2008 “Tergloba” a panel discussion for the “Agents of Change: Art and Advocacy”, National Society for Photographic Education Conference, Denver Colorado
    Public Art” presentation of artworks for the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
  2007

“Images and Public Art” a panel discussion with Robin Lasser, Susan Cummings, and Nancy Anne Coyne, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China        

   

“Face to Face: Conversations between Chinese and American Photographic Educators”, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

    “Collaborations in the Arts”, panel, SF City College, SF, CA
     
  2006 "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture" lectures, workshops and gallery tour,
Yager Musuem, Hartwick College, New York
    "The Allure of Being Desired: Photographers Re-Vision Fashion",National Society
for Photographic Education, Chicago, Illinois
     
  2004 “Pleasure Politics: Revising the Female Body and Other Sites of Seduction”, Lecture and presentation of work with Adrienne Pao, Society for Photographic Education Western Regional Conference, Pasadena, CA
    "The Body in the Landscape", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    "Photography, Installation and Video from the Past Decade," Lecture and presentation of work, Presentation High School, San Jose, CA
    "Re-visioning Women’s Bodies: Three Points of View", Panel, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
    "The Land, Body, and Spirit", Lecture and presentation of work, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
    "Persona: A View of Public vs. Private", 3-Day Workshop, Ithaca College Photography Undergraduate Students, Ithaca, New York
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture." Lecture and presentation of work, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA
 
  2003 "Direct Dialogue: Artist as Curator", Panel discussion with curator Ashley Peel, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work for faculty and staff, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work for students, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
    "Art, Design and the Environment", Lecture and presentation of work, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England
  "Art and Social Change", Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    "Eating Disorders in our School Systems", Workshop for counselors, nurses,
nutritionists and teachers, San Francisco Unified School District
    "Eating Disorders", General Assembly Lecture with 1400 students in attendance, Horace Mann High School, Bronx, NYC
    7 individual gallery talks, Horace Mann High School, Bronx, NYC
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture." Lecture and presentation of work, Mental Health in our Schools Conference, San Francisco, CA
    "Art, Community, and Social Change", Lecture and presentation of work, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Media Critique Seminar, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
    "Eating Disorders Awareness", Lecture and presentation of work, National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    "Public Art and Cultural Critique", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
 
"Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, French American High School, San Francisco, CA
   
  2002 "San Francisco Sanitary Fill Company Residency: Robin Lasser and SJSU Graduate Students", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Youth in Action Environmental Core, San Francisco, CA
    Workshop, San Francisco Youth in Action Environmental Core, San Francisco, CA
   
"Nature Remains," Panel Presentation with Robin Lasser, Chester Arnold, Wayne Tiebaud, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
    "Dining in the Dump", Panel, Society for Photographic Education Conference - "A Sense of Place"
   
"Art and Social Change: Looking at Eating Disorders", Lecture and presentation of work, "Mind Your Body" event, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
    Gallery Talk, College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
    "'How's My Mothering' by Robin Lasser", Lecture presented by Sandi Mathews, author of the book, "Pregnant Images", House of Photographs, Popracl, Slovakia
    Poster Session, International Eating Disorder Conference, Boston, MA
    "Art and Public Policy", Lecture and presentation of work, American University, Washington, DC
    "Women's Health, and Eating Disorders", Lecture and presentation of work, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    "Designing Art for Social Change," Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
    Gallery Talk, McMullen Museum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
    "Art and Activism", Lecture and presentation of work, Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA
     
  2001 "Art and Eating Disorders", Lecture and presentation of work, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
    "Dance Interventions: Workshop with Artists and Dancers", Sweeney Art Gallery,UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
    "Art and Life", Lecture and presentation of work, Art 01, SJSU, San Jose, CA
    "Precious/Precarious, Environmental Land Art," Lecture and presentation of work, WEAD conference, Berkeley, CA
    "Exhibitions and Public Art on Campus: Art Against Eating Disorders", Penn State University, PA
   
"Where is Feminism Now?", Lecture and presentation of work, Women's Caucus for the Arts Conference, CCAC, Oakland, CA
    "Art, Activism and Social Change", Panel, Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY
    "Community Based Art", Lecture and presentation of work, Art 01, SJSU, San Jose, CA
     
  2000 "Women and the Millennium, Setting the Agenda", Lecture and presentation of work, Conference- Angela Davis, Keynote Speaker, Cabrillo College, CA
    "Art and Social Change", Lecture and presentation of work, Porter College Core Course with 400 students attending lecture, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
    "Art and Activism", Lecture and presentation of work, Gallery Talk for Photography Class, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
    "Body Image in the 21st Century", Panel, Gallery 210, Syracuse, NY
   
