Invited Presentations, Panels and Workshops
2023 Invited Panelist. “Global Perspectives on Reproductive Justice.” Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
2022 Invited Speaker. "Culture in Transnational Interaction: How Organizational Partners Coproduce Sesame Street." Inspired Leadership Initiative, University of Notre Dame.
2022 Invited Panelist on “Post-Roe America: Making Intersectional Feminist Sense of Abortion Bans” Gender Studies Program and the Initiative on Race and Resilience, University of Notre Dame, in partnership with the IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center.
2021 Invited Panelist on “Post-Pandemic Labor Markets” 75th Anniversary Roundtable, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
2021 Invited book talk on Trade Battles: Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy. University of Michigan course on social change and economic globalizations.
Invited Panelist and Speaker. “The Possibilities of Blue-Green Alliances and Trade Policy Transformation.” Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Policy, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), University of Antwerp (Belgium), Bates College, the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria), and the University of Warwick (UK).
2021 Invited Panelist on “Post-Pandemic Labor Markets” 75th Anniversary Roundtable, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
2021 "Complex Innovations and Transnational Diffusion: Why the Nature of Innovations Matters." (with Isabel Jijon). University of Pittsburgh.
2021 Invited Speaker. “A Nonprofit Networked Platform for Global Health.” (with Jason Spicer). Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame.
2021 Invited book talk on Trade Battles: Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.
2021 Invited Speaker. "Democracy and Labor Law Reform in Mexico" (with Kimberly A. Nolan García). Mexico Virtual Lecture Series, Notre Dame International, University of Notre Dame.
2020 Invited Speaker. “Pensamiento Político, Democracia y Desigualdad en América Latina: Una Mirada Regional.” Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University and the Jesuit University of Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico. (postponed due to Covid-19)2019
Invited Panelist and Speaker. “Labour and the Politics of Trade.” University of Padova. Padova, Italy.
Dr. Kay was one of three scholars whose work was featured as part of a three day international workshop on trade and labor.
2019 Invited Panelist. “NAFTA and Its Implications on USMCA.” Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
2018 Invited Panelist. “The Politics of Trade and the Midterm Elections.” Economic Policy Institute and Keough School of Global Affairs. Washington, D.C.
2018 Invited Panelist. “Addressing Global Challenges: Lessons from Latin America.” Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
2018 Invited Panelist. “Labor in the Age of Trump.” Labor Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.*
2017 Invited Panelist. Development in the Face of Global Inequalities Conference. World Society Foundation, Barcelona.*
2016 Invited Session Speaker. “ECHO and Sesame Street Go to China: Diffusing Education and Healthcare Models Around the World.” MetaECHO 2016 Global Conference, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Project ECHO.
2016 “Negotiating Diffusion and Promoting Peace and Equality on the Longest Street in the World”
- University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs
2012-16 “Big Bird Goes to China: Negotiating Cultural Diffusion on the Longest Street in the World”
- University of Pennsylvania: Economic Sociology Workshop
- UCLA: Comparative Social Analysis Seminar
- MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar*
- Harvard University: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Michigan State University
- University of New Mexico
- Yale University, Faculty Colloquium series
- University of Arizona, Tucson
- American Studies Research Cluster in Global Inequalities and Solidarities, University of New Mexico
- University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Africa Working Group ("Big Bird Goes to Africa")
- Northwestern University
- UNM School of Medicine, Project ECHO
- University of Michigan
2015 “Diffusing Gender Equality Norms on the Longest Street in the World”
- University of Notre Dame, Culture Workshop
2014 “How Culture Matters in Health Interventions” (presented by Asad L. Asad)
- Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
2013 “The State as Partner: Why and How International NGOs Bring the State Back In”
- Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- MIT Sloan School of Management
2004-13 “Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: The Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America”
- UCLA: Institute for Labor Research and Education; Center for Mexican Studies
- Harvard University
- Cornell University
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Oregon, Eugene
- Michigan State University: Julian Samora Research Institute
- Rutgers University
- University of Michigan
- University of British Columbia
- University of New Mexico
- Columbia University*
2010-11 “Labor’s Approach To Immigration” (presented by co-author Ruben Garcia)
- UC San Diego: Center for Comparative Immigration Policy
- Princeton University: Conference on "Race, Immigration and the Law of the Workplace: 21st Century Challenges”
2008-11 “Big Bird Goes to Bogotá (y Guadalajara, y São Paulo...): Globalization, Culture, and the Politics of Transnational NGO Collaborations in Latin America”
- Harvard University: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Harvard University: Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
- University of California, Berkeley.*
2008 “Transnational Economic Development Organizations and Human Rights”
- University of São Paulo: Conference on Human Rights Policy in Brazil and the World: Dilemmas and Achievements
- Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
2008 “Qualitative Methods and Transnational Law Research”
- California Western School of Law
2008 “Visualizing Labor Rights and Social Change in Documentary Photography”
- Syracuse University: Ray Smith Symposium: Workers' Struggles in the 21stCentury: The Role of Art
2007 “How Environmentalists "Greened" Trade Policy Under NAFTA: Strategic Action and the Architecture of Field Overlap”
- MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar
2006-7 “Transnational Law, Governance and Labor Movements: The Emergence of a Labor Rights Regime in North America”
- Brown University
- Harvard University: Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Arizona, Tucson
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge
- Northwestern University
2005 “Transnational Labor Laws and Rights under NAFTA”
- California Western School of Law
1998 “Bypassing the State: The Effects of Legal and Political Contexts on Union Organizing Strategies”
- UC Berkeley: Center for Culture, Organizations and Politics
*could not attend