260053 Doing feminist and anti-colonial philosophies of science (S) (WiSe 2025/2026)

This seminar will integrate theory, case studies and experimental approaches to read and ask each other how we can approach doing sciences from feminist, anti-colonial and other anti-oppressive (such as queer and disability justice) perspectives. Drawing from anti-colonial perspectives on knowledge production (such as works by Kim Tallbear, Leanne Simpson's As We Have Always Done, Theory of Water, Shawn Wilson's Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods, Max Liboiron's CLEAR Lab), from feminist perspectives (such as works by Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, and Karen Barad), from disability justice perspectives (such as Disability & Visibility, Disability & Intimacy edited by Alice Wong), we will explore the notions of situatedness, relational ethics, and mutual interactions and interdependence with nonhumans as well as humans as core values of knowledge creation raised by these perspectives. This seminar will in particular draw on multiple modalities of knowing to experiment with enacting these notions, such as through theater exercises (an example of the method is Feminist Theory Theater outlined by Yelena Gluzman et al), being in the kitchen as lab, artistic exercises with clay and sand etc. We will also practice using qualitative methods such as ethnomethodology, participant observation and interview, and talk story as reflexive and analytical tools. Seminar participants are more than welcome to bring their personal experience of doing science (research) to discuss and experiment with. The course will be taught in English.