"W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk: A Reflection." African American Panoramic Museum (APEX), February 17, 2004.

"W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibit of the Georgia Negro at the Paris 1900 International Exposition" African American Panoramic Museum (APEX), February 16, 2004.

"Cultural Literacy and Its Significance for Second Language Learners," presentation with Carlos Diaz, Literacy in Teaching Conference, Florida Atlantic University, January 29, 2004.

"Reflections on Alternative Literacy," keynote address, Literacy in Teaching Conference, Florida Atlantic University, January 29, 2004.

"The Social Foundation Professor as Activist," Learning and the World We Want Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, November 24, 2003.

"Children and Hyperreality: the Loss of the Real in Contemporary Adolescence and Childhood,"Convocation Speaker, Concordia University, Irvine, Calfornia, March 25, 2003.

"Counter-Cultural Literacy," College Reading Association, Miami, Florida, December 4, 2003.

"Power/Knowledge/Knowledge/Power," Sculptural/Text Installation, College Reading Association, Miami, Florida, December 3-7, 2003.

Chair of the Panel, "Youth, Culture and Media," American Educational Studies Association Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2, 2003.

Chair of the Panel, "Educational Foundations and Cultural Studies: Back to the Future? New Paradigm? Or False Model?," American Educational Studies Association Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1, 2003.

"Counter Cultural Literacy: A Multimedia Response to E. D. Hirsch," American Educational Studies Association Meeting, November 1, 2001, Miami, FL.

Participant in the Symposium, "Video Games and Civil Society," University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center Conference, October 26, 2001.

"Video Games and Hypperreality," University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center Conference, October 27, 2001.

"Children, Hyperreality and the Transformation of Literacy," Conference on Early Childhood Education and Literacy, Hofstra University, February 2, 20001.

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Lina Chiaponne and Sandra Lewis, "Technology, Hands-on-Science and Curricular Innovation in a Professional Development School Collaboration." Holmes Partnership Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 28, 2001.

Participant in the Symposium, "Are We Performing a Cover or Creating a Remix: A Multilogue on Teaching Social Foundations," American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 3, 2000.

"Counter Cultural Literacy: A Critique of E. D. Hirsch," International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancipation," Miami, FL, October27, 2000.

Chair, "Appreciative Inquiry: Narrative Inquiry and Dialogue: A Systems Perspective on Educational Reform,"American Educational Research Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 24, 1999.

"Learning by Doing at Hampton Institute: Frances Benjamin Johnston's Educational Photographs of the Hampton Institute (Paris International Exposition)," American Educational Research Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 22, 1999.

"Computers, Scholarship and Learning: The Transformation of American Higher Education," invited book session, American Educational Research Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 21, 1999.

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Rafael Montes, "Learning Communities and Online Communities, Conference on Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities, University of South, Tampa, Florida, Florida, March 12, 1999.

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Rafael Montes, "Learning Communities, Online Communities and Local Communities, Residential College Communities: Making Connections," Conference on Excellence in Higher Education, University of Miami, January 17, 1999.

"Secret Spaces and Cyberspace: Notes Towards a New Definition of Childhood," Symposium on the Secret Spaces of Childhood, University of Michigan, November 13, 1998. "Einstein's Brain" (construction) and selected Wizard of Oz "book boxes." Included in the "Secret Spaces of Childhood," exhibition at the Residential College Art Gallery and Benzinger Library, University of Michigan, November 13-December 14, 1998.

Participant in Panel on Religion and Public Schooling led by Martin Marty for the Public Project on Religion, University of Chicago and Pew Memorial Trust, September 19, 1998.

"Racism, Gender Discrimination and Violence in the Culture of Video Games," Invited speaker, International Computer Game Developers' Conference, Long Beach, California, May 7, 1998.

"Culture as Curriculum: Education and the International Expositions, 1876-1904," "Portrayals of the Other: Curriculum and Texts in History," American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 13, 1998.

Symposium participant, "Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education (John Dewey Society), American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 15, 1998.

