This symposium explores the analytical entanglements of queer-feminist and STS perspectives by bringing together scholars who work in/on and through queer-feminist STS. As such, the event strives to foster exchange on the (historic) genealogies and (future) potentialities of bringing queer-feminist and STS ambitions together, to contribute to citing (and sighting) queer-feminist STS in the Swiss context, and to nurture connections within the (inter)national community of queer-feminist STS scholars and beyond.

To do so, the symposium features three moderated dialogues that each bring two scholars from queer-feminist STS into an exchange, complemented by multilateral discussions and time for open exchange. All three dialogues engage with a series of leading questions, plus specific questions that relate more closely to the individual discussants’ areas of work and expertise. These leading questions are:

• What constitutes queer-feminist STS, and what defines its ‘critical edge’?

• What are the challenges and possibilities for STS and gender studies as two (emerging) disciplines, and how to trick related boundaries?

• What are knowledge practices to be fostered within queer-feminist STS?

On the podium we welcome: Nolwenn Bühler (Lausanne, CH), Nina Lykke (Linköping, SWE), Sigrid Schmitz (Berlin, D), Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Rome, IT), Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley, USA), and Jutta Weber (Paderborn, D).

The symposium is organized as an in-person event in Basel, with the possibility of joining online. We welcome people to register beforehand according to their mode of attendance.

PROGRAMME 

12:15-13:00    
Arrival & informal get-together, accompanied by a light lunch buffet

13:15-13:30  
Welcome & introduction

13:30-14:30  
Dialogue Session I
Sigrid Schmitz (Berlin, D) X Jutta Weber (Paderborn, D)

14:30-14:45
Comfort break

14:45-15:45   
Dialogue Session II
Nina Lykke (Linköping, SE) X Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley, USA)

15:45-16:15  
Coffee break

16:15-17:15  
Dialogue Session III
Nolwenn Bühler (Lausanne, CH) X Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Rome, IT) 

17:15-17:30   
Conclusion

17:30-18:45  
Networking Session (with Apéro) 

Konzept & Organisation
Anna Kraft, Doris Leibetseder, Bianca Prietl & Marion Schulze
in collaboration with STS-CH