Workshop: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Prague/Liblice 13–15 October 2022

 

Organisers: Research initiative Political Epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe (PECEE), Erfurt, Leipzig, Prague, Vienna

Evening lecture:

Aleksandra Derra (Toruń): The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge

The evening lecture takes place in Prague, 13 October 2020 or via Zoom:

Link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldeqopz4tE9ZZOD25hpuKbOcPhta5Sblc

The main part of the conference will take place in Liblice onsite.

For more information., please contact surman@mua.cas.cz, karin.reichenbach@leibniz-gwzo.de; dietlind.huechtker@univie.ac.at

 

Concept

 

More than 30 years ago, Donna Haraway published her iconic essay “Situated Knowledge. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, where she discusses the issue of objectivity in feminism. She understands “objective knowledge” as bound to a specific historical point in time and space – precisely as “situated knowledge”. While Haraway was primarily concerned with defining the relational positioning of feminism and science, the concept of “situated knowledge” has grown into a central notion in gender studies. By now, it seems necessary to reflect about its relevance today, considering the differentiation of gender related debates from feminism to queer theories, to trans­activism and beyond, but also in the face of current social challenges like hate speech and fake news, conspiracy theories and public questioning of established scientific values.

 

Thus, the conference “Gendering Epistemologies” wants to discuss how gender-shaped (especially scientific) knowledge and truth claims are tied to gender (politics) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

Workshop: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge

Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Prague/Liblice 13–15 October 2022

Organisers: Research initiative Political Epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe (PECEE), Erfurt, Leipzig, Prague, Vienna

Evening lecture:

Aleksandra Derra (Toruń): The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge

The evening lecture takes place in Prague, 13 October 2020 or via Zoom:

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldeqopz4tE9ZZOD25hpuKbOcPhta5Sblc

The main part of the conference will take place in Liblice onsite.

For more information., please contact surman@mua.cas.cz, karin.reichenbach@leibniz-gwzo.de; dietlind.huechtker@univie.ac.at

Concept

More than 30 years ago, Donna Haraway published her iconic essay “Situated Knowledge. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, where she discusses the issue of objectivity in feminism. She understands “objective knowledge” as bound to a specific historical point in time and space – precisely as “situated knowledge”. While Haraway was primarily concerned with defining the relational positioning of feminism and science, the concept of “situated knowledge” has grown into a central notion in gender studies. By now, it seems necessary to reflect about its relevance today, considering the differentiation of gender related debates from feminism to queer theories, to trans­activism and beyond, but also in the face of current social challenges like hate speech and fake news, conspiracy theories and public questioning of established scientific values.

Thus, the conference “Gendering Epistemologies” wants to discuss how gender-shaped (especially scientific) knowledge and truth claims are tied to gender (politics) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.

 Zurück