Program
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
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
