Sometimes I speak at different events.
Below is a list of upcoming and past events.
Upcoming Events
AUGUST, 2018
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS 68th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Philadelphia, PA, 68th Annual Meeting
Abstract Submitted | Paper title: “I was a victim of the courts”: Understandings and interpretations of violence and exploitation among sex workers and survivors of trafficking in NYC
MARCH 4, 2018
PS1-MOMA
Sex Worker Festival of Resistance
PS1- Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, Queens, New York | 2-6pm
Presenting on panel moderated by Melissa Ditmore on sex work, migration and trafficking.
Paper title: Sex Work, Migration and Trafficking in NYC - Findings from SEXHUM
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
BERKELEY COLLEGE
"Let's Talk About Sex" - Q & A organized by Berkeley College Gender & Sexuality Alliance | 2pm-3:30pm | SAC, 43rd Street, Lower Level
Dr Hoefinger as Sex Educator providing responses to student questions about sex, sexuality, gender and sexual health
Past Events
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Washington, DC, 116th Annual Meeting
With Jennifer Musto, Anne Fehrenbacher, and Nicola Mai
Panel: The Politics and Practice of Sex Work Research, Part One: In/Visibility
Paper title: Understanding Sexual Humanitarian Bordering in the US Through Participative Ethnographic Filmmaking: Preliminary Findings from NYC and LA
AUGUST 13, 2017
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS 67th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Montreal, Canada, 67th Annual Meeting
Panel: Challenging and Resisting Neo/Liberalism in Sexualities Activism and Research
Paper title: Sex work, Migration and Trafficking in NYC– Preliminary Findings from the Sexual Humanitarianism Study
JUNE 29, 2017
NEW YORK CITY HALL - CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON IMMIGRATION
Provided testimony on behalf of Red Umbrella Project at New York City Council Hearing on Immigration and the Presence of ICE in NYC Courts, City Hall, New York, USA
JUNE 23, 2017
UNITED NATIONS
Provided testimony at the UN General Assembly Multi-stakeholder Hearing on the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
Testimony title: Criminalization of Clients in France - Findings from the Sexual Humanitarianism Study
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
WHEN WORK IS SEX: BODIES, CHOICE AND CAPITALISM - PUBLIC CONFERENCE
Organized by X:Talk Project, Rag Factory, London, UK | 10am - 5:30pm
Moderating two panels: Self-Organization and Self-Representation (11:30am-1pm) | The Limits of Choice and Empowerment (1pm-3:30pm)
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
YALE UNIVERSITY
Council on Southeast Asia Studies Seminar, Luce Hall, New Haven, Connecticut | 12pm
Talk title: Sexual Economies and Identities in Contemporary Cambodia
Link to official flyer here.
YALE UNIVERSITY
Council on Southeast Asia Studies Seminar, Luce Hall, New Haven, Connecticut | 12pm
Talk title: Sexual Economies and Identities in Contemporary Cambodia
Link to official flyer here.
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Colorado Convention Center, Denver CO | 10:15am-12:00pm
Panel: Queer Pleasure, Queer Work
Paper title: “At-Risk and Vulnerable” or “Social Deviants”? Competing Narratives around LGBT Communities, Sex Workers and Sexually-Active Youth in Cambodia
AUGUST 22, 2015
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS 65th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL | Room: Red Sea | Session 97, 12:30-2:10pm
Panel: Sexualities on the Edge
Paper Title: Being Queer and Brown - Subaltern Solidarities in the British-Asian Dance Club Scene in London
APRIL 28-29, 2015
PLATTSBURGH STATE UNIVERSITY - Book Tour of Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
The departments of Anthropology, Gender & Women's Studies and the Honors Center have kindly invited me to my undergraduate alma mater, SUNY Plattsburgh (1998-2001), to give a book tour of Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia. This will include a book talk and signing, and guest lectures in the Sex & Culture, Global Gender Issues, and Doing Anthropology classes.
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS 65th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL | Room: Red Sea | Session 97, 12:30-2:10pm
Panel: Sexualities on the Edge
Paper Title: Being Queer and Brown - Subaltern Solidarities in the British-Asian Dance Club Scene in London
APRIL 28-29, 2015
PLATTSBURGH STATE UNIVERSITY - Book Tour of Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
The departments of Anthropology, Gender & Women's Studies and the Honors Center have kindly invited me to my undergraduate alma mater, SUNY Plattsburgh (1998-2001), to give a book tour of Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia. This will include a book talk and signing, and guest lectures in the Sex & Culture, Global Gender Issues, and Doing Anthropology classes.
