New Directions in Scholarship: Science/Gender/Race/Nation
Monday, May 5, 2008
370 Dwinelle, 9:00am - 4:30 pm

9:00 - 9:30 BREAKFAST

9:30 – 10:00 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

10:00 – 12:00 Panel I: Exploring Gender / Race / Nation / Science

Introduction 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

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

12:00 –1:00 LUNCH

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

Introduction and Chair: David Winickoff
Associate Professor of Ethics, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM), 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. Candidate, 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

1:00-4:00 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

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

Deborah R. Gordon
Research Specialist, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco

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

4:00-4:30 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 - 6:30 Joint Cocktail Hour with International Conference on Global Values for Global Health
George and Mary Foster, Anthropology Library, 230 Kroeber Hall

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).