Laurie J. Shrage

Recent Presentations

May 2, 2009 Keynote Speaker, Sexual Selves Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, “The Idea of a Sexual Orientation and Its Relation to Sex Identity (with
apologies to P.W….)

October 10, 2008, Speaker, "Does The Government Need to Know Your Sex?" Public Reason Podcast Symposium

June 2008, Commentator on “A Sensible Anti-Porn Feminism,” by A. Eaton, Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy (Vol. 4, Winter) http://web.mac.com/shaslang/SGRP/Symposia.html

April 4-6, 2008, Speaker, University of Calgary mini conference on the Philosophy of Gender

March 22, 2008, Commentator, Pacific APA session on torture, Pasadena

November 8, 2007, Speaker, Center for Applied Ethics, CSULB, “Pro-choice” Critics of Roe

August 28, 2006, Speaker, Revising the California Democratic Party’s Platform on Women, Claremont Democratic Club

March 26, 2006, Speaker, Is the Philosophy Blogosphere a Male Domain?, American Philosophical Association, Portland  (APA Committee on the Status of Women)

March 25, 2006, Commentator, symposium on Fetuses and Moral Status, American Philosophical Association, Portland

January 18, 2006, Speaker, Annual Roe Lecture, Why Not “Wife Notification Laws?, Planned Parenthood of Pasadena

October 29, 2005, Speaker, Southern California Philosophy Conference, http://www.csun.edu/~philos33/2005SoCalPhilConf.htm

September 24, 2005, Speaker, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, CSU Northridge http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/CRPRschedule05.pdf

May 22, 2005, Speaker, Conference on Gender, The Body and Objectification, University of Sheffield Philosophy Department, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/conf/gbo/     

March 26, 2005, Commentator, Multiculturalism and Women’s Rights, American Philosophical Association Meetings, San Francisco

March 12, 2005, Speaker, Conference on Sexual Difference and Embodiment, McGill University, Montréal, http://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/workshop/

January 26, 2004, Speaker, “Motherhood, Marriage, and Democracy,” University of Southern California, Gender and Sexuality Week series

October 30, 2005, Speaker, “How Queer is Sex Work,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, UC Irvine

September 10, 2004, Speaker, “How Queer is Sex Work,” Philosophy Department, University of San Francisco

June 18, 2004, Speaker, “Exposing the Fallacies of Anti-Porn Feminism,” International Association of Women Philosophers, University of Göteborg

March 27, 2004, Respondent, “Author Meets Critics” session on Abortion and Social Responsibility, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) meeting, Pasadena

January 20, 2004, Roe v. Wade annual speaker, “‘Pro-Choice or No Choice’ . . . and Other Alternatives,” UCLA Center for the Study of Women http://www.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/Roelecture.htm

November 15, 2003, keynote address, “Exposing the Fallacies of Anti-Porn Feminism,” Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division, University of Oregon

March 28, 2003, Speaker, “Orientalism, Jews, and Philosophy,” APA Committee on Asians and Asian Americans, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) meeting, San Francisco

February 3, 2003, Speaker, “Not for Men Only: How Feminists and Queers Could Change the Sex Industry,” Gender and Sexuality Week, University of Southern California

October 4, 2002, Speaker, “Philosophy and the Jewish Questions,” International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), University of Barcelona

March 9, 2002, Speaker, “Liberty, Equality, and Abortion,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Law School

March 2, 2002, Speaker, Huntington Library Women’s Studies Seminar on “Defending Choice,” Pasadena, CA

November 9, 2001, Speaker, “The Post-Roe Funding Backlash,” Conference on Recasting Reproductive Choice, Women’s Studies of the Claremont Colleges.

October 28, 2001, Speaker, “Is Roe Viable?” Conference on Morality in the 21st Century, sponsored by the University of Delaware and the APA

June 30, 2001, Speaker, “Liberalism and Abortion,” Women in Philosophy Conference, Australasian Association of Philosophy, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

October 12, 2000, Speaker, Abortion, Humanitarian Aid, and the Limits of State Power, International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), University of Zurich.

April 6, 2000, Speaker, Author Meets Critics Session on Legitimate Differences by Georgia Warnke, Society for Women in Philosophy, Albuquerque, NM

November 18, 1999, Keynote address, “Are Sex Workers’ Rights Human Rights?”  Prostitution in a Global Context--Intertwined Histories, Present  Realities, Conference held at Aalborg University, Denmark

October 30, 1999, Speaker, “Defending Abortion in Visual Terms,” Southern California Philosophy Meeting, University of California, Irvine

April 29, 1999, Speaker, Stanford Humanities Center, “From Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Barbie”

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