The # FemStemSymposium
The #FemSTEMSymposium 是由. 海蒂R. 刘易斯博士. 安德里亚Bruder to illustrate how the interdisciplinary study of power and inequity necessitates pedagogical and scholarly collaboration among intellectuals in myriad fields within and outside of the academy, not just those that may be more obviously connected than others. The symposium includes free and open lectures and convergence classes co-taught by 科罗拉多大学 professors across disciplines intended to help audiences better examine the crises of our times, particularly those relevant to the relationships between feminism, 科学, 技术, 工程, 和数学.
2022-2023
今年的活动, MATTER AND MEANING: Transdisciplinary Collaboration as Feminist Practice, 是由. Rushaan库马尔, Assistant Professor of Feminist & 性别研究,和博士. 娜塔莉·加高斯内尔导演, Assistant Professor of Physics. “MATTER AND MEANING,” a nod to Meeting the Universe Halfway 博士. 凯伦Barad博士. 戈斯内尔和访问艺术家 Balasubramanian Janani delivering a shared talk based on their 5+ year collaboration across art, 天体物理学, and the spaces between and beyond. They discussed the intentions, 力学, and benefits of sustaining a long-term and rigorous practice of co-creation across disciplines and spoke to how their work activates many of the strategies advocated by scholars in feminist 科学 and 技术 studies. Gosnell and Balasubramanian also presented a talk on their project 的礼物, an immersive installation at the 科罗拉多大学 美术中心.
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2021-2022
This year, the symposium featured Natural Killer cell enthusiast Dr. Bérénice Mbiribindi Nvunabandi, Principal Scientific Re搜索er in Translational Oncology at Genentech and member of the The #BlackInImmuno 董事会. 在获得博士学位后.D. 在感染, 炎症, and Immunity from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Dr. Nvunabandi also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Transplant Immunology Lab.
特别感谢博士. 奥利维亚哈顿, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Colorado COllege, for organizing this year’s events.
2020-2021
2019-2020
This year, the symposium featured a talk by 辛西娅Chapple, Founder and Managing Director of 黑人女孩做STEM (bgd), which was 创建d to provide middle school-aged Black girls with opportunities to learn, 创建, and build confidence in their abilities to become STEM professionals while they are still curious and excited to learn new things. Ms. Chapple was also a former student in Dr. 海蒂R. Lewis' after school program, 塔拉吉亚计划, for Black girls at Lafayette Jefferson High School in Lafayette, IN. In addition to giving her talk and leading a convergence class with Dr. 海蒂R. Lewis' Feminist Theory students and Professor Kadari Taylor-Watson’s Black Feminist Theory students, Ms. Chapple conducted a workshop entitled “Bio技术: DNA Extraction” for Black girls at Horizon Middle School in District 49, 其中包括博士. 刘易斯的女儿. Special thanks to Assistant Principal Elizabeth Dalzell-Wagers for her support with co-organizing the workshop.