It is our great pleasure to share with you this exciting announcement about the upcoming event taking place at the University of Padua (IT), where also EBL member Dr Evelien Geerts is speaking! Importantly, you can follow the talks via Zoom:

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

December 18, 19 and 20, 2023, University of Padua (Italy)
1st CORE “Conceptualizing Oppression-Related Emotions” Workshop

FEMINIST THEORY FOR SITUATED RESEARCH

The workshop “Feminist Theory for Situated Research. New Materialism, Posthumanism, Epistemologies” is dedicated to the relationship between research practices (philosophical and scientific) and feminist theory, with a focus on posthumanism and new materialism.

The workshop will take place on December 18,19 and 20 (more precisely, the afternoon of the 18th, the whole day of the 19th, and the morning of the 20th).
The workshop will be conducted in English and will be organized as follows: the afternoon sessions will be devoted to frontal lectures followed by a short Q&A session; the mornings will be dedicated to seminar discussions on the topics discussed in the previous afternoons.

For those who wish, it will be possible to attend the frontal presentations online via Zoom. To receive an invitation with the Zoom link, please write to valentina.bortolami@unipd.it.

The frontal presentations will follow the below timeline (hours are timezone CET):

December 18, 2023, 14.30 – 18.30 1st Session: Prof. Nina Lykke, Dr. Elena Tripaldi, Prof. Michela Bordignon

Prof. Nina LYKKE Posthuman Poetics and Queerfeminine Ecologies
Dr. Elena TRIPALDI Is Monism the Right Ontology for the Anthropocene?
Prof. Michela BORDIGNON Beyond Hegel’s Notion of Love. Contemporary Relevance and Criticism

December 19, 2023, 13.30 – 18.30 2nd Session: Dr. Tommaso Guariento, Dr. Evelien Geerts, Dr. Francesca Putignano, Dr. Valentina Bortolami

Dr. Tommaso GUARIENTO Evolutionary Psychology and Feminist Epistemologies
Dr. Evelien GEERTS Situated Diffractive Theorizing in Crisis Times: Critical Cartographical Explorations
Dr. Francesca PUTIGNANO Contextual Standpoint Theory: How To Maximize Two Approaches of Feminist Epistemology
Dr. Valentina BORTOLAMI New Materialism and Standpoint Theory for Conceptualizing Oppression-Related Emotions

If you would like to participate in the workshop in person, or for any other information, please write to Dr. Bortolami (valentina.bortolami@unipd.it).

Scientific coordination: Dr. Bortolami and Prof. Luca Illetterati

The Workshop is part of the CORE project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101066941.