"Friederich Froebl and the Rediscovery of the Spiritual and Ecological Foundations of Education," "The Return of Spirituality: Relevance for Educational Theory and Practice," American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 16, 1998.

"Responding as a Researcher and Teacher in a Time of Crisis: Hurricane Andrew and the South Florida Community" (Session on Ethical Matters in Educational Research) American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 31, 1997.

Symposium Participant, "Kinderculture, Information Saturation and the Emergence of Postmodern Childhood," American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 31, 1997.

"Computing, DigitalCulture and Pedagogy: The Analytical Engine," Education/Technology International Conference Pennsylvania State University, September 17, 1997.

Commentator for the Symposium, "Critical Education in a Technopoly," American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, November 5, 1995.

Chair and Moderator, "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Social Foundations and on the World Wide Web," American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, November 3, 1995.

"Hyperreality, the Culture of Simulation and Computer-Mediated Instruction," Journal of Curriculum Theory Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Monteagle, TN, September 29, 1995.

"Making Educational Research Real: Student Researchers and the Creation of Professional Oral Histories," Symposium Presentation "Continuity and Expansion in Qualitative Research," American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 18, 1995.

"The Social Implications of Computer Technology in Education," Symposium Presentation ("The Augmentation of Intellect and the Emergence of Cyberscholarship"), American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 11, 1994.

"Schools of Tomorrow Today," Symposium Presentation ("An Adventure in Learning, The Park School of Buffalo and American Progressive Education"), American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 12, 1994.

"Kinderculture, Exploring Cults of Childhood," Symposium Presentation ("F.A.O. Schwarz and Toys 'R Us: Contrasting Models of Toy Culture and Childhood," American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 13, 1994.

"CyberRights: Computers, Freedom and Privacy on the Electronic Frontier," SIG/Electronic Networking Roundtable Session, American Educational Research Association Meeting, New Orleans, April 8, 1994.

Symposium Participant, "Art and Technology," Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, February 17, 1994.

"Florida and the Photographs of the Farm Security Administration," presentation with Michael Carlebach for the Miami International Book Fair, November 21, 1993.

"Need Achievement, American Textbooks and the Fabulist Discourse," Symposium Presentation, The Success Ethic, Education and the American Dream, American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 5, 1993.

Chair and Discussant for the Symposium, "Explorations in the Parallel Curriculum: The Visual Media," American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 4, 1993.

Workshop, "Violence, Video Games and Interactive Television," 8th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Toronto, October 26, 1993.

Keynote Symposium, "Electronic Child Abuse: Problems and Solutions," 8th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Toronto, October 25, 1993.

"Technology and Library Services in a Post-Typographic Culture," Preconference Workshop, American Library Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 25, 1993.

"Education on the Forgotten Frontier, Miami and the Dade County Public Schools, 1885-1985," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, presentation for the Symposium "New Books on the History of American Urban Education," American Educational Research Association Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13, 1993.

Discussant, "Popular Culture and Pedagogy," American Educational Studies Association Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1992.

Interdisciplinary Visiting Scholar, School of Design, North Carolina State University, October 14-16, 1992. Lecture: "Digital Culture, Design and the Hypermedia Revolution." Workshop: "The Computer and Visual Poetics: Text, Design and Meaning in the Post-Typographic Culture." Discussion: "The World of Nintendo: Video Games and the Culture of Childhood."

"Hypertext and Cyberscholarship: Implications for Education and the Sociology of Knowledge," presentation for the symposium "Social and Curricular Meaning in a Post-Typographic Culture," American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 21, 1992.

"El Impacto del Nintendo en la educacion del Nino," keynote address for the Septimo Simposio Internacional de Computacion en la Educacion Infantil y Juvenil, SOMECE (Society for Mexican Computing and Education), November 19, 1991.

"The French Annales Movement and Its Implications for Educational Research," with Gary McCloskey, History of Education Society Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, October 27, 1991.

"Death in a Tenured Position: Amanda Cross and American Higher Education," American Educational Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, October 25, 1991.

