Programme

BRIDGES Conference aims to offer a multidisciplinary scientific programme to share different perspectives on Gender in STEM and Social Sciences. This will be achieved through more than 120 communications, 7 keynote talks and 4 round tables.

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Programme

Pre-conference workshops (registration required)

13:30 – 15:00 Madrid time zone	Lunch
Monday \| September 12th
9:00 – 11:00 Madrid time zone	Workshop: (De)construyendo el género y su representación: de la traducción a la creación de espacios seguros. (Antonio Lérida Muñoz) (onsite).
11:00 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Workshop: Participatory methodologies for embodied feminist knowledge (Col·lectiu Punt 6) (onsite).
11:30 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Workshop: Artificial Intelligence systems bias in STEM and Social science research (Francisco Bariffi) (onsite).
11:30 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Workshop: (De)constructing gender and its representation: from Translation to the creation of safe spaces (Antonio Lérida Muñoz) (online).
11:30 – 14:30 Madrid time zone	Workshop: The individual career: beyond the “job for life” model (Haris Saslis) (online)
15:00 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Workshop: Artificial Intelligence systems bias in STEM and Social science research (Francisco Bariffi) (online)
15:00 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Workshop: ¿Qué hacemos ante el acoso sexual, sexista y LGTBIQfóbico en la universidad? (Paula Martín Peláez) (online).
15:00 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Workshop: Feminist epistemology (Sonia Estradè) (onsite).
16:00 – 19:00 Madrid time zone	Workshop: The individual career: beyond the “job for life” model (Haris Saslis) (onsite).
17:30 – 19:30 Madrid time zone	Workshop: Feminist epistemology (Sonia Estradè) (online).
19:00 – 21:00 Madrid time zone	Onsite Ice breaker at the beach / Virtual ice breaker at Gather.town

Main conference programme

11:00 – 11:30 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
Tuesday \| September 13th
9:00 – 10:00 Madrid time zone	Opening by Ángela Rodriguez (Secretary of State for Equality, Spanish Ministry of Equality), Aitana Mas (Vice-president of the Generalitat Valenciana), Juana Navarro (Concejala Delegada de Igualdad, Diversidad y Políticas Inclusiva), María Salomé Cuesta Valera (Vicerrectora de Arte, Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad of the Universitat Politècnica de València) and representatives of the Col.lectiu LGTB Safor-Valldigna association and the organising committee of the meeting.
10:00 – 11:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Jara-Juana Bermejo Vega
11:30 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: Round table – Intersectionality Room B: General Session – Taking action for a better Science: plans, platforms, tools and prototypes
13:30 – 15:00 Madrid time zone	Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Doing intersectional research: challenges and practical considerations Room B: Symposium – Queer Science: LGBTQIA+ perspectives in multidisciplinary research
16:30 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Doing intersectional research: challenges and practical considerations Room B: Symposium – Queer Science: LGBTQIA+ perspectives in multidisciplinary research
18:00 – 19:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Anne Fausto-Sterling

11:00 – 11:30 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
Wednesday \| September 14th
9:00 – 10:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Laura Nuño de la Rosa
10:00 – 11:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: General session – Education and scientific careers: bridging gaps and challenging gender stereotypes Room B: Symposium – Outreach initiatives to increase gender diversity in science
11:30 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: General session – Education and scientific careers: bridging gaps and challenging gender stereotypes Room B: Symposium – Outreach initiatives to increase gender diversity in science
13:30 – 15:00 Madrid time zone	Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Solutions to fight the structural discrimination against women: The case of maternity issues Room B: Round table – Social reproduction and the feminist movement
16:30 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Solutions to fight the structural discrimination against women: the case of maternity issues Room B: Symposium – Gender bias in neurosciences
18:00 – 19:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Gabriela Bortz

11:00 – 11:30 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
Thursday \| September 15th
9:00 – 10:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Joan Roughgarden
10:00 – 11:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Past, present and future of women and gender studies in Archaeology Room B: Symposium – The gendered science
11:30 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Past, present and future of women and gender studies in Archaeology Room B: Symposium – The gendered science
13:30 – 15:00 Madrid time zone	Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: General session – Embracing critical thought: feminist and decolonial epistemologies Room B: Round table – What does it mean to decolonise knowledge?
16:30 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Science and gender: the african perspective Room B: Onsite poster session
18:00 – 19:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Annu Dahiya
21:00 Madrid time zone	Closing Dinner

11:00 – 11:30 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
Friday \| September 16th
9:00 – 10:00 Madrid time zone	Keynote Speaker: Oliver Dangles
10:00 – 11:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Power asymmetries in academic-scientific environments: critical insights into the neoliberal production of knowledge Room B: Online poster session
11:30 – 13:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Power asymmetries in academic-scientific environments: critical insights into the neoliberal production of knowledge Room B: Symposium – Towards inclusive pedagogical foundations of information communication technology curriculum in digital humanities
13:30 – 15:00 Madrid time zone	Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Madrid time zone	Room A: Symposium – Power asymmetries in academic-scientific environments: critical insights into the neoliberal production of knowledge Room B: Round table – Degrowing Science
16:30 – 17:00 Madrid time zone	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Madrid time zone	Room A: General session – An interdisciplinary approach to gender and violence Room B: Forum
18:00 – 19:00 Madrid time zone	Closure

Exhibitors area

September 13th – 14th 09:00 – 18:30 Onsite

September 15th 13:00 – 15:00 Online

In this two days different editorials, ONGs and companies aligned with the conference will be present in the exhibitors area. This will be a space open during the whole day, aimed to learn, interact and generate synergies.