Public Speaking

PREPARED TALKS

• The Promise and Perils of Hook Up “Culture”
• Genital “Mutilation” in the American Imagination
• A Feminist Defense of Friendship
• Selling Sex, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Orgasm Gap
• The Emancipatory Promise of the Habitus

For more information — including descriptions, transcripts, and slideshows — please see my list of prepared and aspirational talks.

SELECTED LECTURES AND ADDRESSES

Coming Up:

• Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference – Featured Speaker (Sept. 17th-19th, Indiana State University)
• Dartmouth University – TBA (Mar. 29th)
• Harvard University — “Sex Lives and Sex Lies: Hooking Up on Campus” and “Sex Machines vs. Sex Objects: How Stereotypes Subvert Sexual Pleasure” (Sex Week, Mar. 26^th and 28^th, 2012; interview)
• Boston University — “Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” and “A Feminist Defense of Friendship” (Mar.  27^th and 28^th, 2012)
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst –  ”A Call to Public Sociology: Inspiration and Insights from Sociological Images” (Sociology Department Colloquium, Mar. 27^th, 2012)

2012

• Yale University — Sex Week

2011

• Occidental College – Last Lecture Series, with Caroline Heldman (watch)
• Pacific Lutheran University — Sex + Speakers Series
• Franklin & Marshall College — Common Hour (watch)
• Occidental College –  Feminist Faculty Series

• University of California, Los Angeles — Brown Bag Lecture Series
• Tulane University – Newcomb College Institute Speakers Series
• Loyola University
• Slippery Rock University — Women’s Studies Speaker Series

• California Lutheran University — Health and Social Change Lecture Series
• University of Southern California – Health Center Staff Education Series