Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge. Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge. Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

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Research Initiative Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe (PECEE): Friedrich Cain (University of Vienna), Dietlind Hüchtker (University of Vienna), Bernhard Kleeberg (University of Erfurt), Karin Reichenbach (Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)), Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Czech Academy of Science, Prague and Liblice Chateau
Gefördert durch
research programme “Resilient Society for 21st Century: Crisis Potentials and Effective Transformation” within the basic programme framework of the Strategy AV21 of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and by the Chair of Historical Transregional Studies, Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
PLZ
277 32
Ort
Liblice
Land
Czech Republic
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
13.10.2022 - 15.10.2022
Von
Karin Reichenbach

Conference organised by the research initiative Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe (PECEE) in cooperation with the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and Chair of Historical Transregional Studies, Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna.

Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge. Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

More than 30 years ago, Donna Haraway published her iconic essay “Situated Knowledge. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, where she discusses the issue of objectivity in feminism. She understands “objective knowledge” as bound to a specific historical point in time and space – precisely as “situated knowledge”. We seek to reflect its current pertinence, considering the differentiation of gender related debates from feminism to queer theories, to trans¬ activism and beyond, but also in the face of current social challenges like hate speech and fake news, conspiracy theories and public questioning of established scientific values. Thus, the conference “Gendering Epistemologies” looks at how gender-shaped (especially scientific) knowledge and truth claims are tied to gender (politics) in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Programm

Thursday, 13.10.2022
(Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Prague (limited capacity, to participate please contact Jan Surman surman@mua.cas.cz)
Or via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldeqopz4tE9ZZOD25hpuKbOcPhta5Sblc

18:00-18:30 Welcome and Introduction

18:30-20:00 Keynote
Aleksandra Derra: The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge
Moderation: Dietlind Hüchtker

Small reception

Friday, 14.10.2022
(Liblice Castle - Conference Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Liblice 61, 277 32 Byšice)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:15-13:30 Short introduction

13:30-15:30
Activism and Objectivity
Moderation: Jan Surman

Duygu Altınoluk: Feminist Standpoint Theory Strengthens Feminist Academic Activism

Anna Eroshenko: Knowing Transgender Experience through the Indirectness: Narrative Psychology as a Collective Oral History

Eszter Kováts: Paradoxes of Situated and Universal Truth Claims in Central Eastern Europe

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00
Gendered Politics
Moderation: Karin Reichenbach

Adela Hîncu: Women’s Invisible Labor in Socialist Romania: Feminist Methodology and Theories on Rural Transformation under State Socialism

Ella Rossman: How to Be a Soviet Girl? Constructing Knowledge on Women's Puberty in the Postwar USSR (1946-1991)

Izabela Kowalczyk: Feminism Meets Catastrophes

19:00-21:00 Dinner

Saturday 15.10.2022

9:00-12:00
Scientific Authority and Gender
Moderation: Aleksei Lokhmatov

Evangelia Chordaki: Locating Science to Silence: Discussing Gender and Knowledge through the Politics of Silence

Katharina Kowalski: Between Intersectionality and “Authenticity” – On Developments and Epistemic Distinctions in the Feminist “Thought Style” during the Transformation Era in Poland

Short coffee break

Darya Litvina/Anastasia Novkunskaya/Anna Temkina: “Sociologists in White”: Feminist Epistemologies in Medical Field

Berna Zengin Arslan: Claiming Epistemic Authority of Women in Science and Technology: Case Studies of Women Engineers in Turkey

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00
Gendering Institutions
Moderation: Bernhard Kleeberg

Martyna Miernecka: “Work in Peace”. Gendered Practices in the Literary Institutions of Polish People’s Republic

Suzana Milevska: Do Archives Have a Gender?

Barbara Schnalzger: “Haunting the Ruler’s house” – Women's and Lesbian Libraries and Archives as an Interface between Academia and Social Movement

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30
Media of Truth
Moderation: Friedrich Cain

Ksenia Shmydkaya: Woman’s Metaphors and Universal Truths: On one Episode in Poland’s Interwar Intellectual Life

Juliane Tomann: Doing Gender in Historical Reenactment

Lisa Füchte: Who Put the Object in Objectivity? Gender and Visual History of Care Work in the Soviet Union

17:30-18:00 Conclusions

Kontakt

Karin Reichenbach
E-Mail: karin.reichenbach@leibniz-gwzo.de

Dietlind Hüchtker
E-Mail: dietlind.huechtker@univie.ac.at

https://www.uni-erfurt.de/to/5HZUPwGJ1oXN3cO