Conference Papers & Invited Lectures
- "The Masturbatory Hypothesis of the Aetiology of 'Sexual
Inversion'." Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Yale University
(October 1988).
- "The Nineteenth-Century Medical Politics of Self-Defilement and
Seminal Economy." Nationalisms and Sexualities Conference, Center for
Cultural and Literary Studies, Harvard University (June 1989).
- "The
Nineteenth-Century Medical Politics of Self-Defilement and Seminal
Economy." Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, Brown University
(September 1989).
- "Erotic Osphresiology, or the Nasal Origins of ‘Perverse’
Sexuality." Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Yale University
(October 1989).
- "Erotic Osphresiology, or the Nasal Origins of ‘Perverse’
Sexuality." The New School for Social Research (April 1990).
- "The Place of ‘Non’fictions in Nineteenth-Century Biomedicine."
History of Science Department, Harvard University (November 1989).
- "The Nasal Origins of ‘Perverse’ Sexuality." Women and Gender
Studies, Bates College (February 1990).
- "Le parfum pervers de la dégénéréscence." Colloquium in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Oklahoma (October,
1990).
- "Erotic Osphresiology, or Nasal Perversity and Sexual Atavism."
Anthropology Department, Harvard University (October 1990).
- "Composing a Language Against Nature: Degenerate Nerves and
Metonymic Sexualities." History of Psychology Conference, University of
New Hampshire (November 1990).
- "The Delirious Supplement, or Erotomania and Social Pathology."
Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University (February 1991).
- "Que(e)rying Medicine: Academics and Activists Examine Aids,
Medicine, and Sexuality." Queering/Querying the Academy Conference,
University of California, Santa Cruz (February 1991).
- "Save Sex!" Panel organizer and discussant. BGALD Week, Harvard
College (April 1991).
- "Method and Madness, or, What is to be done with/in history?"
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (October 1991).
- "Graveyards, Restaurants and the Assemblée: Corrupt Bodies and
Perverse Politics, Paris 1849." Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French
Studies, University of New Orleans (October 1991).
- "Graveyards,
Restaurants and the Assemblée: Corrupt Bodies and Perverse Politics,
Paris 1849." Wesleyan University (December 1991).
- "Phantastical Pollutions: The Public Threat of Private Vice in
France, 1760-1880." Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Rutgers &
Princeton Universities (November 1991).
- "Imagining Masturbation: Narcissism, Scopophilia and the
Spectacle of Solitary Pleasure." Bates College (March 1992).
- "CUM : Sexual Liberalism and Compulsory Heterosexuality."
Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania
(March 1992).
- "Vive l’indifférence! The French Erasure of Sexual Politics."
Sager Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, Swarthmore College (March
1992).
- "Marketing Masturbation: Narcissism, Scopophilia and the
Spectacle of Solitary Pleasure." BGALD Week, Harvard College (April
1992).
- "Vicious Sodomites, Hysterical Mollies and Talented Inverts."
Columbia University, Reid Hall, Paris, France (February 1993).
- "Histories Invert His Stories." Department of the History of
Science, Harvard University (March 1993).
- "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing
Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality." Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of
Biology and Medicine, University of Toronto (March 1993).
- "Inversion’s
Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle
Homosexuality."History of Science Society Conference, New Orleans
(October 1994).
- "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing
Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality." Yale University (February 1996).
- "Inversion’s
Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle
Homosexuality."Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory University
(February 1996).
- "The Nineteenth-Century Medicalization of Sexuality." Women and
Gender Studies, Bates College (April 1993).
- "Genital Anomalies of the Insane and their Association with
Degeneration and Criminality, or CRIMINAL PENISES." Harvard M.D.-Ph.D.
Retreat, Wood's Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (October 1993).
- "Trans [Homo] Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion
and Hetero-Hegemony." Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference,
University of Iowa (November 1994).
- "Trans
[Homo] Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion and
Hetero-Hegemony." "Gay/Lesbian/Queer: Knowledges and Identities for the
90s" Conference, University of California, San Diego (January 1995).
- "InQueerying the Future of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies"
plenary session panelist. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies
Conference, University of Iowa (November 1994).
- "Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The
Pederasts’ Inversions." Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City
University of New York (November 1994).
- "Pointy
Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts’
Inversions." American Historical Association Conference, Chicago
(January 1995).
- "Rationalizing Monstrous Bodies: The Monarchical Science of Louis
XIV." Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago (February 1995).
- "Homosexual Bio-Histories: Genetic Nostalgias and the Quest for
Paternity." Center for the Study of Women, University of California,
Los Angeles (November 1995).
- "The Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?"
Center for Cultural Studies of Science Technology and Medicine,
University of California, Los Angeles (December 1995).
