Invited Talks

♦ 2014, July: Invited talk: “Towards an Ethico-onto-epistemology of Science, Medicine, and the ‘Developmental Infection Called Love.'” Canadian Association of Pathologists annual conference, Toronto, Canada.

♦ 2012, June: “Sociologia da Placenta/Sociology of the Placenta.” Biomedicina Medicina e Pós-Graduação, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.

♦ 2012, June: “Sociologia da Placenta/Sociology of the Placenta.” Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.

♦ 2012, June: “Sociologia da Placenta/Sociology of the Placenta.” Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.

♦ 2012, May: “Sociologia da Placenta/Sociology of the Placenta.” Reunião geral do Departamento de Tocoginecologia da FCM/general meeting of the Department of  Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medical Science, UNICAMP,  Campinas, Brazil.

♦ 2012, May: “Sociological Studies of Placenta Science.” Graduate Program in Cellular and Structural Biology, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.

♦ 2012, Mar.: “Sociological Studies of Placenta Science.” Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, Brazil.

♦ 2011, Sept.: Plenary Talk: “‘It’s this all-singing, all dancing organ’: A Sociologist’s Perspective on how Placenta Scientists see the Placenta, their Science, and Themselves.” International Federation of Placenta Associations annual conference, Geilo, Norway.

♦ 2011, Mar.: “Epistemology? I thought you Meant Episiotomy!”: A Sociologist’s Encounters with Scientists who Study the Placenta.” Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.

♦ 2011, Mar.: “Reproductive Science Meets Sociology: Transdisciplinary Collaborations for More Responsive Research.” Robinson Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia.

♦ 2010, Mar.: “The Barker Hypothesis: A Call to Transdisciplinary Responsibility.” Invited talk during the visit of Dr. David Barker, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen’s University.

♦ 2007: “Tracing the Body: A Proposal and Field Work for a Thesis on Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies.” Cultural Studies Lab, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

Conference Presentations

♦ Scott, Rebecca. May 2011. “The Barker Hypothesis and Transdisciplinarity: The Case of Obesity.” Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Jun. 2010. “Placentations.” 79^th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

♦ Lee, Andrew W., and Rebecca Scott. May 2010. “Gender Medicine: Transdisciplinary Promises and Pitfalls.” Presented by Andrew W. Lee at the  Sociology Graduate Symposium, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Mar. 2010. “Laboratory Lives of Afterbirths: Placentas as Working Objects of Study.” JA Low Research Day, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Oct. 2009. “Tissue Paper: Flimsy Ontology of Tissue Fragments.” 4S Annual Conference, Washington DC.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. May 2009. “Tissue Paper: Flimsy Ontology of Tissue Fragments.” 78^th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. June 2008. “Anatomy of Spectatorship: Tracing the Body in Body Worlds, The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies.” 77^th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Oct. 2007. “Self-ownership, Property, the Body, and a Libertarian Dream: The Case of Body Worlds.” International Conference of the Union for Democratic Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Sept. 2007. “Tracing the Body: A Genealogical Analysis of Body Worlds, The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Corpses.” Graduate Student Work-in-Progress Workshop, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. May 2007. “Menstrual Abjection: Feminism and the Ambivalent Body.” 76^th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Mar. 2007. “Menstrual Abjection: Julia Kristeva, Feminism and the Ambivalent Body.” Obermann Humanities Symposium, University of Iowa, Iowa City

♦ Zaman, Habiba and Rebecca Scott. Mar. 2006. “Economic Security and Impacts of the Employment Standards Act on Immigrants in British Columbia.” 8th National Metropolis Project Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

♦ Zaman, Habiba and Rebecca Scott. Mar. 2006. “Asian Immigrants in BC: What Do Government Policy Changes Mean for Asian Immigrants in the Labour Market and What are the Solutions?” Economic Security Project/Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Community Workshop, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Poster Presentations

♦ Yoshizawa, Rebecca Scott, Maria José Duarte Osis, Simony Lira do Nascimento, Silvana Bento, Ana Carolina Godoy, Suelene Coelho, José Guilherme Cecatti. Sept. 2013. “Postpartum Women’s Perspectives on the Donation of the Placenta for Scientific Research in Campinas, Brazil.” International Federation of Placenta Associations annual conference, Whistler, Canada.

♦ Hird, Myra J., Karen Weisbaum, Graeme N. Smith, Rebecca Yoshizawa, and Cassandra Kuyvenhoven. Oct. 2012. “Translating Knowledge Issues about Women’s Health Research.” Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research Conference, Montreal, Canada.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Sept. 2011. “A Sociology of Placenta Scientists: Towards Transdisciplinary Collaboration.” International Federation of Placenta Associations annual conference, Geilo, Norway.

♦ Scott, Rebecca. Apr. 2011. “Sociology and the Barker Hypothesis: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Obesity.” 2nd National Obesity Summit, Montreal.

♦ Scott, Rebecca, Myra J. Hird and Graeme N. Smith. Nov. 2009. “Laboratory Lives of Afterbirths: Placentas as Working Objects of Study.” 33rd Annual Perinatal Investigator’s Meeting, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

♦ Scott, Rebecca, Myra J. Hird and Graeme N. Smith. Mar. 2009. “Why would Sociologists Care about Tissue? Some Sociological Observations and Conceptualizations of Tissue.” JA Low Research Day, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.