Speaking

Dr. Sikka is regularly featured as a keynote speaker at a range of events, presents her work and conferences, and is an avid podcaster.

  • August 1 2023. “Sex, Consent and Justice II: Culture, Sex, Relationships.” Culture Sex Relationships.

    October 10 2022. “Gender Based Violence & Victim Support Services” TransClusive Podcast.

    March 7 2022. "Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework" New Books in Critical Theory Podcast.

    January 2022. “Tina Sikka: Sex, Consent and Justice.” Culture, Sex, Relationships.

    July 5 2021. “Covid-19 Myths, Misconceptions and Rumours with Dr Tina Sikka.” From Newcastle: Newcastle University.

    December 11 2020. “Tina Sikka reads Helen Longino.” Give Theory and Chance Podcast.

    September 1, 2020. “Media, Ideology and Social Justice.” Murmurations.

    April 14, 2020. ‘How Genetic Diets and Health Tech Turn Food into Surveillance Tools with Dr. Tina Sikka.’ AnthroDish.

    February, 2020. “Race Science, Ancestry Tests, and Capitalism.” Surviving Society Podcast.

    July 2019. ‘Episode 21: How Women Built the Environmental Movement.’ LadyScience.

    April 2019. ‘035 - Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice, with Tina Sikka.’ Podcast: General Intellect Unit.

    March 21, 2019. ‘Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable.’ New Books in Critical Theory:

    May 30, 2018. ‘An Intersectional Analysis Of Geoengineering, with Tina Sikka.’ General Intellect Unit Podcast.

    May 17, 2018. ‘An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship,’ Shift and Signal School Workshop and Podcast.

  • September 7-8 2023. “Sexual Ethics, Art, and Lived Experience.” Invited talk. Narratives of Law in the Exhibition Space, Liverpool University, Faculty of Law.

    February 2. 2023 “Sexual Violence and Lived Experience: New Futures.” Keynote. LEX Research Network Annual Meeting, Liverpool University.

    February 26 2021. “Feminist Materialism and Covid-19: The Agential Activation of Everyday Objects.” Invited talk. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, online.

    2021. Invited talk. Multiple Matters. NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, online.

    2020 June 18-July 8. “The Medicalization, Appification, and Genetification of Fatness.” Invited talk. Fat Studies: Past, Present, Futures.

  • 2023
    October 27-29. “Indigenous knowledge and new materialism.” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Conference, Long Beach, California.

    October 19-20. “Belonging, Scholarship and the Politics of Labour: International Graduate Students.” NIAS Conference 2023: Belonging and Mobility, Amsterdam.

    August 30. “Exploring Models of Sexual Ethics and Consent using Theatre of the Oppressed.” Workshop Facilitator for an Arts England Funded Project.

    July 1. “Justice Recitations.” Consultant and speaker for an Arts England funded project.

    June 16. “Sexual Ethics and Lived Experience.” Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics. Newcastle Medical Humanities Network.

    June 7-8. “Who is FemTech for? Intersectional Interventions.” Accompanied by a workshop on the future of FemTech. 6th Nordic STS Conference, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, Oslo.

    February 2. Empowering Sexual Futures Symposium. Event organizer, disseminated my UKRI-VAMHN research, bringing together international speakers, activists, and artists with a high turnout.

    2022
    April 28. “Cancel Culture Panel Event.” inmarsat: Eden Network (global, mobile satellite communications).

    March 17. Talk and panel. Gender Research Group, Newcastle University.

    March 7. Lecture. "Law in the #MeToo Era" Seminar Series. Osgood Hall Law School, York University.

    Online. Book Launch and Symposium: ‘Sex, Consent, and Justice: A New Feminist Framework”

    2021
    November 5. “Decolonizing Research: An Approach to Writing for Students.” The New School Student Senate: Afro and Indigenous Futures Series.

    April 29-30. Spaces of Consent Symposium/Panel (online) Talk: “Spaces of Consent.” Newcastle University, Gender Research Group.

    February 16. The neoliberalization of sleep: A discursive and materialist analysis of sleep technologies.” Swiss STS Conference, online.

