Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, Maó (Balearic Islands, Spain)
23-25 May 2019
10th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization
Third Call ESS 2019 – registration packs PDF
Organized by the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology
Coordinated by:
Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria)
Teresa Ortiz-Gómez (Universidad de Granada)
Presentation
The aim of the 10th European Spring School [ESS] “Handling the body, taking control: Technologies of the gendered body” is to encompass a diversity of themes around the axis of the historical construction of the gendered body as a locus of both empowerment and disempowerment and the place of the natural philosophical and biomedical disciplines in shaping the political and subjective dimensions of human experience.
The School is particularly concerned with exploring how diverse intellectual and social movements have struggled to gain authority and cultural hegemony over women´s bodies by way of defining sexual difference and the gendered body. The ESS “Handling the body, taking control: Technologies of the gendered body” is open to graduate students, early career scholars, professionals, and activists concerned about past and present approaches to the gendered body and the analysis of the epistemological frameworks that feminism has developed to analyze them.
The ESS is envisaged as a space for junior scholars to discuss their current work-in-progress with colleagues in a creative and supportive environment.
As previous editions, this ESS is structured in key-note lectures and research workshops. All sessions will be conducted in English.
Lectures will be delivered by the following scholars:
- Delphine Gardey (University of Geneva): Science as usual? A gendered reading of Masters and Johnson’s Laboratory and Clinic of Orgasm (U.S. 1950-1970)
- Barbara Orland (University of Basel): From humours to hydraulics. The gendered body in anatomy, experimental physiology and medical practice (1630-1770).
- María Jesús Santesmases (Institute of Philosophy, CSIC, Madrid): The reproductive body and the public fetus:Pregnancy, visual cultures and the origins of medical genetics, 1960s-1970s
- Agata Ignaciuk (University of Warsaw): Abortion “cultures”: politics, activism and experiences in the Cold war era.
The workshops will be organized in four thematic paper sessions, and two poster sessions. All accepted contributions –in both paper and poster format– will be discussed by participants, lecturers and organizers of the School. Registered participants will have access to the School’s materials in advance through the School’s website. Comments will be led by Montserrat Cabré, Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, Delphine Gardey, Barbara Orland, María Jesús Santesmases and Agata Ignaciuk.