Dear all,
Registration for the Feminist Technoscience MA module and Summer School at
Lancaster University, UK, is now open.
Feminist Technoscience MA and Summer School
Ecologies of Emergence
Monday 14th - Thursday 17th /Friday 18th of June 2021
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Lancaster University, UK, in
cooperation with Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies and Centre for the
Study of Environmental Change, is pleased to announce its annual Summer School
in Feminist Technoscience Studies. The course will be organised around the
theme Ecologies of Emergency.
We'll take as our cue the Latin root 'emergentia,' with its invocations of
emergence as that which 'arises or brings to light.' Reading rhetorics of
emergence/emergency through feminist science and technology studies will allow
us both to engage with contemporary calls to respond (to climate change, to
pandemics), and also to look critically at what is brought to light in those
calls and what they systematically obscure. More specifically, we will
question who gives voice to calls of emergency, how we are called to respond
within what kinds of temporalities, what longer histories of
modernity/coloniality we need to hear these calls differently, and how
feminist/decolonial praxis can help to engender new collaborations towards
pluriversality and more than human worlding.
Delivered as a 4-day intensive summer school by a group of tutors and guest
lecturers, this course includes a mixture of interactive workshops, lectures,
film screenings and (virtual) excursions. We will explore the ways in which
feminists have engaged with questions of life, embodiment, and the Other in
imaginaries and materialisations of technosciences and naturecultures. What
counts as life and whose lives count? What relations of response-ability do
we have for the sociotechnologies that increasingly become us? How do we
research and do politics around practices of normativity and alterity, of
making and taking life?
Tutors: Maggie Mort, Vicky Singleton, and Claire Waterton - Centre for Science
Studies, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies and Centre for Study of
Environmental Change, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
The core teaching staff will be joined in guest workshops with:
Maureen McNeil
(CSS/CGWS Lancaster University, Emerita)
Celia Roberts
(Australian National University
Israel Rodrguez
Giralt (Open
University of Catalonia)
Lucy Suchman
(CSS/CGWS Lancaster University, Emerita)
In response to the demands of the Covid pandemic all teaching and
participating will be on-line. We are sad about this because we see this
module/summer school as a collective feminist intervention that, in important
ways, emerges through (and promotes) the collaboration between all of us -
staff and students.
Further to the above, please note that the format of this programme may
change. In particular, we know that the on-line teaching and learning context
can be demanding, and in different ways to face to face experience. For
example, sessions may need to be shorter and regular breaks will be
incorporated. We will also use a variety of teaching and learning formats as
we seek to promote a collaborative and inclusive experience for all: some
sessions will include a recorded lecture or conversation, others a synchronous
workshop and presentation that we may seek to record so that it is available
following the session. We will also ask you to engage with a diversity of
materials including academic texts, websites, social media, manifestos and
activist interventions, empirical data and creative products of research such
as films and games.
TO REGISTER:
Lancaster University MA and doctoral students can contact Emma Taylor to
register.
External participants can register following this link:
https://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/product-catalogue/courses/
sociology/summer-school-in-feminist-technoscience-studies
Convenor and contact: Vicky Singleton (d.singleton@lancaster.ac.uk).
Dr Mette Kragh-Furbo
Research Associate
Lancaster Medical School and Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Furness College
LA1 4YW
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