GeDiMIRT: Gender Dimension in Physics and Math-Intensive Research and Teaching

21 Jun 2022, 19:00 → 23 Jun 2022, 17:30 Europe/Berlin

Lund University

Eileen Drew (Trinity College Dublin), Thomas Brage (Lund University)

The conference videos are finally published in University Lund’s Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXGHXpAti7oG5QJHfT9qt-rPGrcPAT0ji

 

The final program, with the full schedule and addresses to venues, can be found under "download detailed program" to left.

The registration for the GeDiMIRT conference is now closed.

Overview of conference

In recent years, people have come to the conclusion that excellence in science and technology can be stimulated by integrating sex and gender analysis into research.

Indeed, in sciences that are directly linked to research on human beings or study objects that have a sex (e.g. Biology, Medicine), as well as fields that affect society or human beings directly (e.g. Climatology or City planning) this has been proven by many examples. One excellent entry point into this subject is provided by the Gendered Innovations portal (http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu).

However, in wide areas of physics and other math-intensive research this is not the case, there is currently no accepted idea of how a diversity and gender perspective can be utilised. Resistance to incorporating a gendered perspective is often formulated in a form of the Haraway “God trick” argument, referring to, for example, physics as only what is observed, planets and particles do not have sex or gender, or mathematics is only what is calculated: numbers, figures and formulas again do not have sex or gender.

This conference is organized in the frame of the GENERA Network and shall define a starting point in tackling this major challenge and help defining a convincing approach to get into the mindset that a diversity and gender perspective must be present in these fields of science since teaching, defining research topics, performing research and its application are (wo)man-made.

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Tuesday 21 June

19:00 → 20:00 Reception

Wednesday 22 June

09:30 → 10:00 Opening

09:30 Intoduction by the session chair

Speaker: Thomas Berghoefer (Z_APPEC (APPEC Zeuthen))

09:35 Welcome by the pro vice-chancellor of Lund University

Speaker: Jimmie Kristensson (Lund University)

09:45 Introduction to the GeDiMIRT conference

Speaker: Tomas Brage (Lund University)

09:50 GenderEX - Gender for Excellence in Research

Speaker: Mary Lou O’Neil

10:00 → 13:00 Setting the stage in STEM

10:00 Introduction by the session chair

Speaker: Francesca Primas (ESO)

10:05 Gendered Innovations: Enhancing Excellence in Science & Technology

30min talk + 10min Q&A

Speaker: Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University, US)

10:45 Coffee break

11:05 Necessary Literacy for the Debate about Disciplinary Images and Cultures

30min (online) talk + 10min Q&A

Speaker: Sigrid Schmitz (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

11:45 European Policy Setting on Gender Equality

30min (online) talk + 10min Q&A

Speaker: Anne Pépin (European Commission)

12:25 Short break

12:30 Panel discussion

i. How to quantitatively evaluate the impact of funding policies on excellence in science
ii. Planning a new Manifesto from STEM universities/companies on gender-inclusive STE(A)M education

13:00 → 14:30 Networking lunch

14:30 → 17:30 Theoretical framework for physics and gender. Intersectionality, agency and feminist materialism

14:30 Introduction by the session chair

Speaker: Meytal Eran Jona (Weizmann Insittute)

14:35 Beyond nature/culture division. Karen Barad’s new feminist materialism

35 min talk + 10 min Q&A

Speaker: Aleksandra Derra (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)

15:20 Coffee break

15:40 Unexpected trajectories into a ‘hard’ science: Gender, identity, and culture in physics.

35 min talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Anna Danielsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

16:30 Short break

16:40 Intersectional Approaches to Exploring Identity Politics in Physics: (Un)hidden stories.

35 min talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Lucy Avraamidou (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

18:30 → 19:00 Reception & Welcome drink

19:00 → 21:00 Conference dinner at Grand Hotel

Thursday 23 June

09:30 → 12:30 Overcoming resistance

Three contributions on masculinity, attitutes/resistance and gendered brain

09:30 Introduction by the session chair

Speaker: Eileen Drew (Trinity College)

09:35 Inclusion Really Does Matter: Improving attitudes towards Gender Equality Initiatives among STEM faculty.

35 min talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Ioana Latu (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)

10:25 Short break

10:30 Negotiating Narratives of Diversity and Equity in Physics.

35 min talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Helene Götschel (FU Berlin)

11:20 Coffee break

11:40 What might men and masculinities have to do with physics and physicists?

35 min talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Jeff Hearn (Örebro University, Sweden)

12:30 → 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Structural change

14:00 Faculty Diversity Programs: Best Practices and Worst.

35 min talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Alexandra Kalev (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

14:50 Coffee break

15:10 GENERA Network and its Gender Dimension working group

10min pres + 5min Q&A

Speaker: Thomas Berghöfer (Z_APPEC (APPEC Zeuthen))

15:25 VOICES COST Action - Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality

10min pres + 5min Q&A

Speaker: Dalia Šatkovskienė (Vilnius University)

15:40 NORNDIP - The Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics

10min talk + 5min Q&A

Speaker: Barbro Åsman (Stockholm University)

15:55 Short break

16:00 → 16:45 Analysis & Integration

Panel with all remaining speakers:
What did we learn about the Gender Dimension in Physics and Math-Intensive Research and Teaching?