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 [3]