FPR-UCLA Sex & Gender Conference 2015

A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior
October 23–24 (Fri–Sat), 2015 | Neuroscience Research Building | 635 Charles E. Young Drive South, UCLA

TIME	TITLE	SPEAKER
8:45–9:00	Introduction	Robert Lemelson, PhD, President, FPR; Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
9:00–12:30	PART 1: Why Now?	Chair: Art Arnold, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA
9:00–9:45	Gender as Process, Not Trait: Dynamic Systems Approaches to the Origins of Difference in Infancy	Anne Fausto-Sterling, PhD, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University
9:45–10:15	Recent Discoveries and Opportunities for Improved Understanding of Sex-Biasing Biological Factors	Art Arnold, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA
10:15-10:45	Conceptualizing Sex Differences in the Human Genome	Sarah Richardson, PhD, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
10:45–11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15–11:50	From Ritual Sex to Sexual Individuality: Sambia Sexual Culture Change Over 40 Years	Gilbert Herdt, PhD, Founding Director and Professor, Graduate Program in Human Sexuality, California Institute for Integral Studies; Emeritus Director, National Sexuality Resource Center; Professor of Sexuality and Anthropology, San Francisco State University
11:50–12:30	PANEL DISCUSSION	Art Arnold, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Gilbert Herdt, Sarah Richardson, Carol Worthman
12:30–2:00	LUNCH and Film Screening (Bitter Honey: Polygamy in Bali; 81 mins.; Robert Lemelson, director)
2:00–5:15	PART 2: What’s Fixed, Changeable, CHANGING?	Chair: Gilbert Herdt, PhD, California Institute for Integral Studies
	Session 2: Evolutionary, Environmental, and Cultural Contexts of Sex/Gender Differences in Brain & Behavior
2:00–2:25	A Life History Theory Perspective on Neural, Hormonal, and Genetic Correlates of Variation in Human Paternal Behavior	James Rilling, PhD, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
2:25–2:50	Prenatal Stress and the “3-Hit” Theory of Autism	Donald Pfaff, PhD, Professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
2:50–3:50	Film Showing, Tales of the Waria (57 mins; Transgender Women in Indonesia)	Kathy Huang, MA, Filmmaker
3:50–4:20	COFFEE BREAK
4:20–4:45	Gender Roles in Mpimbwe: Re-evaluating Bateman’s Gradient	Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
4:45–5:15	PANEL DISCUSSION	Gilbert Herdt, Kathy Huang, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Donald Pfaff, James Rilling

TIME

TITLE

SPEAKER

8:45–9:00

Introduction

Robert Lemelson, PhD, President, FPR; Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA

9:00–12:30

PART 1: Why Now?

Chair: Art Arnold, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA

9:00–9:45

Gender as Process, Not Trait: Dynamic Systems Approaches to the Origins of Difference in Infancy

Anne Fausto-Sterling, PhD, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University

9:45–10:15

Recent Discoveries and Opportunities for Improved Understanding of Sex-Biasing Biological Factors

Art Arnold, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA

10:15-10:45

Conceptualizing Sex Differences in the Human Genome

Sarah Richardson, PhD, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

10:45–11:15

COFFEE BREAK

11:15–11:50

From Ritual Sex to Sexual Individuality: Sambia Sexual Culture Change Over 40 Years

Gilbert Herdt, PhD, Founding Director and Professor, Graduate Program in Human Sexuality, California Institute for Integral Studies; Emeritus Director, National Sexuality Resource Center; Professor of Sexuality and Anthropology, San Francisco State University

11:50–12:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

Art Arnold, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Gilbert Herdt, Sarah Richardson, Carol Worthman

12:30–2:00

LUNCH and Film Screening (Bitter Honey: Polygamy in Bali; 81 mins.; Robert Lemelson, director)

2:00–5:15

PART 2: What’s Fixed, Changeable, CHANGING?

Chair: Gilbert Herdt, PhD, California Institute for Integral Studies

Session 2: Evolutionary, Environmental, and Cultural Contexts of Sex/Gender Differences in Brain & Behavior

2:00–2:25

A Life History Theory Perspective on Neural, Hormonal, and Genetic Correlates of Variation in Human Paternal Behavior

James Rilling, PhD, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

2:25–2:50

Prenatal Stress and the “3-Hit” Theory of Autism

Donald Pfaff, PhD, Professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

2:50–3:50

Film Showing, Tales of the Waria (57 mins; Transgender Women in Indonesia)

Kathy Huang, MA, Filmmaker

3:50–4:20

COFFEE BREAK

4:20–4:45

Gender Roles in Mpimbwe: Re-evaluating Bateman’s Gradient

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis

4:45–5:15

PANEL DISCUSSION

Gilbert Herdt, Kathy Huang, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Donald Pfaff, James Rilling

