The Vienna Science Studies Lab is an intra-institution initiative hosted by the Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI), the UPSalon (University of Vienna), and the Epistemology of the In/human Project at Central European University (CEU).

Homepage: https://sciencestudieslab.wordpress.com/

One focus will be on feminist Science-Technology-Society (STS) methodology and we will start with the format of a reading group, meeting twice a year. Everyone is welcome!

First meeting

The first meeting will be 29th November, 1:30-3.00

Location: Café Gagarin Garnisongasse 24, 1090 Wien, https://cafegagarin.at/

Reading: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429507731-23/feminist-science-people-sara-giordano It’s a chapter by Sara Giordano in The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science.

Please let us know whether you’ll attend so we can make according reservations.

Second meeting

The next meeting will happen on 6th March, 3:00-5:00. 

Location: Café Gagarin, Garnisongasse 24, 1090 Wien. 

Reading: Embodiments of Sex and Gender: The Metaphors of Speaking Surfaces, by Gabrielle Benette Jackson. In: Jennifer McWeeny and Keya Maitra. Feminist Philosophy of the Mind. 

Please let us know whether you’ll attend by replying to Sophie, and we will send a pdf of the reading.

Third meeting

The next meeting will happen on 3rd July 2023, 3:00-5:00.

Location: KLI, Martinstraße 12, 3400 Klosterneuburg

Reading: Liboiron, M. (2021). Pollution is Colonialism. Duke University Press, Durham.

We are reading the Introduction.

Liboiron, Max (2021). CLEAR Lab Book: A living manual of our values, guidelines, and protocols (Version 3). Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), Memorial University of  Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Please let us know whether you’ll attend by replying to Sophie (sophie.juliane.veigl@univie.ac.at) or Laura (laura.menatti@gmail.com).