Chair, "Envisioning School Differently," American Educational Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, October 24, 1991.

Visiting Scholar, Western Michigan University Visiting Scholars and Artists Program. Presentations and seminars included: "Education and the Art of the Toy"; "Digital Culture and the Hypermedia Revolution"; "Teacher Attitudes and Beliefs: Research Findings from The Profession of Teaching: A Twenty Year Perspective"; and "The World of Nintendo: Video Games and the Culture of Childhood," October 2-3, 1991.

"The World of Nintendo: Video Games and the Culture of Childhood," keynote address for the Seventh Computers and Writing Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, May 24, 1991.

"Digital Culture and the Hypermedia Revolution," invited address for the Seventh Computers and Writing Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, May 24, 1991.

Chair/Discussant, "Exploring Complex Information: Hyper and Communication Media," American Educational Research Association Meeting, April 3, 1991.

"Violence and the World of Nintendo," American Educational Research Association Meeting, April 5, 1991.

Convener/Discussant, "Popular Culture as Education," American Educational Studies Association Convention, Orlando, Florida, November 1, 1990.

"Exhibit of the American Negro at the Paris 1900 World's Fair," American Educational Research Association, Boston, April 2, 1990.

"The Electronic Panopticon," Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers," University of Alabama, English Department Symposium, October 27, 1989.

"Readers Digest and the Culture of Schooling," American Educational Studies Association, Chicago, October 25, 1989.

"Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy," Invited address at the Fifth Computers and Writing Conference, University of Minnesota, May 13, 1989.

"The Teacher Union Movement in the Dade County Public Schools: 1959-1989," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, March 28, 1989.

"Text, Photography and Meaning: An Exploration of Literacy and Education in James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, March 28, 1989.

"Teachers and Families," American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, March 29 1989.

"Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster: An Examination of the Emergence of the Theme of Knowledge Power," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, History of Education Society Meeting, Toronto, November 4, 1988.

"The Impact of Immigration on the Dade County Public Schools: 1959-1987," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, Florida Historical Society Convention, Miami, Florida, May 13, 1988.

"School Desegregation and the Dade County Public Schools: The Long Stall," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, American Educational Research Association Meeting, New Orleans, April 9, 1988.

"Black Versus White Teacher Attitudes: 1964-1984," Robert Kottkamp and Eugene Provenzo, American Educational Research Association Meeting, New Orleans, April 9, 1988.

"Teacher Perceptions Toward Professional Autonomy vs. State Responsibility," Gary McCloskey, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Marilyn B. Cohn and Robert Kottkamp, American Educational Research Association Meeting, Washington, D.C, April 21, 1987.

"Teacher Attitudes Toward School-Based Merit Award Programs," Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Norman Proller, Gary McCloskey, Marilyn B. Cohn and Robert Kottkamp, American Educational Research Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1987.

"Disincentives to Teacher Career Satisfaction and Effective Performance," Marilyn Cohn, Robert Kottkamp, Gary McCloskey and Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., American Educational Research Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1987.

"Teacher Ethnicity: Work Rewards and Incentives,"Robert Kottkamp, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Marilyn Cohn, American Educational Research Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1987.

"Researching the History of the Dade County Public Schools," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, History of Education Society, Palo-Alto, CA, October 18, 1986.

"Toward an Understanding of the Career Development of Satisfied Teachers: Insights from Teacher Interviews," and "Professional and Personal Development in Mid-Career: A Typology and Correlates," Marilyn Cohn, Robert Kottkamp, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, April 1986.

"Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy: Microcomputers and the Emergence of Post-Typographic Culture," Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco, April 1986.

"Individual Correlates of Teacher Attitudes Toward Merit Pay," Robert Kottkamp, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Marilyn Cohn. Eastern Educational Research Association, Miami, March 1986.

"The Effects of School and Individual Level Merit Pay Plan Results on Teacher Attitudes Toward Work, Rewards, Satisfaction, and Various Merit Pay Plans," Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Robert Kottkamp, and Marilyn M. Cohn. Eastern Educational Research Association, Miami, March 1986.