DECEMBER 4, 2014
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Washington D.C. Marriot Wardman Park | Maryland Suite A | 11:00am-12:45pm
Panel: Potentials and Limits of Queer Belonging
Paper title: ‘It’s the Place Where You Can be Yourself, so Welcome Home’: Queer Kinship and Place-Making in the LGBTQ Post-Migrant Dance Club Scene in London
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Washington D.C. Marriot Wardman Park | Maryland Suite A | 11:00am-12:45pm
Panel: Potentials and Limits of Queer Belonging
Paper title: ‘It’s the Place Where You Can be Yourself, so Welcome Home’: Queer Kinship and Place-Making in the LGBTQ Post-Migrant Dance Club Scene in London
OCTOBER 24, 2014
PAPERBACK BOOK LAUNCH PARTY FOR SEX LOVE AND MONEY IN CAMBODIA!
ClampArt | 521-531 West 25th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York City | 6:30-9pm
RSVP here.
AUGUST 15, 2014
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS 64th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
San Francisco Marriot Marquis | Room Pacific 1, Session 12, 8:30-10:10am
Panel: Intersections of Sexualities, Race and Class
Paper title: Racialized Desires and Challenges within Inter-ethnic Relationships in Cambodia’s Entertainment Sector
ALSO at SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
AUGUST 16, 2014
San Francisco Marriot Marquis | Room Foothill E, 12:30-2:10pm
Roundtable: Non-Medical Drug Use
Paper title: “Prescription Drug Diversion: An Assessment of Acquisition, Use, and Redistribution Patterns,” Heidi Hoefinger, Camila Gelpí-Acosta, Shana Harris, Valentina Nikulina, Martin J. Downing, Jr., Cory M. Morton, Valerie Newsome and Alana Gunn, National Development and Research Institutes, New York
AUGUST 16, 2014
San Francisco Marriot Marquis | Room Foothill E, 12:30-2:10pm
Roundtable: Non-Medical Drug Use
Paper title: “Prescription Drug Diversion: An Assessment of Acquisition, Use, and Redistribution Patterns,” Heidi Hoefinger, Camila Gelpí-Acosta, Shana Harris, Valentina Nikulina, Martin J. Downing, Jr., Cory M. Morton, Valerie Newsome and Alana Gunn, National Development and Research Institutes, New York
AUGUST 18, 2014
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hilton San Francisco Union Square | Room TBA, 8:30-10-10am
Panel: Gender and Sexual Politics: The States of Neoliberalism
Paper title: Sex, Media and Precarious Individualization in Cambodia
MAY 31, 2014
LEFT FORUM CONFERENCE
John Jay College, NYC, Room 1.114, Session 1, 10 - 11:50am
Panel: Sex Work Internationally: Three Contexts in Comparison
As a member of Sex Worker's Outreach Project (SWOP- NYC), I presented a paper titled: Working Conditions and Grassroots Organizing in Cambodia's Sex Sectors. http://www.leftforum.org/content/sex-work-internationally-three-contexts-comparison
APRIL 29, 2014
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Sociology Conference Room (3232N) Third floor, North Hall, 1:40 - 2:40 pm
Heidi Hoefinger’s new book analyzes the ways in which intimacy and commerce intersect in the everyday lives of “professional girlfriends” employed at tourist bars in Cambodia. Join us as she explores a new theoretical framework for understanding transactional sex and the ways in which gender, desire, and power are embedded in globalized and commodified relationships.
APRIL 23-26, 2014: ***CANCELLED***
EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY CONFERENCE: THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: I will be presenting a paper titled 'A Different Look at Sex Work and Structural Violence in Post-Conflict Cambodia' in the session titled, Sexual Violence: Contexts of Combatant, Conflict and Consent. Vienna, Austria. Exact time and location details to be confirmed.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013:
VOICE OF AMERICA INTERVIEW: I was featured on Voice of America's 'Daybreak Asia' radio program with Jim Stevenson. He interviewed me about my book Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia. The interview can be heard at minute 16.14 on the Daybreak Asia website.
LEFT FORUM CONFERENCE
John Jay College, NYC, Room 1.114, Session 1, 10 - 11:50am
Panel: Sex Work Internationally: Three Contexts in Comparison
As a member of Sex Worker's Outreach Project (SWOP- NYC), I presented a paper titled: Working Conditions and Grassroots Organizing in Cambodia's Sex Sectors. http://www.leftforum.org/content/sex-work-internationally-three-contexts-comparison
APRIL 29, 2014
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Sociology Conference Room (3232N) Third floor, North Hall, 1:40 - 2:40 pm
Heidi Hoefinger’s new book analyzes the ways in which intimacy and commerce intersect in the everyday lives of “professional girlfriends” employed at tourist bars in Cambodia. Join us as she explores a new theoretical framework for understanding transactional sex and the ways in which gender, desire, and power are embedded in globalized and commodified relationships.
