In our first issue of the Queer STS Forum we reflected on our queer approach to Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS). We shared how we often find ourselves intervening in meetings, in our social media activities, in our university courses, during conferences, and when we do research. Most of the time, the main topics […]
Anita Thaler
Workshop “‚Bodies & Technologies’ – Queere Perspektiven auf Körper und Technologien”, 6.9.2018 in Graz
Im Rahmen eine Serie von Workshops anlässlich des 30. Geburtstags des IFZ (www.ifz.at) veranstalten wir einen zum Thema: „‚Bodies & Technologies’ – Queere Perspektiven auf Körper und Technologien“. Zeit und Ort: Donnerstag, 6. September 2018, 17-20 Uhr, IFZ, Schlögelgasse 2, 2. Stock, 8010 Graz In diesem Workshop wollen wir zentrale Forschungsinteressen der Arbeitsgruppe Queer STS […]
Queer STS Forum #3: Call for Contributions
“Queering Diversity” – In Search of the Queer and the Class in Academia and Research Within the Bologna Process “making our [European higher education] systems more inclusive” is one of the latest main goals, as it was formulated by the ministers of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in the Yerevan Communiqué of 2015. Despite […]
Biological sex differences alone are quite meaningless, but have a great social impact …
The working group Queer STS has been interviewed by a youth online magazine about sex/gender binary and fluid sex/gender concepts. Read the full interview (in German) here:
About the queer potential and social justice issues of technology
Queer STS members Susanne Kink, Thomas Berger and Anita Thaler (from left to right) have been interviewed by colleagues from Technical University of Graz to talk about societal aspects of technology. In the video, we are talking about: the queer potential of the internet (from Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in […]