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 Physics (University of Vienna) 15.30-17.30: Poster Presentations and experts in the field to join this critical conversation Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences Noa Albelda/Ina Weiner: Early Post-Natal Immune Stimulation about interdisciplinary approaches concerned with sex/ (University of Vienna) 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 Julia Boschmann/Christian Moser: Gender Effects in Brain Mapping persistence of gendered norms and values that accompany Isabelle Dussauge (Uppsala University) Maria Clar: Brain Death and Pregnancy. A Lack of Feminist Analysis the mutual entanglements between brain research, various Anelis Kaiser (University of Freiburg) Kristina Gupta: Pedagogy and Neurogenderings: Teaching academic disciplines and public discourse. "Feminism, Sexuality and Neuroethics" 18.00-20.00: Keynote Grit Höppner/Sigrid Schmitz: Pimp Your Brain! A Question of Hilary Rose (LSE London): Title to be announced Gender? Pharmacological Neuro-Enhancement in Popular Media De/Gendering NeuroCultures Caroline Keller/Lisa Krall: Sex-Specific Intelligence in the Brain. Chair: Sigrid Schmitz 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, Dafna Lotan: Sex Differences in GAS-Related Neuropsychiatric neuromarketing, neurotheology, neuroaesthetics, among 09.00-11.00: Panel I: Empirical NeuroGenderings I Disorders others) in which bio-socio-cultural relations are (re-)nego- Kristina Mead: The Creation of a Feminist Classroom and tiated within research, neuro-(technological)applications, Anelis Kaiser: Ambiguity in Face Gender: an (Im)Possible Science Lab Environment in the New Course: Sex, Gender and and public discourses. Gender aspects have to be taken into Neuroexperiment the Brain account within these endeavours on various levels: their Isabelle Dussauge: Brains, Sex and Queers: an Ideal Saskia Nagel: Changing Brains – Blessing and Burden of empirical significance, the close entanglement of neurosci- Neuroexperiment Knowing about the Brain's Alterability entific research with society, the impact of facts in neurosci- Cynthia Kraus: Neuroimage/in/ing Sex, Gender, and Eva Maria Seidel/Claus Lamm: Mars vs. Venus – a Social ence and neurotechnologies on socio-cultural gender symbo- Inter/Sexuality: a Thought-Experiment Approach to Gender Differences in Competition Ulrike Tanner/Jasmin Unfried: Neuronal Plasticity and Gender. lisms and gendered power relations. Additionally, the hybrid Lisa Scheer/Julian Anslinger: Queer Perspectives on A Content-Analysis of Gender Constructions in the Brain- conceptions of neurocultures have to be questioned in terms Neuroscience and Psychological Studies Plasticity-Concept of J. Bauer of their potentials for disrupting nature-culture dichotomies Chair: Hannah Fitsch Roni Yankelevitch Yahav: The Effects of Post-Natal on both material and epistemological levels. Administration of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor 11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break Fluoxetine on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Rats are VENUE Modulated by Sex Faculty of Physics (1st Floor) 11.30-14.00: Panel II: Image and Politics of the Boltzmanngasse 5 / Strudlhofgasse 4 Cerebral Subject Chair: Katrin Nikoleyczik/Catherine Vidal 1090 Vienna Odile Fillod: Oxytocin as a Proxy for "Maternal Instinct": 17.30-18.00: Tea/Coffee Break The working language is English. No conference fee. Post-Feminism and the Hormones Mystique We ask for online-registration. Edyta Just: Affect. A Critical Cartography from a Feminist 18.00-20.00: Keynote Perspective Svenja Matusall: Social Neuroscience – Gendering Sociality, or (Tel Aviv University): Sex, Gender, and the Brain – CONTACT a Problem of Conceptualization E-Mail: [email protected] Socialising Gender? Karen O'Connell: Law, Neuroscience, and the Gender of "Bad" http://neurocultures2012.univie.ac.at/ Behaviour Chair: Rebecca Jordan-Young