APRIL 23-26, 2014: ***CANCELLED***
EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY CONFERENCE: THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: I will be presenting a paper titled 'A Different Look at Sex Work and Structural Violence in Post-Conflict Cambodia' in the session titled, Sexual Violence: Contexts of Combatant, Conflict and Consent. Vienna, Austria. Exact time and location details to be confirmed.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013:
VOICE OF AMERICA INTERVIEW: I was featured on Voice of America's 'Daybreak Asia' radio program with Jim Stevenson. He interviewed me about my book Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia. The interview can be heard at minute 16.14 on the Daybreak Asia website.
AUGUST 9, 2013:
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Co-wrote a presentation titled: 'Prescription Drug Use and Diversion: An Assessment of Practices and Perceptions,' by Ross Aikins, Victoria Barry, Martin Downing, Heidi Hoefinger, Cory Morton, Vivian C. Smith, and Camila Gelpi, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc; The Westin New York at Times Square, Rm New Amsterdam, 8:30-10:10am, Session 3: BIg Pharma, Big Consequences: Drug Diversion and Misuse.
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Also presented single authored paper titled: 'Self-Reported Alcohol/Substance Use and Depression Among Deported Cambodian-American Refugees: A Qualitative Perspective,' Heidi Hoefinger, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.; The Westin New York at Times Square, Rm Gramercy, 2:30-4:10pm, Session 39: Drugs, Crime and Incarceration II.
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I also had the honor of taking over as presider for my friend and colleague Steve Sifaneck, who passed away in May 2013. I presided the panel Global Innovations in Drug Policy at The Westin New York at Times Square, Rm Gramercy, Saturday, August 10, at 4:30pm.
AUGUST 13, 2013:
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING: Presented paper titled: 'Two Examples of Transnational Intimacies in Cambodia,' Heidi Hoefinger, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc; The Hilton Midtown, NYC, 10:30am-11:30am, Sexualities Roundtable on 'Sexual Borderlands.'
JUNE 21, 2013:
FEMINISM AND INTIMACY IN COLD, NEOLIBERAL TIMES: Presented a paper on Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia at Goldsmiths College Annual Gender Event (a fringe event of the ICA); Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, New Academic Building, RM L02, 4-5:30pm. Followed by drinks reception. Free. All welcome.
JUNE 17, 2013
BOOK LAUNCH: Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia, Heidi Hoefinger in conversation with Dr Trude Jacobsen (NIU) and Prof Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths); Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, New Academic Building, RM 302, 6pm. Drinks reception on the roof. Free. All welcome.
(2013) ‘It’s All Ours’: Space and Place in the LGBT British-Asian Club Scene in London, European Research Council (ERC) Conference: New Post-Migrant Socialities - Rethinking Urban Leisure Publics in the Context of Diversity and Dominance (panel: Queer Post-Migrant/Black/of Color Club Cultures and Urban Space); January, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
(2012) Professional Girlfriends, Transnational Relationships and the Hostess Bar Scene in Cambodia, UN Women Learning Seminar Series: Critical Analysis and Practice - Gender and Development; November, UNDP Offices, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
(2012) Professional Girlfriends and Transnational Partnerships in Cambodia, 2nd Annual Cambodia Studies Conference: Imagining Cambodia (panel: Sexual Contracts); September, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, USA
(2012) Professional Girlfriends and New Emerging Sexualities in Cambodia, Society for the Study of Social Problems 62nd Annual Conference (panel: Public Sex/ualities); August, Denver, USA
(2012) Professional Girlfriends and the Materiality of Everyday Sex, Women’s 21st Century Salon; July, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, USA
(2012) Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia, Seminar on Drug and Sex Tourism (School of Professional Studies: Criminal Justice); June, Berkeley College, New York, USA
(2012) Transactional Sex and the Materiality of Everyday Relationships, Onscenity Sexual Cultures Conference (panel: Narratives and Relationships); April, Brunel University, UK
(2012) Professional Girlfriends: An Ethnographic Account of Sex, Stigma and Subculture in Cambodia, Seminar Series on Crime, Culture and Control (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research); April, University of Kent, UK
(2011) Shackles, full circle: An Ethnography of Methamphetamine Use Among Cambodian-American Refugee Deportees in Phnom Penh, Society for the Study of Social Problems 61st Annual Conference (panel: Global Drug Issues); August, Las Vegas, USA
(2011) ‘Ice Queens’, ‘China Dolls’ and ‘Crazy Girls’: Glamorization and Stigmatization of Methamphetamines, Heroin and Alcohol Among Female Bar Workers in Cambodia, York Deviancy Conference (panel: Drugs, Markets and Control); June, University of York, UK.
(2010) The X:Talk Project: Collective Strength Through Organization and Empowerment Through Communication, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers¸ presented on panel with Labour MP John McDonnell; December, Trade Union Council (TUC) Congress House, London, UK.
