SCE Plenary Address

SCE Plenary Address

At the invitation of SCE President Bryan Massingale, Dr. Kao presented plenary remarks on the conference theme with fellow panelists Terrence Johnson, Kristin Heyer, and Aristotle Papanikolaou and Nichole M.  Flores (presiding). The panel will be published in the...
SCE Women’s Caucus

SCE Women’s Caucus

Grace Kao presented remarks about publishing as a woman during the 2023 Society of Christian Ethics. The informal panel and luncheon was hosted at a Ukrainian women-owned teahouse in downtown Chicago. The session was organized by the Women’s Caucus...
Evaluating Surrogacy Laws & Practices

Evaluating Surrogacy Laws & Practices

Grace Kao spoke with students in Jennifer Gumer’s BIOE 6200 Law and Bioethics class about the legal dimensions of surrogacy as well as her experiences as a former surrogate. She enjoyed fielding their question about the wellbeing of children, commercial...
AAR: Teaching about Abortion Post-Dobbs

AAR: Teaching about Abortion Post-Dobbs

Professor Kao was the respondent to a session co-sponsored by the Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit, the Women and Religion Unit, the Women’s Caucus and the Women of Color Scholarship; and Teaching and Activism Unit at the American Academy of Religion...
Wabash: Embodying a Tehomic Pedagogy

Wabash: Embodying a Tehomic Pedagogy

Grace Kao joined a 4-day Wabash Project originally entitled “Mana Wāhine and Aloha ‘Āina: Embodying a Tehomic Pedagogy” which was originally to meet in Hawai’i but ended up taking place in St. Petersburg, Florida. Under the leadership of Project...