieth Century" held at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies in Louisville, Kentucky, November, 1984.
 
"The Norwegian Campaign and the Downfall of the Chamberlain Government in 1940," presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies in San Antonio, Texas, October, 1985.
 
"The York Barbell Company and the Golden Age of American Weightlifting" presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History in Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 1986.
 
Chair for session on "Scotch-Irish Settlements in the New World" at the Sixth Ulster-American Heritage Symposium at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, July, 1986.
 
"The Adventures of Harold Temperley in the Balkans, 1918-1921" presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 1986.
 
Chair for session on "Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland" at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies in Charlotte, North Carolina, November, 1986.
 
"Olympic Weightlifting and the Introduction of Steroids:  A Statistical Analysis of World Championship Results, 1948-1972," presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, May, 1987.
 
"The Conservative Party and the Search for Historical Identity in the Early Twentieth Century," presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., December, 1987.
 
"In Defense of the Realm:  Gooch and Temperley's Documents on the Origins of the War," presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British  Studies in New Orleans, October, 1988.
 
"Reckoning with Liberal Decline:  Herbert Butterfield's Whig Interpretation of History," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies in Lexington, Kentucky, November, 1989.
 
Visiting scholar at a conference workshop on the "European Radical Right" at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, in Minneapolis, November, 1989.
 
Commentator for a session on "The Far Flung Empire: Gains and Losses" at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies at Snowbird, Utah, October, 1990.
 
Chair for session on "Challenges and Responses: Jacobins, Fenians, Suffragettes and the British State" at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies in Tucson, Arizona, October, 1991.
 
Commentator for session on "The Uses and Abuses of Reformist Literature" at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies in Fort Worth, Texas, November, 1991.
 
Commentator for session on "Reaction and Escapism During the Interwar Years" at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies in Atlanta, Georgia, November 1992.
 
"The Internationalism of Harold Temperley," presented at a conference on "Historians and Officials: The Development of International History in Britain and the World" at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, England, June, 1993.