SPEAKING
Upcoming Events
In addition to speaking at churches and other gatherings, Grace Kao has presented or lectured at the following institutions and professional societies:
Recent Activities
Reproductive Justice Futurism
Dr. Kao served on the national planning team for the second Reproductive...
Society of Christian Ethics 2026
Grace Kao enjoyed the 2026 annual meeting of the SCE held in Washington,...
Reassessing Asian American Racialization and the Future of Asian American Theology
Dr. Kao served on a panel at the annual meeting of the American...
At This Time: Exploring Racial/Ethnic Models of Theological Education
Dr. Kao spoke on a panel at the annual meeting of the American...
AI and Christian Faith
Dr. Kao spoke at a webinar sponsored by Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
Living Ethically in an Unethical World
Dr. Kao facilitated a workshop about "living ethically in an unethical...
Co-chairing APARRI 2025
Dr. Kao served as a co-chair of the 2025 APARRI conference to be held at...
Reparations Talk at UCSB
Dr. Kao delivered a public address on April 30, 2025 on reparations at...
Princeton Theological Seminary Lectures
Dr. Kao was invited by several student groups at Princeton Theological...
Guest Teaching at Fordham
At the invitation of Professor Cristina Traina for her Religion and...
Opening Panelist at PANAAWTM
Dr. Kao participated in the opening panel of the 40th anniversary annual...
Reproductive Justice Futurism Convening
Dr. Kao had an incredible time at the Reproductive Justice Futurism Think...
Surrogacy in Transpacific Conflicts
Dr. Kao presented on surrogacy at her Asian/Asian American political...
Conversation with an Author
Dr. Kao participated in a number of activities at the most recent SCE...
Presbyterian Social Ethics Network
Dr. Kao participated in a Presbyterian Social Ethics Network (PSEN)...
2020-2024
Guesting at Elon University
At the invitation of Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, Grace Kao was a guest in...
AAR: Transpacific Asian American Religions
Dr. Kao presided over an Asian North American Religion, Culture, and...
WaterTalk on Surrogacy
Dr. Kao discussed her book on surrogacy with Mary Hunt of WATER: the...
Fellowship for Protestant Ethics Keynote
Dr. Kao delivered the senior keynote address at the annual symposium for...
Co-chairing APARRI 2024
Dr. Kao served as the co-chair of the 2024 APARRI conference. Held at UC...
Loma Linda U. Lecture
The Center for Christian Bioethics and the Loma Linda University Health...
Fordham U. Presentation
At the invitation of Professor Cristina Traina, Grace Kao delivered a...
Guest Teaching at Villanova
At the invitation of Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Grace Kao was a guest in his...
Moderating at PANAAWTM
Dr. Kao recently moderated the opening panel on intergenerational trauma...
Vanderbilt’s Antoinette Brown Lecturer
Dr. Kao was honored to serve as the 50th Antoinette Brown Lecturer at...
PAAC Book Launch
Grace Kao hosted a book launch event for authors Soo Jin Lee and Linda...
U. of Chicago Author Talk
Professor Kao spoke about her latest book, My Body, Their Baby: A...
SCE: Shame about Reproductive Matters
Grace Kao spoke at the Families and Social Responsibility Interest Group...
SCE: The Risks and Benefits of Self-disclosure
Grace Kao spoke in the Pedagogy Interest Group at the Society of...
SCE: The Work of Anti-Racism in Teaching
This co-sponsored panel by the Asian and Asian American, African and...
AAR: Religion and Reproductive Justice Post-Dobbs
Grace Kao spoke about collateral damage for IVF in state abortion...
AAR: “La Labor de Nuestras Manos”
In light of the 2023 AAR theme. Grace Kao was one of the book authors in...
AAR: Transpacific Political Theology Roundtable
At the AAR, Grace Kao participated in a roundtable with fellow panelists...
