[bioundgrd] Reminder: Boston Colloquium Tomorrow at 10am: Are Men and Women Like Different Species?

[Joyce Roberge]

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science presents

Are Men and Women Like Different Species? Critical Perspectives on Sex-Difference Research

Friday, April 27, 2012,
10am-5pm
Barristers Hall, The Law School,
765 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston University


“The Politics of Sex-Based Biology: Categories, Standards, and the Logics of Inclusion and Difference”
 Steven Epstein, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

“How Social Meanings Drive Scientific Investigation (And Vice Versa)”
                   Helen Longino, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University

“Conceptualizing Sex Differences in the Human Genome”
Sarah Richardson, Department of the History of Science, and Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality, Harvard University

“Trading Essences for Potential: Feminist Moves Against the Homunculus in the Hormones”
 Rebecca Jordan-Young, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College

“Gender Identity In Children: Formulating a Dynamic, Developmental Model”

Anne Fausto-Sterling, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University



Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Center for Philosophy and History of Science.



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Center for Philosophy & History of Science
745 Commonwealth Ave., Rm 506
Boston University Boston, MA 02215
p: (617) 353 2604
f: (617) 353 6805
http://www.bu.edu/cphs

Joyce Roberge
Undergraduate Program
Biology Education Office 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-4718
fax: 617-258-9329
email: roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>





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