Speaking

Past and future lectures and appearances are below.  If you are contemplating bringing Lisa Wade for a visit, please feel free to reach out to her or to her speaking agent, Soapbox. A menu of prepared talks can be viewed here and any and all questions are welcome.

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“Lisa was a dream guest speaker. Her talk was a combination of current, relevant, and well-researched information delivered in an entertaining and non-judgmental manner. The students loved her approachable style and great sense of humor.”

— Sarah Rankin (Harvard University)

More praise…

2017/2018 LECTURES AND APPEARANCES:

 

Fall 

• Elon University (October 2)
• University of Delaware (October 4)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (October 17)
• University of California, Irvine (October 20)
• University of California, Los Angeles (October 24)
• Moorpark College (November 2)
• Butte College (November 9)
• Cornell University (November 16)

Spring 

• Tarrant County College (February 7)
• University of Texas, Permian Basin (February 8)
• California State Fullerton (February 13)
• Pomona College (February 15)
• Oregon Women’s Conference (March 3)
• Alabama Child Safety Conference (March 6)
• California State University – Long Beach (March 14)
• Chapman University (March 15)
• Occidental College (March 27)
• Pacific Lutheran University (April 10)
• Franklin and Marshall College (April 12)
• Swarthmore University (April 12)
• Tulane University (April 18)
• Furman University (April 19)

PAST LECTURES AND APPEARANCES:

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2017

• Northwestern University (May 1)
• University of Chicago (April 28)
• Co-Op Seminary Bookstore, Chicago, IL (April 27)
• University of Minnesota (April 25)
• Saint Louis University (April 24)
• Southern Illinois University (April 23)
• University of Virginia (April 12)
• University of New Orleans (April 10)
• State University of New York, Brockport (April 6)
• Hobart and William Smith (April 5)
• California Lutheran University (March 7)
• California State University, Fullerton (March 6)
• University of Southern California (March 6)
• Northeastern University (February 14)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pleasure Week (February 13)
• Harvard Bookstore (February 12)
• Harvard University, Humanist Hub Sunday Speaking Series (February 12)
• Politics and Prose, Washington, DC (February 11)
• Hunter College (February 8)
• Columbia University (February 7)
• Stanford University (February 3-4)
• Books, Inc, with Peggy Orenstein (February 2)
• Whitman College (January 31)
• Seattle Town Hall (January 30)
• Loyola University, New Orleans (January 25)
• Louisiana State University (January 24)
• Octavia Books (January 12)

2016

• Tulane University  – Fridays at Newcomb (April 22)
• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (April 20)
• University of Wisconsin, River Falls (March 22-23)
• Boise State University (March 14-15)
• Wichita State University – Keynote Speaker for the Sociology Club and Sociology Department Gender & Sexuality Conference (March 4)

2015

• University of Nebraska, Omaha Undergraduate Sociological Symposium – Keynote Speaker (November 12)
• Shawnee State University Distinguished Lecture Series (October 27)
• Marshall University (October 26)
• University of Missouri-Columbia (March 31 – April 1)
• Midwest Sociological Association Meetings Plenary Speaker (March 27)

2014

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Artist in Residence (October 19-23)
• Citrus College Sex 101 Week (April 3)
• Westminster College Bastian Diversity Lecture Series (March  11)

2013

• United States Bartending Guild, Los Angeles Chapter (October 15)
• Macalester College (October 1-2)
• Carleton College (September 30)
• Citrus College (September 10)
• University of Akron AKD Spring Awards Banquet Keynote Speaker (April 19)
• Citrus College (April 2)
• Pomona College (March 27)
• Harvard University Women’s Week (March 11)
• Queen’s University of Kingston (February 26)
• Occidental College (January 31)

2012

• California State University-Northridge (October 8)
  
• Indiana State University Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference – Featured Speaker (September 17)
• California State University-Northridge (April 26)
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Sociology Research Institute (April 20)
• Occidental College Digital Scholarship Symposium (April 12)
• University of California-Los Angeles Couples and Sex Therapy Training Program (April 5)
• Yale University Sex Week (February 6-7)
• Dartmouth University (March 29)
• Harvard University Sex Week (March 26-28)
• Boston University (March 27-28)
• University of Massachusetts-Amherst Sociology Department Colloquium (Marcn 27)

2011

• Occidental College Last Lecture Series (December 1)
• Occidental College Feminist Faculty Series (October 26)
• Pacific Lutheran University Sex + Speakers Series (October 25-26)
• University of California-Los Angeles Brown Bag Lecture Series (October 15)
• Franklin and Marshall College Common Hour (March 24)

2010

• Tulane University Newcomb College Institute Speakers Series (September 30)
• Loyola University (September 29)

2009

• Slippery Rock University Women’s Studies Speaker Series (November 5)
• California Lutheran University Health and Social Change Lecture Series (October 21)
• University of Southern California Health Center Staff Education Series (April 24)

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Photo credit: Emma Pulido.