Thinking (Further) Through Materialities

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The lecture series “Thinking (further) Through Materialities” builds on the 2023 edition "Thinking through Materialities: Insights from and for Gender Studies and Cultural Anthropology". It continues to explore how "matter comes to matter," and related questions: How can social scientific thinking (re)engage with materialities and repopulate the social with what has long been its "missing masses"? How can practices—such as sciences, crafts, or arts—that are both enacting and embedded within materialities, inform new approaches within the social sciences? And more fundamentally, how can they contribute to reflect upon the often-unrecognized materialities in which social scientific thinking itself is embedded?

Students are introduced to contemporary research tackling the issue of materialities from an interdisciplinary social science perspective through engaging and interactive 45min - 1hr lectures given by internationally renowned researchers.
Students learn to engage with the lecturers by asking questions.