Li Ka Shing Foundation For Gender and Women's Studies

The Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science Archive

Spring 2008:

An inaugural event was held on May 5, 2008. It was a conference entitled New Directions in Scholarship: Science / Gender /Race /Nation, and was held at UC Berkeley. The conference was co-sponsored by the Science, Technology and Society Center, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Beatrice Bain Research Group, the Center for Race and Gender, International and Area Studies, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

The speakers in the morning focused on the theme, "Exploring Gender / Race / Nation / Science." During lunchtime, graduate students from four different departments presented research relating to gender and science. The afternoon panel focused on "Intellectual Property / Bio-prospecting / Genomics." There was a concluding social hour with participants in a parallel conference on "Global Values for Global Health."

Academic year 2008-9:

Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science Keynote Address:

Nature, Nurture, Neither: Reconceptualizing Sex, Gender And Sexuality Anne Fausto Sterling - Professor of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University
Monday, March 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
Lipman Room - Keynote Address, to be followed immediately by a reception

Organized by Gender and Women's Studies Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science; Co-sponsored by Science, Technology and Society Center and Beatrice M. Bain Research Group

Lecture Series

Being Paid To Do A Job, Provide A Service, Or Give A Gift: Egg And Sperm Donors' Perceptions Of Compensation Rene Almeling - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, UC Berkeley/UCSF and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 12:30-2:00 pm 340 Moffitt, BCNM Commons - Lecture

Organized by Gender and Women's Studies Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science; Co-sponsored by Science, Technology and Society Center, Berkeley Center for New Media and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

Invisible Earthlings Speaker: Beatriz da Costa - Associate Professor, Arts, Computation, Engineering Graduate Program, UC Irvine
Introduction: Greg Niemeyer - Associate Professor, Art Practice, UC Berkeley and Berkeley Center for the New Media
Commentary: Ilse Ruiz-Mercado - Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental
Engineering Systems Program and the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:30-2:00 pm
340 Moffitt, BCNM Commons - Lecture

Beatriz da Costa will present her new work, an investigation into the possibilities of relating between humans and members of the lived non-human worlds that we are least likely to recognize as social actors within urban environments: microbes.

Organized by Gender and Women's Studies Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science; Co-sponsored by Science, Technology and Society Center and Berkeley Center for New Media

Academic year 2009-10