2017 – “What is YOUR Foreign Policy” TEDx Talk Queensu – Kingston (Canada)
Past selected speaking engagements include:
2024
“The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” University of Calgary Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies – Calgary (Canada)
“Book Launch: Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century” Canadian Defence and Security Network – Ottawa (Canada)
“The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” University of Calgary Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies – Calgary (Canada)
“Book panel on Total Defence Forces in the 21st Century” Eastern Sociological Society Conference – Washington, D.C. (USA)
2023
Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” FAS Queen’s University —Kingston (Canada)
“Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” Balsillie School of International Affairs— Waterloo (Canada)
“Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” Centre for International Policy Studies – Ottawa (Canada)
“Déploiement du Féminisme: Genre et Opérations militaires de l’OTAN” Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale – Montréal (Canada)
“Great Power Politics Panel” Political Science Students’ Association, University of Toronto Scarborough – Scarborough (Canada)
“International Security and Terrorism Training” Canadian Foreign Service Institute (virtual)
“WIIS-Queen’s 2023 Conference: Survivors, Soldiers & Peacebuilders” Women in International Security Queen’s – Kingston (Canada)
“Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence” Conference of Defence Associations Institute – Ottawa (Canada)
“CAF Reconstitution Roundtable” Department of National Defence — Ottawa (Canada)
“Strategic Panel of Air and Space Command Course” — Trenton (Canada)
“Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” RAND Corporation’s Defence and Political Science Department – (virtual)
“NATO and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda” EU Missions and Operations Gender Monitoring Team – Brussels (Belgium)
“Table ronde-débat autour du livre Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire – Paris (France)
“Book Launch: Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” NATO Association of Canada – Toronto (Canada)
2022
“CANSOFCOM Global Engagement 2030 Workshop” Canadian Special Operations Forces Command – Montreal (Canada)
“Preventing Conflict: New Tools and Approaches” Voluntary Principles Initiative (VPI) Plenary – Toronto (Canada)
“Total Defence Workforces” (keynote) Swedish Centre for Studies of Armed Forces and Society –Södertörn University (Sweden)
“Revisiting the WPS Agenda, 20 Years Later – Roundtable on Future Defense Challenges” Research Network on Women, Peace, and Security – Montreal (Canada)
2021
“Gender Perspective in NATO 2030: Reshaping from Withing, NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives Annual Conference”
“SDG16 and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda” Authors’ Workshop – (Balsillie School of International Affairs)
“Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations” Joint Canadian Delegation, NATO HQ – Brussels (Belgium)
2020
“Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Curriculum Consortium: Teaching the WPS Agenda in a Changing Security Landscape” – (virtual for US audience)
“NATO’s WPS Agenda: From Policies to Missions” NATO Defence Investment Division (virtual)
“What/How is NATO doing regarding Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion – Training, Activities, Missions, & Operations” – (virtual for NATO audience)
2019
“Operation Honour and Culture Change in the Canadian Armed Forces” Member of Keynote Panel, Women in International Security – Canada Annual Workshop – Toronto (Canada)
« Mot d’ouverture–Femmes, Paix et Sécurité » Canadian Embassy – Paris (France)
“Extended Deterrence and the Future of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in NATO” Hertie School – Berlin (Germany)
“NATO’s Institutional and Political Adaptation” NATO Defence College – Rome (Italy)
“NATO at 70 – Expert Seminar” NATO Defense College – Rome (Italy)
“Is NATO a Feminist Alliance?” McGill University – Montreal (Canada)
2018
“Gender Considerations in Military Operations” University of Hokkaido – Sapporo (Japan)
“Gender Considerations in Military Operations” Canada-Japan Peace Symposium – Tokyo (Japan)
“Gender Considerations in Military Operations” NATO Battlegroup – Adazi (Latvia)
“Back to the Nuclear Age?” Baltic Defence College Senior Leaders’ Course – Vilnius (Lithuania)
“Gender Considerations in Military Operations” Ohio Wesleyan University (USA)
“Has Trump Hijacked NATO?” Riga Security Conference – Riga (Latvia)
2018 “Is it Time to Update NATO’s Deterrence Posture?” National Defence Academy of Latvia – Riga (Latvia)
“It is Time to Update NATO’s Deterrence Posture?” Estonian School of Diplomacy – Tallinn (Estonia)
“Echoes of 9/11 in the Trump Era” MacEachen Institute – Halifax (Canada)
“Engendering International Security: The Role of Women in International Development in NATO and at the United Nations” Bishop’s University – Lennoxville (Quebec)
