• Higher Education, Scholarship, Democracy
  
• Political Issues, Public Philosophy
  
• Engaged Philosophy
  
• Women's Studies, Feminist Scholarship

• 2008: "American Woman: You've Come a Long Way?," Alverno College Debates; additional talks on education, and on privatization
  
• 2007: Invited speaker, Columbia University Seminars: talk on "Transforming Knowledge" for co-sponsored session, Seminar on Innovation in Education, Seminar on Ethics, Moral Education and Society; Public lecture, sponsored by Philosophy Honor Society, Elon University: "If you Want Truth, Work for Justice;" Keynote for conference on Progressive Education, Goddard College
  
• 2004: “Pedagogy and Engagement with the World,” for the John Dewey Society annual meeting
  
• 2003: “Empire, the Loss of Community and the Role of Fear: Reflections for Today on Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism; for conference on “Empire Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things,” American Friends Service Committee & Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change. Also: co-convenor of workshop on “Empire, Race & Fear,” with Rev. Ed Rodman
  
• 2003: “Hannah Arendt with/against Martin Heidegger,” Inaugural Panel, Arendt Circle, The American Philosophical Association/Mid-West

Below are excerpts from two introductions of Dr. Minnich (with appreciation: introductions of speakers are rarely written down as anything other than notes, and they are still more rarely given to the speaker):

“Humanist is what she is, and what she has written of feminist scholarship applies as well to her own work: ‘It is not ivory tower work…it combines thought, feeling, and action.’ It is work which makes connections between theory, practice, and values, and achieves a clarity and wholeness of vision rarely encountered. When Elizabeth talks about philosophy or feminist scholarship or about anything, it is always absolutely clear what is at stake, what the issues are, why it matters, why we should care.”

“It has been a long-time goal of mine to get Elizabeth Minnich all to ourselves…I have heard her talk to a thousand at lunch; to several hundred in a meeting; to sixty in a seminar. Always the clear, hard edge of her thought and the relentlessness of her conclusions marks her as one whose training as a philosopher has enabled her to look at old questions in new ways and to discover, as well, what the new questions are with an energy and clarity that can’t be ignored…She is the consummate academician in a broader, older tradition than we now know. Thinker, scholar, writer, speaker, administrator, she moves nationally and internationally in an extraordinarily demanding schedule.”