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Dr. Brennan was invited to give a series of talks in Europe: On Genital Evolution and the Overlooked female. September 8th 2025: Orebro University, Sweden. September 22d 2025: Università di Padova, Italy. September 25 and 26th, 2025: Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève, and Bioscope, Fondation Convergences. Switzerland. October 1st 2025: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology. October 3rd 2025: University of Vienna, Austria.
Dr. Brennan delivered the Departmental seminar at Iowa State University on April 18, 2025 titled “Genital evolution in vertebrates and the understudied female.”
Dr. Brennan was invited to talk on April 1, 2024 at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, First Friday at the Museum event.
Dr. Brennan was invited to speak at Texas A&M on March 25, 2024.
In the fall of 2023, Dr. Brennan was invited to speak at the University of Montana, Duluth (September), the University of Nebraska (October) and honored as the Graduate Student Invited speaker at Marquette University (November).
Dr. Brennan was invited to speak at the Chelsey Lecture at Carleton College. The title of the talk was Oddball Science. Why studies of evolutionary Phenomena are crucial. The talk was given on February 11, 2024.
Dr. Brennan was invited to talk at Adelaide University, Australia. (2023)
Dr. Brennan was an invited speaker at the First Friday outreach event at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Voted the best science outreach event in Southern California, this event brings scientists in conversation about contemporary topics in science.
Dr. Brennan was a Chelsey Lecture speaker at Carleton College, presenting “oddball science: why studies of weird evolutionary phenomena are crucial”; she also gave a departmental seminar for Biology: “Genital morphology and the overlooked female”