Goodspeed Lecturer at Denison University
Professor Kao was the Goodspeed Lecturer at Denison University from Nov...
CST Faculty Book Celebration
Grace Kao spoke about her book, My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive...
PAAC: Family Planning Beyond ‘Natural’ Conception
Professor Kao led a discussion at the first Progressive Asian American...
Co-charing the APARRI 2023 Conference
Professor Kao was the co-chair of the 2023 APARRI conference. Held at UC...
Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
Grace Kao participated on a panel at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in...
Vanderbilt Div School Class Visit
Grace Kao spoke to doctoral students of Prof. Melissa Snarr's class about...
SCE Plenary Address
At the invitation of SCE President Bryan Massingale, Dr. Kao presented...
SCE Women’s Caucus
Grace Kao presented remarks about publishing as a woman during the 2023...
Evaluating Surrogacy Laws & Practices
Grace Kao spoke with students in Jennifer Gumer's BIOE 6200 Law and...
AAR: Teaching about Abortion Post-Dobbs
Professor Kao was the respondent to a session co-sponsored by the...
Christian Support for Reproductive Justice
Grace Kao spoke at the Loft at Westwood United Methodist Church after a...
Assessing the Ethics of Surrogacy
Grace Kao workshopped a draft chapter of her book on commercial,...
Guest Lecture at Claremont McKenna
Prof. Kao was a guest teacher for Prof. Esther Chung-Kim's RLST 169...
LMU Book Launch Respondent
Grace Kao served as a respondent to Prof. Emanuel's new book when...
AAR: Honoring Kwok Pui Lan
At the 2021 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San...
AAR: Improving Farmed Animal Welfare
Grace Kao was a panelist in an Animals and Religion Unit session at the...
Teaching Bioethics to Catholic High School Girls
Grace Kao was invited to give a guest lecture to a health care ethics...
Discussing Netflix’s The Chair
Along with her fellow Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in...
Asian American Hate and the Pandemic
Grace Kao was invited to facilitate and present at a roundtable...
Discussing Anti-Asian Racism
Grace Kao was invited to serve on a panel at Loyola Marymount University...
PSCE: Responding to Roberto Dell’Oro’s Paper
At the Pacific Section of the Society of Christian Ethics, Grace Kao...
Christian Reflections on Surrogacy
Grace Kao spoke with her colleagues at Loyola Marymount University about...
AAR: Responding to the Theology of Liberalism
Grace Kao served as a panelist on a book symposium on Eric Nelson's The...
AAR: Responding to Celia Deane-Drummond
Grace Kao served as a panelist on a book symposium on Prof....
Talking Politics During Turbulent Times
Professor Kao presided over the keynote panel at Columbia Theological...
LMU Presentation about Pedagogy
Grace Kao discussed how she was adapting her teaching in light of the...
Feminist Ethics Today
Grace Kao was invited by the CGU Religion Department to discuss her take...
SCE: Responding to Tran’s Yellow Christianity
Grace Kao spoke on a panel reviewing Jonathan Trans' unpublished...
Celebrating 35 Years of PANAAWTM
Dr. Kao shared what PANAAWTM has meant to her and others on a panel with...
The Covid-19 Crisis & the Common Good
Grace Kao participated on a webinar panel sponsored by the Berkley Center...
2015-2019
Luke Bretherton’s Book Launch at Duke
Grace Kao participated. in Luke Bretherton's book launch for his...
Pedagogy Workshop about Teaching Online
Grace Kao was invited by her students at Claremont Graduate...
Evolving Faith’s Anam Cara
Grace Kao delivered the opening meditations and served as "spiritual...
Sexual Ethics Beyond Purity Culture at PAAC
Grace Kao served on a panel with Liz Lin and Michael Campos on...
Williamette Talk about Righting Wrongs
Grace Kao was invited to deliver a lecture and teach a class as part...
Georgetown Talk on Reparations
Grace Kao was invited to deliver a paper for the Religion, Culture,...
