Conferences
Though not all-inclusive, Dr. Firpo Carr presented at the following conferences:
Date: October 16-20, 2022
Location: San Diego, CA
Sponsoring Organization: American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Setting: Clinical Congress 2022
Role: Presenter
Title: “Surgeon Anxiety and Jehovah’s Witness Patients: Determining the Effects of Educational Intervention.”
Date: August 4-6, 2022
Location: Minneapolis, MN/Virtual (hybrid)
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association, Division 36: Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Setting: APA 2022 Convention
Role: Video Presenter
Title: “Deconstructing Infrastructural Racism in U.S. Seminaries.”
Date: August 4-6, 2022
Location: Minneapolis, MN/Virtual (hybrid)
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association, Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Setting: APA 2022 Convention
Role: Video Presenter
Title: “Space-Time Continuum and ‘Lazarus’ Disconsciousness: Coma, Psyche, and PTSD.”
Date: August 12-14, 2021
Location: Virtual Convention
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association, Division 36: Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Setting: APA 2021 Virtual Convention
Role: Poster/Video Presenter
Title: “Racism’s Role in Cloaking Black Bible Manuscripts and Textual Transmission: Sins of Omission.”
Date: August 12-14, 2021
Location: Virtual Convention
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association, Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and
Violence: Peace Psychology Division
Setting: APA 2021 Virtual Convention
Role: Poster/Video Presenter
Title: “The Psychology of Racist Words: How the Dictionary Promotes Conflict and Violence Against Blacks.”
Date: May 27-29, 2021
Location: Virtual Convention
Sponsoring
Organization: European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Health; Forschungsinstitut
für Spiritualität und Gesundheit (FISG)
Setting: 2021
European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Health
Role: Poster Presenter
Title: “Determining the Effect of Educational Intervention on Surgeons’
Mental Anxiety When Faced With Emergency Non-Blood Treatment of Jehovah’s
Witnesses”
Note: Dr. Carr was ranked #1 on the leaderboard of the most
active members of the conference community.
Date: March 23, 2021
Location: Virtual Conference
Sponsoring Organization: Conference on Medicine and Religion (CM&R)
Setting: CM&R Virtual Conference
Role: Poster Presenter
Title: “Exploring Surgeons’ Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the Bloodless Policy and Emergency Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses Relative to Patient-Centered Care and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Multiple-Case Study.”
Date: August 6-8,2020
Location: Virtual Convention
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association
Setting: APA 2020 Virtual Convention
Role: Poster Presenter
Title: “Mitigating Registered Voters’ Cognitive Dissonance Over Mistreatment of Migrant Families at Detention Centers by Adopting a Skid Row Model.”
Date: August 8-11, 2019
Location: Chicago, IL
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association
Setting: APA 2019 Convention
Role: Poster Presenter
Title: “Ambivalent Astrophysicists Suffer from ATG”
Note: The topic dealt with astrophysicists who are conflicted in believing that there can be design in the cosmos sans a designer. A condition I call atheistastroagnosis (ATG).
Date: August 9-12, 2018
Location: San Francisco, CA
Sponsoring Organization: American Psychological Association (APA)
Setting: APA 2018 Conference
Role: Poster Presenter
Title: “Exploring Surgeons’ Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the Bloodless Policy and Emergency Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses Relative to Patient-Centered Care and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Multiple-Case Study.”
Date: May 24, 2017
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Sponsoring Organization: Southern California Diversity Conference
Theme: 2017 Southern California Diversity and Leadership Conference
Setting: The L.A. Hotel Downtown
Role: Speaker
Title: Wicked Words: Poisoned Minds—Racism in the Dictionary
Date: February 7, 1998
Location: Claremont Colleges, Claremont CA
Sponsoring Organization: The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies of the Claremont Colleges Annual Conference
Setting: Pomona College, Seaver Theater
Role: Lecturer
Title: “Racism and the Written Word”
Program Theme: Outing Whiteness Conference
Other Participants/Panelists (alphabetized by first name):
(1) Ann duCille, Department of Literature (UCSD)
(2) Carl E. Briscoe, Jr., Ethnic Studies Program (California State University, Fresno)
(3) Darrell Moore, Department of Philosophy (DePaul University)
(4) Elspeth Kydd, Department of Theatre, Film, & Video (University of Toledo)
(5) Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Department of Philosophy (Bucknell University)
(6) Eve Oishi, Women’s Studies (California State University, Long Beach)
(7) Frank K Saragosa, Department of English, Literature (Swarthmore College)
(8) Greg Foster-Rice, Department of Art History (Northwestern University)
(9) Joel Eisinger, Department of Art History (University of Minnesota, Morris)
(10) Kelly S. Ervin, Department of Comparative, American Cultures (Washington State University)
(11) Olufemi Taiwo, Department of Philosophy (Loyola University of Chicago)
(12) P. Gabrielle Foreman, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies (Occidental College)
(13) Robert Bernasconi, Department of Philosophy (The University of Memphis)
(14) Sarah Susannah Willie, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Swarthmore College)
(15) Steven Nelson, Department of Art and Art History (Tufts University)
Date: November 5, 1997
Location: Van Rotary Club, Van Nuys, California
Sponsoring Organization: Rotary International
Setting: Lecture Hall
Role: Lecturer
Title: “Racism in the Dictionary?”
(Note: A letter to Dr. Firpo Carr, dated December 5, 1997, from Judi Rose of the Rotary Club stated in part: “Thank you so much for coming to speak at the Van Nuys Rotary Club. I’m sure you could tell that your presentation was very well received and excited a lot of comment. I got very good reviews from several of my fellow Rotarians and all were sorry that there was not more time for your presentation….Thank you again.”)
Date: March 1, 1997
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Role: Lecturer (video presentation)
Event Name: Manuscript Technology
Title: “IBM and the Sacred Scrolls”
Date: June 3, 1990
Location: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Sponsoring Organization: Social Sciences Research Council
Setting: The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Role: Lecturer
Title: “Recent Developments in Archeography”
Event Name: Workshop on the Medieval East Slavic Culture
Other Participants (alphabetized by first name):
(1) Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA)
(2) Paul Bushkovitch (Yale)
(3) Daniel Collins (UCLA)
(4) Jame Cracraft (Illinois/Chicago)
(5) Robert Crummey (UC Davis)
(6) Michael Flier (UCLA)
(7) Christian Hannick (Trier)
(8) Paul Hollingsworth (Falls Church)
(9) Norman Ingham (Chicago)
(10) Edward Keenan (Harvard)
(11) Michael Khodarkovsky (Kalamazoo)
(12) Valerie Kivelson (Michigan)
(13) Boris Kloss (ANSSSR/Moscow)
(14) Nancy Kollmann (Stanford)
(15) Gail Lenhoff (UCLA)
(16) Jakov Luria (ANSSSR/Leningrad)
(17) Robert Mathiesen (Brown)
(18) Georg Michels (Harvard)
(19) Eduard Muhle (Mainz)
(20) Hugh Olmsted (Harvard)
(21) Donald Ostrowski (Harvard)
(22) Daniel Rowland (Kentucky)
(23) Nancy Sevcenko (Cambridge, Mass.)
(24) Olga Strakhov (Harvard)
(25) Nina Ulff-Moller (Copenhagen)
(26) William Veder (Amsterdam)
(27) Daniel Waugh (Washington)