170740 UE Enacted reality/ies: Introduction to Karen Barad's agential realism (2022W)
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 05.09.2022 09:00 to Mo 19.09.2022 23:55
- Registration is open from Fr 23.09.2022 09:00 to Tu 04.10.2022 23:55
- Deregistration possible until Mo 31.10.2022 23:55
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max. 30 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 13.10. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Thursday 27.10. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Thursday 10.11. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Thursday 24.11. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Thursday 15.12. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Thursday 12.01. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Thursday 26.01. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
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Aims, contents and method of the course
In this seminar we will engage with one of the most influencal transdisciplinary theories of the last two decades and try to find productive connections and implications for our own reasarch in an open and explorative teaching/learning environment:Therefore the seminar invites students interested in learning about agential realism, the program of the quantum physicist and feminist science scholar Karen Barad, to raise and discuss questions about the performative production and enactment of reality through media, apparatuses and practices in an innovative and transdisciplinary way. To do this we will engage with selected texts and passages from Barad's œuvre and with papers of various other authors highlighting how agential realism can be situated in the broader context of media studies, new materialism(s), (feminist) science and technology studies and queer theory.Working closely together, we want to identify and carve out some of the results, ideas and inspirations from Barad's agential realist program and think about possible ways of how to use the theory for our own media studies and theater studies research. By doing that, we want to map, how an addressing of agential realism can complement and enrich existing research and how it might help to form or at least prepare a more powerful engagement with the complex and more and more pressing changes of our times. Besides the engagement with Karen Barad's agential realism the seminar also aims at teaching competences in reading and analyzing of research papers and at further developing skills in the processing and discussing of content and arguments of such texts.For its teaching method the seminar mixes teacher-centred teaching with dialogical and interactive methods.
Assessment and permitted materials
The assessment in this seminar is based on presentations, reading responses and essays. Giving presentations in groups is possible.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
For passing the seminar one presentation, one reading response (1 page) and one essay (4–6 pages) is necessary. The contributions are weighted as follows: presentation 40%, reading response 20%, essay 40%. Fo a positive grading it is mandatory to fulfill all three contributions.The contributions will be graded according to the following main criteria:- difficulty of the topic chosen
- understanding, treatment of theoretical aspects and adressing of open questions one has
- way of arguing: own standpoint, critical distance, coherence
- originality, inspiration
for the written reading responses also:
- style of writing
- orthographyWe do not want to find "the correct" interpretation of agential realism, but to use the papers we read to start a productive and open discussion. This also influences the grading in the way that our seminar is much more about getting involved with each other and much less about the teaching and learning of facts.A maximum of 2 days o fabsence is possible. If somebody is absent more often, the absence has to be justified (e.g. in the case of being ill by providing a doctor's note).
- understanding, treatment of theoretical aspects and adressing of open questions one has
- way of arguing: own standpoint, critical distance, coherence
- originality, inspiration
for the written reading responses also:
- style of writing
- orthographyWe do not want to find "the correct" interpretation of agential realism, but to use the papers we read to start a productive and open discussion. This also influences the grading in the way that our seminar is much more about getting involved with each other and much less about the teaching and learning of facts.A maximum of 2 days o fabsence is possible. If somebody is absent more often, the absence has to be justified (e.g. in the case of being ill by providing a doctor's note).
Examination topics
The assessment load consists of the passages from the texts we want to talk about. The specific passages and in some cases also questions that could guide the reading will be determined in advance.
Reading list
The following corpus of literature is intended as a first reference for orientation and reading it is in no way mandatory:Barad, Karen (1995): ‚A Feminist Approach to Teaching Quantum Physics‘. In: Rosser, Sue Vilhauer (ed.): Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. New York: Teacher’s College Press, pp. 43–75.
Barad, Karen (2007): Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham/London: Duke University Press.
Barad, Karen (2014): ‚Berühren – Das Nicht-Menschliche, das ich also bin (V.1.1)‘. In: Witzgall, Susanne und Kirsten Stakemeier (ed.): Macht des Materials – Politik der Materialität. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, pp. 163–176.
Barad, Karen (2015): ‚Die queere Performativität der Natur‘. Verschränkungen. Berlin: Merve, pp. 115–171.
Barad, Karen (2016): ‚Real werden. Technowissenschaftliche Praktiken und die Materialisierung der Realität‘. In: Peters, Kathrin und Andrea Seier (ed.): Gender & Medien-Reader. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, pp. 515–539.
Lemke, Thomas (2017): ‚Einführung‘. In: Bauer, Susanne, Torsten Heinmann und Thomas Lemke (ed.): Science and Technology Studies. Klassische Positionen und aktuelle Perspektiven. Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 551–573.
Schmitz, Sigrid (2014): ‚Karen Barad: Agentieller Realismus als Rahmenwerk für die Science & Technology Studies‘. In: Lengersdorf, Diana und Matthias Wieser (ed.): Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 279–291.
Barad, Karen (2007): Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham/London: Duke University Press.
Barad, Karen (2014): ‚Berühren – Das Nicht-Menschliche, das ich also bin (V.1.1)‘. In: Witzgall, Susanne und Kirsten Stakemeier (ed.): Macht des Materials – Politik der Materialität. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, pp. 163–176.
Barad, Karen (2015): ‚Die queere Performativität der Natur‘. Verschränkungen. Berlin: Merve, pp. 115–171.
Barad, Karen (2016): ‚Real werden. Technowissenschaftliche Praktiken und die Materialisierung der Realität‘. In: Peters, Kathrin und Andrea Seier (ed.): Gender & Medien-Reader. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, pp. 515–539.
Lemke, Thomas (2017): ‚Einführung‘. In: Bauer, Susanne, Torsten Heinmann und Thomas Lemke (ed.): Science and Technology Studies. Klassische Positionen und aktuelle Perspektiven. Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 551–573.
Schmitz, Sigrid (2014): ‚Karen Barad: Agentieller Realismus als Rahmenwerk für die Science & Technology Studies‘. In: Lengersdorf, Diana und Matthias Wieser (ed.): Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 279–291.
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