by admin | Nov 4, 2023 | 2020-24 events, Invited Lecture
Professor Kao was the Goodspeed Lecturer at Denison University from Nov 1-3, 2023. An invited guest of the Religion Department, she met with students and fculty over meals, guest taught one class (for Dr. Christine Pae’s Women and Social Ethics: In the Global...
by admin | Oct 18, 2023 | 2020-24 events
Grace Kao spoke about her book, My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy at Claremont School of Theology on a panel with other faculty colleagues celebrating their recent publications. She enjoyed meeting some of her (online) students for the...
by admin | Sep 3, 2023 | 2020-24 events, Conference
Professor Kao led a discussion at the first Progressive Asian American Christians (PAAC) conference since the pandemic on the various ways individuals and couples become parents beyond natural conception. She spoke about how and why she became her friends’...
by admin | Jun 20, 2023 | 2020-24 events, Conference
Professor Kao was the co-chair of the 2023 APARRI conference. Held at UC Berkeley from June 20-22, this year’s theme was Envisioning Radical Futures in APA Religions & Communities and featured keynote speaker Gene Luen Yang. In addition to concurrent paper...
by admin | Mar 25, 2023 | 2020-24 events, Church
Grace Kao participated on a panel at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach on how faithful Christians can be queer-friendly and (re)configure their congregations accordingly. She was joined by fellow panelists the Rev. Denyse Barnes, the Rev. Danny...
by admin | Mar 8, 2023 | 2020-24 events, Guest Lecture
Grace Kao spoke to doctoral students of Prof. Melissa Snarr’s class about whether and how to do public-facing work as a “public scholar.” She shared how she made decisions expanding her media presence and public scholarship, how she has navigated the...
