Father Tad
Speaking Engagements
Father Tad's Presentation Topics:
2. Physician Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Pain Management and Hospice
3. End of Life Decision Making: Ethical Decision Making in Sickness and Compromised States, see here
4. Clarifying the Moral Issues Surrounding Brain Death in the Light of Some Contemporary Cases
5. Complicated Cases in Pregnancy and the Principle of Double Effect, see here
6. Thinking Through the Ethics of the Transgender Question, see here
7. The Biomedical Researcher, the Human Embryo and Stem Cells, see here
8. Vaccines, Ventilators, and Other Ethical Challenges of Covid-19, see here
9. The Good of Love & Life: Contraception and Catholicism, see here
10. Welcoming in Truth and Charity: The Church’s Authentic Teaching on Same Sex Attraction, see here
11. The Tattoo Phenomenon and Body Modifications
12. Age-Extension Technologies, Transhumanism and "Building a Better Human"
13. Ethical Issues in AI
14. Two Pharmaceuticals with Interconnected Ethical Issues: The Abortion Pill & the "Morning-After" Pill
Speaker Request Form:
1. To invite Father Tad to speak at your college, university, church, conference or other venue, please download this Speaker Request Form. The form is a fillable PDF, so by clicking on each field, you can type in the requested information.
2. Please submit the completed form as an attachment via e-mail to:
— Father Tad at tad.grd.nsc@aya.yale.edu,
and cc:
— Elizabeth Lee [Media and Events Manager] at: emlfiat@juno.com
Fee Structure:
Deposit
A deposit of 50% of the honorarium must be received in order to definitively hold the speaking date in Fr. Tad’s calendar; otherwise the engagement date should not be considered finalized or secured. A previously agreed-upon date for the speaking event will be provisionally held until the receipt of the deposit, after which the date will be definitively confirmed. The remainder of the honorarium payment for the event is due at the conclusion of the speaking engagement.
Honoraria
In-Person Presentations: $2,750/day.
For the single speaker’s fee, Father Tad can do two different talks in a single day. An inviting group may opt to pair up with another group, split fees and expenses, and arrange for two talks on the same day. Father Tad can then do a talk in the morning, for example, at one venue, and a second talk, on a different topic, later in the day at the second venue.
Father Tad presents on the same topic on the same day only in those situations where the two talks are held at very distantly-separated geographic locations, where it would be impracticable to offer a single event with the expectation that people from both locations would attend. Under such conditions, it may be possible to arrange for a talk at a venue at one end of a large diocese, for example, with the same talk being offered again, later that day, at a different, remote venue on the other end of the diocese.
Father Tad does not offer repeat talks on the same topic for different audiences in the same place, and encourages organizers to seek to consolidate audiences and promotional efforts. For example, if organizers at a high school request the same talk twice, once in the morning for the 11th-12th graders, and once later in the day for the 9th-10th graders, they are requested instead to bring the 4 grades together into a single, all-school assembly, so Father Tad can offer one presentation for both groups.
ZOOM Presentations: 60% of the regular in-person speaking fee.
Additional Charges
Additional charges for reimbursement of related expenses: transportation, mileage (at current IRS reimbursement rate per mile), lodging, meals, shipping services, etc.
Recording of Talks
Father Tad does not permit video or audio recordings of his talks or presentations. Any exceptions must be arranged with him in writing.
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