“Corporeality, Neoplatonism, and the golden bowl from Pietroasa: on Julian’s aesthetics,” paper presented at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (Washington, December 27-30, 1998)

“Churches on the frontier: a tenth-century cave monastery at Basarabi (Romania),” paper presented at the 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1998

“Iron and potlatch: early medieval hoards of implements and weapons in Eastern Europe.” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 10 (1998-1999): 15-62.

“Pots, ethnos, and Slavs: Slavic archaeology in Soviet Russia and Communist Romania,” paper presented at the conference “Vocabularies of Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 3-4, 1998

“Feasting with ‘kings’ in an ancient ‘democracy’: on the Slavic society of the early Middle Ages (sixth to seventh century A.D.),” paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, Charleston, February 20-21, 1998