Interdisciplinary Congress „Gendered Ways of Knowing? Gender, Natural Sciences and Humanities“
Date: 1-4 December 2010
Venue: Trento, Italy
Deadline for registration: 10 October 2010
Registration fee: 50 Euros (students: 30 Euros)
The Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference on the development, definition and application of the concept of „gender“ in the research of different academic disciplines, with particular focus on the differences between natural sciences and humanities. 
Further information: http://gender2010.fbk.eu
We would like to invite you to participate in this conference, contributing to our work with your expertise and knowledge, and maybe to chair one of the parallel or plenary sessions. The conference would offer accommodation for the duration of the conference and the registration fee, and it would be our pleasure to invite you to the conference dinner on Dec 2. Travel expenses will be at your responsibility.
In order to be able to plan accordingly, we would like to ask you to reply to <gender2010 [at] fbk.eu> as soon as possible, but not later than October 10.
Programm …

WEDNESDAY Dec 1, 2010
15.00 – 17.00 | Registration
17.00 | Opening of the conference
17.30 – 19.00 | Opening lecture: Barbara Duden (Hannover/D) (public leture)

THURSDAY Dec 2, 2010
9.00 – 10.30 | Plenary: Theresa Wobbe (Potsdam/D), Gendered Ways of Knowing: Open Questions
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 | Plenary: Stefan Hirschauer (Mainz/D), Gender Differentiation in Scientific Knowledge: Cosmologies, Ontologies and Methodologies
14.00 – 16.00 | Parallel Sessions I
16.30 – 18.30 | Parallel Sessions II
20.00 | Conference Dinner
FRIDAY Dec 3, 2010
9.00 – 10.30 | Plenary: Catherine Vidal (Paris/F), The Sexed Brain: Between Science and Ideology
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 | Plenary: Cecilia Asberg (Linköping/SE), Posthumanities as a feminist challenge: Ontopolitics and the Alzheimer’s cultures of the laboratory
14.00 – 16.00 | Parallel Sessions
17.00 – 18.30 | Plenary: Sandra Harding (UCLA/USA), Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Science: Gender Issues
SATURDAY Dec 4, 2010
9.00 – 11.00 | Roundtable discussion (public)
11.00-11.30 | Coffee break
11.30-12.30 | Closing Lecture: Teresa Rees (Cardiff/UK), Mainstreaming Gender in Research: Lessons from Europe (public lecture)
12.30-13.00 | Closing words