Public Testimony

Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, March 28, 2001. Transcript is here.

Testimony before the Committee on Health and Human Services, California State Senate (against a bill to criminalize creating cloned human embryos for stem cells), March 20, 2002.

Endowed Lectures

Carleton College, Convocation Lecture, January 20, 2023.

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, May 1, 2022.

Loyola University-Chicago, John Grant Lecture #2, Chicago, Il, March 25, 2022.

Loyola University-Chicago, John Grant Lecture #1, Chicago, Il, March 19, 2018.

University of Cape Town, Faculty of Medical Sciences, “The First Heart Transplant,” October 29, 2017.

Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Max & Rose Leiserowitz Lecture, Cape Town, South Africa, October 30, 2017.

Butler University, James Woods Lecture, Indianapolis, IN, September 6, 2012.

California Lutheran University, Harold Stoner Lectures in Applied Ethics, Los Angeles, Ca. Nov. 8-10, 2009.

Truman State University, Henry Smits Lecture, Kirksville, Missouri, November 8, 2008.

Federal University of Minas Gerais, 80th Anniversary Lecture, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 9, 2007.

“Thinking about Schizophrenia with Compassion,” Pellegrino Medal Lecture, Samford University, Birmingham, Al. March 31, 2006.

Scott and White Hospital, Howard Keegan Lecture, Temple, Texas, 2005.

Institute for the Humanities at Salado, “Adventures in Bioethics,” October 22, 2005, Salado, Texas.

Université de Lausanne, “Le Clonage Reproductif,” Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2004.

Castleton State College, Soundings Lecture, Rutland, Vermont, March 5, 2003.

Old Dominion University, President’s Lecture Series, Norfolk, Virginia, January 24, 2002.

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, September 9, 2003.

Duchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, November 6, 2002.

Alma College, Thornton Lecture, Alma, Michigan, October 23, 2002.

Rhodes College, Seidman Trust Lecture, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2, 2002.

Clemson University, President’s Colloquium, October 15, 2001.

Auburn University, Human Odyssey Program, October 25, 2001/

West Liberty University, Hughes Lecture Series, West Liberty, W. Va., March 19, 2001.

Lusco-American Foundation, Keynote, Cloning Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, April 6, 2000.

Virginia Military Institute, Future Days Symposium, Lexington, Va., October 20, 2000.

University of Maine, The Rezendes Lecture, Orono, Maine, February 17, 2000.

SOKA University of America, Malibu, CA, Human Rights Lecture (on California Public TV), May 3, 2000,

Providence Hospital, Fetterman Memorial Lecture, Mobile, Al., November 16, 2000.

Transylvania University, Kennan Lecture, Lexington, Ky, 1999.

Talks about Human Cloning & Stem Cells:

Georgia State University, March 3, 2016.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. April 12, 2011.

Bridgewater College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, February 17, 2010.

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 2005.

University of Pennsylvania, Bioethics Conference, April 2, 2005.

Florida International University, November 18, 2004, Davie, Florida.

Juanita College, Huntington, Pa, March 8, 2004.

St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, April, 2003.

Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY March 4, 2003.

San Jacinto College, Pasadena, Tx, March 24, 2003.

Elon College, Elon, The Liberal Arts Forum, NC, February 23, 2003.

Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, March 3, 2003.

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, January 26, 2003.

Richland College, Dallas, TX, November 13, 2002.

University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Ga., October 28, 2002.

Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pa, November 13, 2002.

Northfield Mt. Hermon Academy, Northfield, MA, October 10, 2002.

Southwest Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK, October 3, 2002.

BIO Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 11, 2002.

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, April 16, 2002.

Concord College, Athens, West Virginia, February 27, 2002.

University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, February 5, 2002.

Albany Law School, Conference on Cloning, Biotechnology & Law, June, 2001.

Georgia Tech, Blue Skies Program, “The Future of Biotechnology,” Atlanta, Ga., June 2001.

Metro State University, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 19, 2001.

University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, April 5, 2001.

U. of Notre Dame, Bioethics Conference, South Bend, Indiana, March 2, 2001.

Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, January 22, 2001.

Tuskegee University, National Center for Bioethics, Tuskegee, Al, January 25, 2000.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Il. October 13, 2000.

College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, October 4, 2000,

University College London, Bloomsbury, London, September 21, 2000.

Dartmouth College, NIH Summer Institute for Science Teachers, June 2000.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champlain, IL, April, 1999.

