PhD (Carleton) MA (New Brunswick) BA (New Brunswick)
Carla Lam was a senior lecturer of political theory and gender politics in the Politics Department at University of Otago until the end of 2017.
After receiving her PhD in political theory from Carleton University in 2005, she lectured at Queen's University, then moved to New Zealand in July 2008. Carla taught at the University of Otago for 10 years before returning to Canada.
Her research interests include the history of ideas, feminist philosophy of embodiment, feminist post-constructionism or new materialism, and feminist studies of science and technology. Most recent publications include two chapters in the MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks Gender series, on “Feminist Biology” and “Reproductive Technology” and an article, “Thinking Through Post-constructionism: Reflections on (Reproductive)Disembodiment and Misfits.”
Current research continues to focus on the intellectual and practical divides between doing and being, or thoughts and matter.
Publications
Lam, C., Curtin, J., Stringer, R., & Devere, H. (2017, August). Panel discussion: Gender, feminism and politics. Open Lecture, Department of Politics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Lecture].
Other Research Output
Lam, C. (2015). Know(ing) the difference: Onto-epistemology and the story of feminism [Review of the books Why stories matter: The political grammar of feminist theory and The metaphysics of gender]. Hypatia, 30(2), 486-493. doi: 10.1111/hypa.12146
Journal - Research Other
Lam, C. (2015). New reproductive technologies and disembodiment: Feminist and material resolutions. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 168p.
Authored Book - Research
Lam, C. (2013, December). Political theory as (invested) story-telling: Lessons from western feminism [Panel discussion: Discourses and governmentalities]. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Lam, C. (2013). Material resolutions: the "new" material feminisms and the politics of sex/gender, time and place. Proceedings of the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference. Retrieved from http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/conference-pres-2013.shtml#l
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Lam, C. (2012). Past the impasse, the (new) material feminisms. Proceedings of the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference. Retrieved from http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/conference-pres-2012.shtml#l
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Lam, C. (2012). [Review of the book Private bodies, public texts: Race, gender, and a cultural bioethics]. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(3), 434-436. doi: 10.1080/14616742.2012.704704
Journal - Research Other
Lam, C. (2012). [Review of the book Globalization and Utopia: Critical essays]. Political Science, 64(1), 82-84. doi: 10.1177/0032318712442173
Journal - Research Other
Lam, C. (2010, June-July). Beyond the sovereign? Foucault, sex/gender and new reproductive technologies. Verbal presentation at the Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS) IV, Auckland, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Lam, C. (2009, May). Feminist responses to the disembodiment of new reproductive technology and the future of feminism. Verbal presentation at the 81st Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Lam, C. (2009, May). Gender, race and class: Intersections and critiques [Panel discussant]. Verbal presentation at the 81st Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Lam, C. (2009, August). Intersections and digestions: Exploring the nexus between philosophy and international theory. Verbal presentation at the Philosophy in Social Science: Implications for International Relations Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Vincent, A., Smits, K., Marquez, X., Shogimen, T., Nel, P., Lam, C., Nicholls, B., Stringer, R., & Clements, K. (2009, May). Liberalism and comparative political theory. Panel discussion at the Workshop on Liberalism and Comparative Political Theory, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Lam, C., Spencer, V., Green, K., & Broad, J. (2009, September). A history of women's political thought in Europe 1400-1700 [Roundtable Discussion]. Verbal presentation at the Otago/Sydney Early Modern Seminar: Women, Philosophy and Literature in the Early Modern Period, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Lam, C. (2008, August). Hobbes and the retooling of birth appropriation for the modern state: Strategies for accessing the canon for feminist pedagogy. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs