Kathy Davis - Lectures - feminist scholarship on women's bodies and health

RECENT INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE LECTURES

2023

Bringing in the ‘I’ in feminist research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 29 March

2022

The Travels and Travails of Intersectionality, University of Newcastle, UK, 16 February

2021

Intersectional Conversations, workshop at University of Antwerpen, 14 October
Creating emotional spaces in biographical interviews, paper at IV ISA Forum of Sociology, 27 february (online). (PDF)
‘Look at me!’ Post-mastectomy transformative politics, lecture Leeds University (UK), 10 February. Recorded ZOOM session, with transcript.

2020

‘Who Owns Intersectionality?’ keynote Cornelia Goethe Centre, Frankfurt, 18 November
See video on Youtube

2019

‘Dancing tango: hyper-heterosexuality, queering, and other subversive moves’, keynote LOVA studiedag, Leiden, 10 May
See Conference website.
‘Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery: Some reflections on suffering, agency, and embodied difference in a globalizing world,’ keynote lecture for project ‘Beauty and Empowerment (‘Beauté et empowerment’) at the University of Strasbourg, 7 June, followed by a lively debate (see the video).

2018

‘Using emotions in feminist research,’ keynote at University of Lausanne, September 10

2017

'"The story of my life is written on my skin": Bringing the body into biographical research', University of Crete, Rethymnon, Crete, September 14
See Conference website

'Are We Still Rocking the Boat? Reflections on Gender Research as Critical Inquiry,' University of Aalborg, Denmark, April 27
(See a short impression of the conference.)

2016

'The Trouble with Passion and Politics After the "Affective Turn,"' University of Basel, Switzerland, April 15.
'Queering Tango: Passion, Performance, and Politics,' University of Paris, September 17.

Link to website

2015

‘Body, Embodiment, and the Experience of Passion: What Tango Dancers Can Teach Us,’ Oral History Workshop Series (Oral History, Medicine, and Health), Columbia University, New York, March 5
‘Writing Academic Texts Differently,’ CEU, Budapest, March 13

2014

‘Intersectionality as traveling theory,’ University of Paris-Diderot, France, January 28
‘Feminism as traveling theory: the case of Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ public lecture Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, USA, April 30
‘Should a Feminist Dance Tango? Some reflections on the experience and politics of passion,’ Feminist Theory Annual Lecture, University of Newcastle, UK, May 8
'Should a Feminist Dance Tango? Some reflections on the experience and politics of passion,’ Feminist Theory Annual Lecture, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany, June 24
'Passion, Experience, and Biography: What can tango dancers tell us?' XVIII Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 19
‘Should a Feminist Dance Tango? Some reflections on the experience and politics of passion,’ Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, September 30
‘Feminism as traveling theory: the case of Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ 8th Annual NNC conference A Multitude of Encounters with Asia – Gender Perspectives, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 14

2013

'Can a feminist dance the tango? Some reflections on the relationship between equality and passion’ , keynote for the Jahrestagung der Sektion Biografieforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Kassel, Germany, January 2013

2012

'Feminism as Traveling Theory', UMBC Korenman Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, February 2012
Youtube video
'Traveling Our Bodies, Ourselves', keynote lecture for International Women's Day, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2012
Please refer to the entry under March 2012 for a link to a radio program recorded in Istanbul at the time featuring Kathy Davis.
'Dance and Biography: Why biographical researchers should be interested in tango?' Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2012
'Passion, Experience, and Biography: What tango dancers can tell us?' International symposium Language and Pictures: Multimodal Approaches to Heteroglossic Biographies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, November 2012

2011

'Connecting Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Theory and Practice,' CEU, Budapest, Hungary, March 2011
'Intersectionality as Critical Methodology,' J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2011
'Transnational Conversations: Feminism as Traveling Theory, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, October 2011
'Intersectionality: Some Critical Reflections,' LSE, London, UK, October 2011

