UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday March 15, 2026 @ 4pm EST (hybrid): I will co-moderate (along with Paige Sweet) this exciting roundtable discussion featuring Daniel Gaztambide, Chanda Griffin, Eyal Rozmarin, Betty Teng, and Jamieson Webster! This hybrid event is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and will be held at TALS Studio in NYC. Register here for online attendance and here to join us in-person.
SELECT PAST EVENTS
Tuesday April 15, 2025 @ 5:30pm EDT: Assembling Scapegoats & Saviors: Sexbots at the Limits of Technocare at the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, Brown University.
Monday July 29, 2024 @ 6pm EDT (hybrid event): Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition Book Launch at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC. Free and open to the public, in-person and virtual!
Sunday April 16, 2023 @ 4pm EDT: Care, Culture, and Coloniality: Appropriation and Expropriation from the Museum to the Wellness Industry at Making Worlds Bookstore in Philadelphia, PA. Free and open to the public!
Friday April 14, 2023 @ 12:30pm EDT: Marketing Self-Care: From Femtech and Biohacking to Painmoons and Extreme Travel at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Free and open to the public!
Friday October 14, 2022 @ 7pm EST: Book Discussion on Diagnosing Desire at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Free, virtual, ASL interpreted, and open to the public! Register for the zoom link here: http://tinyurl.com/aspurgas
VIDEO & AUDIO RECORDINGS OF SELECT PAST EVENTS
“Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy” podcast by Delores B. Phillips, Alyson Patsavas, Theodora Danylevich, Alyson K. Spurgas, Jess Whatcott and Angela Carter | Issue 14.2 (Fall 2025), Positions
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Crip Cultures/Critical Disability Studies Working Group Co-Host Theodora Danylevich discuss crip silences, crip futurities, and crip joy with authors Alyson Patsavas (University of Illinois, Chicago), Alyson K. Spurgas (Trinity College), and Jess Whatcott (San Diego State University). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Angela Carter.
March 10, 2022: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century author-meets-critics panel / book forum with Laura Carpenter, Theodore Greene, Tey Meadow, and Tom Waidzunas. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
November 9, 2021: “Diagnosing Desire: A Book Salon” with Catherine Clune-Taylor, Patrick Grzanka, Angela Jones, Tom Waidzunas, and Jane Ward. Co-sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
September 1, 2021: “Gendering Desire: Critical Analyses” invited symposium with Rebecca Jordan-Young, Judith Levine, and Stuart Michaels. 25th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health, Capetown, South Africa.
May 24, 2021: “Diagnosing Desire & Connections to Pain with Sex” Instagram lecture/Q&A session with Hannah Srajer for Tight Lipped IGTV (also available here).
April 15, 2021: “Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century – a Lecture with Alyson K. Spurgas” for the Natural and Social Sciences Lecture Series at Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase, NY.
March 17, 2021: “Episode 38: Let’s Talk About Sex (Research)” with Rebecca Ortenberg for the “Lady Science” podcast.
February 22, 2021: “Let’s Talk About Diagnosing Desire“ with Felicia Gisondi for the “Sex and Self” podcast.
December 28, 2020: Interview on Diagnosing Desire with Michael O. Johnston for the “New Books in Sociology” podcast on New Books Network.
November 12, 2020: Interview on Diagnosing Desire with Doug Henwood for “Behind the News” on KPFA radio (download the full episode in hi-fi, the interview begins at the 23:00 minute mark).