Appearances

Donna is a fluent and experienced speaker, with over one hundred public appearances all around the world. Here are some of her recent and forthcoming appearances:

2010
2nd April: Donna will be appearing for the third successive year at the Oxford Literary Festival in April 2010, to discuss her work in progress, a comic novel about biotechnology called Truth or Consequences.

2009
9th July: International Society for Stem Cell Research annual conference, Barcelona. Donna was an invited speaker at a panel on the ethics of 'egg-sharing'.
On May 6th 2009 Donna appeared on BBC Radio 3's 'Nightwaves' programme , where she was interviewed about her book
Body Shopping and its novel idea that 'we all have female bodies now.', in the sense that all bodies, male and female, are
equally prey to commercialisation.
Thursday 2nd April: 'Are you your body?' Panel discussion with Donna, Susie Orbach and Raymond Tallis, Oxford Sunday Times Literary Festival, Christchurch College, Oxford, 6 pm

2008|
Saturday 22 November. Writers in Oxford Christmas Book Fair, The Corner Club, Turl Street, Oxford.
Wednesday 13th August, Edinburgh Festival, Highland Park Spiegeltent, ‘Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood’
Wednesday and Thursday 18th-19th June: New York City radio publicity tour and bookshop signings for Body Shopping
Thursday 12th June, Science Museum (Dana Centre), South Kensington, London: ‘Body Shopping: what makes you think you own your body?’
Monday 2nd June, Austrian national ethics committee, Vienna: ‘Gender and ethics committees—where’s the different voice?’
Friday 4th April, Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, ‘Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood’

2007
December, University of Antwerp, Belgium: ‘The lady vanishes: human eggs as commodities in stem cell research’
November, University of Bristol: ‘Body shopping: business, bioethics and human tissue’
September, University of Tuebingen, Germany: ‘Global ethics and multiculturalism in medicine’
June, University of Frankfurt, Germany: ‘Justice and the commodification of human tissue’
May, University of Paris, School of Medicine (in French): ‘The ethics of face transplantation’
February: German national television (ZDF) interview on egg donation for stem cell research and BBC Radio Four ‘Woman’s Hour’ interview