2013 “‘That’s Selfish’: Moral Judgments by and about Single Mothers by Choice in the US and UK” (with Susanna Graham) Workshop on The Rhetoric of Selfishness and Selflessness, Cambridge University, June. 2012 “‘I have a fear of really screwing it up’: The Fears, Doubts, Anxieties, and Judgments in the Experience of One American Single Mother by Choice’” presented at the workshop “Parenting: kinship, expertise and anxiety” European Association of Social Anthropologists, Nanterre University, France, July. 2012 “‘That’s Selfish’: Moral Judgments by and about Single Mothers by Choice and Gay Dads” presented at the Centre for Research in the Arts Social Science and Humanities workshop on ‘The Rhetoric of Selfishness and Selflessness,’ Cambridge University, June 21. 2012 “Intensive Parenting Alone: Negotiating the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood as a Single Mother by Choice” Wenner-Gren workshop “What's New About 'Parenting'? Comparative Studies in Kinship, Self and Politics” U. Kent, April. 2012 “‘Angel Babies’ and ‘Phantom Fathers’: Some ‘Uncanny’ Similarities between these Absent Presences in Pregnancy Loss and Intentionally Father-Absent Families” Cambridge Social Anthropology Club, March 8. 2012 “Intensive Parenting Alone: Negotiating the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood as a Single Mother by Choice” Centre for Family Research Seminar, Cambridge Feb 28. 2012 “How the Anthropology of Ghosts can Illuminate New Kinship Practices” the Magic Circle, Works-in-progress group, Cambridge University, February. 2012 "A Women’s Health Model for Pregnancy Loss: Lessons from Feminist Models of Childbirth"for presentation to Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. 2011 “‘Angel Babies’ and ‘Phantom Fathers’: Some ‘Uncanny’ Similarities between these Absent Presences in Pregnancy Loss and Intentionally Father-Absent Families” The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum, Nov. 2011 ““Feminist Technology, Disability Rights, and the Other Assistive Reproductive Technologies” on a panel sponsored by the Association for Feminist Anthroplogy at the annual meeting of the the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Nov. 2011 “‘Angel Babies’ and ‘Phantom Fathers’: Some ‘Uncanny’ Similarities between these Absent Presences in Pregnancy Loss and Intentionally Father-Absent Families” Talk in the Culture, Power, Social Change Lecture series, co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology, UCLA, Nov.
2008 “A Cultural Perspective on Pregnancy Loss” Albany Medical Center Chaplains. 2008 Keynote Address. Healing Hearts: A Conference on Pregnancy Loss. Community Cradle—Maternal Infant Network, , April 24. 2008 “Many Feminisms/Complex Answers: A Feminist Technology Assessment of Menstrual-Suppressing Birth Control Pills” (co-authored Jennifer Aengst). Presented at the Society for Medical Anthropology/Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Memphis. 2008 “Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Religious Rituals and Memory Making in a Hospital Setting Following a Pregnancy Loss” Invited Lecture to the Pastoral Care Program, . 2008 Invited Public Lecture “Menstrual-Suppressing Birth Control Pills: A Feminist Technology?” (co-authored with Jen Aengst) Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, State University of New York, Oneonta. March 10. 2007 “Motherhood Lost, Conversations: Visual or Medical Anthropology” American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting, , November. 2007 “Menstrual Birth Control Pills: Feminist or Anti-Feminist Technology?” (co-authored with Jen Aengst) Invited Lecture, Gender & Women's Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 5. 2007 Guest Lecture in Gail Landsman’s course, "Making Babies: Anthropologists Look at the New Reproductive Technologies," SUNYA, Nov. 2007 “Teaching Feminist Design” (co-authored with Frances Bronet) Social Studies of Science Society’s annual meeting, , October 13. 2007 “Putting Pregnancy Loss on the Feminist Agenda” Albany Chapter, NOW, Sept. 2007 “Feminist Technology?: The Case of Menstrual Suppressing Birth Control Pills” (co-authored with Jen Aengst) Invited lecture, Dept. of Women Studies, , May. 2007 “Motherhood Lost, Conversations: What kind of Anthropology is This?” Dept. of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, April. 2007 “Feminist Technology?” Invited lecture, Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Architecture and Women’s Studies, of , . Jan. 2007 “Teaching Interdisciplinary Design” invited participant in a panel discussion, , Eugene, Jan.