Robert E. Bieder, IUB presented “Architecture and Democracy in Antebellum America: Orson Fowler and the Octogon House,” American Studies Conference Democratic Value: Past, Present and Future, University of Tampere, Finland, May, 2005 and "The Imagined Bear" Conference on Animal Presences, Animal Geographies, Rhodes University, South Africa, September, 2005.

Lisa Bingham, IUB, made a series of presentations in Seoul, Korea:

• On September 22, 2005: “Legal Frameworks for Dispute Resolution and Civic Engagement in the United States” at a conference entitled “Comparative Studies in Public Conflict Resolution” organized by the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management and sponsored by the Korea Office for Government Policy Coordination.
• On September 26, 2005: “The New Governance: Practices and Processes for Stakeholder and Citizen Participation in the Work of Government” at Yonsei University Department of Public Administration, School of Social Science.
• On September 26, 2005: “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Civil Justice in the United States” presented to the Korea Supreme Court Task Force on Civil Justice Reform. This was a three hour workshop and lecture providing information regarding the evaluation of different court ADR programs in the US as the Task Force engages is a comprehensive redesign of the process for civil litigation in Korea.
• On September 27, 2005: “The New Environmental Governance: Environmental Conflict Resolution” at the Korea Environmental Institute in the Environmental Department.
• On September 27, 2005: “Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the US” at Yonsei University Law Department.
• On September 28, 2005: “Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the US” at the SKK School of Business.
• On September 28, 2005: “Handling Conflicts at Work Through Dispute Resolution” and “Mediation at Work: REDRESS at the USPS” at the Korea National Labor Relations Commission.

On October 1, 2005 she will present: “The New Urban Governance: Processes for Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders” at the Seoul World Mayors Forum, a celebration of the completed restoration of the Cheong gye cheon, a river previously buried beneath major thoroughfares in Seoul.

In addition, Beth Gazley, IUB, and Law and Social Science doctoral student Won Kyung Chang recently presented Gazley, Chang, and Bingham, “Collaboration and Citizen Participation in Community Mediation Centers” at the American Political Science Association conference in Washington, DC.

Otis Grant, IUSB, presented “Hey I Live Here! Allowing Community Members to Describe Their Own Community” at the Justice Studies Association annual conference in Hartford, Connecticut on June 4.