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233045 SE STS and feminism(s) (2023W)
Reimagining science-and-society otherwise
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
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 04.09.2023 09:00 to Su 24.09.2023 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 15.10.2023 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Wednesday 04.10. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien (Kickoff Class)
- Wednesday 25.10. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Wednesday 08.11. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Wednesday 15.11. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Wednesday 22.11. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Wednesday 29.11. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Wednesday 06.12. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This course introduces its participants into three areas of reflection. 1. How feminisms (in plural) invite us to revisit conventional notions of knowledge and technology 2. How Feminist Technoscience Studies (FTS) can inform other versions of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and multidisciplinary social research. 3. An overview of ongoing research that bridges STS and feminist-decolonial thinking. For doing so, we examine the main contributions, criticisms, and invitations of FTS to think with notions such as care, multiplicity, and situatedness, among others. Similarly, we engage in ongoing dialogues with other feminisms that further emphasize the importance of border-thinking, thinking-feeling, and decoloniality when reflecting about what knowledge practices and technologies are, and can otherwise be, in contemporary societies.The sessions will draw on readings, but also on specific practical activities and reflections to flesh out the discussions of the seminar. Students will build personal reflections analyzing timely case studies in the form of books, movies, or news in their assignments, and are expected to carry out a group exercise (mini script) drawing on the contents of the seminar.
Assessment and permitted materials
To pass the seminar, students are expected to complete the following tasks:
-Active participation in the seminar: Students should be prepared to present and discuss key points from the obligatory readings. Thereby, students will lead the discussion of allocated readings during each session.
-Individual assignment (case analysis, 2500 words) choosing a case study of the pool list (book, movie, news) provided by the lecturer and conducting a well-informed analysis of it condensing at least two of the sessions of the seminar. (Deadline January 18.2024, 23:59)
- Group assignment (mini-script). Develop a speculative mini-script of a hypothetical interview with one of the authors listed by the lecturer. Drawing on the materials of the seminars, every group must develop a concise, clear, and well-informed script (questions and answers) addressing some of the core questions/topics of the seminar. This mini-script will be presented in the pre-last session of the seminar. (Presentation date: 06.12.2023, deadline for uploading report via Moodle December 15.2023. 23:59)
-Active participation in the seminar: Students should be prepared to present and discuss key points from the obligatory readings. Thereby, students will lead the discussion of allocated readings during each session.
-Individual assignment (case analysis, 2500 words) choosing a case study of the pool list (book, movie, news) provided by the lecturer and conducting a well-informed analysis of it condensing at least two of the sessions of the seminar. (Deadline January 18.2024, 23:59)
- Group assignment (mini-script). Develop a speculative mini-script of a hypothetical interview with one of the authors listed by the lecturer. Drawing on the materials of the seminars, every group must develop a concise, clear, and well-informed script (questions and answers) addressing some of the core questions/topics of the seminar. This mini-script will be presented in the pre-last session of the seminar. (Presentation date: 06.12.2023, deadline for uploading report via Moodle December 15.2023. 23:59)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Grading Scheme
The grading scheme is based on a total of 100 points. These points will be awarded in relation to students’ performance in meeting the course learning aims in the different obligatory tasks.
The maximum number of points to be acquired for each task is:-Active participation, 20 points
-Individual assignment, 50 points
-Group assignment, 30 pointsMinimum requirements
A minimum of 50 points is necessary to successfully complete the course. Failure to meet the attendance regulations, to deliver course assignments on time or to adhere to standards of academic work may result in a deduction of points.Grades
100-87 points Excellent (1)
86-75 points Good (2)
74-63 points Satisfactory (3)
62-50 points Sufficient (4)
49-0 points Unsatisfactory (5) (fail)Attendance
Presence and participation are compulsory. Absences of four hours at maximum are tolerated, provided that the lecturer is informed about the absence. Absences of up to eight hours in total may be compensated by either a deduction of grading points or/and extra work agreed with the lecturer. Whether compensation is possible is decided by the lecturer.
Absences of more than eight hours in total cannot be compensated. In this case, or if the lecturer does not allow a student to compensate absences of more than four hours, the course cannot be completed and is graded as a ‘fail’ (5), unless there is a major and unpredictable reason for not being able to fulfil the attendance requirements on the student’s side (e.g. a longer illness). In such a case, the student may be de-registered from the course without grading. It is the student’s responsibility to communicate this in a timely manner, and to provide relevant evidence to their claims if necessary. Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer.Important Grading Information
If not explicitly noted otherwise, all requirements mentioned in the grading scheme and the attendance regulations must be met. If a required task is not fulfilled, e.g. a required assignment is not handed in or if the student does not meet the attendance requirements, this will be considered as a discontinuation of the course. In that case, the course will be graded as ‘fail’ (5), unless there is a major and unpredictable reason for not being able to fulfill the task on the student's side (e.g. a longer illness). In such a case, the student may be de-registered from the course without grading. It is the student’s responsibility to communicate this in a timely manner, and to provide relevant evidence to their claims if necessary. Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer.
If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as ‘not assessed’ and will be entered into the electronic exam record as ‘fraudulently obtained’. Self-plagiarism, particularly re-using own work handed in for other courses, will be treated likewise.