- "The Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?"
Science, Technology, and Society Program, M.I.T. (March 1996).
- "The Constructed
Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?" Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Gay Pride Month, Brown University (March 1996).
- "The
Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?"
Gendered/Sexed Bodies Colloquium, University of California Humanites
Research Institute (April 1996).
- Panelist, "Teaching Humanities in Medical School." West Coast
Network Meeting for Faculty in the History of Health Sciences,
Univesity of California, San Francisco (February 1996).
- "Queer Genetic Pride." Gay Academic Union, Philadelphia (October
1996).
- "Queer Genetic Pride."Nature Versus Nurture: The Changing
Implications of the Biological Approach to Homosexuality Symposium,
Goethe House, N.Y.C. (May 20, 1997).
- "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of
Transsensuality." History and Sociology of Science Workshop, University
of Pennsylvania (January 1997).
- "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to
Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality." Sex and Scholarship
Symposium, University of Arizona (April 13, 1997).
- "Why's a
Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality."
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Workshop. University
of Chicago (May 1997).
- "Why's
a Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality."
Southern California Lambda Medical Association and the Lesbian and Gay
Psychotherapy Association, Los Angeles (September 19, 1999).
- "Scientists Do It on a Lab Bench." Queering the Sciences
Symposium, Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Berkeley (March 1997).
- "Case report and historical analysis of a person who is changing
from female to gay male." Southern California Psychiatric Society, Los
Angeles (January 25, 1998).
- "The Experience of Coming Out In Psychiatry." Workshop panelist.
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto (June 3, 1998).
- "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex."
BRANDON Project panel, Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 18, 1998).
- "Phallic
Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." University of
California Humanities Research Institute (November 11, 1998).
- "Phallic
Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." Yale University,
Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (March 23, 1999).
- "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex."
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (October 22, 1999).
- "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex."
University of California, San Francisco (August 18, 2000).
- "Sex In the Body." Controversies in Feminist Theory series:
Feminist Theory Meets Queer Theory. Center for the Study of Women, UCLA
(January 20, 1999).
- "Trangenderism," Yale University, History of Medicine Program
(March 23, 1999).
- "The Medical Construction of Sexual Inversion in
Nineteenth-Century France." Romano Lecture, State University Of New
York, Binghamton (March 26, 1999).
- "Gender Identity Disorder: Psychiatric Diagnosis, Medical
Diagnosis, No Diagnosis?" Forward Motion: Celebrating Cultures,
Advocacy and Female-to-Male Lives. Burbank, CA (October 9, 1999).
- "Qué Joto Bonita! Transgender Negotiations of Sex and Ethnicity."
Cultural Psychiatry Seminar, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (November
10, 1999).
- "Mental Health Issues in Transgender Patients." Grand Rounds,
Edelman Mental Health Center, Los Angeles (December 2, 1999).
- "Transgenderism:
Historical, Cultural, and Mental Health Issues." University of Southern
California, Couseling Center (January 25, 2000).
- "Psychotherapy with Transgendered Clients." In-service training,
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center (February 5, 2000).
- "Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescence." Department of Family
Medicine, UCLA (March 27, 2000).
- "Psychotherapy with a Transgendered Patient." American
Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting. Chicago (May 13, 2000).
- "Teaching the Psychiatric History of Homosexuality."
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Residents: Challenges in
Training panel. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.
Chicago (May 16, 2000).
- "Teaching Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychiatry." Department of
Psychiatry Grand Rounds, San Francisco General Hospital (August 17,
2000).
- "Transgender
Negotiations of Sex and Ethnicity." Society for the Study of Psychiatry
and Culture Conference. Paris (October 19, 2000).
- "Historicité des théories, variations des pratiques cliniques."
Journée/Rencontre avec l’auteur. Ecole Lacanienne de Psychoanalyse,
Paris (October 21, 2000).
- "Lacan
pute travestie: Commentaire sur une entrevue de Lacan avec un patient
transsexuel." Journée/Rencontre avec l’auteur. Ecole Lacanienne de
Psychoanalyse, Paris (October 21, 2000).
- "Negotiating Identity in the Corporate World." Anderson School of
Business, UCLA (Jan. 30, 2001).
- "Sex Work/Gender Work: Building
Trans-Gender Bridges." Sex, Race and Globalization Seminiar Series.
Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies. Unversity of Arizona, Tucson (Feb.
23, 2001).
- "Some
Cultural Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the
Genders." Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley (April 9, 2001).
- "From Hermaphroditism to
Intersexuality: The History and Politics of Gender Ambiguity." Program
in History of Medicine and Science, Yale University (April 17, 2001).
