Gender cOnstructions between Sciences and Humanities (GOSH)
Center for Information Technology
Center for Materials and Microsystems
Center for Italo-Germanic Studies
Center for Religious Sciences
Energetic Thoughts,
Tracing Gender in the History of Physics
Seminar with
Elvira Scheich
Falso Movimento
FBK interdisciplinary research project
Gender and Physics
University of Uppsala
Technical University of Berlin
Friday June 4th
h. 10.30
Bruno Kessler Foundation
Sala grande Ovest
via Sommarive, 18 - Povo (TN)
During the last decades it has become increasingly obvious that gender hierarchies play an
important role in the social order of scientific communities. In addition, in many disciplinary fields
the cognitive and epistemological effects of gender structures have been successfully unearthed.
Yet, we still find very few results in physics. Such an investigative approach requires a very
precise understanding of gender and its complex multilayered effects ranging from ideology to the
division of labour. During the talk, the speaker will explore how the understandings of force,
power and energy in the history of physics are entangled with a variety of gendered categories.
Nel corso degli ultimi decenni le gerarchie di genere hanno svolto un ruolo importante nell’ordine
sociale delle comunità scientifiche. Gli effetti cognitivi ed epistemologici delle strutture di genere
sono stati evidenziati con successo in molti ambiti disciplinari. Nella fisica, tuttavia, vi sono ancora
pochi risultati. Tale approccio investigativo richiede una chiara comprensione del genere e dei
suoi complessi effetti stratificati che spaziano dall’ideologia alla divisione del lavoro. Durante la
presentazione si indagherà come i concetti di forza, potenza ed energia nella storia della fisica
siano legati alle categorie di genere.
The seminar is the third of a series of meetings on the implications, uses and limits of the gender
categories in different techno-scientific and humanistic disciplines. It will be held in English.
ELVIRA SCHEICH is a senior lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. After her initial training as
a physicist, her current research interests include gender studies, science studies and social theory.
Her recent research projects are “Gender & Physics - Migrations in Science” and “Theorizing Nature in
Gender Studies - Opening spaces and passage points between cyborg-feminism and eco-feminism”.
She is a guest professor, with the GenNa program, at the Center for Gender Studies of the University
of Uppsala.
Information:
Liria VERONESI
Tel: +39 0461 210 235
e-mail: [email protected]
http://gosh.fbk.eu/