14. maj 2012

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The purpose of the conference Feminist Materialisms was to present and elaborate on the material reversal in gender and cultural research.

The conference Feminist Materialisms was an international meeting place for many researchers and students from Denmark, Scandinavia and the rest of the world. In addition to keynote presentations by Karen Barad and the Australian Professor Vicki Kirby, participants were presented with themes such as art and culture, body and technology, climate and nature, virtual materiality and senses. The more than 50 papers were presented in 17 workshops over the two days. The conference had over 300 participants, of which not less than 43 were Ph.D students and 66 lecturers and professors and many students from home and abroad.

One of the conference's keynote speakers was the famous American physicist and science theorist, Professor Karen Barad, University of California, who in an original way thinks poststructuralist gender theories, including Judith Butler's performativitetsteori, with Niels Bohr's quantum physics. Both the critical cultural analysis and quantum points are made in the book "Meeting the Universe Halfway, Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning ', which was released in 2007.

In relation to the conference's theme issue Feminist Materialisms been published by the journal Women, Gender and Research in which the meanings of materiality, body and nature are discussed and used in research.

The conference was organized by the Coordination for Gender Research at the University with support from the Department of Sociology.

International conference, University of Copenhagen
Thursday 26th and Friday 27 April, 2012.
University of Copenhagen.

Organizer: Coordination for Gender Research, University of Copenhagen.

Read more about the special issue Feminist Materialisms of Women, Gender and Research 1-2, 2012 here.