SCE Plenary Address

SCE Plenary Address

At the invitation of SCE President Bryan Massingale, Dr. Kao presented plenary remarks on the conference theme with fellow panelists Terrence Johnson, Kristin Heyer, and Aristotle Papanikolaou and Nichole M.  Flores (presiding). The panel will be published in the...
SCE Women’s Caucus

SCE Women’s Caucus

Grace Kao presented remarks about publishing as a woman during the 2023 Society of Christian Ethics. The informal panel and luncheon was hosted at a Ukrainian women-owned teahouse in downtown Chicago. The session was organized by the Women’s Caucus...
Teaching about Abortion Post-Dobbs

Teaching about Abortion Post-Dobbs

Professor Kao was the respondent to a session co-sponsored by the Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit, the Women and Religion Unit, the Women’s Caucus and the Women of Color Scholarship; and Teaching and Activism Unit at the American Academy of Religion...
Assessing the Ethics of Surrogacy

Assessing the Ethics of Surrogacy

Grace Kao workshopped a draft chapter of her book on commercial, transnational and traditional surrogacy arrangements to members of the Political Theology Network during their summer workshop series. Dr. Kao is grateful to Kathy Chow and Mary Nickel for the invitation...
Honoring Kwok Pui Lan

Honoring Kwok Pui Lan

At the 2021 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas, Grace Kao was a panelist for a session entitled “Women’s Theologies of the Multitude for Multitudes: A Conversation Across Racial/Ethnic Communities” co-sponsored...
Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

Grace Kao was a panelist in an Animals and Religion Unit session at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas. Her task was to respond to a UK-based project proposal headed by David Clough and MArgaret Adam, Christian Ethics of...