4S PROGRAM
“Race and Other Inequalities in/and Science, Medicine, and Technology” Stream
November 1-4, 2001
Thursday
Session 1: 8:30 - 10:00 am
Race in Colonial Science (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Chair: Warwick Anderson, UC San Francisco
- Medicine, Race and State Identity
in Twentieth Century Equatorial Guinea and Spain
Rosa Medina-Domenech, U of Granada - Orientalism, Ethnology and Race:
William Jones in Bengal
Minakshi Menon, Harvard U - The Construction Of Ethnicity
In The Dutch Sickness And Disability Pension Programs
Anja Krumeich and Agnes Meershoek, U of Maastricht - Discussant: Warwick Anderson, UC San Francisco
Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon
2.1 Sub-Plenary: RACE, SCIENCE AND CULTURE
- Chair, Adele Clarke, UC San Francisco
- Technologies of Race: Historicizing
a Boundary Object in Science and Society
Evelynn Hammonds, MIT - Lab Trials: A Tale of Two Reluctant
Activists
Andrew Lawler, Science Magazine - Human Molecular Genetics and
the Subject of Race: Contrasting the Rhetoric with the On-going Practices
in Medicine and Law
Troy Duster, UC Berkeley and NYU - Normal Science? White Noise
Warwick Anderson, UCSF
THURDAY Lunch 12:00-1:30pm – ROYAL CLUB ROOM
Meeting for the Race and Other Inequalities in/and Science, Medicine, and Technology Stream
Session 3: 1:30 - 3:00pm
3.3 Making Race in Modern Medicine (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Chair: Evelynn Hammonds, MIT
- Impotence and Frenzy: Race,
Masculinity and the Discourse of Cocaine Addiction, 1880-1914
Joseph Gabriel, Rutgers U - Milked For All Its Worth: Race
and Nationality in the Medical Wet Nursing Debates of the 19th Century
Chris Rose, UC Santa Cruz - Isolating Delinquency: Medical
and Social Scientific Evaluations of "Normal" and "Abnormal"
Children, 1880-1930
David Noon, U of Minnesota
Session 4: 3:15 - 4:45 pm
4.6 Sorting and Siting Race/Ethnicity (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Chair: Michelle Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Archives and Race: Technologies
of Difference
Orit Halpern, Harvard U - Scientific Practice and the
Hispanic Experience: Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1995 and 1942
Reynal Guillen, UCLA - Solomon's House Divided: Racism,
Environmental Determinism and the Scientific Management of Peru's Marine
Environment, 1939-1954
Gregory Cushman, U of Texas, Austin
FRIDAY
Session 5: 8:30 - 10:00 am
5.7 Race In/and Twentieth Century Biomedicine (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Chair: Steve Epstein, UC San Diego
- The Governance of 'Difference':
The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender In Accounts of Cardiovascular
Risk
Janet Shim, UC San Francisco - The Contagion of Difference:
Race and Disease in a Globalizing Era
Nick King, Harvard U and UCSF - Race, Ethnicity, and Lung Function:
An Examination of the Debate
Lundy Braun, Brown U - Discussant: Steve Epstein, UC San Diego
FRIDAY Lunch 12:00-1:30pm
MEETING OF THE GENDER/RACE CAUCUS
Session 8: 3:15 - 4:45 pm
8.3 Constructing Race/Constructing Science (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Convenor: Wenda Bauchspies, Penn State U
- Chair: Assata Zerai, Syracuse U
- 'The Explication of Whiteness
and Blackness': Skin Color and the Physics of Color in the Works of
Robert Boyle and Margaret Cavendish
Cristina Malcolmson, Bates College - Depictions of Science, Scientists,
and Technological Change in the African American Press, 1940 - 1970
Sean M. Decatur, Mount Holoyoke College
8.13 Why Race Now? (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities) (Roundtable)
- Organizers: Jenny Reardon, Cornell U and Michelle Murphy, MPI
- Helen Verran, U of Melbourne
- Evelynn Hammonds, MIT
- Jenny Reardon, Cornell U
- Claudia Castaneda, Lancaster U
Session 9: 5:00 - 6:30 pm
9.6 Conceiving Race, Constructing Identity: Historicized Futures and Politics of Reproduction (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Convenor: Michelle Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Chair: Deborah Blizzard, U of Pennsylvania