2010

'Feminism as Traveling Theory,' 14th Annual Minnie G. Braithwaite Lecture in Women's Studies, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA, April 2010
'Accounting for Disappointment: Biographical Choices Re-visited,' XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010
'The Role of Transnational Public Intellectuals,' XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010
'Intersectionality as Critical Methodology,' conference Writing Intersectionality. Shifting the Boundaries between Academic and Creative Writing from Feminist Perspectives, Linköping University, Sweden, November 2010
'Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery,' Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany, November 2010
Video of lecture, password: RVLGender

2009

'Putting the Body on the Map: The History of Our Bodies, Ourselves,' Summer Institute, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, New York, USA, June 2009
'Feminism as Traveling Theory,' Columbia University, New York, USA, June 2009
'Revisiting feminist debates on cosmetic surgery: some reflections on suffering, agency, and embodied difference in a globalizing world,' conference Cosmetic Cultures: Beauty, Globalization, Politics, Practices, University of Leeds, UK, June 2009
'Myths and Realities: Writing the History of Our Bodies, Ourselves,' University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, September 2009
'Feminism as Travelling Theory,' Northeastern University, Boston, USA, September 2009
'Post-feminist sexuality and the illusion of empowerment,' Linköping University, Sweden, November 2009
'Intersectionality in Transnational Perspective', Conference Celebrating Intersectionality? Debates on a multi-faceted Concept in Gender Studies, J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, January 2009
Conference web site; Abstract of lecture; MP3 of lecture
'Feminism as Traveling Theory,' London School of Economics, UK, February 2009
'Intersectionality as Traveling Theory: the border crossing of gender and its intersections,' Pavis lecture, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, March 2009

2008

"You just want to say: You're so FAT": Some critical reflections on fat acceptance as an intervention in obesity", EUROBESE conference Technologies for reducing or preventing overweight, Marrakech, Morocco, January 2008
"Reclaiming Women's Bodies: Some reflections on the gap between feminist body theory and feminist health activism," Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, March 2008
"The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Global Impact on Women's Health," conference 4^th Annual Women's Health Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Philadelphia, USA, March 2008
"Feminism as Traveling Theory: The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves," University of California Berkeley, USA, April 2008
"Bringing the 'I' into Feminist Research," Linköping University, Sweden, June 2008
Who is Appropriating the Narrative of the 'Other'? First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008
Feminist Body Politics as Traveling Theory, conference Gender, Body, Education, Lancaster University, UK, September 2008
Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery, University of Vienna, Austria, December 2008

2007

'"Where are you actually from?" An autoethnographic account of everyday exclusions in multicultural society,' III International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 2007
"Women and Obesity: What feminists do (and don't) have to say about it, " EUROBESE conference Ethics and Obesity: Image, Culture, Technologies, Interventions, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2007

2006

'The European Journal and its Legacies,' conference Migrating Feminisms, CEU, Budapest, Hungary, January 2006
'Our Bodies, Ourselves and Global Feminism,' conference International Women's Day, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA, March 2006
'Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves,' conference Migration and Biographical Research, Frankfurt University, Germany, May 2006
'Dear Wonderful Collective...' Readers' Letters to Our Bodies, Ourselves, conference Feminism on the Record, Reviewing the 1960s and 1970s. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, March 2005
Transnational Knowledges, Transnational Politics: Making Our Bodies, Ourselves, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, April 2005
"Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences:" Some critical reflections on the surgical production of "normal" bodies. conference El cuerpo descifrado, Mexico City, October 2005

2004

'Passing on Feminism,' conference Passing on Feminism, Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2004
'Feminist Theory and the Disciplined Body,' University of Umeå, Sweden, January 2004.
'Medicalizing the female body,' University of Umeå, Sweden, February 2004
'Representing the "other": Racializing women's bodies,' University of Umeå, Sweden, February 2004
'Men, Masculinity and the Surgical Fix,' University of Umeå, Sweden, April 2004
'Surgical Passing: or Why Michael Jackson's nose makes us uneasy,' conference Beauty and the Body, Women's Library, London, June 2004