Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/08/2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Category(ies)
2019 Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Monday, April 8 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Alys Robinson Stephens Center, Reynolds-Kirschbaum Recital Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
Renowned biologist Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling is the 2019 Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar and will be giving her public lecture titled, “Gender/sex, sexual orientation and identity are in the body. How did they get there?”
Dr. Fausto-Sterling is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, where she is also the founder and former director of the Science & Technology Studies Program.
She is a leader in the field of biology and gender development. Her research explores gender, sexuality, race, and technology, with a particular focus on dynamic systems theory, which explores how cultural difference becomes physiological difference. Her dynamic systems approach to human development examines the longstanding nature versus nurture debate and highlights the flaws inherent in that debate.
The event is free and open to the public.