Please join us for the next STS Seminar:
Friday, December 8
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Athenaeum (Newman Library 124)
Dr. Bianca Prietl and Martin Winter
Department of Sociology
Technical University of Darmstadt
Title
“Gendered Construction of Artifacts: The Cases of Food and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).”
Abstract
This talk will deal with feminist perspectives on the social construction of artifacts – especially, food and ICT. An analytical view on how gender is inscribed into different artifacts is combined with a methodological suggestion for how to alter design in a feminist way. The bases for this presentation are in-progress projects.
Presenter Bios
Bianca Prietl has a PhD in sociology and is currently working as a post-doc at the Department of Sociology at TU Darmstadt. Her research interests are gender studies, science and technology studies, engineering studies, sociology of work and social inequality, and qualitative empirical research. In her PhD-thesis she has investigated the gendered construction of engineering in renewable energies.
Martin Winter is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at TU Darmstadt and currently working in a research project on gender, food, and culinary culture. His interests are gender studies, science and technology studies, food studies, and sound studies.
Please contact Josh Earle (jearle@vt.edu) regarding live streaming of the presentation.
Snacks and conversation will begin at 1:00.