SELECTED LECTURES AND TALKS


2010

"Trauma and Human Rights." Invited presentation for Human Rights in China: Seminar on Multi-Disciplinary Human Rights Research from China. Organized by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Oslo, Norway, November 3.

"Phantom Babies and Spectral Women: Infant Mortality, Maternal/Child Health, and Women's Empowerment." Invited presentation in the Centre for STS Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, October 29.

"On Babies, Bodies, and Pregnant Women: What's Wrong with Maternal/Infant Health?" Annual Mary Edwards Lecture, Purchase College, SUNY, April 22.

"Accounting for Death: Unraveling the Infant Mortality Rate." Invited presentation in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, April 26.

2009

"Pharmaceutical Bodies: Politics of the HPV Vaccine for Cervical Cancer." Bringing the Body Back In Conference, SWS/University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 3.

"Socio-Political Context, Marketing, and Social Messages of the HPV Vaccine." Invited lecture at the HPV Forum, University of Arizona College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, April 1.

"Phantom Babies: The Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality." Invited lecture at Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 14.

"Teaching Gender, Health, and Medicine: Revealing Bodies in Biopolitical Worlds." Invited lecture in the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 12.

"Body Politics: Private Tales of a Public Feminist."  Green Honors Lecture, Women's Studies Program and Institute on Women and Gender, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, January 14.

2007

"Disembodied Knowledge and the Hidden Politics of Infant Mortality." Presented at the Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Science (FEMMSS) Conference Knowledge That Matters, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 8-10.

"Ignoring Millions of Women, Millions of Children: How the Debate About Abortion and Maternity Care Ignores Issues of Pregnancy Loss and Infant Mortality." Invited panel presentation for the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, Atlanta, GA, January 18-21.

2005
"A Tale of Two Technologies: Local and Global Politics of Sterilization." Presented at the conference Reproductive Disruptions: Childlessness, Adoption, and Other Reproductive Complexities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 19-22.

"Hierarchies of Contraception: Local and Global Politics of Women's Sterilization." Presented at the conference Women and Power, Women's Studies Program, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 3-5.

"Body Politics: Looking at Science, Technology, and Medicine Through a Feminist Lens." Invited lecture for the Thinking Out of the Lunch Box Series, Vanderbilt University/Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN, March 2.

2004
"Bombs, Bodies, and Borders: Public Health, Chemical Weapons, and the Quest for Security." Invited lecture for the series Cultural Explorations on Medical Frontiers, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, January 5.