Gender differences conference
Are there male brains and female brains? And why do we care?
Humans live in a kind of society where gender roles are present in all aspects of our daily lives. Both men and women largely identify with our gender group (assuming a fairly generalisable reality, but without excluding other non-binary realities), which defines our behavior, models our personality and conditions our opinions.
If we are what we think, and the brain is responsible for what we think, then the brain defines us.
Are brains male or female, or as our speaker Daphna Joel argues, our brains are made up of mosaics of male and female characteristics. And why do we care so much about the answers to these questions?
When to go and where?
July 11 from 19:00 to 21:00 at Facultat de Geografia i Història – Universitat de Barcelona (classroom 208)
Before attending to the conference
It would be cool if you do the gender mosaic questionnaire before the event. Explore here your own mosaic and see how it changes when you travel around the world
Speaker
Daphna Joel will present online by videoconference the topic and then she will answer questions from audience
Useful links to follow
Bellow a list of useful links in close relation to the topic of the conference
- Does the brain have a sex?
- The mask you live in
- Cerebros masculinos y femenimos: mito o realidad?
- Female Kurdish fighters take arms against Islamic State extremists
- No More Boys And Girls: Gender Free Kids
- Testosterone Rex
- Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains
- The trouble with girls?