hybrid event: Aleksandra Derra (Torun): The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge. 13 October 2022, MUA CAS (Prague) & Zoom, 18:30 CET

hybrid event: Aleksandra Derra (Torun): The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge. 13 October 2022, MUA CAS (Prague) & Zoom, 18:30 CET (see participation options below)

In 1999 Londa Schiebinger published her book entitled Has Feminism Changed Science (Schiebinger 1999) where she showed how the growing number of female scientists gradually transformed certain fields of science. Following her line of reasoning one can ask how feminist theories influence particular fields of knowledge today? Do they have impact on methodologies and formulation of research priorities? Do they cognitively enrich theories and consequently change the social dynamics of scientific institutions? These are important issues which require extended research in order to ask these questions for each particular scientific field. The goal of my talk is more modest. I would like to provide some evidence that feminist theories have played crucial role in creating the missing link between science studies and socio-political research (Keller 1983). Many feminist thinkers being both a scientist and critical scholar has shown that feminist theory is not only about the social and the political, but also and sometimes primarily about the cognitive and about knowing subject. Joining traditions and methodologies from scientific research and cultural and political studies results in a form of complementary knowledge, which could be truly interdisciplinary. In order to illustrate how it can work out I will shorty present selected threads of neurofeminist approach (Fine 2012, Robyn et al. 2012) and new feminist materialism (Barad 2003, Hird 2009).

Part of the conference "Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe."

Participation options: Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Prague 8 (limited capacity, to participate please contact Jan Surman surman@mua.cas.cz)

Or via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldeqopz4tE9ZZOD25hpuKbOcPhta5Sblc