Please join us for an exciting upcoming series:

Gendered Innovations & Secret Cures of Slaves

Lectures and Workshop with Stanford University's

Dr. Londa Schiebinger

(John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science; Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment)

October 23-24, 2019 | University of Alberta

• Gendered Innovations in Medicine, AI, and the Environment
  Weds Oct 23 | 12:00-13:30 | SAB 3-21 [ADD TO CALENDAR]
• Gendered Innovations Workshop: How Integrating Sex and Gender Analysis into Research Enhances Excellence and Discovery
  Weds Oct 23 | 15:00-16:30 | Telus 134 [ADD TO CALENDAR]
• Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 
  Thurs Oct 24 | 12:30-14:00 | CAB 235 [ADD TO CALENDAR]

Space is limited. Please RSVP.

Co-sponsored by Energy Systems and Intersections of Gender. ​Made possible by generous contributions from the Faculty of ALES, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Kule Institute for Advanced Study, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of History and Classics, Department of English and Film Studies, and the Department of Sociology. 

Gendered Innovations in Medicine, AI, and the Environment

Weds Oct 23 | 12:00-1:30 p.m. | SAB 3-21

In this talk, Dr. Schiebinger identifies three strategic approaches to gender in research, policy, and practice: 

1. "Fix the Numbers of Women" focuses on increasing women's participation; 
2. "Fix the Institutions" promotes gender equality in careers through structural change in research organizations; and 
3. "Fix the Knowledge" or "Gendered Innovations" stimulates excellence in science and technology by integrating sex and gender analysis into research. 

This talk focuses on the third approach. Dr. Schiebinger will discuss several case studies, including health & medicine, gender and fairness in machine learning, gender and the environment. To match the global reach of science and technology, Gendered Innovations was developed through a collaboration of over a hundred experts from across the United States, Europe, Canada, and Asia. They are now moving into South America and South Africa. Major funders for Gendered Innovations include the European Commission, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Stanford University. 

Space is limited. Please RSVP.

Gendered Innovations Workshop: How Integrating Sex and Gender Analysis into Research Enhances Excellence and Discovery

Weds Oct 23 | 3:00-4:30 p.m. | Telus 134

In this workshop directed at faculty, postdocs, and advanced graduate students Dr. Schiebinger will discuss state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis developed by the Gendered Innovations project. She will apply these methods to specific case studies, to policy for granting agencies, and to university curriculum development in STEMM fields. 

Space is limited. Please RSVP.

Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 

Thurs Oct 24 | 12:30-1:50 p.m. | CAB 235 

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this lecture Dr. Schiebinger draws upon her 2017 book (Stanford UP) that examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. She traces the development of a colonial medical complex from the 1760s, when a robust experimental culture emerged in the British and French West Indies, to the early 1800s, when debates raged about banning the slave trade and, eventually, slavery itself. 

Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal. Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles, Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. Schiebinger analyzes how and why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret. 

Space is limited. Please RSVP.

How can we harness the creative power of gender analysis for discovery and innovation? 

Gendered Innovations at Stanford University has developed practical methods of sex and gender analysis for STEMM, and provided case studies as examples of how sex and gender leads to discovery and innovations. The project highlights case studies, ranging from stem cell research, to osteoporosis research in men, to inclusive crash test dummies, social robots, machine learning, menstrual cups, nutrigenomics, and assistive technology for the elderly. 

Dr. Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University, and Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment project. Her research interests include current issues on gender and ethnicity in STEM and also early modern Atlantic World history. She is a leading international expert on gender in science and technology and has addressed the United Nations on the topic of “Gender, Science, and Technology.” Her work on Gendered Innovations harnesses the creative power of sex and gender analysis to enhance excellence and reproducibility in science and technology. 

Questions? 

Please don't hesitate to email us at intersectionsofgender@ualberta.ca. We look forward to celebrating with you.