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This course is taught en bloc. For dates and times, please see the entry on eCampus. This course introduces students to the complex interplay between science, technology, and gender, with special attention to intersections with sexuality, race, and ethnicity. We analyze the concepts of "sex" and "gender" by critically investigating the nature/nurture debates about sex differences. The course further encourages students to think more broadly about gender in science and technology in discussions over bias, values, and scientific objectivity. Throughout the course, we survey different critical approaches to biomedicine, behavior, and mechanisms of power. We will study role models from the past to the present, examine how these perspectives have influenced our contemporary strategies, and what problems still remain. The guiding orientation of the seminar is inclusive thinking, with the aim of learning about reoccurring patterns that contradict the humanist promise of a fair share of decision-makers and those who bear the consequences. The course is divided into three block seminar and a fourth workshop block in February, which will be open to the interested public and invited speakers.
1) In three sessions each: 15:15 - 17:45 (incl. 15min break) on November 20th, January 8th, and February 22nd in Wasserstr. 221, 4th floor, students will engage with foundational texts with the main topics of the course and conceptualize their presentations.
2) The workshop: February, 25-26, 10:00-18:00, Wasserstr. 221, 4th floor.
In the second part, we will have a two-day workshop on Contemporary Trends in Feminist Philosophy of Science, where students and international experts will present their work. The workshop will take place on February 25-26 (Thursday and Friday, after the end of the teaching period). Taken together, the seminar blocks and the workshop will provide students with an opportunity to connect their learning to contemporary discussions and research beyond the student environment with contemporary researchers from Germany, UK, and the US.