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Einrichtungen >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >> Department Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie >> Institut für Soziologie >>
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The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi, Dr. Ekaterina Rybkina
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Online/Präsenz
2 SWS
für FAU Scientia Gaststudierende zugelassen, Sprache Englisch, Blockseminar
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermine am 29.4.2022 14:15 - 15:45, 05.013; 28.5.2022, 29.5.2022, 2.7.2022, 3.7.2022 10:00 - 15:00, Zoom-Meeting
- Inhalt
- Do things have gender? What an unthinkable question especially to space engineers who put astronauts on the moon; to artificial intelligence researchers who construct humanoid robots to assist humanity in saving the planet; to physicists who investigate nature inside a scientific laboratory; to surgeons who struggle to save human lives in state-of-the-art operating theaters. Yet, what seems “unthinkable” to practitioners in science, technology and medicine, has been common knowledge to scholars working in the humanities and the social sciences: things could be and are gendered. This course addresses the processes of gendering things. It is an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, in other words, gender and contradictory cultural, economic and social values and meanings attributed to epistemic and technological objects. Focusing especially on all those things that lie on laboratory benches, engineers’ workshops and medical facilities, our goal is to expose the practices that attribute gender not only to objects but to whole disciplines as well.
During the course we will bring together scholarship from Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Materialism. Students will be asked to read and present published and unpublished work on the topic. Papers will be pre-circulated and discussed in class. During the course we will have the chance to discuss directly with the authors of some of the readings.The course is an advanced seminar (Hauptseminar) and is offered for MA and advanced BA students of social sciences and humanities. Students of natural and technical sciences are welcome. As we will have international guests and speakers, the course will take place mainly on Zoom after an introductory session in attendance. Objectives
The course aims
1. to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of gender biases in science and technology through the study of their materiality
2. to trace gender practices that traverse scientific knowledge in order to undermine students’ perceptiveness of science as neutral
3. to equip students with those skills necessary to engage with the key debates in Gender Science, Feminist Materialism and Technology Studies
4. to convey a historical understanding of science and technology as materialized social constructs and to emphasize the importance of technological actors, of artifacts and of new sites of technological activities for our lives. Course Requirements
1. Regular attendance
2. Participation in course discussions
3. a presentation of one of the readings during the course
4. A choice between a home exam and a final written or multimedia project. Group projects are an option.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Die Anmeldung erfolgt von Montag, 18.4.2022, 8:00 Uhr bis Sonntag, 8.5.2022, 24:00 Uhr über: mein Campus.
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