Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/23/2015 - 10/24/2015
All Day

Location
UCLA

Category(ies)

• Lecture

Visit the conference website at http://www.thefprconference2015.org for more information about program, speakers, abstracts, and online book exhibit.

Description:
This conference occurs at a critical juncture in sex/gender research in neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and related disciplines. New theories are utilizing a conception of the brain as dynamic, plastic, and adaptable, and of sex/gender brain and behavioral differences as subject to the influence of a broad range of biological, cultural, and social or environmental factors.

In organizing this conference, our aim is to bring the neuro- and social sciences together to consider three cross-cutting questions on sex/gender: why now? what’s fixed/changing/changeable? what’s at stake?

The proposed conference is the sixth in a series of meetings hosted by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) at UCLA. Our mission is to support and advance interdisciplinary and integrative research and training on interactions of culture, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology, with an emphasis on cultural processes as central. Our primary objective is to help articulate and support the creation of transformative paradigms that address issues of fundamental clinical and social concern.

Confirmed Speakers and Panelists

Sari van Anders, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology & Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
Art Arnold, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA (Conference Co-Chair)
Tom Boellstorff, PhD, Professor Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Lisa Diamond, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Utah
Anne Fausto-Sterling, PhD, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies
Daniel Fessler, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Matthew Gutmann, PhD, MPH, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Gilbert Herdt, PhD, Professor and Founder, Graduate Program in Human Sexuality, California Institute for Integral Studies
Melissa Hines, PhD, Professor, Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Kathy Huang, MA, Filmmaker, Tales of the Waria
Marcia Inhorn, PhD, MPH, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Hillard Kaplan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Robert Lemelson, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; President, The Foundation for Psychocultural Research
Michael Peletz, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Donald Pfaff, PhD, Professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, Rockefeller University
Sarah Richardson, PhD, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
James Rilling, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Alice Wexler, PhD, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA
Carol Worthman, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University