"Queer Science"

Submitted by UMICH on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 11:13am
Member Organization: 
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Date/Time: 
10/03/2012

During the 2012-13 academic year, the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) presents several events tied to it's Program on Feminist Science.

This kick-off event features:

Jennifer Terry (Associate Professor of Women's Studies, UCIrvine) speaking on "Could Inter-species Affection Be a Model for Queer Science?"

Paul Vasey (Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Lethbridge) speaking on "Japanese Macaques and Samoan fa'afafine: What Cross-species and Cross-Cultural Research Tells Us about the Evolution of Non-conceptive Sex"

U-M discussants are Terri Conley (Psychology and Women's Studies) and Eric Plemons (Anthropology)

For complete information: http://irwg.research.umich.edu/funding/seed.html