- "The Boy With Labia: Intersexes
and Iatrogenic Transsexualism." Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale
University (April 17, 2001).
- "Ethnicity and Transgender
Therapy." Transgender Topics in Therapy: An Advanced Panel. 7th Annual
Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association (LAGPA) Conference, Los
Angeles (June 23, 2001).
- "The Boy With Labia: Intersexes and Iatrogenic
Transsexualism." Southern California Lambda Medical Association, Los
Angeles (April 24, 2001).
- "Bridging
Genders: Latina Trans-Sex-Works." Conference on Women and signs. The
(Trans)Figures of Difference. International Center for Semiotic and
Linguistic Studies of the University of Urbino, Italy (July 12-14,
2001).
- "Adolescent Transgenderism." Edelman Westside Mental Health
Center, Children's System of Care. Los Angeles (Aug. 9, 2001).
- "Homosexuals, Transsexuals, and Intersexuals: Questions of
Filiation and Origins." Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. UC
Berkeley (Sept. 20, 2001).
- "History and Current Controversies in the Treatment of
Individuals with Ambiguous Genitalia: The Role of Child Psychiatrists."
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting,
Honolulu (Oct. 26, 2001).
- "Psychotherapy in a Case of Intersexuality." UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Grand Rounds (Dec. 12, 2001).
- "The Biology of Gender and the Construction of Sex?" "Who Owns
Gender?" Conference. Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New
York University (Feb. 7, 2002).
- "Events and Emergences in the Study of Sexual Culture:
Intersexes." Studying Sexual Culture Conference. Center for the Study
of Sexual Culture. UC Berkeley (Mar. 9, 2002).
- "Negotiating Identity in the Corporate World." Anderson School of
Business, UCLA (May 14, 2002).
- "Ethnicity and Transgenderism." Issue Workshop: Transgender Care:
New Perspectives. American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA (May 20, 2002).
- Plenary speaker. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex
Health Summit, Boulder, CO (August 22, 2002).
- "Intersex and Queer Theory." Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Intersex Health Summit, Boulder, CO (August 22, 2002).
- "Intersexes:
The Molecular Deconstruction of Sex." Feminist Research Seminar, Center
for the Study of Women, UCLA (Oct. 15, 2002).
- "Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with an Aphallic Child: Intersex
Gender Identity and Early Sex Reassignment." American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA (Oct. 26, 2002).
- "Male Body Image and Coping Strategies with a Different Penis."
Hypospadias and Epispadias Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
(April 25, 2003).
- "Parenting Skills for the Boy with a Different Body Image."
Hypospadias and Epispadias Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
(April 25, 2003).
- "Sexuality and Gender Identity in Latino Adolescents." Grand
Rounds, Edelman Westside Mental Health Center, Los Angeles (May 8,
2003).
- "Intersex Conditions: Controversies and New Approaches to
Treatment." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. San
Francisco, CA (May 21, 2003).
- "The Boy Without a Penis: Ethical Issues in the Treatment of
Intersex Infants." Los Angeles County Bar Bioethics Committee (October
8, 2003).
- "Intersex Conditions." Keck School of Medicine at the University
of Southern California, Los Angeles (November 17, 2003).
- "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of
sex." Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the Peter Wall
Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver (January 19, 2004).
- "Psychiatry Without Humans," Renovating the Liberal Education
panel, "The Liberal Education: Dead or Alive?" Dartmouth
College, NH (Nov. 5-7, 2004).
- "Regulation," Program in Women’s Studies, University of
California, Irvine (January 27, 2005).
- Career Panel, "Practicing
Theory, Theorizing Practice: Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences
and Humanities" Conference, University of California, San Francisco
(May 14, 2005).
- "Studs, Stems, and Jotos: Latino Teen
Transgenders." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, Georgia (May 23, 2005).
- "Studs,
Stems and Jotos: Adolescent Latino Sexuality." Lesbian and gay
Psychotherapist Association of Los Angeles conference, Los Angeles, CA
(June 18, 2005).
- "From
Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of sex." Royal
Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, Australia (August 1, 2005).
- "Intersexes and the Future of Gender." Department of Gender
Studies, University of Sydney, Australia (Aug. 4, 2005).
- "Studs, Stems and Jotos: Adolescent Latino Gender and Sexuality
in the 'hood." National Center of HIV Social Research, University of
New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Aug. 4, 2005).
- "Sex & Heredity at the Fins-de-siècle," Keynote address, "Sexuality in the Fin-de-siècle: The Makings of a
'Central Problem' " Conference, Centre for the History of European
Discourses, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (August 7,
2005).
- "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of
sex." Department of History, University of Aukland, New Zealand (August
11, 2005).
