GSE Program -- March 2018


 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARAB REGION CONSORTIUM

GENDERING STEM EDUCATION 

March 9, 10, 11, 2018

International Center, University of California, Davis 

Funded by UC Davis Global Affairs, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Letters and Sciences, College of Engineering, Student Affairs, in partnership with American University of Beirut (AUB), American University in Cairo (AUC), Lebanese American University (LAU), Birzeit University, American University in Sharjah (AUS)

March 9, 2018:  International Center, Third Floor Board Room 3130 

8:30-9:00      Registration

9:00-9:30      Welcome 

  • Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor Joanna Regulska, Global Affairs and Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, UC Davis
  • Chancellor Emeritus, Linda P.B. Katehi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis
  • Associate Vice Provost, Fadi Fathallah, Global Education and Services, Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
  • Suad Joseph, Director UCDAR, Distinguished Research Professor, Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, UC Davis

9:30-11:30     Round Table: How Science is Gendered in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, & United Arab Emirates

  • Iman Osta, Assistant-Dean, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Education, Lebanese American University(LAU)
  • Livia Wick, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department, American University of Beirut (AUB)
  • Martina Rieker, Director, Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies The American University in Cairo (AUC) via Zoom
  • Hanan Sabea, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (AUC) (Dr. Sabea will participate via Zoom)
  • Ghada Karaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Birzeit University (BZU)
  • Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, Professor, Literary and Cultural Theory and Gender and Women’s Studies (AUS) (Possibly via Zoom)

11:30-12:00      Walk to Student Community Center

12:00-2:00        Public Lunch Roundtable: Gendered/Intersectional Perspectives on Science

                         Student Community Center Multi-Purpose Room

  • Suad Joseph, Director UCDAR, Distinguished Research Professor, Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, UC Davis
  • Linda Bisson, ADVANCE Associate Director, and Policy and Practices Review Initiative Co-Director, Professor and Maynard A. Amerine Endowed Chair, Department of Viticulture and Enology Davis
  • Mona Monfared, Lecturer PSOE, Molecular and Cellular Biology Dept., UC Davis
  • Iman Osta, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University (LAU)
  • Ghada Karaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Birzeit University (BZU) 

2:00-2:30        Workshop Participants Walk back to International Center Board Room

2:30-3:30        Keynote: Anthropological Engagements with Science, IC Board Room & Zoom

  • Martina Rieker, Assistant Professor and Director, Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Dept., American University of Cairo (AUC)
  • Hanan Sabea, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (AUC) 

3:30-3:45       Break

3:45-5:30       Concepts and Assumptions in Science

  • Linda Bisson, ADVANCE Associate Director, and Policy and Practices Review Initiative Co-Director, Professor and Maynard A. Amerine Endowed Chair, Department of Viticulture and Enology Davis

5:30-6:45       Break 

6:45               Guest picked up at Hallmark Hotel and driven to dinner at home of Suad Joseph

7:00               Catered dinner at Suad Joseph’s home

                      Invited: Global Affairs, Feminist Research Institute, ADVANCE, TRMH

 

Saturday

March 10, 2018:           International Center Room 3119

 

9:00-10:00      Keynote: Gendered/Intersectional Perspectives on Methods in Geology

  • Dawn Sumner, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCD

10:00-12:00    Gendered/Intersectional Perspectives on Methods in Science

  • Ghada Karaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Birzeit University (BZU)
  • Clare Cannon, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, UCD

12:00-1:00      Lunch

1:00-2:00        Gendered/Intersectional Pipeline in STEM

  • Chancellor Emeritus, Linda P.B. Katehi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Davis 

2:00-4:00        Gendered/Intersectional Perspectives on Pedagogy in STEM

  • Iman Osta, Assistant-Dean, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Education , Lebanese American University(LAU)
  • Mona Monfared, Lecturer PSOE, Molecular and Cellular Biology Dept., UCD 

4:00-5:00        Keynote: Gendered/Intersectional Perspectives on Biotechnology

  • Denneal Jamison-McClung, Associate Director, Biotechnology Program Office of Research, UC Davis 

5:00-6:30        Break

6:30                Walk to dinner at DeVere’s, downtown Davis

 

Sunday

March 11, 2018:  Classroom at Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science

9:00-10:30      Facilitator: Suad Joseph, Director UCDAR, Distinguished Research Professor, Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's                          Studies, UC Davis       

Products: online curriculum; online resources/materials; remote courses; papers for publication

 

10:30-10:45    Break

10:45-12:00    Plan Fall 2018 Workshop

12:00-1:00      Lunch in UC Davis Arboretum; Tour Shrem Museum; Mondavi Wine Institute

1:00- 2:00      Grants and Fund-Raising &Assignment of Tasks

2:00-3:00       Visit Shrem Museum or Walk in Arboretum