Speeches, lectures and workshops

Sarah Lawrence

Table of Contents

• Upcoming Speaking Engagements
• Recent Speaking Engagements
• Comments (solicited and unsolicited) from individuals who have seen me speak
• List of speech topics

List of speech topics

As the founder of the TCS movement and editor of the paper journal, Taking Children Seriously, I accept speaking engagements all over the world on a wide variety of related subjects, some academic, others not. Here are some examples:

• Law/Politics/Liberty
• Taking Children Seriously (TCS)
• Autonomous Learning and Home Education
• Relationships

• The Semblance of Consent: How tyrants use the illusion of freedom transcript
• Is that a burqa on the bedroom floor? transcript
• War, Free Trade and Liberty – Strange Bedfellows? transcript
• Adult Wrongs Don't Make Youth Rights: what's wrong with the concept of “youth rights”? transcript excerpt
• European Union: Liberty or Leviathan abstract | transcript
• Taking Children Seriously and the future of liberty transcript
• Ayn Rand and Feminism
• Tips for Tyrants transcript
• The Complete Libertarian: Why I am a libertarian
• The Final Prejudice
• Rogue Robots and Runaway Children in a Free Society
• Force, fallacies and fudging: authoritarian strategies to avoid
• Consent in a free society: Are you competent to consent?
• The Effects Of Government Policies On Children: abstract
• Children's Rights: why the common arguments against according children the same legal rights as adults are mistaken
• Pro-Choice on Principle: Moral and epistemological arguments against criminalising abortion
• Why Libertarians Should Care About Children's Rights
• Communicating without coercion
• Parenting in Liberty for Liberty: the philosophy and practice of Taking Children Seriously
• Free Children, Free Parents: The philosophy and practice of Taking Children Seriously (TCS)
• Whose Ends? A moral argument for taking people seriously
• Taking Children Seriously: The Final Phase of the Enlightenment transcript
• What Parents Know That Isn't So
• Inlaws, Outlaws and Well-intentioned Friends
• The Autonomous Child
• Child-rearing Without Coercion
• Attachment Parenting and TCS
• Youth Rites: how our treatment of young people leads them into dangerous activities
• Freedom From Childhood
• Escape from childhood
• Childhood without coercion
• Four Fallacious Arguments Against Television: Why The Arguments Against Giving Children Free and Unlimited Access to Television are Mistaken
• An Introduction to Taking Children Seriously Style Parenting
• Taking Autonomy Seriously
• Whose Ends? The Implications of Human Fallibility For Parenting
• What Albert Einstein Can Teach Us About Resolving Problems Within the Family
• Why parents feel compelled to coerce their children
• An Epistemological Argument For Children's Rights
• Non-coercive Schools?
• The Implications of Karl Popper's Epistemology For Educational Theory
• Unschooling and TCS
• How To Help Not Hinder Your Child's Interest-led Learning: A TCS (Taking Children Seriously) Perspective
• The New Educational Psychology: educational psychology in the light of epistemology
• Monogamy: The Self as a Gift?
• The Problem of “Monogamy” (exclusive coupledom)
• Common Mistakes That Damage Relationships
• How Self-sacrifice Destroys Relationships and Systematically Prevents People Finding Real Solutions to Disagreements

You can find some more examples on the TCS web site.

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