[Sci-tech-public] FW: MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies presents "Futures of Science, Race and Gender"

[David Mindell]

A very interesting colloquium of real interest for STS -- 


MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies invites you to a one-day
conference:

Futures of Science, Race and Gender
http://web.mit.edu/wgs/twentyfive/

Saturday - September 26, 2009
10:30a - 5:00p

MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street,  Room 141, Cambridge, MA 02139

PANEL 1:  10:30am-12pm, 32-141
Mentoring Women: Four Generations of Women Scientists at MIT
Session Chair: Abha Sur (WGS)
Panelists: Molly Potter, Nancy Kanwisher, Rebecca Saxe, and Liane Young
MIT, Brain and Cognitive Science

*LUNCH*

PANEL 2: 1:30-3pm, 32-141
Genetic Testing: Gender, Race, and Medicine
Speaker:   Pilar Ossorio (University of Wisconsin, Law School)
Session Chair: Sandy Alexandre (WGS/Literature)
Respondents: David Jones (STS) & Amy Marshall (MIT Alum)

PANEL 3:  3:30 - 5pm, 32-141
"Race, Gender and IVF in Ecuador: A Reproductive Economy"
Speaker:  Elizabeth Roberts (University of Michigan, Anthropology)
Session Chair: Haimanti Roy (WGS/History)
Respondents: Corrine Williams (MIT Alum) &  Rachel Dillon (ESG, MIT
Alum)

As women scientists expand their ranks in the academy and research
labs, developments in reproductive technologies and genetic testing
open new possibilities for race and gender.  This one-day event
explores the presence of women scientists in research settings; the
effects of emergent medical technologies on women in developing
nations; and the impact of genetic testing on understandings of race.
The event brings together a national cohort of scientists, humanists,
and artists working at the edges of feminist theory and Women's and
Gender Studies to imagine futures of intellectual exchange.

The event also affords the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies
(WGS) an opportunity to celebrate 25 years of operation within the MIT
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.  WGS  is an
interdisciplinary undergraduate Program that provides an academic
framework and broad-based community for scholarly inquiry focusing on
women, gender, race, and sexuality. Exploring gender with the tools of
multiple disciplines, Women's & Gender Studies subjects help MIT
students better understand how knowledge and value take different
forms depending on a variety of social variables. The Program in
Women's & Gender Studies offers an undergraduate curriculum consisting
of core classes and cross-listed subjects from several departments.
There are more than 40 faculty members affiliated with the Program
from fields as diverse as architecture, history, performance, brain
and cognitive sciences, comparative media studies, literature, and
political science.

*Lunch provided to conference participants*
*FREE*
*Open to the public*
*No registration required*

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MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies
14E-316
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617.253.8844
wgs at mit.edu

-- 
Sally Haslanger
Professor of Philosophy
Director, Women's and Gender Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/home.html

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