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Ringvorlesung „Thinking through Materialities.“

RVLMaterialities

Insights from and for Gender Studies and Cultural Anthropology

How can social scientific thinking re-grasp the question of materialities that has long been relegated to its periphery? What lessons from Gender Studies, and in particular queer and feminist epistemologies, and Cultural Anthropology can contribute to this movement? Recursively, what inspirations can be drawn from the know-hows of situated, material practices such as craft or maintenance to rethink matter and materialities, and rematerialize thinking in social sciences.

This lecture series will be giving the floor to researchers who currently tackle these questions through their work.

 

PROGRAMM

September 27, 2023
Introduction: Thinking through Materialities
Alain Müller and Marion Schulze (University of Basel)

October 04, 2023
Haunting Spectro(micro)politics: Alt-right Memes and Critical New Materialisms
Evelien Geerts (University of Birmingham)

October 18, 2023
Getting Sad with Anthropocene Chemicals
Lenka Veselá (Brno University of Technology)

October 25, 2023
Multiple Materialisms: Compos(t)ing Feminism for the Anthropocene
Katharina Hoppe (Goethe University Frankfurt)

November 1, 2023
Thinking through Practical Ontologies
Casper Bruun Jensen (independent researcher)

November 22, 2023
The Troubles of Material Fragilities
Jérôme Denis and David Pontille (Mines Paris)

November 29, 2023
Materials as Partners of Technological Adventures
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

December 6, 2023
Bulldozing as Feminist Practice? Remaking the Environmental Humanities with Danish Rivers
Heather Anne Swanson (Aarhus University)

December 13, 2023
(Re)Materialising Anthropology through Bodily Practice. Threads of Thought on Stitching Reflexivity
Lydia Maria Arantes (University of Graz)

December 20, 2023
Re-thinking Material Legacies through the Lens of 'Active Matter’
Claudia Mareis (Humboldt University of Berlin)