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Location: MIT Stata Center - 32D-461 (Map)


8:30 AM - Registration
    Light refreshments available

9:00-9:15 AM - Introductory Remarks 
        Emma Teng, Associate Professor of Asian Civilizations, Director of Program in Women's and Gender Studies, MIT

9:15-10:45 AM - Session 1: LABOR 
    Student Panelists: 
       "Who Was the User? Gender on the Personal Computing Frontier"
        Joy Rankin, Yale University
       "Getting MADD: Mothers, Drunk Driving, and Changing Views of Driving Safety"
        Renée Blackburn, MIT
    Discussant: 
        Miliann Kang, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
    Moderator:
        Abha Sur, Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies, MIT

10:45-11:00AM - Break

11:00AM-12:30PM - Session 2: SEX + BODIES 
    Student Panelists: 
       "Online Moral Economy of Sex Selection in Women's Club, Turkey"
        Burcu Mutlu, MIT
       "Carceral Biopolitics and the Traffic in Child Pornography"
        Mitali Thakor, MIT
    Discussant: 
        Ruha Benjamin, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University
    Moderator: 
        Erica Caple James, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT

12:45-2:15PM - LUNCH + KEYNOTE
    Introductory Remarks:
        Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and STS, MIT
    Keynote: 
        Kim Fortun, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic University

2:30-4:00PM - Session 3: DATA 
    Student Panelists:       
       "Gender Binaries and the Ideological Affordances of Data Activism"
         J. Nathan Matias, MIT
       "From @big_ben_clock to @BiCuriousRover: Twitter, Posthumanism, & the Voicing of Technological Objects"
        Amy Johnson, MIT
    Discussant: 
        Mary Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
    Moderator:
        T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT

4:15PM - Closing Remarks 
        Heather Paxson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT

4:30PM - Reception 

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