AAR: Trusting Women
Grace was invited to participate in a roundtable sponsored by the...
AAR: Beyond Forgiveness and Reconciliation
At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)...
AAR: Launching their New Book
Grace Kao and her co-editor, Rebecca Todd Peters, presented on their...
The Question of Reparations
As an invited lecturer for the Philosophy of Religion and Theology...
Loma Linda University Presentation
Professor Kao was invited to give a Bioethics Grand Round Lecture on...
SCE Women’s Caucus Presentation
In the wake of #metoo, Professor Kao was invited to serve on a panel...
SCE Paper on Surrogacy
Professor Kao made her debut presentation on the ethics on surrogacy...
AAR Presentations about Animals and Religion
At the AAR, Dr. Kao delivered two presentations in the Animals and...
Celebrating Asian Americans in Theology
On the occasion of Frank Yamada's ascendancy to the top position at...
Interrogating Consumerist Culture
As CST was exploring a partnership with Willamette University in...
APSA: Revisiting Robert Bellah’s “Civil Religion”
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Robert Bellah's influential...
Yuri Kochiyama Presentations
Dr. Kao has been working on Yuri Kochiyama's progressive Christian...
PANAAWTM: A Frank Talk about the Job Market
At the annual meeting of the Pacific, Asian & North American...
Project on Lived Theology Spring Institute
Dr. Kao has been invited to take part in a two-year project...
A Response to Mary Fulkerson
Dr. Kao was invited to respond to Prof. Fulkerson's work at a...
PANAAWTM: The Nuts and Bolts of Publishing
With her colleagues including Gale Yee, Dr. Kao led PANAAWTM...
Theological Education Today
With her colleague Jeffrey Kuan, Dr. Kao was invited to speak about...
Discussing Race in Light of BLM
Dr. Kao was invited to share her perspective on why Christians...
Asian American Christian Ethics Book Launch
At the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Toronto,...
A Critical Conversation about Asian American Christian Ethics
Professor Kao organized a panel of leading theologians (Kwok Pui...
Discussing Race at Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
Grace Kao led retreat attendees into a fishbowl discussion about...
Sharing My Story to Women Seminarians
At the annual gathering of women seminarians of the North American...
SRER: Reparations for Chinese North Americans
Professor Kao presented a paper with Justin H.K. Tse at the Society...
Three Presentations at PANAAWTM
Dr. Kao was an active participant at the most recent annual meeting...
2010-2014
International Theo-Politics Symposium on Barth
Professor Kao completed her second trip to the Ruhr-Universität...
Feminist Theology: Four Perspectives
As part of a Claremont School of Theology alumni event, Grace Kao...
PANAAWTM Talk on Finding My Voice
Grace Kao was invited to reflect on her development as a scholar at...
SCE: The Future of Christian Ethics Discussion
Grace Kao was invited to take part in the Society of Christian...
Women and Violence in the Bible
Grace Kao was invited to take part in the Symposium: Violence...
Feminism and Religion – Friends, Foes, or Unlikely Allies?
The Pomona College Women's Union invited Dr. Kao to speak on the...
2012 AAR Presentations
Dr. Kao was quite active at this year's annual meeting of the...
Christian Stewardship on the Environment
Grace Kao was delivered to speak to the good people at Claremont...
The Complexities of Asian American Identity
At the invitation of one of her students, James Kang, Dr. Kao spoke...
A Christian Perspective on Patriotism
Dr. Kao was asked to deliver the keynote address at the national...
PANAAWTM: The Challenges of Building Solidarity
Dr. Kao served as a panelist for a session at the annual meeting of...
The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Theologies
Dr. Kao was the convener/facilitator of a session entitled “Feminist...
Whitehead Film Festival Discussion Leader
At Marjori Suchoki's invitation, Dr. Kao served as the discussion...