- "Studs, Stems and Jotos: Latino Teen Transgenders." American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meeting, Toronto,
Canada (Oct. 22, 2005).
- "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of
sex." Larry Kramer Initiative for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Yale
University, New Haven (Nov. 16, 2005).
- "Ethnicity, Sexuality and Transgenderism." Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies, Yale University, New Haven (Nov. 17, 2005).
- "Latino Teen Transgenders." Antioch University, Los Angeles
(February 15, 2006)
- Panel chair: Altérité, ethnicité & masculinités. Histoire
des masculinitiés en France, 1789-1945. Univerity of Paris (September
22, 2006)
- "Gay Latino Teens Negotiating Sexuality, Culture, and Poverty."
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Asociacion
Mexicana de Psiquiatria Intantil annual meeting. San Diego, CA (October
27, 2006).
- "Gay Latino Adolescent Sexuality." American Society for
Adolescent
Psychiatry annual meeting, Santa Monica, CA (March 8, 2007).
- "Transgenderism and Sexuality." Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies, Yale University, New Haven (March 29, 2007).
- "Molecular Sex." Scientia Sexualis Colloquium, University of
California, Santa Cruz (May 11, 2007).
- "Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual South Asian Americans." Indian
Psychiatric Association annual meeting. San Diego (May 20, 2007).
- "Psychological Issues in Intersex Conditions." Endocrinology
Clinical Conference, UCLA--Harbor Hospital (Jan. 16, 2008).
- "African-American and Latino Transgender Youth." American
Psychiatric Association annual meeting, Washington, DC (May 8, 2008).
- "Queer Latino Teens Negotiating Sexuality, Culture, and Poverty."
Queer Bodies in Psychotherapy Conference, California Institute of
Integral Studies. San Francisco, CA (Oct. 18, 2008).
- "African-American Transgender Youth." American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting. Chicago
(Oct. 30, 2008).
- “Ethnicity and Trans-gender/ sexuality.” Transgenders: New
Identities and Visibilities. Transgenres: Nouvelles
Identités et Visibilités. University of Paris 3 (May 23, 2009).
- "Transgenderism: Phenomenology and Controversies for
Clinicians." Semel Institute Psychiatry Grand Rounds, UCLA
(Feb.
9, 2010).
- "Situating Transgender within Socio-Cultural and Biological
Contexts of Sex/Gender." Expanding the Circle:
Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ
Students and Studies. California Institute of Integral Studies, San
Fracnisco (Feb. 27, 2010).
- "The GAP Online Curriculum on LGBT Mental Health." American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (May 25, 2010).
- "Inner-City Latino Transgender Youth." American Psychiatric
Association Institute on Psychiatric Services, Boston, MA (Oct. 13,
2010).
- "Gender Atypicality and Psychiatry: The Politics of
Diagnosis." Emory University, Studies in Sexuality & Psychoanalytic Studies
Program, Atlanta, GA, (Nov. 9, 2010).
- "Transgender Adolescents." UCLA-Harbor Hospital Child
Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Los Angeles, CA (Dec. 8, 2010).
- "Transgenderism: History, Phenomonolgy, and Controversies."
Keeping Our Work Alive: Innovation & Exploration in Psychoanalysis
& Psychotherapy seminar series, Western Pennsylvania Forum for
Relational and Body-Centered Psychotherapy & C. G. Jung Institute
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (April 2, 2011).
- "The GAP Online Curriculum on LGBT Mental Health." California
Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Annual Conference,
San Francisco, CA (May 14, 2010).
- "Psychiatric
Issues in Treating Transgender Patients." Grand Rounds, Kaiser
West Los Angeles- Wateridge, Psychiatry Dept., Los Angeles, CA (June
28, 2011).
- "Transgenderism:
Phenomenology and Controversies for Clinicians." Grand Rounds, Edelman
Westside Mental Health Center, Los Angeles, CA (Aug. 3, 2011).
- "African-American Transgender Youth in Los Angeles." International Academy of Sex Research. Los
Angeles, CA (Aug. 10. 2011).
- "Culture and the Clinical Management of Intersex." American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Annual Meeting,
Toronto, Canada (Oct. 2011).
- "The History and Politics of Gender Variance." Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA (Nov. 8, 2012).
- "Transgenderism: Phenomenology and Controversies for Clinicians." Persad Center. Pittsburgh, PA (Nov. 9, 2012).
- "Transgenderism: Phenomenology and Controversies for Clinicians." Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA (Nov. 8, 2012).
- Transgender Case Conference. Western Pennsylvania Forum for
Relational and Body-Centered Psychotherapy & C. G. Jung Institute
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Nov. 10, 2012).