New Directions in Scholarship: Science/Gender/Race/Nation

Schedule: 

9:00 am - 9:30 am
Breakfast

9:30 am - 10:00 am
Welcoming Comments

Charis Thompson
Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley; Co-Director of The Science, Technology and Society Center
Barrie Thorne
Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley
Evelyn Glenn
Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley
David Theo Goldberg
Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine; Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Panel 1: Exploring Gender / Race / Nation / Science

Introductions and Chair:
Jessica Davies
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley

Michelle Murphy
Associate Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
Kavita Philip
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, UC Irvine
"Against the Grand Sweeping Gestural Mode: Some Collectivist Interdisciplinary Reflections on Feminist Postcolonial Technoscience Studies"

Commentator:
Juana María Rodríguez
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

12:00 pm -1:00 pm
Lunch


12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
New Directions in Graduate Student Scholarship

Introduction and Chair:
David Winickoff
Associate Professor of Ethics, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley; Co-Director of The Science, Technology and Society Center (STSC)

Ruha Benjamin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Alenda Chang
Ph.D. Student, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Leticia Cesarino
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Janelle Lamoreaux
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology. UC Berkeley
Eric Plemons
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Kelly Rafferty
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley


1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel 2: Special Focus Intellectual Property / Bio-prospecting / Genomics

Introduction and Chair:
Alastair Iles
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Environment in Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM), UC Berkeley; Co-Director of the Science, Technology and Society Center (STSC)

Abena Osseo-Asare
Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley
"Gene-ologies of Tourists, Citizens, and "Tribes" in Ghana"
Jenny Reardon
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
Kimberley TallBear
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, Departments of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM), Gender and Women's Studies, and Rhetoric
"The Genetic Articulation of Indigeneity"
Deborah R. Gordon
Research Specialist, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco
"Producing Ethical Blood in Tuscany for the International Haplotype Map Project"

Commentator:
Cori Hayden
Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley; Co-Director of The Science, Technology and Society Center (STSC)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Closing Comments

Introduction:
Fouzieyha Towghi
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Future Directions:
Adele Clarke
Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of History of Health Sciences, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Joint Cocktail Hour with "International Conference on Global Values for Global Health",
May 5 & 6, 2008, UC Berkeley, PDF-flyer
George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, 230 Kroeber Hall

Contact:
Jessica Davies; Science, Technology and Society Center, UC Berkeley
Phone: 510-642-9656
Fax: 510-642-9466

For directions, please click here.

This event is organized by the Science, Technology and Society Center (STSC), and co-sponsored by The Department of Gender and Women's Studies, The Center for Race and Gender, and The Beatrice Bain Research Group. It is funded by grants from UCHRI and from the Li Ka Shing Fund for Gender and Women's Studies (Program in Gender and Science).

This event is part of the celebration of the
UC Presidential Humanities Initiative's 20th Anniversary.  

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