---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gail Chester <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:59 AM Subject: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology To: [email protected] ** You are invited to the latest event in our series of cafe discussion events on the politics of technology (see below for list of subsequent events). These events are preparing for a three-day gathering on the politics of technology in May 2014. NB There will be a discussion group at 6pm at Fairly Square Bar and Cafe on basic issues in the politics of technology which is open to all. Please forward this info to appropriate lists, FB groups etc. Apologies for cross-posting. Best wishes Gail Chester Luddites200: www.luddites200.org.uk Breaking the Frame 3: Gender and the Politics of Technology [image: megamachinetoplow] In the home and at work, women and men have different relationships to technology. Women have traditionally been excluded from science and engineering and are put in the role of users and operators of new technology. Do technologies like IVF and domestic machinery really benefit women or entrench their existing social roles? How do shifts in technology affect the oppression of women? When: 7pm September 9th 2013 Where: Fairly Square Bar & Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF Introductions from: - Cynthia Cockburn <http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/>, feminist activist and author of Machinery of Dominance, Gender and Technology in the Making, and Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change - David King Human Genetics Aler <http://uk-mg42.mail.yahoo.com/neo/>t - Connie Hunter Women's Environmental Network <http://www.wen.org.uk/> For the full list of forthcoming events, see below or visit the Breaking the Frame blog <http://breakingtheframe.org.uk/?page_id=12>. For more information contact [email protected]. The Breaking the Frame series: discussions on the politics of technology Technology dominates our world, but many people think ‘its just a neutral tool’ or that technology equals progress. Although it does, of course, bring benefits, technology is largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and patriarchal elites to serve their interests and exert their power. To prepare for a gathering next May, we are organising a series of monthly events to look at the technology politics of food, energy, work, war, the economy, health etc. Gender issues are part of our analysis from the beginning and are included in all of our meetings. There will be speakers from campaigning groups and lots of time for discussion. July 8th Technology out of control? Drones, killer robots and the arms trade August 12th Nuclear Power: Climate Chiller or Silent Killer? September 9th Gender and the politics of technology October 14th Economic crisis and austerity: “It’s the technology, stupid” November 11th Food, GM and synthetic biology December 9th Extreme Energy (fracking, tar sands etc), geoengineering, and climate change January 13th The politics of alternative technology and workers’ plans February 10th Digital technology, surveillance and Big Data March 10th Toxics and nanotechnology April 14th ‘Mental health’, big pharma and the new eugenics When: 7pm 2nd Monday of the month Where: Fairly Square Bar and Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF For more information visit the Breaking the Frame blog<http://breakingtheframe.org.uk/>, Facebook: Breaking the Frame or contact [email protected]. _______________________________________________ knowledgelab mailing list [email protected] https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/knowledgelab