SATURDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2012

09.00-11.00: Panel III: NeuroCultures and 15.00-17.30: Panel V: Empirical NeuroGenderings II Brain Plasticity Kristina Gupta: “Transsexual Brains”: More of the Same and Victoria Pitts-Taylor: Embodied Simulation and Situated Something New Neurons: Lessons from Feminist Epistemologies Christel Gumy: The Gendered Tools of the Construction of Rachel Weitzenkorn: Disability and the Cerebral Subject the Unisex Adolescent Brain Heidi Maibom/: It's All in the Brain, but not Lise Eliot: and the Development of Sex All of the Time: The Influence of Situation on Gender Differences Differences in Neuronal Activity Emily Ngubia Kuria: Experimenting with Gender. How Science Catherine Vidal: Neuro-Pedagogy against Neuro-Sexism Constructs Difference : Estrogen Receptors in the Brain. A Case for Chair: Emily Ngubia Kuria Situational Neuroendocrinology

11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break Chair: 17.45-18.15: Round-up and Farewell 11.30-13.30: Panel IV: Theory and Epistemology Rebecca Jordan-Young/ of NeuroGenderings

Hannah Fitsch: What Goes around, Comes around: Visual Conference Board Knowledge in fMRI and its Implications for Research Isabelle Dussauge (Uppsala University) Practices Grit Höppner (University of Vienna) Katrin Nikoleyczik: Imaging Matters: An Agential Realist Rebecca Jordan-Young (Columbia University) Account of Neuroscientific Knowledge Production (University of Freiburg) Alexander Stingl: Semantic Gaps, Epistemic Deficiencies, Cynthia Kraus (University of Lausanne) and the Cyborg Gaze: Medical Imaging and Gender in the Katrin Lasthofer (University of Vienna) Perspective of Postcolonial of Science Sigrid Schmitz (University of Vienna) Tara Mehrabi: Visualizing Life, Visualizing Death: a Feminist Materialist Laboratory Study of the Imaging and Bio-Chemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease Organization (University of Vienna) NeuroCultures – Grit Höppner, Katrin Lasthofer, Sigrid Schmitz, Dorith Weber Chair: Cynthia Kraus NeuroGenderings II Contact 13.30-15.00: Lunch Break E-mail:[email protected] http://neurocultures2012.univie.ac.at 13-15 September 2012 University of Vienna THURSDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2012 Sonia Reverter-Bañón: From a Different Voice to a Different PROGRAMME Brain? New Questions for Feminist Theory 17.30-18.00: Conference Opening In co-operation with the Network NeuroGenderings, the Chair: Deboleena Roy Gender Research Office and the Chair in Gender Studies Welcome Note and Introduction host the three-day interdisciplinary international conference VR Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik 14.00-15.30: Lunch Break NeuroCultures – NeuroGenderings II at the University of (Rectorate, University of Vienna) Vienna 13-15 September, 2012. We invite scientists, students Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences 15.30-17.30: Poster Presentations and experts in the field to join this critical conversation (University of Vienna) Noa Albelda/Ina Weiner: Early Post-Natal Immune Stimulation about interdisciplinary approaches concerned with sex/ Sigrid Schmitz (University of Vienna) Leads to the Emergence of Depressive-Like Symptoms in gender and the brain. Accordingly, the aim of the conference Adulthood in Female, but not in Male Rats is to gain particular insight into the transformation or Presentation of the Network NeuroGenderings Isabelle Dussauge (Uppsala University) Julia Boschmann/Christian Moser: Gender Effects in Brain Mapping persistence of gendered norms and values that accompany Anelis Kaiser (University of Freiburg) Maria Clar: Brain Death and Pregnancy. A Lack of Feminist Analysis the mutual entanglements between brain research, various Kristina Gupta: Pedagogy and Neurogenderings: Teaching academic disciplines and public discourse. 18.00-20.00: Keynote "Feminism, Sexuality and Neuroethics" Hilary Rose (LSE London): Title to be announced Grit Höppner/Sigrid Schmitz: Pimp Your Brain! A Question of Gender? Pharmacological Neuro-Enhancement in Popular Media De/Gendering NeuroCultures Chair: Sigrid Schmitz Caroline Keller/Lisa Krall: Sex-Specific Intelligence in the Brain. Modern Determinism in Neuroanatomical Intelligence Research – Naturalising and Legitimation of Sexual Division of Labour With the expansion of the domains of neuroscientific know- Monika Kleedorfer: The Extreme Male Brain – Autism and ledge, today we are witnessing an abundance of emerging FRIDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2012 Gender in Pop Science Discourses neurocultures (such as neuropedagogy, neuroeconomics, 09.00-11.00: Panel I: Empirical NeuroGenderings I Dafna Lotan: Sex Differences in GAS-Related Neuropsychiatric neuromarketing, neurotheology, neuroaesthetics, among Disorders others) in which bio-socio-cultural relations are (re-)nego- Anelis Kaiser: Ambiguity in Face Gender: an (Im)Possible Kristina Mead: The Creation of a Feminist Classroom and tiated within research, neuro-(technological)applications, Neuroexperiment Science Lab Environment in the New Course: Sex, Gender and and public discourses. Gender aspects have to be taken into Isabelle Dussauge: Brains, Sex and Queers: an Ideal the Brain account within these endeavours on various levels: their Neuroexperiment Saskia Nagel: Changing Brains – Blessing and Burden of empirical significance, the close entanglement of neurosci- Cynthia Kraus: Neuroimage/in/ing Sex, Gender, and Knowing about the Brain's Alterability entific research with society, the impact of facts in neurosci- Inter/Sexuality: a Thought-Experiment Eva Maria Seidel/Claus Lamm: Mars vs. Venus – a Social ence and neurotechnologies on socio-cultural gender symbo- Lisa Scheer/Julian Anslinger: Queer Perspectives on Approach to Gender Differences in Competition Ulrike Tanner/Jasmin Unfried: Neuronal Plasticity and Gender. lisms and gendered power relations. Additionally, the hybrid Neuroscience and Psychological Studies A Content-Analysis of Gender Constructions in the Brain- conceptions of neurocultures have to be questioned in terms Chair: Hannah Fitsch Plasticity-Concept of J. Bauer of their potentials for disrupting nature-culture dichotomies Roni Yankelevitch Yahav: The Effects of Post-Natal on both material and epistemological levels. 11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break Administration of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Fluoxetine on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Rats are VENUE 11.30-14.00: Panel II: Image and Politics of the Modulated by Sex Faculty of Physics (1st Floor) Cerebral Subject Boltzmanngasse 5 / Strudlhofgasse 4 Chair: Katrin Nikoleyczik/Catherine Vidal 1090 Vienna Odile Fillod: Oxytocin as a Proxy for "Maternal Instinct": Post-Feminism and the Hormones Mystique 17.30-18.00: Tea/Coffee Break The working language is English. No conference fee. Edyta Just: Affect. A Critical Cartography from a Feminist We ask for online-registration. Perspective 18.00-20.00: Keynote Svenja Matusall: Social Neuroscience – Gendering Sociality, or Socialising Gender? (Tel Aviv University): Sex, Gender, and the Brain – CONTACT a Problem of Conceptualization E-Mail: [email protected] Karen O'Connell: Law, Neuroscience, and the Gender of "Bad" Behaviour http://neurocultures2012.univie.ac.at/ Chair: Rebecca Jordan-Young