(2010) Future Directions of Sex Worker Advocacy: The X:Talk Project, Launch of the RighT Guide: A Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool for Anti-Trafficking Policy, Aim for Human Rights; November, Amsterdam, Holland.
(2010) Transactional Sex and Relationships among Cambodian Professional Girlfriends, New Directions in Sex Research: Examples from Cambodia (ESRC’s Young Women in Movement Seminar Series); May, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
(2009) The Global Girls Project: A Case Study in Action-based Research, The Joint PhD Symposium, University of Westminster; London, UK
(2009) In This Place, We Are Kin, An Afternoon of Diary Readings with Michael Taussig, John Hutnyk and Blake Morrison (Cultural Studies and Media and Communications departments joint session); Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
(2009) Best Friends Forever? Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas of Intimate Ethnography, Living Cultures: Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture Conference (panel: Ethnography Up-Close); March, University of Leeds, UK
(2007) ‘No Talk, No Money’ English Linguistic Ability and Empowerment within the Cambodian Sex Work Industry, Society for the Study of Social Problems 57th Annual Conference (panel: Globalization, Immigration and the Changing Nature of Work); August, New York, USA
(2006) Professional Girlfriends: Sex Workers and the Bartering Of Intimacy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Society for the Study of Social Problems 56th Annual Conference (panel: Risky Professions: Politics of being ‘Sexed’ in Academia); August, Montreal, Canada
(2012) Professional Girlfriends, Transnational Relationships and the Hostess Bar Scene in Cambodia, UN Women Learning Seminar Series: Critical Analysis and Practice - Gender and Development; November, UNDP Offices, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
(2012) Professional Girlfriends and Transnational Partnerships in Cambodia, 2nd Annual Cambodia Studies Conference: Imagining Cambodia (panel: Sexual Contracts); September, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, USA
(2012) Professional Girlfriends and New Emerging Sexualities in Cambodia, Society for the Study of Social Problems 62nd Annual Conference (panel: Public Sex/ualities); August, Denver, USA
(2012) Professional Girlfriends and the Materiality of Everyday Sex, Women’s 21st Century Salon; July, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, USA
(2012) Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia, Seminar on Drug and Sex Tourism (School of Professional Studies: Criminal Justice); June, Berkeley College, New York, USA
(2012) Transactional Sex and the Materiality of Everyday Relationships, Onscenity Sexual Cultures Conference (panel: Narratives and Relationships); April, Brunel University, UK
(2012) Professional Girlfriends: An Ethnographic Account of Sex, Stigma and Subculture in Cambodia, Seminar Series on Crime, Culture and Control (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research); April, University of Kent, UK
(2011) Shackles, full circle: An Ethnography of Methamphetamine Use Among Cambodian-American Refugee Deportees in Phnom Penh, Society for the Study of Social Problems 61st Annual Conference (panel: Global Drug Issues); August, Las Vegas, USA
(2011) ‘Ice Queens’, ‘China Dolls’ and ‘Crazy Girls’: Glamorization and Stigmatization of Methamphetamines, Heroin and Alcohol Among Female Bar Workers in Cambodia, York Deviancy Conference (panel: Drugs, Markets and Control); June, University of York, UK.
(2010) The X:Talk Project: Collective Strength Through Organization and Empowerment Through Communication, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers¸ presented on panel with Labour MP John McDonnell; December, Trade Union Council (TUC) Congress House, London, UK.
(2010) Future Directions of Sex Worker Advocacy: The X:Talk Project, Launch of the RighT Guide: A Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool for Anti-Trafficking Policy, Aim for Human Rights; November, Amsterdam, Holland.
(2010) Transactional Sex and Relationships among Cambodian Professional Girlfriends, New Directions in Sex Research: Examples from Cambodia (ESRC’s Young Women in Movement Seminar Series); May, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
(2009) The Global Girls Project: A Case Study in Action-based Research, The Joint PhD Symposium, University of Westminster; London, UK
(2009) In This Place, We Are Kin, An Afternoon of Diary Readings with Michael Taussig, John Hutnyk and Blake Morrison (Cultural Studies and Media and Communications departments joint session); Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
(2009) Best Friends Forever? Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas of Intimate Ethnography, Living Cultures: Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture Conference (panel: Ethnography Up-Close); March, University of Leeds, UK
(2007) ‘No Talk, No Money’ English Linguistic Ability and Empowerment within the Cambodian Sex Work Industry, Society for the Study of Social Problems 57th Annual Conference (panel: Globalization, Immigration and the Changing Nature of Work); August, New York, USA
(2006) Professional Girlfriends: Sex Workers and the Bartering Of Intimacy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Society for the Study of Social Problems 56th Annual Conference (panel: Risky Professions: Politics of being ‘Sexed’ in Academia); August, Montreal, Canada