Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure
May 4-5, 2017
UCLA
FREE and OPEN to the public!
Travel Grants are available for non-UCLA graduate students and independent scholars to attend the Symposium! If you would like to apply, please visit our Travel Grants page.
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Sign-language interpretation will be available at Florence Williams’s keynote address on May 4 at 4pm in the Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room.
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Symposium Schedule
Subject to change. Please check back regularly for updates.
For speaker biographies and abstracts, visit www.csw.ucla/ce-abstracts
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Main Conference Room (Room 11360), Charles E. Young Research Library
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Keynote Address and Reception
Welcome
Laura Gomez, Interim Dean, Division of Social Sciences
Rachel C. Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Keynote Address
The Burden of Breasts: Gender, Chemical Exposures, and Changing Bodies
Featuring Florence Williams
Award-winning journalist Florence Williams is the author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History and The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative.
Moderator: Rachel C. Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Sign Language Interpretation will be available at the Keynote Address.
Friday, May 5, 2017
Jan Popper Theatre, Schoenberg Music Building
8:30 – 9:15 AM
Breakfast
9:15 – 9:30 AM
Welcome
Jessica Cattelino, Associate Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
9:30 – 11:00 AM
Panel Session 1:
David and Goliath
Activists from multiple disciplines have allied together to approach the complex issue of ubiquitous environmental chemical exposures and protest the under-regulated chemical industry. How have different minority groups played a role in these conversations? What successes and failures have advocates experienced in their long battle seeking justice in various regulatory systems?
Community-Based Responses to Urban Oil Drilling
Martha Dina Arguello, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: Sex differences and reproductive health effects in animal models
Andrea Gore, Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas at Austin
From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men
Tyrone Hayes, Professor, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Chris Kelty, Professor, Institute for Society and Genetics, Information Studies, and Anthropology, UCLA
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
Panel Session 2:
Everyday Life, Everyday Labs
There are many mechanisms, models, and methodologies for understanding the impacts of chemical exposure. This panel challenges traditional formats of research and interrogates intersectional concepts of endocrine disruption, environmental justice, and science communication.
From Fire Water to Toxic Water: Navajo Politics of Permeability
Teresa Montoya, Anthropology, New York University
Paean to Bicillin L-A ® and the End of Harry Harlow’s rhesus monkey experiments
Peggy Munson, Artist, Writer, Activist
Sickly Green: A Parable of Carpet and the EPA
Liza Grandia, Associate Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis
What is hindering regulation of endocrine disruptors?
Ana Soto, Professor, Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology, Tufts University School of Medicine
Moderator: Ursula Heise, Professor, English and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:15 – 3:45 PM
Panel Session 3:
Diagnosis and Destigmatization
How are the impacts and responsibilities associated with chemical exposures aligned or conflicting with gendered roles? This panel will focus on topics such as reproduction, access to medical care, precautionary consumerism, and the gendered marketing of products.
Canaries in the Coal Mine: We Need One Another as Never Before
Jesse Cohen, Artist, Canaries
Dying to Be Beautiful: A conversation about race, class, and the rise of beauty industry at the risk of our health
Nourbese Flint, Policy Director, Black Women for Wellness
Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance: An Emerging Disease Process
Shahir Masri, Assistant Specialist in Air Pollution Exposure Assessment and Epidemiology, UC Irvine
Moderator: Joel Braslow, Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, History, and Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, UCLA
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Panel Session 4:
Transgenerational Effects: Policy and Pedagogy for the Next Generation
Chemical exposure affects and transcends generations; parents are relied upon to avoid exposure both for themselves, during their lives and during pregnancy, and also as caretakers of their children. This panel investigates the intersection of these issues with community-based activism, regulation, and policy through a temporal lens.
Healthy Environments Build Healthy People
David Crews, Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
From Bhopal to Late Industrialism and EcoEd
Kim Fortun, Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The New Chemical World: Risk Analysis Challenges for Policy Makers
Karim Ahmed, Director, National Council for Science and the Environment
Intergenerational Impacts, Intergenerational Struggle: The Exide Legacy as a Community Based Case Study
mark! Lopez, Executive Director, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Moderator: Hannah Landecker, Director, Institute for Society and Genetics, and Associate Professor, Sociology, UCLA
5:30 – 6:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Rachel C. Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
This will include the premiere presentation of educational videos created by the Center for the Study of Women Undergraduate Student Group
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Closing Reception
Dickson Court South (located in front of Schoenberg Music Building)
Co-sponsored by:
- UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
- UCLA Council on Research Trans-Disciplinary Seed Grant
- UCLA Office of Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs
- UCLA Social Sciences Dean’s Faculty Opportunity Fund
- Environmental Health Sciences
- Center for Occupational & Environmental Health
- Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)
- Institute for Society and Genetics
- Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
- Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
- Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (LOSH)
- Muriel C. McClendon, Social Sciences Equity Advisor (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Office)
- Paul Barber, Life Sciences Equity Advisor (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Office)
- School of Nursing
- UCLA Division of Social Sciences
- Charles E. Young Research Library
- LGBT Campus Resource Center
- Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Get Involved:
JOIN OUR WORKING GROUP: Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines meet quarterly to discuss issues related to gender and exposure. Learn how to join here.
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