Imag(in)ing Sex in the Brain

Imag(in)ing Sex in the Brain – Gina Rippon
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Videos from the event

  1. SPEAKER: Jonathan Beller, Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute
  2. SPEAKER: Vanessa Bentley, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
  3. SPEAKER: Hannah Fitsch, Scientific Assistant, ZIFG – Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies, Technische Universität Berlin
  4. SPEAKER: Gina Rippon, Professor and Chair of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Aston Brain Centre, Aston University
  5. PANEL DISCUSSION: Panel Discussion

Event information

March 21, 2016, Buell Hall, Columbia University

Brain images are increasingly important in the scientific and public discourse of sex and difference. Feminist scholars from neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural & media studies discuss how sex/gender gets into brain images, and what we can (and can’t) get out of such images.