Princeton University, Bioethics Conference, Princeton, NJ, Feb. 26, 1999.

LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, Pa, April, 1999.

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, August 1999.

ScienceNow! Conference, Compass-NOVA Televison Panel, Melbourne, Australia, April, 1998.

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, April, 1998.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 1997.

Chinese Medical Ethics Association, Keynote, Charter Meeting, Xian, China.1983.

Talks about Genetically Modified Food:

Cumberland Law School, “National and Global Implications of GMO’s,” March 31, 2004.

University of Alabama, “GMO’s: Friend of Foe?,” Tuscaloosa, Al, March 13, 2004.

Hanover College, Promise and Perils of Genetically Modified Food,” Hanover, Indiana, November 16, 2004.

International Association of Culinary Professionals Conference, Montreal, CA, April 10, 2003.

Texas A &M, Bioethics Conference, March 2003.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 18, 2003.

Emory University, Bioethics Conference, Atlanta, Ga. 2000.

Mississippi College for Women, Culinary Institute of America, Columbus, Ms., November 20, 2004,

Invited Talks about Human Enhancement:

World TransHumanist Association, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., June 27, 2003.

Mississippi Philosophical Association, Keynote Speaker, Jackson, MS, November 22, 2008.

Oklahoma State University, “The Ethics of the Artificial Womb,” Stillwater, OK, February 22, 2002,

Agnes Scott College, “Improving Humans: Medicine & Technology,” Atlanta, Ga. February 11, 2008.

Invited Talks to Medical Groups:

“Is There a Duty to Die?” with John Hardwig and Richard Lamm, UAB Center for Research on Applied Gerontology, December 5, 2005.

Medical/Surgical Conference, North Mississippi Health Services, Tupelo, Mississippi. July 20, 2004.

“Research on Cloning and Stem Cells,” Stanford University and Friends Research Institute, San Francisco, Ca. May 24, 2004.

Owen Coon Forum, Dept. of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, May 3, 2003.

National Symposium for Health Care Executives, Sandestin, Fla., August 2, 2001.

“Managed Care and Managed Death,’ National Managed Health Care Congress, Atlanta, Ga., March 20, 2001.

East Carolina State University School of Medicine, 2001.

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians, Wynfrey Hotel, December 1, 2001.

University of Arkansas Medical School, April 18-19, 2000.

College of Medicine, U. of Illinois at Chicago, “Tuskegee Study,” Pathology Department, October 13, 2000.

University of Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal, April 2000.

Physiology Retreat, University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill, August, 2000.

National Association of Healthcare Executives, Sandestin, Fl. August 4, 2000.

American Society of Human Genetics Meetings, Denver 1998.

American Society of Law and Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 1995.

Fourth World Congress of Medical Ethics, Jerusalem, Israel, 1999.

American Society for Tissue Banks, Clearwater/Tampa, Fla., April, 1999.

Erlanger Hospital, Medical Ethics Conference, Chattanooga, TN. 1999.

Northeastern Ohio Medical School, November, 1999.

University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School, Department of Genetics, 1997.

Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga, 1995.

American College of Surgeons Board Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1993.

Jewish Hospital, Louisville, K , 1985.

University of Indiana Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 1982.

UAB: Grand Rounds: Medicine, 1979; Pathology'; 1984, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 1986; Children's Hospital, 1989, 2003; Psychiatry, 2001; Rehabilitative Medicine, 2002; Surgery, 2009.

Talks about the Bucharest Early Intervention Study:

Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2017.

Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, February 2016.

34th International Conference on Law and Mental Health, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria, July 2015.

Psychology and Ethics Conference, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2014.

Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (ROME), 2019.

Other Talks by Gregory Pence

“What the Humanities Can Teach Medical Students,” Imperial College, London, England, July 11, 2017.

“Orphan Black and Human Cloning,” Dragon Con, Atlanta, Georgia, September 4, 2016.

Textbook Authors Association Meeting, Reno, Nevada, July, 2016.

“What Can Siddhartha Teach Us About Dying Well” 4th Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2016.

“Is It Wrong to Live to 100?” International Conference on Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, April 2015.

Donaldson Prison, “Neuroethics,” West Jefferson County, Alabama, September 13, 2011.

Wichita State University, Wichita, KA, December, 2008.

Convocation, Blount Honors College, U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al. August 23, 2002.

Human Odyssey Program, Auburn University, April 25, 2002.

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina., 1995.

Davidson College, Departments of Philosophy and Biology, 1990.