"Merit Pay: Why Teachers Don't Want It, " Marilyn M. Cohn, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Robert Kottkamp. Eastern Educational Research Association, Miami, March 1986.

Participant in the symposium "The Teaching Profession a Twenty Year Perspective," Educational Research Association Meeting, Chicago, April 4, 1985.

"Christian Fundamentalism and the Historiography of American Education," History of Education Society Conference, Chicago, October 21, 1984.

Respondent to critique of H.W. Button and E.F. Provenzo, Jr., "History of Education and Culture in America," Southern History of Education Society Annual Meeting, February 20, 1984.

Chair/Critic for the symposium "The Role of Education in National Definition," American Educational Research Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 11-15, 1983.

"Cuban Teachers at Harvard: An Experiment in Americanization," paper presented as part of the symposium "College Students and Higher Education," American Educational Research Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 11-15, 1983.

"Social Change and the Thematic Imagery of Fables Included in American Spellers and Readers (1775-1925)," Symposium on Non-Traditional Methodological Approaches to the Study of the History of Education, and "Catholic Textbooks and Cultural Legitimacy, 1840-1910," American Educational Research Association Meeting, New York, March 19-23, 1982

"New Approaches to Teaching the Gifted History and Science: The Young Inventor's Series." with Asterie Baker Provenzo, CEC/TAG National Topic Conference on the Gifted and Talented Child Orlando, FL, December 3, 1981.

"The Historiography of American Educational History and the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition," American Educational Studies Association, Boston, November 6, 1981.

"Soap Bubbles and Bubble Pipes," and "Rediscovering Scientific Toys," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, Vermont Libraries and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lyndonville, Vermont, July 23, 1981.

"Exiled Teachers and the Cuban Revolution," with Concepcion Garcia, American Education Research Association Meeting, Los Angeles, April 13, 1981.

"Did UnChristian Equal Uncivilized: American Catholic and Native American Education, 1870-1906," with Gary N. McCloskey, and "The School Controversy and Americanism: Liberalism Versus Conservatism in The Catholic Church Hierarchy, 1890-1904," Southern History of Education Conference, Atlanta, March 20, 1981.

"The Museum as Educator: The Brooklyn Children's Museum and the Education Museum of the Saint Louis Public Schools," with Asterie Baker Provenzo, Beyond the System: New Research on the History of Urban Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, December 12, 1980.

"The Photographer as Educator: The Child Labor Photo-Stories of Lewis Hine," Beyond the System: New Research on the History of Urban Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, December 12, 1980.

"Private Schools and the History of American Education," American Educational Research Association Meeting, Boston, April 10, 1980.

"Education and the International Expositions: 1876-1904," History of Educational Society Conference, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1979.

"The Role of the Foundations Professor in the University and the Community," American Educational Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, October 25, 1979.

Panel Member, "Politics and the Foundations Profession," Program on the AESA Standards and Politics Related to Foundations of Education, The University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL., May 25, 1979.

Panel member, "Ethnic Folklore and Identity in Urban Settings," Florida Folk Arts/Folk-life Conference, White Springs, FL, January 26, 1979.

Participant in a Symposium on "Toy Design," sponsored by the Lowe Art Museum and Arango, Inc., Miami, FL. January 19, 1979.

"Southern Opposition to Northern Textbooks: Cultures in Conflict," Southern History of Education Conference, Atlanta, October 13, 1978.

"Visual Sources in the History of Education," Division F Symposium, "Non-Mainstream Research: Methodological and Occupational Perspectives," American Educational Research Association Meeting, Toronto, April 6, 1978.

"Lincoln and Education," Presidential Panel on Education, American Educational Research Association Meeting, New York, April 8, 1977.

"Materialism as Reflected in the Thematic Imagery of Fables Included in American Spellers and Readers (1775-1925)," presented a part of the Conference, "Old Gods, New Heroes: The Power of Myth in Literature," Comparative Literature Circle of the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 27, 1977.