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
Sept 28th: Donna will be appearing on BBC Radio 4 'Woman's hour' to discuss the question of 'It's my body, and I'll do what I like with it.'
November 9th: Donna will be giving a major talk, 'Why we all have female bodies now', at the University of Bristol, Banton Lecture Theatre, 7:30 pm.
Aug 25th: The BBC Radio 4 programme 'Thinking Allowed' featured Donna as an interviewee, with Laurie Taylor as the interviewer.

May: Donna took part in a panel discussion and play called 'Interior Traces', on genetics and personal identity, at the Balliol College Theatre, Oxford.

2009
July 9th: Donna was a key speaker at the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Barcelona, on the subject 'Good science and good ethics: why we should discourage payment for eggs in stem cell research.' Her talk was later published as an article in Nature Reviews Genetics.

April 2nd:  Donna spoke again at the Oxford Literary Festival, on a panel  with Susie Orbach and Raymond Tallis.

May 6th: Donna appeared as a guest on the BBC Radio 3 programme 'Nightwaves', in an interview with Anne McElvoy.

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