"Workshops in Cairo ", Lecture and presentation of work, Fulbright Exchange Panel, SJSU, San Jose, CA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Women's Center, Santa Cruz, CA
    "Environmental Land Art", Lecture and presentation of work, Pharonic Village, Cairo, Egypt
    "Land Art History and Contemporary Practice", Workshop, Cairo, Egypt
    "Fairfield Land Art Projects", Panel, Fairfield City Arts Lecture Hall, Fairfield, CA
    "Site Specific Installations", Panel, Solano College, Fairfield, CA
    "Collaboration Across Thee Time Zones", Panel, National Society for Photographic Education Conference, Cincinnati, OH
    "Media, Culture and Eating Disorders", Panel, Harvard Art Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
    "Creative Choices and Venues for Public Art", Lecture and presentation of work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
    "Eating Disorders and Art Campaigns on College Campus", Panel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
     
  1999 "Precarious", Lecture and presentation of work, Fairfield Community Center, Fairfield, CA
    "Precarious", Lecture and presentation of work, North Campus High, Vacaville, CA
    "Consuming Landscapes and Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    "Pregnant Images", Lecture and presentation of work, CCAC, Oakland, CA
    "Precarious", Poster Presentation, Society For Ecological Restoration, International Conference, San Francisco, CA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Hampshire College, Hampshire, MA
    "Design for Social Change", Lecture and presentation of work, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Hampshire, MA
    "Not for Profit", Lecture and presentation of work, SoHo Photography Gallery, NY, NY
Lecture and presentation of work, Visual Communication Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA
   
"Visual Communication", Lecture and presentation of work, Sacramento State Univ., Sacramento, CA.
    "Art and Social Change", Lecture and presentation of work, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, UC Davis, Davis, CA
    Lecture and presentation of work for Women Working with Women. National Conference organized by the Center for Women's Studies, Toledo University, Toledo, OH
    "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, Art Dept. Toledo University, Toledo, OH
    "Art and Healing", Workshop, Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Toledo University, Toledo, OH
   
"Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, CA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, displayed for A Woman's Health Summit Conference, Invitation from Assemblywoman Helen Thompson, Vacaville, CA
     
  1998 "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work for Gender Matters, Building A System of Services and Treatment for Women's Health in California. National Mental Health Conference, San Francisco, CA
    "Artists, Public Art and Activism", Panel, Fairfield CityArts, Fairfield, CA
    "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA
    "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, UC Santa Barbara, CA
    Lecture and presentation of work for the National Society for Photographic Education Conference
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Philadelphia, PA
   
"Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
   
"Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    "The Lens and the Body", Recent work, Lecture and presentation of work, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
     
  1997 Presentation for the Regional Society for Photographic Education Conference
"Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
    "Women Scholars", Lecture and presentation of work for UC Davis, Fall 1997, Presenters: Robin Lasser and Kathryn Sylva, "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture" Project , Davis, CA
   
"Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, Art 1 Fall, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture", Lecture and presentation of work, UC Davis, Davis, CA
    "PRECarIOUS, an Earth Work Project", Lecture and presentation of work, Carquines Land Trust, Martinez, CA
    "Poste/Waste Revisited", Lecture and presentation of work, Benicia Center for the Arts, Benicia, CA
    "PRECarIOUS: An Environmental Art Project", Lecture and presentation of work, Martinez Regional Land Trust, Martinez, CA
    "The Relationship of New Technology to the Art Making Process", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    "Recent Public Art Projects", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    Lecture, Art 1, Spring, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
     
  1996 "Reframing the West", Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA
    "Photo Based Installation", Lecture and presentation of work, San Jose State University, Tuesday night lecture, San Jose, CA
    "Digital Output, Lasser's Installations", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
   
"The State of Our Waste", Panel Discussion, Benicia Public Library, Benicia, CA
"Public Domain", Symposium, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
"Environmental Art", Lecture and presentation of work, Lafayette Arts and Science Foundation, Lafayette, CA
    "Current Work and the San Jose State University Photo Department", Lecture and presentation of work, Art 101, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    "A Forecast for Post Graduate Life", Panel, Society for Photographic Education, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
     
  1995 "Current Work", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    "Art Work and the Creative Process", Video interview, Warner Television, Walnut Creek, CA
   
"Dirty Dining", Gallery talk, Walnut Creek Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
    "Current Work and the San Jose State University Photo Department", Lecture and Presentation of work, Art 101, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    "Current Work", Visiting Artist Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
     
  1994 "Artists Who Collaborate", Panel Chair, National SPE Conference, Chicago, IL
     
  1993 "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
    "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
    "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
    "Dirty Dining", Gallery talk, Ansel Adams Center, Friends of Photography, San
Francisco, CA
    "Collaboration", Lecture and presentation of work, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
     
  1992 "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, Boston Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
    "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
     
  1991 "Viewpoints, 8 Installations", Lecture and presentation of work, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
     
  1990 "Alcatraz Revisited", Presenter, National Society of Photographic Education Conference, Santa Fe, NM
     
  1989 Presenter, The Fourth Annual BACVA Conference, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
    "Artists Taking Power-Alternative Art Project", Gallery talk, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
     
  1988 "Art in the Landscape", Lecture and presentation of work, Syntex Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
    "Presence In Absence", Lecture and presentation of work, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
     
  1986 "Recent Work", Lecture and presentation of work, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
     
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