Dr. Catherine Wessinger, the Reverend H. James Yamauchi, S. J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans, has two presentations planned for the 12-13 academic year so far: She will present a paper at the American Academy of Religion on "The Interactionist School of Religion and Violence: Interdisciplinary Approaches in New Religions Studies" in a session on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religion and Violence.

In April 2013, she will make a presentation in a full-day symposium at Baylor University on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fire that killed many Branch Davidians. Her presentation is tentatively titled "Listening to Branch Davidians: Oral History Research with Survivors."