RECENT INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE LECTURES
2009
- 'Intersectionality in Transnational Perspective', Conference Celebrating Intersectionality? Debates on a multi-faceted Concept in Gender Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, January 2009
Conference web site; Abstract of lecture; MP3 of lecture - 'Feminism as Traveling Theory,' London School of Economics, UK, February 2009
- 'Intersectionality as Traveling Theory: the border crossing of gender and its intersections,' Pavis lecture, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, March 2009
2008
- "You just want to say: You're so FAT": Some critical reflections on fat acceptance as an intervention in obesity", EUROBESE conference Technologies for reducing or preventing overweight, Marrakech, Morocco, January 2008
- "Reclaiming Women's Bodies: Some reflections on the gap between feminist body theory and feminist health activism," Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, March 2008
- "The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Global Impact on Women's Health," conference 4th Annual Women's Health Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Philadelphia, USA, March 2008
- "Feminism as Traveling Theory: The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves," University of California Berkeley, USA, April 2008
- "Bringing the 'I' into Feminist Research," Linköping University, Sweden, June 2008
- Who is Appropriating the Narrative of the 'Other'? First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008
- Feminist Body Politics as Traveling Theory, conference Gender, Body, Education, Lancaster University, UK, September 2008
- Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery, University of Vienna, Austria, December 2008
2007
- '"Where are you actually from?" An autoethnographic account of everyday exclusions in multicultural society,' III International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 2007
- "Women and Obesity: What feminists do (and don't) have to say about it, " EUROBESE conference Ethics and Obesity: Image, Culture, Technologies, Interventions, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2007
2006
- 'The European Journal and its Legacies,' conference Migrating Feminisms, CEU, Budapest, Hungary, January 2006
- 'Our Bodies, Ourselves and Global Feminism,' conference International Women's Day, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA, March 2006
- 'Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves,' conference Migration and Biographical Research, Frankfurt University, Germany, May 2006
- 'Dear Wonderful Collective...' Readers' Letters to Our Bodies, Ourselves, conference Feminism on the Record, Reviewing the 1960s and 1970s. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, March 2005
- Transnational Knowledges, Transnational Politics: Making Our Bodies, Ourselves, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, April 2005
- "Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences:" Some critical reflections on the surgical production of "normal" bodies. conference El cuerpo descifrado, Mexico City, October 2005
2004
- 'Passing on Feminism,' conference Passing on Feminism, Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2004
- 'Feminist Theory and the Disciplined Body,' University of Umeå, Sweden, January 2004.
- 'Medicalizing the female body,' University of Umeå, Sweden, February 2004
- 'Representing the "other": Racializing' women's bodies,' University of Umeå, Sweden, February 2004
- 'Men, Masculinity and the Surgical Fix,' University of Umeå, Sweden, April 2004
- 'Surgical Passing: or Why Michael Jackson's nose makes us uneasy,' conference Beauty and the Body, Women's Library, London, June 2004