- All Fetuses Created Equal? Sex,
Race, and Fetal Biometry
Ann Rudinow Saetnan, NTNU - Reproductive Technologies and
the Transformation of Racial Identity
Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, UC San Francisco - The Social Construction of Genetics,
Hereditary and Kinship: Interactions Between Semen Bank Technologies,
Users Of Assisted Reproduction, And Cultural Discourses
Laura Mamo, UC San Francisco - The Surprising Reinvention of
Sex in Biomedicine at the End of the 20th Century: The Case of Genomic
Imprinting
Baerbel Mauss, Humboldt U
SATURDAY
Session 10: 8:30 - 10:00 am
10.7 Foreign Scientists and Engineers in the U.S. (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Chair: Roli Varma, U of New Mexico
- Indispensable, Unwelcome, and
Suspected: Chinese American Scientists in American History & Imagination
L. Ling-chi Wang, UC Berkeley - Indian Scientists and Engineers:
Values and Perceptions
Roli Varma, U of New Mexico
10.8 Locating Voice: Community, Technology and the Digital Divide (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Chair: Rebecca Herzig, Bates College
- Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm
Proud, Struggling for an African American Technological Voice
Rayvon Fouche, RPI - Technology Shops and Asset-Based
Community Development
Virginia Eubanks, RPI - Feminist And Union Action Research
As A Challenge To Ways That Changing Technologies Shape Women's Work
Lives
Jan Clarke, Red Deer College - 'Skirting' The Issues: Ideologies
of Straight, White, Male Privilege
Karen L. Tonso, Wayne State U
Session 11: 10:30 - 12:00 noon
11.2 Black Bodies and Science: Exploitation, Inequality and Violence (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Convenor and Chair: Wenda Bauchspies, Penn State U
- "New" Approaches
to the Demography of Inequality: Considering the Intersection of Race,
Class and Gender
Assata Zerai, Syracuse U - Criminal Minded: Black Power
and the Bio-Politics of Violence
Alondra Nelson, NYU - The Political Economy of Black
Bodies: Science, Exploitation, and Accumulation on a World Scale
M. Bahati Kuumba, Spelman College - The Threat of "Race Deterioration":
Nutritional Research in Twentieth Century South Africa
Diana Wylie, Boston U
11.8 Post-Coloniality, Science and Technology in the Americas (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Convenors and Chairs: Claudia Castaneda, Lancaster U, & Cori Hayden, U of Cambridge
- Re-making Torture: Establishing
The Facts Of Torture For The Purposes Of Reparation
Claudia Castaneda, Lancaster U - From Rights Of Possession
To Rights Of Creation: Cloning The Macintosh Computer In Sao Paulo
Ivan da Costa Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Bearing Interest: Bio-Prospecting,
Traditional Knowledge, And The New Corroborative Project
Cori Hayden, U of Cambridge
Session 13: 3:15 - 4:45 pm
13.12 Dark Matters of Desire: Science, Technology and Race (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Convenor: Wenda Bauchspies, Penn State U
- Chair: Rayvon Fouche, RPI
- Anti-racist Technophilia
Ron Eglash, RPI - Whose Fetish?: Science and
Technology in West Africa
Clemente Abrokwaa and Wenda Bauchspies, Penn State U - The Figure of the Prostitute
in Science Writing
Julia Loughlin and Charleen Tuchovsky, Syracuse U - Discussant: Rayvon, Fouche, RPI
Session 14: 5:00 - 6:30 pm
14.1 Teaching Race in/and Science, Technology and Medicine: A Roundtable (Theme: Race and Other Inequalities)
- Convenor and Chair: Adele Clarke, UC San Francisco
- Boundaries and Futures for
the RaceSci Website
Evelynn Hammonds, MIT; Michelle Murphy, Max Plank Institute - Teaching Race and Gender through
Everyday Technologies (for Undergraduates)
Susan Leigh Star, UC San Diego - Combining the Canon and Cutting
Edges: Teaching Race and Gender at the Graduate Level
Adele E. Clarke, UC San Francisco - Theory and Race in the Modern
African Academy
Helen W. Verran, U of Melbourne