    2020
    September. ‘'What to do about #MeToo? Consent, Autonomy, and Restorative Justice a Case Study.” Bowes Museum: The Power and The Virtue.


    April 21-23. “Sleeping Apps: The New Frontier.” Reimagining Social Bodies: Self, Institutions and Societies, British Sociological Association. (paper accepted but cancelled due to Covid-19).

    April 13-15. “Feminist Materialism and Covid-19: The Agential Activation of Everyday Objects.” Remaking the Future, British Sociological Association, Massey University (online due to Covid-19).

    2019
    June 24-26. “Barriers to Access: A Feminist Analysis of Medically Assisted Dying and the Experience of Marginalized Groups.” Institute of Medical Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University.

    June 11-12. “Personalized Nutritional Genomics: An Analysis of the Intersection of Racialization, Nutritional Reductionism, and Nutritional Capital.” The Digitally Engaged Patient, University of Copenhagen.

    2018
    November. ‘Intersectionality in Scientific Spaces: Climate Change and Medically Assisted Dying.’ Newcastle University Feminist Society.

    October. Workshop: ‘Intersectionality in Scientific Spaces.’ A Dialogue on Language and Labels. A 3-part workshop series. Newcastle University.

    October. ‘Science in Public Spaces.’ Newcastle Medical School.

    September 12-15. “An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship.” 10th European Feminist Research Conference, University of Gottingen, Germany.

    June 27-29. “Geoengineering, Neoliberalism, and the Ethics of Care.” DSA2018 (Development Studies Association): Global Inequalities , Manchester University, UK.

    June 7-10. “The Contradictions of a Superfood Identity in a Postfeminist, Neoliberal World.” Perugia Food and Sustainability Conference, Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy.

    2017
    August 31-September 2. “Feminist Epistemology and Trust in Climate Modelling.” Trust, Expert Opinion and Policy: A Multidisciplinary Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland.

    June 30. “Contemporary Superfood Cults: Nutritionism, Neoliberalism and Gender.” Food as a Feminist Issue. University of York, UK.

    May 8-10. “Feminist Epistemology: A Reevaluation of Uncertainty, Risk, and Climate Disruption.” ESRC Climate Ethics and Climate Economics/Centre for Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge University, UK

    2015
    March. “Imagining Climate Mitigation: Geoengineering, Sustainability and Justice.” Science Shaping the World of Tomorrow, Antwerp, Belgium

    2014
    July. “Contested Spaces: Geoengineering, Developmentalism and Governance.” 10th International Conference of the International Developmental Ethics Association, San Jose, Costa Rica.

    2011
    July. “Geoengineering in a World Risk Society.” Climate Change and its Global Implications for People, Ethics and Equity, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Virtual Conference. “An Analysis of the Connection between Climate Change, Technological Solutions and Potential Disaster Management: The Contribution of Geoengineering Research.” Klima 2011/Climate 2011 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management. Paper was peer reviewed and published.

    May. “Politics in Transformation. ‘Politics of Geoengineering.” BC Political Science Association, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC.

    2010
    June. Chair: “Rethinking Research.” Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

    2007
    June. “Derrida, Habermas and the Question of Consensus.” Canadian Communication Association Conference, University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Alberta.

    2006
    June. “Indigenous Knowledge and the Regulatory Discourses of Environmental Risk: Globalization, Biotechnology, and Social Justice.” Canadian Communication Association Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

    March. Chair: “Right Here: Rethinking Relativism and Pluralism.” Intersections Graduate Conference. York University, Toronto, ON.

    2004
    June. “Discourse of National Security and War.” Media Environments and the Liberal Arts Conference. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

    June. “Technology and the Myth of Progress.” Canadian Communication Association Conference. Canadian Communication Association Conference. University of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

    June. “Feminism, McLuhan, and Media Effects.” Console-ing Passions: The International Conference of Feminism and Television, Video, New Media, and Audio. Tulane University, New Orleans.

    February. “Technology and War.” Symposium on Conflict Resolution. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.

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