program
Sunday 28 May, 2023
[Arrival Day]
Monday 29 May, 2023
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome
Dr. Agata Ignaciuk (University of Granada), Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander-University), Dr. María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council)
10:00-17:00 Debating New Approaches to Gender in Science and Technology Studies
Section 1 – Dr. Don Opitz (DePaul University)
10:00-11:00 Nuala Caomhánach: [Female] Scientists as Brokers of a Dwindling Nature: Gender, neoliberal subjects and salvaging the Tree of Life.
11:00-12:00 Dr. Carmen Corona-Sobrino: The choice of research topics: are there gender differences?
12:00-12:15 BREAK
12:15-13:15 Dr. Anna Gonzalez Suero: Representing lived experiences of gender through autoethnography
13:15-16:00 MIDDAY BREAK (extended)
16:00-17:00 Tamar Raquel Grosz: Camouflaging Progress with Sustainable Colors – Green Energy a Hegemonic Project
17:30-18:30 Official Opening and Keynote by Dr. Agata Ignaciuk (UGR)
Beyond Vatican roulette: gender, science and natural family planning technologies in communist Poland
18:30-20:00 Reception and Networking Event
Tuesday 30 May, 2023
10:00-17:00 Objects, Materiality, and the Female Body in the Sciences
Section 2 – Dr. Agata Ignaciuk (UGR) and Dr. Elena Serrano (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
10:00-11:00 Beatriz Medori: Raising funds, raising awareness: The women as mediators of the Fight Against Cancer in Portugal
11:00-12:00 Lauren Owens: Managing Fertility and Reproductive Health in Eighteenth-Century France
12:00-12:15 BREAK
12:15-13:15 María Mundi Lopez: History of vacuum curettage in Spain: Medical discourses 1965-1985
13:15-15:00 MIDDAY BREAK
15:00-16:00 Lucía Expósito Cívico: Materiality and Gender: Objects and the scientific treatment of “Bereavement”
16:00-17:00 Smriti Sikri: Sanitary napkins: Technological Development and implications
17:30-19:00 Special Keynotes by Dr. Patricia W. Gitari (Agriconsulting Europe Kenya) and Dr. Fiona Wanjiku Moejes (The Mawazo Institute Kenya):
Women and Science in Africa
Moderation by: Dr. Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA Executive Director) and
Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU)
Wednesday 31 May, 2023
09:00-16:00 Research Spaces Revisited
Section 3 – Dr. Brigitte VanTiggelen (Science History Institute Paris)
09:00–10:00 Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez: The contributions of Spanish women scientists in antibiotic resistance during the 1980-1990s
10:00-11:00 Martyna Miernecka: This women’s work. Gendering Socialists Institutions for Writers in Polish People’s Republic
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-12:15 Gabriela Marino Silva: Women in mathematics on the move: comparing the cases of Brazil and France
12:15-13:15 Lorraine J. Hayman: Women’s Lived Experiences: A Multi-Stakeholder Study on the Nature, Impact, and Responses to Cyber Sexual Violence in Ireland.
13:15-15:00 MIDDAY BREAK
15:00-16:00 Dr. Brigitte Stenhouse: Wafting heavy cargo through unpromising times: Circulating mathematics in scientific households
17:30-20:00 the Alhambra. Meeting point is the Alhambra ticket office at the monument.
2,5 h guided tour to Alhambra and Generalife (in English).
Thursday 1 June, 2023
10:00-17:00 Gender and Engineering: Precedents and Perspectives
Section 4 – Dr. Eleanor Armstrong (Stockholm University)
10:00-11:00 Gül Aydin: The first women engineers of Türkiye in the perspective of gender and engineering: Melek Erbuğ and Sabiha Rifat Gürayman (1927-1933)
11:00-12:00 Dr. Lorea Romero Gutierrez: Women Who Built Paths. Acknowledging Women’s Work in Civil Engineering
12:00-12:15 BREAK
12:15-13:15 Dr. Emily Rees Koerner: Transnational collective action by women in engineering and applied science in the second half of the twentieth century
13:15 -15:00 MIDDAY BREAK
15:00-16:00 Tijana Rupcic: “It’s a Man’s World”: Women and Career in a Video Gaming Industry
16:00-17:00 Kornilia Papanastasiou:
AI and reproductive technology
17:30–19:00 Group Coaching Workshop with Dr. Lilian Tsiavou (Hellenic Naval Academy & ACC/ICF): Women’s Leadership in Academia
Friday 2 June, 2023
09:30-12:15 Finale of the International Summer School on Gender and Science and Opening Plenaries of the International Conference
09:30 Welcome
Prof. Victoria Robles (director of the UGR Women’s and Gender Studies Research Institute) and Prof. Ana Alcázar (deputy director of the UGR Women’s and Gender Studies Research Institute)
09:30–10:30 Plenary: Early Career Scholars Invited Presentations
Sophia Wagemann (Leipzig University): The Search for Female Hormonal Body Types: How the Contraceptive Pill revived Constitutional Research
Sam Fernández Garrido (University of Granada): From smart patient to the hand that touches. A feminist approach to the meanings of contact within the clinical relationship over the last two decades.
11:00-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:15 Plenary: Distinguished Scholar Presentation by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU)
Seduced by radium: Engineering womanhood and manhood in the early 20th century
12:15-13:15 Finale of School and Opening Ceremony of Conference
Dr. Agata Ignaciuk (UGR), Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU), Dr. María J. Santesmases (CSIC)
13:15- 14:15 TAPAS LUNCH