The grading scheme is based on a total of 100 points. These points will be awarded in relation to students’ performance in meeting the course learning aims in the different obligatory tasks.
The maximum number of points to be acquired for each task is:-Active participation, 20 points
-Individual assignment, 50 points
-Group assignment, 30 pointsMinimum requirements
A minimum of 50 points is necessary to successfully complete the course. Failure to meet the attendance regulations, to deliver course assignments on time or to adhere to standards of academic work may result in a deduction of points.Grades
100-87 points Excellent (1)
86-75 points Good (2)
74-63 points Satisfactory (3)
62-50 points Sufficient (4)
49-0 points Unsatisfactory (5) (fail)Attendance
Presence and participation are compulsory. Absences of four hours at maximum are tolerated, provided that the lecturer is informed about the absence. Absences of up to eight hours in total may be compensated by either a deduction of grading points or/and extra work agreed with the lecturer. Whether compensation is possible is decided by the lecturer.
Absences of more than eight hours in total cannot be compensated. In this case, or if the lecturer does not allow a student to compensate absences of more than four hours, the course cannot be completed and is graded as a ‘fail’ (5), unless there is a major and unpredictable reason for not being able to fulfil the attendance requirements on the student’s side (e.g. a longer illness). In such a case, the student may be de-registered from the course without grading. It is the student’s responsibility to communicate this in a timely manner, and to provide relevant evidence to their claims if necessary. Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer.Important Grading Information
If not explicitly noted otherwise, all requirements mentioned in the grading scheme and the attendance regulations must be met. If a required task is not fulfilled, e.g. a required assignment is not handed in or if the student does not meet the attendance requirements, this will be considered as a discontinuation of the course. In that case, the course will be graded as ‘fail’ (5), unless there is a major and unpredictable reason for not being able to fulfill the task on the student's side (e.g. a longer illness). In such a case, the student may be de-registered from the course without grading. It is the student’s responsibility to communicate this in a timely manner, and to provide relevant evidence to their claims if necessary. Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer.
If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as ‘not assessed’ and will be entered into the electronic exam record as ‘fraudulently obtained’. Self-plagiarism, particularly re-using own work handed in for other courses, will be treated likewise.
Examination topics
1. Where do I/we start? Outside STS
2. Feminist Technoscience Studies: Who is the ¨I¨ and ¨We¨?
3. Feminist Technoscience Studies: Mattering and care in more than human worlds
4. Other Feminisms I: invitations
5. Other Feminisms II: encounters within STS
6. Current research in the bridge of STS, other fields and (other) feminisms
2. Feminist Technoscience Studies: Who is the ¨I¨ and ¨We¨?
3. Feminist Technoscience Studies: Mattering and care in more than human worlds
4. Other Feminisms I: invitations
5. Other Feminisms II: encounters within STS
6. Current research in the bridge of STS, other fields and (other) feminisms
Reading list
SESSION 1Ahmed, Sarah (2017). Introduction: Bringing Feminist Theory Home. In Living a Feminist Life, Durham, NC. Duke University Press. pp 1-18.Woolf, Virginia. (2015). Chapter VI. In A Room of One’s Own (pp. 69-82) (D. Bradshaw, & S.N. Clarke, Eds.). Wiley Blackwell. (Original work published 1929). https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118299210.SESSION 2Subramaniam, B and Willey, A.(2017). Introduction to Science Out of Feminist Theory Part One: Feminism’s Sciences. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 3(1),1-23Suchman, Lucy. (2008). Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial. In E.J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (3rd ed., pp. 139-163). The MIT Press.SESSION 3De la Cadena, Marisol. (2015). Story 3: Mariano’s cosmopolitics. In Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds (pp. 91-116). Duke University Press.Puig De La Bellacasa, María. (2012). ‘Nothing comes without its world’: thinking with care. The sociological review, 60(2), 197-216.Puig De La Bellacasa, María. (2017). Assembling neglected things. In Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (pp. 27-68). University of Minnesota Press.SESSION 4Anzaldua. Gloria. (1981) And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You; Racism in the Women’s Movement. In Anzaldúa, G., & Moraga, C. (1981). This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York City, SUNY Press.Lugones, María. (2010). Toward a decolonial feminism. Hypatia, 25(4), 742-759.SESSION 5Escobar, Arturo. (2020). Postdevelopment @ 25: On “Being Stuck” and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise. In Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (pp. 97-119). Duke University Press.Law, John, & Mol, Annemarie. (2020). Words to think with: An introduction. The Sociological Review, 68, 263–282. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120905452Lyons, Kristina., Parreñas, J. S., Tamarkin, N., Subramaniam, B., Green, L., & Pérez-Bustos, T. (2017). Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 3(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v3i1.28794Pérez-Bustos, Tania (2023) Blankets. In: Denny, S., Beyes, T., Holt, R., Pias, C., & Steinbrügge, B. (Eds) (2023). Proof of Stake. Technological Claims. Milano; Lenz Press. (pp 143-148)SESSION 6Deumer, Stephanie. (2021) Imitation Game. SENSATE: A Journal of experiments in critical media practice. Available at https://sensatejournal.com/imitation-game/Tacchetti, M., Quiceno Toro, N., Papadopoulos, D., & Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2021). Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211030154.
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