TEDx lecture, Democracy after Anatomy, Lurie Medical Research Center, Northwestern University (Evanston), December 15, 2010.

Invited lecture, The Intersex Body, Chicago Humanities Festival, Harold Washington Library, Chicago, November 14, 2010.

Invited lecture, Cultural Dynamics in Medicine (first year M.D. course), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, “What Is Medicine for?”, March 12, 2009.

Invited lecture, “What Is Medicine for?” to the Psychiatry Residents, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, June 4, 2008.

Invited lecture, “Intersex in Theory, Life, and Practice,” Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 25, 2008.

Special lecture, “What Are Doctors for?”, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Masters Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, February 21, 2008.

Special lecture, “What Is Sex for?”, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Masters Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, February 14, 2008.

Special lecture, “What Is Birth for?”, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Masters Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, February 7, 2008.

Grand Rounds in Interdisciplinary Medicine, “What Is Medicine for?,” Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, January 18, 2008.

Invited lecture, with Aron Sousa, “What Is Medicine for?,” Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, November 12, 2007.

Invited lecture, “History for the People: The Rewards, Risks, and Politics of Doing Client-Centered Medical Histories,” Programs in the History of Medicine and History of Science, Yale University, October 15, 2007.

Keynote, LBGT Pride Week, “Intersex: Anatomy, Identity, and the Future of Normal,” Brown University, Providence, April 24, 2007.

University lecture on “Changing Sex and Changing Medicine” and book signing, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 12-13, 2007.

Invited lecture on intersex for LBGT Health Week, College of Human Medicine of Michigan State University, March 12, 2007.

Health Prevention Interest Group, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, November 6, 2006.

Guest lecture, “The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal,” Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, April 11, 2006.

LBGT Health Week Lecture on Intersex, Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, March 29, 2006.


Brittingham Endowed Visiting Professorship, University of Wisconsin, March 22, 2006. Brittingham Endowed Visiting Professorship, University of Wisconsin, March 21, 2006. “Why Intersex is a Human Rights Issue,” Physicians for Human Rights, Michigan State University, June 7, 2005.

“Intersex, Conjoined Twins, and Other Feats of Normality,” California State University East Bay, May 19, 2005.

“Living on the Nature-Nurture Divide: Stories from People Born Intersex,” Michigan State University, April 22, 2005.

“Intersex in Theory, Life, and Practice,” University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, January 27, 2005.

“Freeing the Irish Giant: Anatomy Museums and the Future of Normal,” Medical Humanities Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, November 5, 2004.

“The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal: Lessons from Intersex,” Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine, November 4, 2004.

“Intersex, Conjoined Twins, and the Future of Normal,” Dept. of History, Rutgers University, October 9, 2003.


“Intersex in Modern Medicine,” for Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Diversity Education Series, June 12, 2003.


“Intersex: History, Ethics, Practice,” Pediatrics Grand Rounds, Hartford Children’s Hospital, December 3, 2002.

“Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies,” Medical Humanities Program, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, April 20, 2000.

Liberating History in the Intersex Rights Movement,” at the annual Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, September 25, 1999.
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