Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
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MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States
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Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
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Button Mash: Gender and Gaming at MIT
MIT Building N25, Room 373 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIssues around gender and gaming, as well as an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play.
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Women in Science
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesComputational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century.
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The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesSarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
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Women in Politics: Representation and Reality
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesWomen are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve. Political consultant Mary Anne Marsh and children/teens book author Ellen Emerson White look at the connections (if any) we can draw between representation and reality.
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The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow are “tweens” represented in popular culture, including music, television, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with--or elide--issues pertaining to race, class, and gender identity?
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Kara Keeling and Wendy Chun speak as part of “Racial Regimes, Digital Economies” symposium
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWith USC's Kara Keeling on "Black Futures and the Queer Times of Life" and Brown University's Wendy Chun on "Racial Infrastructure".
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#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesOperating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
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IAP 2017: Women in Politics Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
MIT Building 4, Room 251 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesCo-sponsored by MIT Libraries and CMS/W.
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Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesAzeen Ghorayshi, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard, and Harvard history of science professor Evelynn M. Hammonds discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to over come them.
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Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesYasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
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Visual Representations of Race and Gender: Analyzing “Me” in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown on Tumblr
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJenny Korn uses critical race theories and intersectional feminist theories to analyze the visual and textual content of the blog #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to reveal constructions of social justice, respectability politics, media biases, racial stereotypes, viral popularity, and hashtag activism on Tumblr.
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Vibranium Culture: Race, Gender, Technology, and History in Black Panther (#WakandaUniversity)
MIT Black Students' Union Lounge (Building 50, Room 105) 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA discussion of Black Panther at the MIT Black Students' Union Lounge, co-organized by Annis Rachel Sands (CMS master's student) and Ángel R. Rodríguez (Harvard University Ph.D. candidate).