Boria Sax, Ph.D.

Not included are events prior to 1984, for which I have few records. Also generally unnoted are purely local events on topics of limited general interest.

May 22, 1984: Commission on Security and Cooperation of the United States Congress (Washington, DC)
AIndependent peace movements in Eastern Europe

Feb. 9, 1985: Speak Easy (NYC)
Poetry Reading

August 11, 1985: Opus 40 (Saugerties, NY)
Poetry Reading with Robert Kelly

June 22, 1985: Polish Community Center of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
ADissident Literature of Eastern Europe

Summer 1986: (exact date uncertain): Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
ADissidence in Eastern Germany

JAN. 29, 1987: Religion in Communist Dominated Areas (RCDA) Conference (Interchurch Center, NYC)
AIndependent Peace Movements in Eastern Europe

May 25, 1988: Empire State College (Kingston, NY)
AAnimals and Human Society

Spring 1989: (exact date uncertain): Mid-Hudson MLA Conference (Marist College: Poughkeepsie, NY)
AProtest and Conformity in the Prose of Christa Wolf

April 7, 1989: Staten Island Zoo
AThe Zoo as an Idealized World

Jan. 10, 1990: National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington,
DC)
AAnimal Fables and Fairy Tales from Aesop and Grimm to the Present@ (televised)

March 24, 1990: Conference on Folklore and Fantasy (Pace U. /White Plains NY)

AElves and the Managed Woodland: The Forest in German Literature

March 3, 1991: Rockwell Museum (Corning, NY)
AAnimals and Human Society

April 27, 1991: Conference on Fantastic Beasts (Pace U.: White Plains, NY)
AThe Basilisk: A European Monster Comes to America

April 25, 1992: Conference on Imaginary Worlds (Pace U. /White Plains NY)
AIshmael (story)

Feb. 25, 1993: Lehman College (Bronx, NY)
AThe Zoo: Prison or Paradise

March 24, 1993: Borders Books & Music (White Plains, NY)
AThe Parliament of Animals

October 2, 1993: Scarsdale Audubon Society (Scarsdale, NY)
AThe Zoo as a Representation of Utopia

June 5, 1995: New York Botanical Garden
AThe Blue Rose: Legends of Enchanted Gardens

June 23, 1996: Spark Eyes Conference (SUNY Oneonta: Oneonta, NY)
AThe Animal Bride in Literature and Folklore

April 12, 1996: Second Mid-Atlantic Environmental Conference (Ramapo, NY)
ANature Protection in the Third Reich

August, 1996: (exact date uncertain): Opus 40 (Saugerties, NY)
Poetry Reading with David Slavitt

Oct. 19, 1997: Duke University (Durham, NC)
AThe Forgotten Science of Kulturbiologie

Oct. 20, 1997: Duke University (Durham, NC)
AThe Cult of the Predator in Nietzsche, Spengler and the Third Reich

Oct. 26, 1997: New York Botanical Garden
AThe Forest in Legends and Fairy Tales

Feb. 4, 1998: SUNY Oneonta
AAnimal Brides and Grooms

Feb. 24, 1998: Rutgers University at Camden
AAnimals in Literature and the Arts

April 17, 1998: Mercy College at Dobbs Ferry
AThe Animal Bride in Literature and Folklore

October 8, 1997
Mercy College, Bronx Campus
AThe Tree of Knowledge

October 14, 1998
Westchester Community College (Enquiring Minds Program)
AMermaids, Swan Maidens and Serpent Women

October 18, 1998
New York Botanical Garden
AThe Forest in Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales

October 22, 1998
Borders Books and Music (White Plains, NY)
AThe Animal Bride in Literature and Folklore

December 1998
Pulse of the Planet Radio Program
(produced by the American Museum of Natural History)
Two programs on spinning in folklore, broadcast on over 200 radio stations

March 2, 1999
Evenings with Eva (http://www.women-2-women.com)
Online Interview on Folkloric Themes

April 21, 1999
Museum of the Hudson Highlands (Beacon, NY)
AThe Animal Bride in Literature and Folklore

August 6-8, 1999
Bright Hill Farm (Treadwell, NY)
A series of poetry readings, talks and panels as featured writer at the ASpeaking the Wrods >99 Festival

October 18, 1999
White Plains Library (White Plains, NY)
AFrom Goddess to Serpent Woman: The Animal Bride in Folklore

May 16, 2000
Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Bronx, NY)
Reading from The Serpent and the Swan and Book Signing

September 2000
ARustling Leaves
Presentation for Pulse of the Planet, broadcast on over 200 radio stations.

April 6, 2001
Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Bronx, NY)
AAnimals in Nazi Germany

Summer 2001
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Taping of Interviews for television program entitled "Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies," later broadcast on Nova (Channel 13) on February 5, 2002 and available online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/fami_sax.html.

October 14, 2001
New York Botanical Garden
AThe Forest in Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales

March 20, 2002
MEC 2002 Conference on Online Education
ANew Roles for Tutors in the Online Campus

May 18, 2002
Yale University Conference on the Chicken (New Haven, CT)
AThe Fighting Cock and the Brooding Hen: Chickens and Symbols of Gender
(Powerpoint presentation followed by participation in a panel)

June 20, 2002
Apartment in Northern Westchester
Interviewed on stories of the Hudson Valley by Kate Lucarno, as part of a television program to be broadcast on local stations in late 2002

June 24, 2002
History Channel Studio, New York City
Interviewed as part of a television program entitled "Bugs, Bats, and Rats," to be broadcast on the History Channel early in 2003

Sept 21, 2002
Second Annual Putnam Storytelling Festival, Brewster, New York
"The Oldest Story in the World"

October 12, 2002
Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
Amherst, MASS
"Creatures of the Sea in the Culture of the Renaissance"

March 16, 2003
Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry, NY
“Changing Ideas of Plagiarism in Oral, Print, and Digital Media”

July 15, 2003
State University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, IL
“The Wizards Program at Mercy College”

October 10-11, 2003
Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Reading from Memoir entitled “Stealing Fire” and workshop on revising manuscripts.