Academics
Events
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Thursday, March 6, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. in the McCarthy Recital Hall:
A lecture by Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles, and the 2007-2008 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Sciences From Below: An Introduction to Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies
Sandra Harding is professor of education and women’s studies, and from 1996 to 2000 was director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. A philosopher of science, she taught at the University of Delaware, 1976-1996, prior to joining the faculty at UCLA. She co-edited the journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005 and is the author or editor of fifteen books and special journal issues. Among them are Science and Social Inequality; Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms and Epistemologies; Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?; The Science Question in Feminism; and Sciences from Below: Gender, Imperialism, and Modernity (forthcoming, spring 2008).
She has been a consultant to several United Nations organizations, including the Pan American Health Organization, UNESCO, the U.N. Development Fund for Women, and the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development. She was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Costa Rica, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Asian Institute of Technology.
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Friday, April 11, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. in the McCarthy Recital Hall:
Induction of our new Phi Beta Kappa class and lecture by Professor Donna Bozzone. Reception to follow in the McCarthy lobby.