Venue: Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Prague (limited capacity, to participate please contact Jan Surman) and Liblice Castle - Conference Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Liblice 61, 277 32 Byšice

Organizers: Jan Surman, Dietlind Hüchtker, Karin Reichenbach, Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg

Funded by: Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe/GWZO (Leipzig); Research Group “Praxeologies of Truth” (University of Erfurt)

Organizers: Jan Surman

Programme | CfP

The keynote speech by Aleksandra Derra was rescheduled for 10 January 2023, 6-8 PM (CET).

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.