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Lecture series "Gender and Neuroscience": What Leibniz has to do with binary (sex/gender) categories in neuroscience. Mathematical logic in the methods of computational neurosciences
Dr. Hannah Fitsch (HU Berlin/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M) - 01.12.2021 | 2 p.m.
There has been a desire to formalize the complex structure of the brain and its neuronal processes for some centuries. This talk traces the history of the new approaches by using the concept of the mathematization of perception to show how methods and models from computer science and mathematics have found their way into brain research.
Lecture series "Gender and Neuroscience": Sex & Gender as biological Variables (SABV) - selected foundations
Dr. Mercedes Küffner (Universität Freiburg) - 29.09.2021 | 3 p.m.
Does the historic sex bias in neuroscience and biomedical research still exist? How can we integrate Sex and Gender to improve Human Health? The sexually dimorphic brain, similar to most sex differences, does not fall into a hard binary readout—but rather is on a continuum or spectrum with each cell and each brain region comprised of varying degrees of ‘male' and ‘female' (Hines, 2005; Joel and McCarthy, 2016). Sex and gender are therefore important variables to consider when designing studies and assessing results within biomedical research.
Lecture series "Gender and Neuroscience": Sex/Gender studies in biology - the critical view of sex/gender within the life sciences
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Palm (HU Berlin) - 17.06.2021 | 2 p.m.
Gender studies is primarily characterized by a plethora of studies in the humanities and social sciences on Gender relations. Less well known is the critical sex/gender research within biology that has been taking place since the 1970s, which has been researching the biological foundations of sex/gender, sexuality and sex/gender difference. The lecture presents this biological research on gender with examples and explains the theoretical self-understanding of this research.
Founding of the Equal Opportunities & Diversity Network at OVGU on the 9th German Diversity Day
Click here for the press release --> „WE ARE LOSING ENORMOUS POTENTIAL!" (only in German)
Lecture "Intersectionality - Why Now?"
Nahed Samor (Pro Quote Film) - 09.06.2021 I 18.00 - 19.15
In the keynote address "Intersectionality - why now?", Nahed Samour, legal and Islamic scholar, will give an outlook on why intersectionality is also important for working in the film and television industry.
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