“Gender Mainstreaming at NATO” Political Studies, Queen’s University – Kingston (Canada)
“NATO’s About Face: Gender Mainstreaming in an Alliance Setting” Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) – Ottawa (Canada)
“NATO’s Gender Turn: Adaptation in International Security Organizations” Pilot Course on Tailor-Made Gender Awareness for NATO – Brussels (Belgium)
“Gender Equality as Mission Critical” Canada’s Policy Transformation Conference – Toronto (Canada)
“La mission de Women in International Security Canada” Université de Montréal (Canada)
“Lessons from National Strategy Approaches to Countering Radicalization to Violence (CRV)” Public Safety Canada – Ottawa (Canada)
2017
“Social Conflict in the Extractive Sector: Developing Good Security Practices” Presentation for the Graduate Institute Geneva: Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding – Geneva (Switzerland)
“NATO’s Gender Turn: Adaptation in International Security Organizations”, Gender, Women, and International Security Conference – East Sussex (United Kingdom)
“NATO’s Gender Turn: Adaptation in International Security Organizations” University of Sydney Centre for International Security Studies Seminar – Sydney (Australia)
“Taking the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Forward” NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP) Roundtable – Brussels (Belgium)
“Gender-Awareness Training and Best Practices Within NATO” 41st Annual Conference of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP) – Brussels (Belgium)
“10 Years of WIIS Canada, 30 Years of WIIS Global” (Speaker and Panel Chair) The Next Generation of Women Leaders Conference – Montreal (Canada)
“NATO, EU, ad hoc: What Format for Transatlantic Cooperation on Counterterrorism?” Transatlantic Security and the Future of NATO Conference – Paris (France)
“Diversity in the Armed Forces as a Force Multiplier” DND – Ottawa (Canada)
“Une alliance désuète ? Le Canada, les États-Unis et la remise en cause de l’OTAN” Les Relations Canado-Américaines à l’ère Trump – Montreal (Canada)
“Gender Mainstreaming in the Military and NATO” Gender-based Analysis and Gender Budgeting for Equality, Inclusion, Development, and Democracy Conference – Kingston (Canada)
“Doing Gender Better: Evidence-based Training” NATO High Visibility Event: Gender Awareness in the Security and Defence Field – San Diego (USA)
“More than Counting Women in the Military: Women, Peace, and Security Perspectives in Canada’s Defence Policy” The Women, Peace and Security Network – (Webinar)
“Gender in Operations: The Way Ahead” UN Peace Babies workshop – Kingston (Canada)
“Gender Perspective in Security and Defense” NATO Association of Canada – Toronto (Canada)
“What is YOUR Foreign Policy” TEDx Talk Queen’s University – Kingston (Canada)
2016
“The Role of Gender in the Field of Security and Defence” Women in International Security Roundtable – Brussels (Belgium)
“Tailor-made Gender Awareness Course for the NATO Community” NATO Headquarters – Brussels (Belgium)
« L’intégration des perspectives de genre à l’OTAN: théorie et pratique » Université de Montréal – Montréal (Canada)
“The Obama Doctrine and American Allies” Université de Poitiers – Poitiers (France)
“From Nukes to Boots on the Ground: Why Allies Follow Obama” Fulbright Lecture at the University of Ottawa – Ottawa (Canada)
“The Return of Trudeaumania: A Public Diplomacy Shift in Canadian Foreign Policy?” Fulbright Visiting Research Chair 10th Anniversary Conference – Los Angeles (California)
“Why Gender Matters at NATO” Deputy Permanent Representatives Committee Briefing, NATO Headquarters – Brussels (Belgium)
“NATO Deterrence and Forward Presence” Deterrence Roundtable at the Canadian Permanent Delegation, NATO Headquarters – Brussels (Belgium)
“The Role of Nuclear Weapons in NATO’s Deterrence Posture” NATO’s Expert Forum – Warsaw (Poland)
“Opening Panel on Mentoring” 9th Annual Women in International Security – Canada Workshop Women in Security Across Military and Civilian Lines at Mount Saint Vincent University – Halifax (Canada)
“Rounding a Square Peg: The Institutionalization of Gender Mainstreaming within NATO” International Studies Association Catalytic Workshop Conceptualization, Measurement and Analysis of Female Combatants – Washington, D.C. (USA)
“La place du Canada dans les grandes coalitions militaires” Colloque La Défense du Canada au 21e siècle organized by the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec – Montréal (Canada)
“Women, Peace and Security” 3rd Symposium on Common Security and Defence Policy organized by the European Delegation to Canada – Ottawa (Canada)
“Women in International Security: From the Cabinet to Kandahar” La Jolla Soroptimist Organization – San Diego (USA)
“Moderator – Women of Courage” Center for Public Diplomacy event at the University of Southern California – Los Angeles (USA)
“Opening Remarks – Women in Public Diplomacy” APDS Spring Conference at the University of Southern California – Los Angeles (USA)
“The Relevance of Deterrence in an Age of Hybrid War: Can Canada and its Allies Adapt?” National Defence Headquarters – Ottawa (Canada)