Public Speaking

PREPARED TALKS:

I travel for speaking engagements throughout the year. For past and upcoming lectures, click here.

For information on prepared and aspirational lectures — including descriptions, transcripts, and slideshows — feel free to explore the following topic areas:

• On Sex, Relationships, and Friendship
• On American Discourse about “Female Genital Mutilation”
• On Sociological Images and Public Sociology
• On Marketing and Media Literacy
• The Research Methods, Social Theory, and the Habitus
  

“Lisa Wade is a hip sociologist who can reach students in a way that few adults can. She gets what today’s students are going through, cares about them and through her studies is trying to make their world a better place.”

– Harvey Kliman, MD, PhD (Yale University)

More praise…

UPCOMING LECTURES AND APPEARANCES:

Indiana State University – Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference

• “‘The Girl Doesn’t Expect Anything…’: How a Media Manufactured Sexuality is Shaping Campus Sexual Culture” (Sept. 17th-19th, 2012; info)

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PREVIOUS LECTURES AND APPEARANCES:

2012

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Yale University – Sex Week

• “Your Body Is a Wonderland: Body Image and Sexuality at Yale” (panel; Feb. 6^th; review on the panel at The Yale Daily News)
• “Friendship Matters” (Feb. 6^th)
• “The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Feb. 7^th)

Dartmouth University

• “The Promise & Perils of the Hook-Up Culture” (Mar. 29^th; review in The Dartmouth)

Harvard University — Sex Week

• “The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Mar. 26^th; reviews in The Harvard Crimson here and here)
• “Sex Machines & Sex Objects: How Stereotypes Subvert Sexual Pleasure (Mar. 28^th; review in The Harvard Crimson)

Boston University

• “Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Mar. 27^th)
• “A Feminist Defense of Friendship” (Mar. 28^th)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst – Sociology Department Colloquium

• “A Call to Public Sociology: Inspiration and Insights from Sociological Images” (Mar. 27^th)

University of California, Los Angeles – Couples and Sex Therapy Training Program

• “Cross-Cultural Sexualities: Socio-Historical Variation in Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Scripts” (Apr. 5^th)

California State University, Northridge

• “The Promise & Perils of ‘Hook-Up Culture’” (Apr. 26th)

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities – Sociology Research Institute

• Award Recipient (Apr. 20th)

Occidental College – Digital Scholarship Symposium

• Open Scholarship Panel (with Amy Lyford, PhD and Shanna Lorenz, PhD) (Apr. 12^th)

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Pacific Lutheran University – Sex + Speakers Series

• “The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Oct. 25^th)
• “The Emancipatory Promise of the Habitus: Lindy Hop, the Body, and Social Change” (Oct. 26^th)
• “Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Oct. 26^th)

MTV Canada – Impact

• “Lisa Wade Talks About Hook Up Culture” (first aired Sept. 26^th)

Franklin and Marshall College – Common Hour

• “The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Mar. 24^th)

Occidental College – Feminist Faculty Series

• “Selling Sex, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Orgasm Gap” (Oct. 26^th)

University of California, Los Angeles – Brown Bag Lecture Series

• “Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Oct. 15^th)

Tulane University – Newcomb College Institute Speakers Series

• “The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Sept.30^th)
• “Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Sept.30^th)

Loyola University

• “The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Sept. 29^th)

Slippery Rock University – Women’s Studies Speaker Series

• “Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Nov. 5^th)

California Lutheran University – Health and Social Change Lecture Series 

• “Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Oct. 21^st)

University of Southern California – Health Center Staff Education Series

• “Cultural Contributions to Female Anorgasmia” (Apr. 24^th)