TIME	TITLE	SPEAKER
8:35–11:15	PART 2 (cont’d): What’s Fixed, Changeable, Changing?	Chair: Gilbert Herdt, PhD, California Institute for Integral Studies
	Session 3: Intimacies – Toward a Culture-Brain-Behavioral Understanding of Partnerships, Marriage, Sexual Orientations, Desires, and Practices
8:35–9:00	An Evolutionary Perspective on Sexual Orientation, Same-Sex Attraction, and Affiliation	Daniel Fessler, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
9:00–9:25	Social Neuroendocrinology, Gender/Sex, and Sexual Desire: Testosterone as Socially Constructed and Evolved	Sari van Anders, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology & Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
9:25–9:50	Where Does Sexual Orientation Reside?	Lisa M. Diamond, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Utah
9:50–10:15	Technology and Globalization: Emergent Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior	Tom Boellstorff, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
10:15–10:45	COFFEE BREAK
10:45–11:15	PANEL DISCUSSION	Sari van Anders, Tom Boellstorff, Lisa Diamond, Daniel Fessler, Gilbert Herdt
11:15–5:30	Part 3: What’s at Stake? (“What makes a difference and why?”)	Chair: Carol Worthman, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
11:15–2:30	Session 4: What Counts as Adequate Function?
11:15–11:40	Early Androgen Exposure and Human Gender Development: Outcomes and Mechanisms	Melissa Hines, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
11:40–12:05	Embodied Capital and the Sexual Division of Labor: Evolution at Multiple Time Scales	Hillard Kaplan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
12:05–1:30	LUNCH
1:30–1:55	Male Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Emergent Masculinities in the Arab World	Marcia Inhorn, PhD, MPH, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
1:55–2:30	PANEL DISCUSSION	Melissa Hines, Marcia Inhorn, Hillard Kaplan, Carol Worthman
2:30–5:30	Session 5: Sex/Gender and Systems of Power
2:30–2:55	Neoliberalism and the Punitive Turn in Southeast Asia: Implications for Gender, Sexuality, and Graduated Pluralism	Michael Peletz, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
2:55–3:20	The Politics of Reproduction: Evolutionary Perspectives, Contemporary Realities	Carole H. Browner, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Culture and Health, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, UCLA; Member of the FPR Advisory Board
3:20–3:50	COFFEE BREAK
3:50–4:15	Intimate Partner Violence Against Women	Karen Devries, BSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Social Epidemiology, Gender, Violence and Health Centre, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
4:15–4:40	Naturalizing Male Violence and Sexuality	Matthew Gutmann, PhD, MPH, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
4:40–5:30	PANEL DISCUSSION / FINAL REMARKS	Carole Browner, Karen Devries, Matthew Gutmann, Gil Herdt, Michael Peletz, Carol Worthman
5:30	Conference Adjourns

TIME

TITLE

SPEAKER

8:35–11:15

PART 2 (cont’d): What’s Fixed, Changeable, Changing?

Chair: Gilbert Herdt, PhD, California Institute for Integral Studies

Session 3: Intimacies – Toward a Culture-Brain-Behavioral Understanding of Partnerships, Marriage, Sexual Orientations, Desires, and Practices

8:35–9:00

An Evolutionary Perspective on Sexual Orientation, Same-Sex Attraction, and Affiliation

Daniel Fessler, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA

9:00–9:25

Social Neuroendocrinology, Gender/Sex, and Sexual Desire: Testosterone as Socially Constructed and Evolved

Sari van Anders, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology & Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

9:25–9:50

Where Does Sexual Orientation Reside?

Lisa M. Diamond, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Utah

9:50–10:15

Technology and Globalization: Emergent Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior

Tom Boellstorff, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

10:15–10:45

COFFEE BREAK

10:45–11:15

PANEL DISCUSSION

Sari van Anders, Tom Boellstorff, Lisa Diamond, Daniel Fessler, Gilbert Herdt

11:15–5:30

Part 3: What’s at Stake? (“What makes a difference and why?”)

Chair: Carol Worthman, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University

11:15–2:30

Session 4: What Counts as Adequate Function?

11:15–11:40

Early Androgen Exposure and Human Gender Development: Outcomes and Mechanisms

Melissa Hines, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

11:40–12:05

Embodied Capital and the Sexual Division of Labor: Evolution at Multiple Time Scales

Hillard Kaplan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

12:05–1:30

LUNCH

1:30–1:55

Male Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Emergent Masculinities in the Arab World

Marcia Inhorn, PhD, MPH, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

1:55–2:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

Melissa Hines, Marcia Inhorn, Hillard Kaplan, Carol Worthman

2:30–5:30

Session 5: Sex/Gender and Systems of Power

2:30–2:55

Neoliberalism and the Punitive Turn in Southeast Asia: Implications for Gender, Sexuality, and Graduated Pluralism

Michael Peletz, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

2:55–3:20

The Politics of Reproduction: Evolutionary Perspectives, Contemporary Realities

Carole H. Browner, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Culture and Health, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, UCLA; Member of the FPR Advisory Board

3:20–3:50

COFFEE BREAK

3:50–4:15

Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

Karen Devries, BSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Social Epidemiology, Gender, Violence and Health Centre, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

4:15–4:40

Naturalizing Male Violence and Sexuality

Matthew Gutmann, PhD, MPH, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

4:40–5:30

PANEL DISCUSSION / FINAL REMARKS

Carole Browner, Karen Devries, Matthew Gutmann, Gil Herdt, Michael Peletz, Carol Worthman

5:30

Conference Adjourns

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