For details of my other awards, honors, grants, and fellowships, please see my curriculum vitae.

2009: Invited Founding Member and Director, The EU Institute for Studies in Comparative Civilizations, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2000: Shorei-sho Best Book of the Year Award, Communication Association of Japan.

1992/1993:Fulbright Scholar, Journalism and Mass Media, The Saint Kliment Ohridsky University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Invited Keynote Address

Kramer, E. (2018, October 2) "He Said, She Said: The Absurd Position of Absolute Relativism." Viliniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas and Viliniaus National University, Viliniaus National University, Vilinius, Lithuania. *Keynote/Plenary Address, Conference.

Kramer, E. (2014, October 17). A Gebserian and Beckerian look at the extinction vortex. Presented at the Fourty-Fourth Annual International Jean Gebser Society Conference, Judson Chapel, New York University, NYC. *Lead Presenter

Kramer, E. (2013, June 17) Are we fated to endlessly fight?: The role of altruism and human reflection on social Darwinism. Presented at the conference Lessons for and from the European Union conference “History of Social Theory: Experiencing Global-Local Interaction” held at Vilniaus Universitetas, Vilinus, Lithuania.*Keynote Address

Kramer, E. (2013, June 13). Cognitive effort and the unnatural attitude. European Union conference “Life and Phenomenology,” held at Vytautas Magnus Universitetas, Kaunas, Lithuania. *Keynote Address

Kramer, E. M. (2012, March 3). Problems of identity: Tradition and innovations. International Scientific Conference, Department of Philosophy, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. *Invited plenary speaker [presentation canceled due to flight delay as a result of inclement weather]

Kramer, E. M. (2011, July 4). The Significance of Intercultural Communication. Intercultural Communication Forum hosted by the National Immigration Agency, Ministry of the Interior, Taipei, Taiwan.

Kramer, E. M. (2006, October 27). How we Arrive at Origin: How is it that We Can Ever not Always Already be at Origin? Presented at the XXXV Annual Jean Gebser Conference, California State University, Sacramento, CA.

Kramer, E. M. (2002, October 26). The Myth of Democracy: The Disarming of Democritia and the Rise of Athenian Empire. Presented at the XXXI Annual Jean Gebser Conference, Santa Fe, NM.

Invited Presentations

Kramer, E. (2014, June 5). Coarseness in public discourse: Intercultural considerations. Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Hsieh E., & Kramer, E. (2014, June 5). Providers’ needs and expectations in interpreter-mediated medical encounters: Dangers and challenges in the utilitarian approaches to interpreters’ roles and functions. Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kramer, E. M. (2010, November 4). Yellowface: Asians in American Cinema. Taiwan Film Festival, University of Oklahoma.

Kramer, E. M. (2010, January 15). The Development of Cross-Cultural Studies in the United States. Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, Fu Jen Catholic University Taipei, Taiwan. [Simultaneous interpreting into Chinese provided.] This invited lecture is the first in the series of workshops hosted in preparation for integrating 3 graduate institutes (i.e., graduate institutes of Linguistics, Comparative Literature, and Translation and Interpretation Studies) into the Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies in May, 2010.

Kramer, E. M. (2010, January 13). Workshop on Intercultural Communication and Translation and Interpretation Studies. Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.

 Kramer, E. M. (2000, August 7). Punching the “Time-Clock.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference, All Academy Symposium, Toronto, Canada.

Kramer, E. M. (2000, August 8). Organizational Memory and Narrative Authority. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference, All Academy Symposium, Toronto, Canada. 

Kramer, E. M. (2000, June 23). Written Response to “Examining the Historiographical Ideas of Husserl and Scheler with a Phenomenological Historical Methodology”. Paper presented at the Thirtieth Annual Husserl Circle Conference, Seattle University, WA.

Kramer, E. M. (2000, March 16). Post-systems Thinking: Revisiting the Notion of Culture as Enclosed System, Adaptation Theory of Dominance, and Local Identities in a Global World. Paper presented at the First Conferencia Internacional de Filosofía, “Globalization and the Search for Cultural Identities,” Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala City, Guatemala. 

For details of my past editorship and/or editorial board services (past and current), please see my curriculum vitae.

2015-present Senior Editor, Communication: Oxford research encyclopedia, Oxford University Press. (Editor-in-Chief: Jon Nussbaum) 

2010-present Associate Editor, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 

2003-present Editor, Hampton Press book series: Communication, Comparative Cultures and Civilizations.