Public Lectures 2004-2005- Text Only
Mary Bucholtz
UCSB Linguistics Dept.
Nerd Girls: Nerdiness as a Gender Style Among California Teenage Girls
Wednesday
October 27th
4 - 5 pm
Science North
53-215
"Nerds" opt out of the pursuit of coolness in order to construct an alternative youth style based on intelligence, humor, and eccentricity. For girls, nerdiness resolves several social quandaries, enabling the expression of intellectual ability and permitting styles that are normally off limits as "unhip." This talk explores nerdiness as a gender style among European American female high school students, focusing on how nerdy social practices position nerd girls against the dominant gender order at school.
Mary Bucholtz is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in the study of language and identity, with a particular focus on gender, race, and youth in the United States.
Carla Fehr
Iowa State University
A Lab Coat Can Cover More Than Your Clothes: Objectivity and Women Scientists
Thursday
February 10th
11am to 12pm
Philips Hall
Bldg. 06, Rm. 124
If good science is objective, then why have so many scientific investigations produced knowledge that is obviously colored by sexist social values?
This lecture will address how some traditional notions of objectivity have produced ignorance instead of knowledge, and argue that we can counter this ignorance, and do better science, by treating objectivity as a feature of scientific communities composed of a diversity of members rather than a feature of individual scientists. Diversity has to mean more than increasing the number of women in science. A lab coat can cover more than one’s clothes; it can cover one’s gender and aspects of self that fail to conform to the accepted values in a scientific community. Scientific communities can appear to be diverse, when in practice they are not, and appear to produce objective knowledge, when in practice they do not.
Open student meeting with feminist philosopher of science Dr. Carla Fehr!
Date: Friday, February 11th
Time: 1 pm to 2 pm
Does your gender effect how you “do science”? How powerfully do issues of diversity affect scientific cultures?
Is objectivity possible?
Join Dr. Fehr for a lunchtime discussion about issues of gender and diversity in scientific research and scientific communities! Bring your lunch and your ideas about issues of gender, diversity and science!
Dr. Carla Fehr is an Asst. Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. She holds B. Sc. degrees in Philosophy and Biology and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science. Her research focuses on feminist theory, evolutionary theory, and the philosophy of biology.
Dr. Mary Hums
University of Louisville Kentucky
Sport as a Human Right: A Global Perspective
Thursday, April 28th
4:00 — 5:00 pm
Bldg. 26, Room 104
What role does sport play in the arena of human rights and human rights concerns? How can sports be understood as a human rights issue, particularly within a global context? In this presentation, Dr. Mary Hums will focus on the concept of sport as a human right, as defined by the United Nations, as well as through the Olympic and Paralympic Movements and other various sport organizations.
Dr. Mary Hums is Professor of Sport Administration at the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY and a Research Fellow, Center for Sport in Society - Disability Sport Program, Northeastern U., Boston, MA. Her work focuses on policy development in sport organizations, specifically regarding inclusion of people with disabilities, women, and racial/ethnic minorities in sport management.
