I have a passion for sharing ideas and engaging in dialogue with audiences ranging from academics to community members to university undergraduates and high school students. I have presented at academic conferences and community forums, sharing information about eating disorders, embodiment, and social justice and engaging in dynamic discussions with audiences. If you are interested in having me speak, please contact me using the contact form.

I am available to speak about the following subjects:

  • Eating disorders

  • Body image/bodily distress

  • Feminism

  • Social justice

  • Social media

  • Knowledge translation/knowledge mobilization

I’ve been lucky enough to deliver over 70 presentations over the past 10 years. Here are a selection of recent presentations I have given:

LaMarre, A. (August 2021). Body image and embodiment. Part of What a body can do symposium chaired by Carla Rice, with Sarah Riley and Aly Bailey. International Society for Critical Health Psychology Conference (Online)

LaMarre, A. (August 2021). Critical eating disorders research: Looking to the past and creating new paths forward. Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders Conference (Online)

LaMarre, A., Beake, K., & Turner, C. (June 2020). Social Justice Informed Practice: Demonstrating the Evidence, Discussing Ways to Move Forward. International Conference on Eating Disorders (Online)

Kenny, T. , LaMarre, A., Hower, H., Harrop, E. & Bachner-Melman, R. (June 2020). Taking a Different Perspective on Recovery. International Conference on Eating Disorders (Online)

LaMarre, A. (October 6th, 2019). Rage Against the (Eating Disorder) Machine: Harnessing Collective Anger to Make Change in Eating Disorder Treatment and Representations of Recovery. Body Peace Conference (Online Conference).

LaMarre, A. (July 2019). Gripping time: Temporality, pain, and embodiment in academia. Digital story presentation as a part of the snapshots symposium organized by Kerry Chamberlain. International Critical Health Psychology Conference 2019. Bratislava, Slovakia.

LaMarre, A. & Rice, C. (July 2019). Flexing methods, uncovering “recovery”: Digital storytelling eating distress and support. As a part of the symposium “The work of stories in the world” (with Carla Rice, Hannah Fowlie, and Tanya Senk). International Critical Health Psychology Conference 2019. Bratislava, Slovakia.

LaMarre, A. (May 2019). Sometimes you can’t just eat. Pint of Science 2019, Guelph, ON.

LaMarre, A. & Cool, C. (May 2019). Radical trust: Unlearning dominant beliefs to create space for healing. NEDIC Conference. Toronto, ON.

Plotkin, M. LaMarre, A., Bermudez, O., Trujillo, E., Krasna, J. & Morgan, C. (March 2019). How-To’s of policy advocacy from around the globe: Becoming a change-maker in eating disorders. International Conference on Eating Disorders. New York, NY.

LaMarre, A. & Raimondo, M. (November 2018). Social justice and eating disorders: Let’s move forward together. Renfrew Conference 2016. Philadelphia, PA.

LaMarre, A., Pinhas, L., Detmers, O. & Mercanti, R. (October 2018). #Times Up: Putting Reflexivity and Common Humanity Back in Eating Disorder Treatment. Eating Disorder Recovery on Instagram. Eating Disorders Association of Canada Conference. Ottawa, ON.

LaMarre, A., Pinhas, L., Morariu, R. & Patients and staff of the Ontario Shores Adolescent Eating Disorders Unit, 2016-2017. (October 2018) What Does it Take to Make Patient-Directed Care a Reality? Eating Disorder Recovery on Instagram. Eating Disorders Association of Canada Conference. Ottawa, ON.

LaMarre, A. (July 2018). Many Storied Bodies: Feminist Digital Storytelling in Practice. Psychology of Women and Equalities Section, British Psychological Society Conference 2018. Windsor, UK.

LaMarre, A. & Rice, C. (July 2018). Affecting Recovery: Affect in Eating Disorder Recovery Relationships. Psychology of Women and Equalities Section, British Psychological Society Conference 2018. Windsor, UK.

LaMarre, A. (May 2018). Reimagining Gendered Relations of Care in Eating Disorder Recovery. SSHRC Congress, Regina, SK.

LaMarre, A. & Rice, C. (May 2018). Exploring recoveries, opening possibilities: Using feminist theory and digital storytelling to expand understandings of “eating disorders” and “recovery”. Simone de Beauvoir Institute 40th Anniversary Conference: Unsettling Feminisms: Mobilisation, résistance, creation. Montreal, QC.