Organizers
Manduhai BuyandelgerManduhai Buyandelger is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Her book Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Socialism, and the State of Neoliberalism in Mongolia (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) tells a story of the collapse of the socialist state and the responses of marginalized rural nomads to the devastating changes through the revival of their previously suppressed shamanic practices.
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Heidy GonzalezHeidy Gonzalez is the Program Coordinator for the MIT Program in Women's & Gender Studies. Heidy works on project management, fund raising, student life and advising and general administration. She is the co-founder of "Women Take the Reel," an annual film festival that celebrates women's contributions to the film industry.
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Sally HaslangerSally Haslanger is a professor in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. She has published on topics in metaphysics, epistemology and feminist theory, with a recent emphasis on accounts of the social construction of race and gender. Her most recent book is Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (2012).
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Kim SurkanKim Surkan has taught in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at MIT since 2005. Dr. Surkan does interdisciplinary work in queer,
feminist, and new media studies with a humanities focus, and has an article on Stieg Larssen’s Millennium trilogy as part of the Blackwell Literature and Philosophy series. |
Mitali ThakorMitali Thakor is a 3rd year PhD student in the MIT Program in History, Anthropology, & STS. Mitali uses feminist science studies and critical race theory to explore the politics of aid, rescue, and technology development in sex trafficking in the US and Southeast Asia. Mitali has interned at the Microsoft Research Human Trafficking Project and the ILO-Bangkok. Mitali is active with groups supporting care for sexual trauma survivors and sex workers' rights, especially among youth, queer, and immigrant communities.
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