Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering Conference

Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender is hosting a National Science Foundation-funded conference on how the tools of gender analysis, when turned to science, medicine, and engineering, can have a profound effect on human knowledge. This two-day conference to be held at Stanford University will focus on specific ways in which gender analysis has sparked creativity in particular fields of science. Examples of the success of gender analysis come from fields, such as medicine, biology, and archaeology. It will be the goal of this conference to highlight and analyze these successes. Questions remain concerning whether gender analysis has anything to offer physics, mathematics, computer science, or chemistry—issues we will also address. The question is how can an understanding of how gender operates in science and engineering open new questions and fields for future research.

Confirmed Speakers:

Londa Schiebinger,

Barbara D. Finberg Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Professor of History of Science, Stanford University, introductory lecture

Margaret W. Conkey,

Class of 1960 Professor of Anthropology and Director, Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, on archaeology

Nicole Dewandre,

Civil Engineer, Head of the Scientific Advice and Governance, European Commission, Brussels, on requiring gender analysis in basic research funded by the European Commission

Sabine Gieske,

Gender and Equality for Women in the Natural Science and Technology, German Aerospace Center, Bonn, on policy

Phyllis E. Greenberger,

Society for Women's Health Research, Washington, DC, on US government initiatives in women's health

Moderator/Comment: Marcia Stefanick,

Professor (Research) of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford

Sue V. Rosser,

Professor and Dean of the Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech, gender in biology and/or discussion of NSF ADVANCE Program

Moderator/Comment: Virginia Walbot,

Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

Tatiana Butovitsch Temm,

YCC Communications Manager, Volvo, to discuss the all women-designed car

Moderator/Comment: Sheri Sheppard,

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Lucy Suchman,

Professor of Sociology, Co-director, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University, UK, on computer science

Moderator/Comment: Charis Thompson,

Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Meg Urry,

Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University, on cosmology/astrophysics

Moderator/Comment: Sarah Church,

Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford

Alison Wylie,

Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, on archaeology