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* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies 14E-316 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 617.253.8844 [email protected] -- 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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