SCE: Book Discussion and Presentation
At the Society of Christian Ethics annual meeting held in...
Women’s Salon Talk about Vocation
Dr. Kao spoke at a salon in the Women's Studies in Religion program...
AAR: Thinking Animals & Religion, Rethinking Ethics
Dr. Kao was invited to respond to a panel sponsored by the Animals...
AAR: Feminism & Religion Project
Dr. Kao was one of the panelists to present the new blogsite...
FTE: Approaching Grad School Strategically
Upon the invitation of the Fund for Theological Education (FTE) and...
CST Inaugural Lecture
Grace Kao delivered her inaugural lecture entitled "Don't Ask, Don't...
Living Out the Gospel II: Asian American History
Grace Kao was an invited plenary panelist at an event sponsored by...
AAR: Responding to David Loy’s “Healing Ecology”
The Comparative Religious Ethics & the Buddhist...
Confronting the Structures of Injustice
Grace Kao co-taught at weeklong class on Christian perspectives on...
SCE: Developing Asian American Christian Ethics
Grace Kao presented this paper in the Asian and Asian American...
2003-2009
Honoring David Little
Grace Kao was invited to speak at a conference on religion, ethics...
Speaking about War
Grace Kao was invited to speak about the major positions Christians...
Reflections on the VT Shooting
Dr. Kao was invited to speak at George Washington University about...
The Search for Religious Meaning in the VT Shootings
Dr. Kao was faculty at Virginia Tech when a shooting tragedy...
Bridging the Church and Academy Divide
Professor Kao was invited to speak at a meeting of the PCUSA Social...
Work-Life Policies & Strategies
Professor Kao was invited by the Organization of Women Faculty to...
Sorority Girl or Feminist: Must One Choose?
Dr. Kao spoke during the Through Feminist Eyes series about the...
VT Interfaith Service for Prayer and Remembrance
Dr. Kao was one of two invited speakers (the other was the Rev. Alex...
SCE Plenary about Managing Diversity
Dr. Kao was invited to speak about diversity, equity, and inclusion...
SCE: Nonsectarian Prayer in the Military Chaplaincy
Dr. Kao presented her paper about the push toward "nonsectarian...
AAR: Proselytization Revisited
Dr. Kao delivered a paper about typologies of anti-proselytization...
Ecofeminist Ethics
Dr. Kao was invited to serve on a panel in the comparative religious...
The John Kerry Communion Controversy
The Young Democrats at Virginia Tech invited Prof. Kao to speak...
Christian Reflections on the Pledge of Allegiance
Grace Kao was invited to give a lectue to Shenandoah Univesity in...
SCE: Christian Reflections on the Pledge of Allegiance
Grace Kao presented her work on the Pledge of Allegiance to the 2006...
AAR: The Pledge of Allegiance and Civil Religion
Grace Kao presented a paper with Jerome Copulsky at the 2005 annual...
Lecture on Pacifism or Just War
As a member of Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, Grace Kao led the...
Ecofeminist Ethics Presentation
Grace Kao was invited to present a paper at the International...
IAHR Presentation on Proselytization
Grace Kao was invited to present a paper on proselytization at the...
AAR Presentation on Ecofeminism
Grace Kao presented a paper at the AAR-Southeastern Region...
Erasmus Institute Summer Fellowship
Dr. Kao participated in a three-week University of Notre...
Symposium on Religion and Politics
Grace Kao presented her work on evaluating consensus-based...
A Frank Talk About Sex to College Students
Grace Kao spoke with college students at Cooper House - the...
First AAR Presentation on Human Rights
Grace Kao made her debut at the American Academy of Religion in the...
Cooper House Talk about Conscience
Grace Kao was invited again to Cooper House - the fellowship of...
Haverford College Presentation
Grace Kao was invited to deliver a guest lecture to faculty and...
Virginia Tech Job Talk
Grace Kao was invited to give a lecture on human rights theory at...
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