CFP Conference: "Interruptions: Sciences, Feminisms, Knowledges"
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
“Interruptions: Sciences, Feminisms, Knowledges”
18-19 April 2014, UC Berkeley
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
(CSTMS)
Conference organization
Harlan Weaver
Veronica Sanz
Feminist Theorists have intervened, interfered, and
interrupted the sciences in many ways over the past severaldecades. On the one
hand, new areas and approaches in science have emerged out of these
interruptions; for example, in the fields of molecular biology and neuroscience
new approaches in the genetics of sex and the understanding of brain activity
have come out of introducing sex and gender analysis into scientific research.
On the other hand, the sciences have also disrupted, shifted, and changed
feminist theories; for example, the nascent field of "feminist materialisms"
partially arised out of a re-reading of quantum mechanics.
This conference seeks to
explore a broad range of these interruptions in order to
think through the kinds of knowledge they produce.
“Interruptions: Sciences, Feminisms, Knowledges” is
organized jointly by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies under the Li Ka Shing Program
in Gender and Science. The conference engages feminist and STS perspectives in
the questions raised by the encounters between, among, in, through, and of
sciences and feminisms. We invite papers from all disciplines addressing a wide
range of issues, including but not limited to the following topics:
Feminist
Science and Technology Studies
· Feminist
Epistemologies
· Queer
Technoscience Studies
· Gendered
Innovations in Science
· Dis/Ability
and Feminist Science Studies
·
Anthropology of Science
· De-colonial
and Anti-colonial Technoscience
· Indigenous
Knowledges and Sciences
· Folk
Sciences /Prosaic and Mundane Sciences
·
Participatory /Community-based Research
· Affective
Ecologies
·
Afrofuturisms
· Science(s)
Multiple
New Feminist Materialisms
· New Media
and Digital Technologies
· Politics of
Touch/Encounters
·
Involutionary Readings
·
Onto-politics /Onto-Epistemologies /Worldings
· Queer and
Trans Ecologies
·
Human-Animal Studies
· Science
Fictions/ Speculative Fabulations
· Religion,
Feminisms, and Science
· Critical
Race Studies and the Sciences
· Sexualities
and Sciences
· Feminist
Science Studies and Nationalisms
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words for
20-minute presentations to harlanweaver@berkeley.edu
orveronica.sanz@berkeley.edu
before January 15, 2014. We encourage submissions of different formats, from
traditional paper presentations to video, performances, conversations,
interviews, or other alternative formats. If your submission is a non-paper
format, please specify your media needs. We also highly encourage submissions
from graduate students and early-career scholars.
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